Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do?

Re:Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do? by aneth on Sunday July 25, 2010 @01:23PM (#1545882)

I highly recommend learning meditation. I meditate once a day for 15 minutes and it's worked wonders for my ability to feel well and focused.

Personally I learned a cheaper and less cult like variation of transcendental meditation, because it requires little training, time, or even effort.

A day without meditation for me now is worse than a day without sleeping.

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Re:Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do? by justlearningnow on Sunday July 25, 2010 @02:26PM (#1546036)

Hello, could you please elaborate a bit on the meditation technique? What exactly do you do? Thank you so much for answering. I've been trying to learn TM but all the courses cost a fortune..

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Re:Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do? by DeusExMachina on Sunday July 25, 2010 @06:33PM (#1546511)

I'm getting interested in meditation too and I'm starting with this:

http://www.mro.org/zmm/teachings/meditation.php

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Re:Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do? by justlearningnow on Monday July 26, 2010 @03:04PM (#1548927)

Hello, thank you for sharing this!

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Re:Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do? by aneth on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @05:24PM (#1555731)

Better late than never.

The course I used was this one:

http://www.naturalstressreliefusa.org/compare.php

I'm sure there are many like it, but this one was well done and taught me the basics of this type of meditation.

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Re:Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do? by aneth on Sunday July 25, 2010 @05:10PM (#1546352)

I don't remember the name of the course but will respond when I get home tonight. Message me if I forget.

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Re:Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do? by rhl on Monday July 26, 2010 @01:40PM (#1548674)

I just spent a useless day not managing to get in serious productivity mode, and I tried 15 minutes of meditation -- I am SO relaxed now, it is like a short nap that also stretches your body and makes you high on oxygen... It's still very hard to control the flow of thoughts, but I guess that comes with practice.

I couldn't get in Lotus position, but this page at Wikihow helped quite a bit: http://www.wikihow.com/Meditate

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