best (for me) guided meditation I've ever done, by @DeepMindfulness I did it 4× in one day and consistently got really deep bodily relaxation and maybe the gentlest ever ego death?? or "pure consciousness event"? youtube.com/watch?v=GmVo9L…
A guided meditation that produced deep relaxation and ego death
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I ♥ the intro: "I'm gonna encourage no movement but if you *have* to move, do so slowly, mindfully. The 1 caveat is if you're feeling overwhelm—you *always* wanna listen to overwhelm, even if it's not too strong, you don't wanna wait til it's big. make an adjustment, a stretch"
the part afterwards, where we watch a clip of Shinzen talking about a springy bobblehead as a metaphor for emptiness, is also great and I recommend it, but it's a pretty big tone shift so if you wanna stay in the deep slow void, you'll want to stop at the end of the meditation
so: the meditation runs 3:00-29:00; in order to have spaciousness at the end of the meditation without having to reach out and hit pause before he starts talking fast, I extracted the first 29mins from the clip: drive.google.com/file/d/1St_Ho7…
I found lying down helped get the PCE, bc otherwise my body wasn't settling enough while trying to stabilize my sitting, but if you're better than me at sitting still for meditation (& I'm not very good!) you might find that works fine (also [lying down] + [this] might → sleep)
in a lot of ways this meditation (as I experienced it) is precisely the deep version of my nothing-to-do / dying-in-each-moment meditation
by "deep version" I mean that my version was oriented towards like, gently allowing one's doings/tryings to to die… …and maintaining that non-efforting while perhaps moving into action… …but this one says "go further" & encourages you to let your whole selfing process die
but this is just even more fascinating and infuriating! like how the fuck do I bridge between: 🧘♀️ deep still letting go 🤸♂️ moment-to-moment letting go that occurs while working on stuff, mid-project, mid-pomodoro, mid-sentence
it feels related to complice.co & intentionality... I'm starting on a book about this whole thing
oh, I found myself also reflecting that "let the meeseeks die" is a pretty good handle for this move inspired by @RomeoStevens76 who will hopefully write this up in more detail soon
@RomeoStevens76 oh, an update here is that I wrote a blog post about my experience after the 3rd time I did the meditation malcolmocean.com/2023/03/art-is…