Meditation Simplified: Start to Meditate Today
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Meditation Simplified teaches what it is, how to practice it, and how to use some techniques to make it work easier and faster.
“Dwell always at the silent level.” —Alfred Korzybski
“Mediation is being a host and nothing else.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” —Alan Watts
“Whatever you do to meditate is not meditation.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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Meditation Simplified: Meditation Definition
- Meditation is the practice of watching your thoughts from the perspective of being their host rather than from the perspective of being a participant.
Meditation Simplified: Observe Your Thinking
“Not by ignoring evil does one overcome it but by going to meet it.” —Greek proverb
- You observe your thoughts as a witness, not as their cause or source.
- You witness your thoughts the same way that you watch a movie you are interested in or listen to music that you choose to hear.
- You watch your thoughts as you would watch a sporting event that you were curious about but not invested in.
Meditation Simplified: Obstacle to Meditation
- The obstacle to meditation is attachment.
- Attachment means that you own thoughts or take them personally.
- When you are identified with some stream of thoughts, then you will not be meditating those thoughts.
- Keep your identity out of your thinking.
- You can tell your identity is involved in your thinking when you take your thinking either too seriously or too personally.
Meditation Simplified: Method to Regain Perspective
- Detach your identity from your thinking so that you can return to witnessing and meditating your thinking.
- An effective way to detach your (being) self from your thinking is to move your awareness from attached thoughts to your breath, body, yoga posture, mental counting, or environmental awareness (mindfulness or presence).
- Once your identity is detached from your thoughts, then you can go back to witnessing your thoughts as their host rather than as either their creator or owner.
Meditation Simplified: 4 Premises of Meditation
- Thoughts will reveal their true nature when in the light of awareness.
- This light of awareness only exists when you are not attached to your thoughts.
- This light will drive out and away thoughts that do not serve good or Energy because they cannot stand the light.
- This light will strengthen and reinforce thoughts that serve the good or Energy because they love the light.
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Meditation Simplified: Detached Thoughts
- You are not your thoughts.
- Your thoughts are neither you nor your life.
- Your thoughts are not other people.
- Your thoughts are neither others nor the lives of others.
- Thoughts can partially represent something but never be anything.
Meditation Simplified: Meditate Anywhere, Anytime, & Other Gems
- A posture that helps you to stay awake when you are meditating can be useful at the beginning of your practice.
- However, the goal is always to be meditating anytime and anywhere.
- When your practice slips, simply return to your practice.
- Start by watching the slip and your thinking about the slip.
- Right meditation does not ignore internal processes—it reveals them.
Death from Negative
- You can bear the ugliness that you find inside by detaching your identity from it.
- However, nothing should be used to make the unpleasant pleasant.
- Without emotional responsibility, you will find it too difficult to continue when your meditation practice deepens.
- Meditation always includes the realization that you share the same human nature with everyone.
- For example, the ugliness you see in others is in you.
- Meditate to become purified by becoming the vessel and dropping self-esteem and ego games of pride, shame, superiority, and inferiority.
“Live in the past, and the present slips past.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Meditation Simplified: Forced Meditation
- Here are two examples of when meditation can be forced upon you.
- Do not speed on the highway. The following is only an example; it is not to be practiced. If you drive on the highway at high speed, you will either be in a meditative state of mind or risk having an accident.
- The same can be said of extreme sports. For example, if you are rock-climbing up an overhanging precipice, you will either be in a meditative state of mind or should stop and rest before you have an accident.
Meditation Simplified: Meditation in a Quotation
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you cannot afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” —James Stockdale
- You keep focused on the Light prevailing.
- You face the ugliness, whatever it is.
Meditation Simplified
3D: Daily Dose: 2020
#Quiet #Mind: 2020-02-03
- Exercises to quiet the mind.
- Continually try to predict how raindrops will run down a windowpane.
- Continually try to predict how some moving clouds will change and reform.
- Continually try to predict the pattern of sounds that a babbling brook will make.
- Continually try to predict how some ocean waves will crash and flow onto a beach.
- Continually try to predict how a blowing wind will move the tops of trees in a forest or grove.
#Meditation #Acceptance: 2020-04-16
- When you meditate, the task is to pay full attention to whatever happens inside you, including your mind becoming annoyed with distractions, trying to suppress any interference, and trying to force your attention to stay focused on whatever it was focused on before the distraction or interruption.
- When you meditate, don’t fight thoughts that interfere with your concentration; instead, pay attention to your attention and where it goes.
- When you meditate, don’t resist distractions from noises that interfere with your focus; instead, listen to them until they cease or you naturally focus on something else.
- When you meditate, don’t fight physical interruptions such as from pain or insects; instead, pay attention to them and make any proper adjustments that you can.
- When you meditate, don’t resist any distraction to paying attention to your present state of being; instead, pay attention to your being distracted and observe out that distraction (pay attention to your attention).
#Light #Heals: 2020-05-20
- We have said bring all to the Light; however, the only things that you can bring to the Light are your identity and attention.
- When you try to bring the conversation into the Light, then you are trying to control and direct the contents, and you (the container) have no power over the contents (things in the container).
- Pull your two attentions (self and other awareness) out of the conversation (self-talk) and into the Light while in the center of the conversation, and the Light will handle all.
- To heal, make contact with, and enter into the problem with your two attentions focused on and under the Light and Energy.
- Focus is your choice and power, so take that power and make it work for you by being the container that brings Light to the center of confusion, doubt, hurt, and pain (contents).
