Walking meditation is just walking while bringing your attention intentionally to your body and your breathing as it’s moving through space.
It’s like walking while really enjoying walking. Minimizing distractions like thinking or a radio or conversation or whatever.
But seconding just walking all the same. As a teenager I used to put on my walkman and go for walks when I was pissed off at my parents.
It’s not work it’s more like a hobby. Work is what people do to survive. See working class vs owner class.
Wealth hoarders can either obsess or not obsess about hoarding more wealth, like any person with a hobby.
So, how much time they spend on their hobby and what hours they spend on their hobby really depends on their temperament.
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Beta blockers - they don’t cross the blood brain barrier and help calm the adrenaline response. If you’re prone to panic, anxiety, trauma triggers, etc. They’re very helpful for my CPTSD triggers.
Qi Gong
Listening to a Plum Village dharma talk.
Walking meditation is good when very restless or anxious. Body scans when trying to build deep states of physical relaxation. Sitting meditation for deep mental calm.
Pendulation works well when working on an overwhelming task. Permission to take small bites/small steps out of something difficult essentially.
Reminding myself that the stressor and the sensations of stress are all temporary is good for acute stress, but chronic stress can require radical acceptance instead and changes in lifestyle/habits/thinking patterns.
Oh I almost forgot, switching from coffee to tea. Although I don’t do that most mornings. When I skip the coffee my anxiety is much less.
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Trump looked pretty weak to me tbh. Can’t even own a gun.
Cool people can have mental problems.
Cool people can have mental problems rather or not they like drugs.
One of the uncoolest things I think people do is ask black and white questions like this while acting like alcohol isn’t a drug.
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Drafts usually are of young men for the logistic reasons you mentioned.
So, if all men ages 18-24 are being drafted, the President’s kids should be first on the list.
In other words, if you’re going to send my son to war and you are president you need to send your’s first. Otherwise I’m telling my kid to dodge because his life isn’t worth less than some rich assholes.
When everyone is being drafted. Including the children of the oligarchs and political class.
Otherwise it’s never right. It’s just feeding the poor to the war machine.
You can do it on your floor if you take enough ketamine.
In all serious though, not really. I think other people already pointed out why.
However you can also learn to close the sense gates, without drugs or a bathtub. Later Jhana meditations do this.
And even just you relaxing in your bathtub with your ears under the water, that’s a step towards that stuff. The whole idea is to get very relaxed and minimize the stimulation from your senses, so that your mind can just relax and drift and be.
It doesn’t need to be full sensory deprivation to get the benefits in other words.
Yeah my mom bought into the narrative. I was telling her what a disaster the debate was and of course she doesn’t want to accept that.
So she latched onto headlines like this one.
I opened lemmy a few days ago to check the news after taking a break for a few days.
I hadn’t even read anything yet and I felt my adrenaline start.
Buddhism defines metta as loving kindness, which also requires understanding because if we don’t understand another person’s needs it’s difficult to be loving and kind towards them.
In the show, what the person was trying to say is, I am feeling insecure that you may be more attached to her than you are to me. I.e., I’m scared you’re going to leave me for her.
Which is what we generally mean by love in our culture. At least what we mean by romantic love. A sense of attachment to the other person.
This isn’t always a bad thing. I can be a little shy so when I am in public I tend to show a lot of attachment to my girlfriend, at least until I get comfortable in the space. But it can be a bad thing, if someone is so attached that they let it get in the way of treating their partner with kindness. Act manipulative or aggressive when the person pulls away, for example.
Gutting the state as beefalo said is right but they’ll still have the usual scapegoats (immigrants, dog whistle racism, lgbtq community).
Any of these communities could be hit with state violence, either directly through police action or state sanctioned terrorism such as the proud boys, or indirectly by eroding protections and further marginalization.
Just look at what Texas and Florida are doing to hurt trans people and immigrants. Scale that up to a national level. That sort of stuff is in the project 2025 playbook. For example just being trans they want to make illegal under the pornography act. And charge teachers who talk about the existence of trans people with child sexual assault.
So, hopefully not gas chambers and witch hunts but, it could get pretty bad for a lot of people.
But the swing voters the person you were replying to is referring to, mostly think that President is basically king.
It’s the low information voters that are the problem, and you guys trying to spin it like this isn’t a big deal isn’t going to help the situation.
The DNC needs to find a different horse. Biden needs to retire and go enjoy that golf he was talking about last night
I hardly saw any mentions of him being hoarse reading through the megathread comments last night.
Stuff like, winning the war against Medicaid, on the other hand, as well as his general just got out of bed demeanor, is absolutely going to erode confidence in him and quite potentially cost progressives the election if they don’t pick a different horse.
Information can travel at light speed. So, I think there’s more to it personally
Depends on what you mean by religion.
Buddhist monks and nuns shave their heads and don the robes as a ceremonial act of letting go of identity views such as ‘us and them’ and even self and other.
This and not holding onto dogmatic views in general is a big part of the practice and the teachings.
Not saying all Buddhists are perfect by any means. I’ve hung out in enough Buddhist online spaces to come across a lot of dogmatism and people using Buddhism itself as an identity view. Myself included when I wasn’t as far along my own path.
But the intention of the practice is to point these things out and help people to let them go. Not to cling to them.
Yeah, my bad. I went back and reread the comment you were replying too and deleted all my knee-jerk reactions based on taking your comment out of context.