Mind-Wandering in Meditation -- Buddhist Wisdom meets Brain Science - Culadasa

How to keep your attention on the breath during meditation. Easy instructions for mastering mind-wandering!
See more at his blog: culadasa.com

[@McLKeith]

Culadasa is a thorough meditation teacher. “The Mind Illuminated” is the most important meditation resource in my personal library. Thank you very much for the book and these wonderful videos.

[@NilsKullberg]

I agree!

[@kooroshrostami27]

The endless circle of constant drifting off and coming back is part of the awareness which is meditation. The very moment when one starts to think of this endless circle as an annoyance or a failure, that's where one is no longer meditating.

[@susandietrich5329]

I’m listening to The Mind Illuminated, which has catapulted my practice forward by quantum leaps. What a brilliant how-to manual. Thank you, Culdasa John Yeats!

[@ChaosPath]

Wonderful teacher

[@madogblue]

Good stuff. Really adds to the teachings in his book

[@squamish4244]

A device that I have that uses light and sound stimulation helps keep my mind focussed. Neurofeedback is also insanely good at instantly recognizing when your mind wanders and bringing it back to attention. Very powerful supports for meditation practice.

[@drsr4560]

Instead of getting frustrated etc. when catch mind wandering, reframe it as a success: you are cultivating mindfulness. Also, until you’re a very advanced practitioner, you can’t expect the frequency of mind wanderings to be any lower than baseline

[@ConspiracyCraftersStudio]

Oh, thats some wisdom here :) Really helpful

[@eckhardtmilz1587]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[@jwright123456789]

Interesting talk on dealing with distractions, complete with a distracting person rocking in the foreground :-)

[@tavad007]

Jeff Wright I had to go back to video to notice it :)

[@raymeester7883]

I had to go back as well.

[@Abornazine_]

As the teachings go, the buddha would say, Person wasn’t distracting.. you were distracted by the movement.

[@susandietrich5329]

:-D Did you get abducted?!? :-D

[@ajmarr5671]

Meditation explained simply Meditation, from focal meditation to mindfulness entails the avoidance of all conscious discursive or unpredictable transitive (act-outcome) or ‘what if’ decision making or judgement that represents past, present and future judgments that can easily transition into perseverative thought (i.e. regret, distraction, and worry). In other words, meditation is reducing discursive thinking by being in the moment or ‘mindful’. The avoidance of discursive thinking or ‘mind wandering’ prevents the development of future perseverative conflicts and results in the covert musculature becoming inactive, or a pleasurable state of rest. Relaxation is achieved by avoiding discursive judgment rather than all judgment, while the subsequent pursuit of purposive non-discursive or meaningful behavior sustains and enhances the positive affect due to relaxation. (This is exemplified in cognitive strategies such as savoring, loving-kindness mediation, and flow experiences that couple positive ideation with relaxed states) Thus meditation, to be effective, must represent a dual cognitive strategy that couples the inhibition of discursive thinking with subsequent non-discursive or meaningful judgment or thought. A more formal explanation from a neurologically based learning theory is provided on pp. 44-52 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. (The flow experience is discussed on pp. 82-87.) www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing

[@Meow-ds7pr]

thanks for this

[@mknyat10]

How about telling the mind I (you) have no reason to believe the story I don’t have anything to do with the story I don’t have to creat , entertain and believe the story The story is a lie .. Ian better than the story See how you feel