Oliver Claffey Instagram – Let’s keep talking meditation.
People seem to find these posts useful and I still get questions regarding technique.
First, don’t sweat the technique. It somewhat defeats the purpose.
In my last post I mentioned that the skill of Mindfulness isn’t keeping your attention solely upon one thing, but in recognizing when that attention has wandered and bringing it back to that one thing – your breathe, your mantra, even a repetitive motion – without Judgement.
What’s Judgement in this context? I’m talking about value judgements. In other words: framing something as good or bad. When your mind wanders in meditation it isn’t a good thing nor a bad thing, it simply is. Scolding yourself or deeming it a “failure” in your abilities is a Judgement, a negative one, and is most people’s automatic response when first trying out Mindfulness practices.
This leads to further frustrations when the attention inevitably moves again and can be the reason that people give up early into their journey, now believing that meditation simply doesn’t work for them.
Remember: it’s not good, it’s not bad, it simply is. Learning non-Judgemental framing is part of the work.
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#Mindfulness #Meditation #MixedMartialAlchemy | Posted on 18/Oct/2022 19:38:18
