Have to admit that I didn't put much effort into this lately, so today will be a fresh start! I get quite a lot of sleep nowadays, so I mainly experiment by waking myself up after 5 or 6 hours of sleep (using an alarm clock) and then meditating. I usually fall asleep while meditating, but I've often found in hindsight that I was already seeing things in the meditative state before I lost conciousness. So the results are definitely there! I've had some semi-lucid dreams after falling asleep meditating, one of which left me feeling really great for the entire day.
In this dream, I was in a mall, running away from a group of people chasing me with knifes and baseball bats. I had just gotten rid of them when I realised 'Hey wait, this is my own dream, so there is nothing they can do to me, they're just a part of me. But they want to scare me for some reason, so I'd better go talk to them.' So I turned around, saw them in the distance, then walked up to them to have a little chat and grab a drink elsewhere in the mall. Before we got to speak, they smiled and fistbumped me before vanishing in thin air. That's when I woke up, feeling completely refreshed and ready for the day. It was awesome!
This is in line with what meditation generally feels like for me: it empties my mind from all the chatter and it feels like all the pieces of the puzzle internally fall together.
I also love what you wrote on being-process oriented, I can't agree more! To use sports as an example: if you are only comparing yourself to what others are doing, you'll be feeling bad all the time. Except for 1 person in 7 billion, there will always be someone 'better'. If you, on the other hand, just focus on getting better each and every time, you'll see a lot of development and keep feeling good about what you do while getting stronger/faster/... every week. Eventually you'll come to realise that, while you were only defeating yourself each time, you've also gotten better than a big part of your competition.
Please do keep posting your progress, it makes for an interesting read!
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