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Basic Info for Quiet Mind
Basic Info for Quiet Mind
When to Use Quiet Mind & How QM Helped Me Most
When to Use Quiet Mind & How QM Helped Me Most
Caution with Quiet Mind and Mindfulness and Trauma
Caution with Quiet Mind and Mindfulness and Trauma
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Basic Flow of Quiet Mind Meditations:
The flow of Quiet Mind meditations vary for each route below. However, the common thread, is about the self getting smaller, or sound quieter until there is silence, or the absence of things.
All Quiet Mind meditations begin with a focus target that gradually softens, quiets that attention and shifts to an expansive attention where the self is small.
This is a style of meditation in particular where FORCE will yield the opposite of what you want. The key here is surrender, allowing, letting go.
Focusing on the vastness or spaciousness of any vista, view, or thing that is vast and spacious like the ocean or space.
Focus on the empty spaces between things . You can do this with anything - the space between the walls, the space between your hands, the emptiness in the middle of a circle. Play with this and see if you find a way your brain engages with.
Various Routes to a
Quieter Mind
This meditation connects you with being like a tree and then slowly to the feeling of being the entire, vast and expansive forest
Music: Relaxing Flute Falling Leaves by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Calming the Amygdala with Quiet Mind
Calming the Amygdala with Quiet Mind
Many different issues involve over stimulation, activation or reaction by the amygdala. It is doing its job to protect us, but can get stuck, to hyper responsive or even debilitating if in a continual and long term state of activation. Use Quiet Mind Meditations to bring the choppy waters of the mind into stillness and calm. Focusing on your toolkit to both interrupt and calm your amygdala will help you gain the reins of your mind and your experience.
Why Safety is SO Critical -- It is the BASE and FIRST NEED!!
Why Safety is SO Critical -- It is the BASE and FIRST NEED!!
Cave of Safety and QM
Cave of Safety and QM
When you quiet the mind, you begin soothing the amygdala and creating a sense of safety. Until the amygdala BELIEVES it is safe, it will continue to react and be hyper alert.
The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This meditation is helpful for that, or whenever you need a barrier to the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work. Practicing often can help restore a sense of safety.
Music: Golden Blossom - Tranquil Flute by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation uses space imagery to quiet the mind for sleep. Using both the darkness between all things in space and its vast neverending expansiveness.
Music: 8 Hour Hans Zimmer Time Cover by Cozy Sleep Sounds on YouTube
The Net of Indra for Quieting the Mind
Ouroboros for Quieting the Mind
Using Movement to
Quiet the Mind
Using Water to Quiet the Mind
Using Water to Quiet the Mind
My mom helped me get an inflatable hot tub, which made such a difference in reducing or soothing the deep body tension I held. It was the ONLY place I felt I could actually truly LET GO and surrender the intense tightness in my back. I would bend my knees and float; focusing on my back, neck, jaw, cheeks, eyes, scalp... everything. It was, and continues to be, one of the few places I feel the full suspension of my tension.
I like meditating while floating, as well as, while sitting and focusing either on some aspect of nature around me (birds, clouds, branches, leaves, all plants.. everything), or doing a gentle hand movement in the water and focusing on the movement and the waves/patterns created.
The hot tub I have cost about $500. Your monthly power bill will be higher but it works out to about $2 a day (lower/higher in warmer/colder months). So worth it. Yes you have to buy chemicals to keep your water balanced so that it is safe (especially over time). This plus filters are a cost but it is truly not that much and the benefit it will bring you if you are soothed by warm water will be worth it.
They are SUCH a helpful and therapeutic tool!
The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory
What are the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory & Why Do They Matter to YOU?
What are the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory & Why Do They Matter to YOU?
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