So seems I figured out the issue with the @cuttingmachine_ exercises: I just needed to do twice as much in a day.
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why 'oh god'? 😂 You must have boshed out more than an hour a day to get where you got to?
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Yes, but I pushed when I was stable, not when things were chaotic!
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Hey, but things are stable right now.
Stable income, stable(ish) family situation, plenty of free time.
Was much worse recently, though.
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Absent other people, my mind has been almost completely quiet for the last year or so.
Interactions trigger lots of messy thoughts, though.
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Therapy not intensive meditation. Slow down. I don't have the time to fix crack ups!
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What is this, a twitter guru-disciple relationship?
You want to give advice, I thank you. You want to teach, teach. This is inappropriate.
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Otherwise, I'm quite happy to follow 's instructions - which did not speak against meditating long hours.
Well, Vinay's rather more experienced than I am. So worth considering.
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FWIW, there a loads of lay practitioners doing way in excess of an hour a day, all over the world. Especially in ngakpa traditions - where householders often meditate even more than monks who get saddled with monastery work.
Although, that tradition emphasises the rôle of Lama.
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