Meditation

[Shu]

So as most of ya'll know, I'm a pretty busy fella during the week days. Though most days I'll need at least 10-30 minutes where I need some brain space to clear out, and I don't mean with alcohol or any other substance. So I'll toss on either music or just take a walk/run. As you get older the more life tends to get realer. So in those minutes, I tend to just "not think" of really anything in general.

Does anyone else meditate? If so, how? Although it's personal, just thought I would get an impression from this here forum.

 

[Squid]

I thought and thought about this and realised I don't really do any meditation. That's probably why I am not a very calm person haha.

I've really been thinking about getting into Yoga though, that's apparently very good for calming the mind, I just need to get motivated for it first.

 

[Abstract Debauchery]

I don't meditate in the fashion where I sit down cross legged and moan like a bitch in heat. Instead, I just go out walking at 3 in the morning. No music, just me and the road. I'll walk around for about an hour or two just thinking. It's a good form of exercise, and it gets a lot off my mind. It's about the only time of day I'm willing to go out and walk because Houston heat is fucking hot as stink on shit.

During the day, I just lean back in my chair, and listen to E.S Posthumus or Mozart, or Beethoven. It normally does the trick. I typically don't get stressed out easily, if at all. So I find it somewhat odd that people go around being stressed out all the time when I'm typically... calm, cool, and collected.

 

[Donald Trump]

The closest I get to anything like that is when I'm writing an essay, usually when I'm underprepared, which is most of the time I can't be fucking bothered reading billions of books. So I'll usually go outside and have a cigarette or two because there's no better way of relieveing stress or calming down. So I smoke away and walk about thinking about how x is could possibly lead to y and how to interpret x in a whole new way etc etc.
I think that in my case would be a waste of time. And I also think it's for wanky hipsters who think buddhism and all that jazz is really cool man. I hate people like that.

 

[Mitsuki]

I don't really get to have that "alone" time so I don't have an effective way of meditating. I suppose if it counts, the shower stall would be my own unique haven. It gets really misty too so it's the perfect place to think or just let the mind go and let the worries wash away in an instant. Once I hit 20 minutes, I feel very cleansed, both mind and body!

 

[Shu]

Well I doubt "real" meditation would work, unless of course you could clear your conscious, your mind and totally space out. First off my mind can't get that clear, I over work it as is, even when I'm not working I still have crap enter my mind from work. I'm a half coder/half analyzer/half tester at my job. I do a bit of it all, so I see mounds and mounds of if statements, Do/While Loops, and calculations that involve more that one data base field.

If it's not work it's my lady. So I'm always thinking, can't turn the damn thing off even if I wanted to. Sleep is my only "true" meditation, though like I said I am clarifying my sort of meditation as just something where I can stop thinking "as much" for like two seconds. I over analyze pretty much everything, and by everything I mean music/movies/relationships/religion/politics/family/ and overall life. Once you open the flood gates to true self awareness, you have to have the ability to shut off your mind and be able to just chill for a minute. Otherwise you either go insane, depressed, or worse burn out with complete apathy in which means no motivation in life.

 

[Moogles]

I like having alone time with my thoughts. Jogging and driving seem to be the best times for me to get stuff out of my mind.

I'd put toilet time up there too, but I usually seem to concentrate more on crapping and getting myself clean.

 

[Sexy Beast]

I honestly have all the alone time in the world, and with the short fuse to my anger that I have, I really should try to meditate or something close to that, at least. I guess if anything, I go for walks to calm my nerves, and try to get anger down to moderate level.

I don't know many forms of it, actually.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

We used to meditate in school but I never really got into it.

I have some alone time at home when I could just space out but I'm always too busy to do so. There's always something to be done, so it's kind of hard for me to space out when I keep thinking about all the crap that I need to sort out.

One day I'll have the time. Hopefully before I have a mental breakdown. XD

I've always been a very fidgety person, so I don't know if I'd even be able to concentrate even if I did try.

 

[Tyler Breeze]

I've tried this before. But people just don't fucking leave me alone. I've seriously considered switching my sleeping schedule so that I'm up during night hours and asleep during day hours. XD

I guess when I listen to music is my mediation. That and when I watch something I like. I can just chill out dude.

Only 4 more years. Then I'll have all the quiet in the world to meditate.

 

[Luminas]

As for me, showers and playing shooting video games like Bioshock and Borderlands usually calm me down. It's mostly for my anger issues I tend to have.