Extreme laziness to practice anything related to occult/spirituality

[Xenophon]

agreed, the human bias towards novelty is the biggest habit you need to break if you want to become truly successful in any craft, repetition is boring but it pays off over time the more you practice.

First a task is daunting, then difficult, then doable, then routine...then boring. BUT, after boring, it passes into being second nature, an acquired reflex. And it's a good sound set of varied acquired reflexes that takes one to the next level of learning. You can't master polite conversation till you're drilled in irregular verbs and the subjunctive mood. And them is boring. Like the man said, "it's the ability to cope with boredom that leads to success."*

*Admittedly, that someone was David Foster Wallace, whose ability to cope fell through somewheres along the line...

 

[r2magooo]

Meditation is a template for how to continue to place attention onto what you choose.

If you think of the "repetition session" as a single event then you almost certainly guarantee boredom and distraction.

If you think of each and every detail of the sequence of the doing of the "repetition session" , and fully consciously involve yourself into the doing of each detail with careful conscious attention , then you almost certainly guarantee no boredom and distraction.

 

[alanford]

I forgot the email for this account but found it today in a computer folder. Im happy to update that Ive practiced daily (with a few exceptions) for 6 weeks now

 

[Butterfly Affect]

The jarring realization that your body is nothing but a meat-vase for consciousness and not a source of identity is more than many people could handle, would you be able to face that viscerally? To exist without flesh and breath, as a spectre? As something other than your body?

This might be off topic (I can make another thread if needed) but I've felt this almost my entire life, but other people have told me it's unhealthy. What gives? I can barely control my body-mind split even if I wanted to.

 

[khloexia]

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