@neuranne [cont.] “You tell yourself that for 20 minutes a day, whatever your ego says, you're going to do it. This attitude by itself brings the true will, which brings true presence and detachment from the ego. Meditation is oriented towards presence.” - A.H. Almaas
@neuranne Here’s a quote from A.H. Almaas that you might find helpful: “What determines the value of meditation is that you do the meditation. If you really do it, in time you'll become present mainly because you will not go along with the judgments and preferences of the ego.”
@Longevity_EDU Breath by James Nestor. Talk about your fundamentals, breathing has got to one of them. Some takeaways: through the nose for the win, inhale low, exhale slow. Surprise: the need for carbon dioxide to oxygenate the blood optimally.
@jonnym1ller@m_ashcroft@stevemarch Some Enneagram teachers teach that we have all the points and need to work with all of them. It’s just that one dominates a bit and needs the most work.
@nyctherapist Here is how a modern spiritual path views and uses object relation theory: https://t.co/6YaZ4Nsgh6
The main text is The Pearl Beyond Price — Integrating Personality Into Being: An Object Relations Approach
Mentions of Guntrip, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Kernberg included.
@m_ashcroft I think there is also something about having infinite space above that is enlivening and relaxing. I haven't seen any studies about it, but that is my sense.