Here's the thing I have no doubt that Meditation could do good things here. It does wonders for other people. I just expect not much
I generally don't have much problem with anxiety. I'm a pretty cool customer
right
Hang on it's too bright
Okay, ten minutes is up and I have some thoughts first
I had to turn the camera off midway through because I was constantly thinking
About the camera and then I was constantly thinking about what I was going to say
once I was done because this is for a video my eyes at first were like very active like I could feel like
Twitching or it was hard to like hold him closed at first and then I just kind of wanted to go to sleep
So, but I do feel more relaxed
Mmmmm-hmm. See you tomorrow meditation. So I uploaded my day one experience to second channel and
Everyone recommended apps to use I'm gonna try headspace not a sponsor. I'm just gonna try it ten minute session here
Sitting up was fantastic. It was nice to have a little guide
Although at one point if I myself annoyed and I was hearing someone talk when I wanted to concentrate again
Feel like napping
I think I just I perpetually don't have enough sleep and that's part of the problem feel good feel calm
Although it wasn't to not calm before
This is nice
I just meditated for twenty minutes this time no app or anything realized I was a little stressed
I was thinking about the tasks I have to do today. I don't know. Maybe I need to get
Right down my tasks for the day so that I don't think about them. Maybe maybe that helps because I never do that
I also kept fall asleep. It was a lot harder to sit there for 20 minutes than I thought
It would be right at the end was worried that maybe my timer wasn't working
So I opened my eyes and I checked the timer and there were 13 seconds left
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Napoleonic knowledge I'm a dork. Here's the thing leading up to meditating. I wasn't looking forward to it
All I have to do is sit there and do nothing
Why was I not looking forward to sitting there doing nothing?
And I think the reason is I did these experiments where I quit sugar. We quit the internet and I went vegan
those are all basically quitting things and
That meant you know more productivity. This is different. This is taking time out of my day to do nothing. I
didn't know this about myself until right now and until today I
Think I have an addiction to
Worrying about productivity
I'm not always productive, but when I'm at I feel bad
I feel guilty knowing that I have to sit there and do nothing
Makes me feel even more guilty that I'm not working on something. I
Need
Meditation has helped me realize that I have this guilt that I do
Need to have I need to be more comfortable and more forgiving with myself for
Doing nothing. Did they actually went upside? Any tiny itch I just was worried. It was a bug
So at first I was just like Oh that Ibaka's out of bug is out of bug
But that went away it felt much less anxiety than I did yesterday
The wind and the birds and all the sound was really nice. It was really easy to to zone out
I guess this time I tried to picture myself somewhere
I tried to picture myself on a hill
With wind and trees around at one point an airplane went by in real life and I pictured seeing that off
on the horizon and then a leaf hit me on the head and it scared the crap out of me and
Knocked me out of that, but then I continued just letting my mind wander
I started thinking about a video I was working on and I thought that was fine
I just kind of stopped worrying about what I should do and just kind of let my mind go and then at one point I
Was like, okay. This is feeling along. So I said, you know what? I'm just gonna stop now
Why do I have to force myself? I'm forcing myself. It's not working
so I stopped and there were 53 seconds left and
Then when I opened my eyes and looked around
That things were blurry at first like I was waking up coming out of hypnosis or something
It was just a really good experience overall, and I think I got a few
Insights into the video I'm working on it was just nice to sit and contemplate it rather than reading and writing all the time
Okay meditated. What are we on day?
