Asklemmy

You grow Brain Muscles

1. Mutant healing ability
2. Irresistible to the opposite sex
3. Permanent +27 boost to Mana, which stacks

You're essentially telling your nervous system it's safe, right now, which seems like an important thing to do frequently, in the current climate.

Depends how you do it. But I can tell you three things it does for me:

• Allows me to detach from myself and sort of Alt-F4 a lot of those background processes that are churning up my anxiety and wasting my emotional energy.

• Lets me bank some calm that I can withdraw later in emergencies.

• Helps me practice shutting out distractions to focus on a single stimulus, eg. when someone is talking or when I need to watch something over a period of time.

It will give you an excuse to sit down and do absolutely nothing for 20 minutes for free.

Just try and see for yourself, it's not some sort of investment so important that you need to do some research first.

Meditation is about a fundamental shift in the mind. Aim for a transformation, a steadying, a stabilization. Think of it as mental recalibration – a process called samadhi, a perfected state of meditative focus.

This focus breaks down into two main avenues: Shamatha, the 'calm-abiding' meditation, which cultivates stillness, and Vipassana, the analytical meditation, which seeks insight. These aren’t separate practices but tools designed to administer your mental actions. It's about gaining some control over the internal monologue that insists on narrating your existence.

The most interesting part is that in the absence of external stimuli, the mind reveals its true nature. Like discovering the map isn’t the territory. It implies that the path to enlightenment isn't found, but rather emerges when the search itself ceases. Meditating on the state beyond meditation leads to… well, sublime Enlightenment.

1. You'll have meditated. Full stop. Bragging rights included.
2. You'll probably be calmer. If not, you likely have a lot more practice to do.
3. Ummmmmm. If you sit just right you might understand the universe in its entirety. Or at least the relevant parts to you.... Well, you'll understand yourself better.

You will hear the sound of the universe as it passes through you.

You will learn a new skill.

You will know what it's like to be free.

Personally it lowers my anxiety, increases my patience, and increases my motivation to do this (fix: things). Helps put me in more of a positive mind set and held to stop singer (fix: some) of my negative thinking.

• Waste your time
• Reduce your likelihood of being hit by a car (when compared to activities such as walking across a street, assuming you are not meditating in said street)
• Increase the odds of becoming an insufferable douchebag who tells people all about how meditation has changed their life

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