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Dozing off
My S.O. winked at me maliciously after my meditation session last night. "Sitting indeed. You were snoring in there! A fine meditator you are!" - "Was not" - "Too!" and so on :)
Anyway, I usually notice when I start to doze off, and yes, sometimes only after the fact... and I duly note the event, trying to catch as many sensations of it as I can. It still is a tricky object for meditation :)
So, what are your recipes for dealing with drowsiness?
Apart from visualizing brightness and taking deep, invigorating breaths, and getting up for a walk?
Cheers,
Florian
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Aug 6 2008, 2:38 PM EDT by
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why put up with pain in the first place
It has always bugged me why so many people think you have to meditate in the sitting position. To me the hole thing is about bypassing the senses to experence your true self. So if your sitting in a position that your not use to generally due to are culture (arm chairs ), then your going to get pain in your limbs which will distract you from what your trying to do. I meditate in the lying down position. I know some warn against it because its easy to fall asleep but I never really had that problem. Providing you've had sufficient sleep and/or have enough resolve it shouldn't happen. Incidentally I always choose the rising and falling of my abdomen to rest my awareness on because I feel that, due to the fact that this area has the most concentration of the nervious system, if relaxation is to be really achived deeply then thats the place to do it.
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Oct 10 2008, 9:49 AM EDT by
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