“The ability to see what’s going on in your head without getting carried away by it.”

 

“You’ll freak out a little less…”

“You’ll be 10% happier…”

“You’ll be less of an asshole…”

 

Try it. If you find it useful, keep it. If not, throw it away.

Nothing tells you better than your own experience.

 

Meditation: a family of mental training processes — designed to familiarize a person with specific mental processes.

 

Goal: create a useful, practical, engaging resource for learning how to use mindfulness and meditation to make tangible, positive, productive changes to the way we live.

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Starting Out

  • Getting Started with Meditation: A Resource Primer

Value

  • Mental Health & Meditation
  • [Reddit] A breakdown

What’s Helped Me Learn

  • [Reddit] I used to suck at meditating

Using Meditation IRL

  • How to Use Meditation to Beat Self-doubt (and Anxiety and Fear and…)
  • 4 Ways To Get Out Of Your Head
  • 3 Ways To Make Meditation Useful In Your Life Today
  • Using Meditation To Improve Focus IRL

Meditation Mechanics/Theory/Breaking It Down

  • 1 Way To Meditate Even If You Can’t Stop Your Thoughts
  • The Power Of Meditating On Thoughts

Methods to Try

  • 1 Way To Meditate Even If You Can’t Stop Your Thoughts
  • 9 Ways To Meditate During The Day (Without Spending More Time Sitting)
  • Mind Games #1 – Just Walk
  • Mind Games #2 – Shurima

Personal Stories

  • Working with Unpleasantness
  • Spitting Game

Guides

  • Making Meditation Useful

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Interesting Links

  • Bill Gates and Melinda Gates like to meditate weekly
  • [Reddit] Meditation will improve your life