Meditation Simplified
3D: Daily Dose: 2022
Keep Your Focus on God: 10-03-2022
- “Meditation can be understood as keeping your focus on Spirit.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “Meditation can be understood as returning your focus to Spirit whenever it wanders.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “It is a mistake to try to get your mental content (sensations, feelings, thoughts) to switch focus to Spirit because they can only focus on themselves.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “When you meditate and keep your focus on Spirit, then whatever comes into your mind cannot persist because it cannot demand or grab your attention.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “It is a mistake to try and bring your mental content (sensations, feelings, thoughts) to the Light because you cannot control them; however, if you control your focus by keeping it on the Light, then your mental contents must either also go the Light or flee you.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Refocus to Live Under God: 10-04-2022
- “You cannot focus or refocus any attention but your own.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “You don’t bring anything before God, but your focus, but by doing this, whatever else is in you must also go before God or flee.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “You don’t let God take care of your problems; instead, you redirect your focus on God over and over again from struggling with your problems.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “You don’t let go of your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts); you redirect your focus to Spirit, and your mental contents either follow or leave.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “The crucial distinction is that you stay responsible for your attention being on and continually returning to God, and not for your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts).” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Meditate Your Mental Contents: 10-05-2022
- “To detach from your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts), be aware that you are aware and refocus it on God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “To meditate your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts), stop struggling with them, and, instead, refocus on God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “To meditate your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts), stop trying to manage them, and, instead, focus on God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “To meditate your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts), stop interfering with them and continually refocus on God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “To meditate your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts), be conscious that you are conscious and redirect it on God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Do Your Job, Not What You Cannot: 10-06-2022
- “Your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) are not your job; your job is your attention.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “Your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) are not your battle; your battle is your attention.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “Your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) are not your concern; your concern is your attention.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “Your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) are not your responsibility; your responsibility is your attention.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “Your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) are not your assignment and task; your assignment and task is your attention.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Switch from Your Contents to God: 10-07-2022
- “Switch your focus from your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) to your attention and switch your attention to resting in God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “Switch your focus from your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) to your attention and switch your attention to relying on God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “Switch your focus from your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) to your attention and switch your attention to returning to God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “Switch your focus from your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) to your attention and switch your attention to retreating to God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “Switch your focus from your mental contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts) to your attention and switch your attention to refocusing on God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Pay Attention to Your Attention: 10-09-2022
- “To own your own mind, you must own your own attention.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “By paying attention to your attention, you can regain your attention.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “By paying attention to your attention, you can refocus your attention.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “The strong person is the person who has a strong attention or focus.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “To develop a strong attention and focus, pay attention to your attention until you can move your attention at will.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Meditation Simplified
3D: Daily Dose: 2023
Meditation in Three Steps (3Rs): 11-07-2023
- “A master problem-solver is an example of how meditation works: (1) recognize the errors, (2) remove the errors, (3) replace the errors with solutions.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “An emergency-room doctor is an example of how mediation works: (1) recognize the destruction, (2) slow and stop the destruction, (3) start and support repairing and healing.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “A mother comforting her hurt child is an example of how meditation works: (1) recognize the negative, (2) face and soothe the negative, (3) encourage the positive to take over.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “An effective fixer in many disciplines is an example of how meditation works: (1) recognize where the design went wrong, (2) remove design elements as needed, (3) replace design elements as needed.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
- “An effective counselor is an example of how meditation works: (1) recognize the lack of coping and problem-solving skills, (2) teach coping and problem-solving skills, (3) support the client while they practice their new skills.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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Meditation Simplified: Live in the Present Moment
- Information on meditation.
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Meditation Simplified: Quotations Various Sources
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“A baby expects to be soothed, but a mature adult soothes themselves.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.” —Marcus Seneca
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” —Francis Bacon
“Adults are experts at self-disturbance and inept at self-soothing.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An excuse is a lie guarded.” —Jonathan Swift
“Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?” —Anonymous
“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:” —Ephesians 4:26
“But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.” —Galatians 6:4
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” —2 Corinthians 10:5
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” —Mark Twain
“Dwell always at the silent level.” —Alfred Korzybski
“Each man the architect of his own fate.” —Sallust
“Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.” —Ovid
“God has entrusted me with myself.” —Epictetus
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” —Samuel Johnson
“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.” —Proverbs 25:28
“I tried to change the world and failed. I changed myself, and the whole world changed too!” —Author unknown
“If pleasure first, then pain second.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” —Agnes Repplier
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” —William Shakespeare
“Life always gets harder towards the summit—the cold increases, responsibility increases.” —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900
“Live in the past and the present slips past.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.” —Anonymous
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” —Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980
“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will–his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.” —Albert Schweitzer
“Mediation is being a host and nothing else.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” —Abraham Lincoln
“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” —Oprah Winfrey
“No one has ever gotten to anyone.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.” —Eric Butterworth
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” —Michael Jordan
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” —Anonymous
“Some pursue happiness; others create it.” —Anonymous
“Teaching the principle of emotional responsibility can be one of the hardest tasks in REBT as clients may have habitually blamed others for their problems, and now the therapist is pointing to the true source of their emotional problems—themselves.” —Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Advances in Theory and Practice, p. 43
“The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.” —Roy Smith
“The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.” —Brian Koslow
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” —Scott Hamilton
“The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” —Benjamin Franklin
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” —Joan Didion
“There is no man so low that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.” —Thomas L. Masson
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” —Carlos Castenada
“What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.” —Oliver C. Wilson
“Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 252
“Whatever you do to meditate is not meditation.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.” —Helen Keller
“Why is it that people are willing to take responsibility for their happiness or mild sadness but not their severe disturbance or great unhappiness?—why ego, of course!” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you cannot afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” —James Stockdale
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- 1. Coping Skills & Topics
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- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.
- Read and add the best breathing exercise to your meditation practice.