I’m going to put meditation on pause, but still keep my protected 30 min morning time. I’m going to swap in “Thinking, introspecting, and dwelling on how I relate to other people.”
The decisions comes from a few things:
How I relate to people is one of the most frequent subjects of mind-wandering during meditation.
I’m currently in a relationship that has made me a lot more aware of various habits of behavior and thinking that I have.
I feel well poised to make a lot of progress on that front.
When I mind notice I’m mind wandering, I try to follow, “Why did my attention go from the my breathe to this topic?” I frequently find that I pretty deeply feel that spending time on relations would benefit me more than the meditation (ala this comment).
I’m going to give this a one-month trial period. Expect an update March 31, 2019
I’ve missed seven days of journaling in the last month plus (non consecutive though).
Thoughts: I’ve gotten some good insight from this time. Towards the end, it became more, “What are the important things that happened recently?” journaling.
I’ve put much less ritual-intent into this habit than with meditation. In the past week I changed my sleep schedule (I now sleep in till whenever instead of getting up with an alarm at 7am) which makes it slightly harder to ensure the sanctity of morning journaling, but I’m currently okay with that because sleeping more and getting up at my own pace has had a wonderful positive affect this past week (keeping a keen eye on if that trend continues).
It feels vaguely important to not go into this journaling with an agenda. I get more rewarding journaling when I wait until the thing that catches my interest most works its way to the top of my mind.
I’m going to put meditation on pause, but still keep my protected 30 min morning time. I’m going to swap in “Thinking, introspecting, and dwelling on how I relate to other people.”
The decisions comes from a few things:
How I relate to people is one of the most frequent subjects of mind-wandering during meditation.
I’m currently in a relationship that has made me a lot more aware of various habits of behavior and thinking that I have.
I feel well poised to make a lot of progress on that front.
When I mind notice I’m mind wandering, I try to follow, “Why did my attention go from the my breathe to this topic?” I frequently find that I pretty deeply feel that spending time on relations would benefit me more than the meditation (ala this comment).
I’m going to give this a one-month trial period. Expect an update March 31, 2019
I’ve missed seven days of journaling in the last month plus (non consecutive though).
Thoughts: I’ve gotten some good insight from this time. Towards the end, it became more, “What are the important things that happened recently?” journaling.
I’ve put much less ritual-intent into this habit than with meditation. In the past week I changed my sleep schedule (I now sleep in till whenever instead of getting up with an alarm at 7am) which makes it slightly harder to ensure the sanctity of morning journaling, but I’m currently okay with that because sleeping more and getting up at my own pace has had a wonderful positive affect this past week (keeping a keen eye on if that trend continues).
It feels vaguely important to not go into this journaling with an agenda. I get more rewarding journaling when I wait until the thing that catches my interest most works its way to the top of my mind.
That’s another type of meditation. Throw in some “notice how this goes” and “monkey mind meditation” and you’re still meditating