Day
Ten twenty minutes is much longer than I thought. I thought it would be easier to
Just sit and do nothing
It really isn't when I sat down I was kind of anxious and then it it kind of
Went away and I got calm and then I just almost fell asleep a few times around fifteen minutes or so
I was like, okay, let's
Get a move on it's harder than I thought to sit and do nothing. One thing that I'm doing is I'm
Focusing on the top of my head and then moving my way down my body to like each ear eyes nose mouth
and trying to go through the whole thing in that process is when I start to
Stop thinking about anything else. Sometimes I start to fall asleep and have to wake up
Sometimes it's nice. Sometimes it's like I should be go. I'd go do some work
But that's life
Sorry
I don't want to in that way
That's life. I
actually made it to 20 minutes and I was slightly disappointed that it was over and I feel
better feel more much more relaxed now I
Clearly needed that just woke up from a nap. I had a revelation today. Sorry for the shoulder nudity happening right now
Every time I meditate I feel like I want to go to sleep
why don't I just
Do it right before sleep. So today before a nap. I
Meditated for about 15 minutes and then I'm like, yep time to sleep. I laid down and I just
napped the most beautiful nail
For like an hour and a half. It's Saturday
I felt like I could take a break today and you know indulge so now I'm gonna start trying to meditate
before bed if I focus on
each body part it really
Shuts out all the things going on in my brain that I don't even realize are going on in my brain
I think it just brings the things that are most important right to the surface, which usually these days is
Hey, you're tired. Dude. Go to bed. I get tired
I'm just sitting there focusing and I get tired. I haven't been using a nap very much as soon as I start scanning that body
Sleepy I must have a really boring body. I am starting to notice that I feel more calm. It's not so worried
We're moving in two days. I'm not worried about it. I probably should be worried about that
I've gotten into a routine that I I like that I think works. I don't know. That's what you're supposed to do
I know if there is a supposed to do because I feel better every time I do it not timing
It makes it a whole lot better less stressful. I don't feel like I'm forced to do it. Like I did at the beginning I
Like it. I like it a lot. I let's say it's about day 300. I don't know what data is
Probably not that still meditating because it feels good and is good
Averaging about 10 to 20 minutes though. But today I'm going to go into a
Sensory deprivation tank for an hour you float on this water and it's like salt water and so you don't even feel it
It's like you're floating on nothing. My wife did it. She says it feels amazing. So I'm gonna try it
I'm a little worried because it's an hour. I'm used to like meditating 10 to 20 minutes. So
Let's try it
And I can control the music
and the light in there, I'm gonna go completely silent no light it so
Here we go. That went by so fast first 15 minutes or so
I was I had a little anxiety about my breathing because it was humid in here and it felt like I
Was kind of short of breath after a little while that kind of went away and then I started this
Settle in and then I had to go to the bathroom. So I got up went to the bathroom
Back in and then I had to settle in again. I thought I had like a half hour left at least
and then it was over and
it was also just like
Zoomed out I did the body scan that I do
Occasionally, I noticed a tension down here like in my spine. I
Was like kind of forcing my head back when I didn't and I didn't realize it
So then I kind of let it do what it wanted and then I felt a tension
I also noticed my foot. I kept like tensing up my ankle
I wonder how often I do that without even knowing and then the light turned on and it scared me
Okay, I'm gonna shower now. I'm answering the camera off for that as I drove away. I
Developed a theory as to why my ankle kept tensing up
Driving
Uh-huh makes sense. I'm a typical American I Drive everywhere and now it's day 302. I don't know after the float tank
I had a beautiful night sleep. I
Woke up briefly the middle night. I always wake in the middle night, but I fell right back to sleep
I don't know if it was related or not, but it was good. This is gonna be the last day for the video
I'm gonna keep meditating though, because I
Really really like it and I found what works for me
It helped me learn or at least reinforce the idea that I don't get enough sleep
It helped me reduce anxiety realize that I had more stress and anxiety than I thought I had
I generally don't have much problem with anxiety
I'm a pretty cool customer and I started using a task app so I can write down my to do's
So I'm not going through them in my mind all the time. I'm just gonna keep meditating the way that works for me
No timing it sitting up taking in my surroundings
focusing on my breathing doing a body scan and then
Just sitting there as long as I feel necessary, it really works for me. So I'm not saying you have to do it
Do what everyone?
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