**To be focused on a problem IS a problem **
I promised you my insight, here it is!
When we have a problem, we’re focused to fix it.
So our mind / consciousness is narrowed to that problem solving.
Isn’t it good to be focused?
But,
we don’t see anything else, - we’re focused.
The problem is that we don’t see alternatives.
Maybe not all alternatives, maybe at all.
That we’re about to “solve” the problem and acting “from”, not “to”.
**Away from problem is NOT towards our dreams? **
So… when we have inner chatter in our minds, we don’t hear birds that are singing around us 🎶 and nature’s beauty 🦢🦩
We don’t see the park - we see the office while being in the park 🌳🌲🌴
We’re not enjoying the beautiful weather 🪷, fresh air, breathing 🫁, drinking a good water 🌊 and many other privileges that we have.
**How to stop being so focused on the problem? **
I would suggest 9 breathing purification meditation
What it does is to de-focus and percept the world more fully 🌍
The next post is devoted to that meditation.
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Nine Breathings Meditation
⭐️ This meditation I learned from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, in 2016.
It helps to stop inner chattering and also to cope with physical and emotional pain.
⏳️The text here describes the 1 week of 6 week retreat to study the meditation. However, even the 1 week is helpful.
== Preparation
1️⃣ - at first it is better to do sitting, to make the fifth point sit somewhere confidently / nest somewhere 🧘🏻🧘🏻♀️.
As soon as you understand what it is about, you can inhale and exhale nostrils while going or doing other matters.
2️⃣ - visualize the channels as in the picture.
For women the red 🔴 channel is on the right,
for men on the left.
3️⃣ - realize the tensions in the body - the desire to move / go, to tense / relax / sleep / squeeze, attack - what the body wants to do in connection with your current context.
- Notice emotions in their purest form, and how they affect the body, including breathing.
- Notice also the inner chatter, and
- The fantasies of situations that play on a record.
You accept everything, you don’t reject them.
== Breathing Start
4️⃣ - (for women side). Clamp your left nostril with your finger, inhale through the right nostril with green light.
The green light fills the red channel 🔴.
Transfer your finger to the right nostril, exhale through the left nostril. When you exhale the same time imagine the light moving through the central blue channel with all emotions / words / fantasies that are about aggression - 💔, accusations, guilt, etc.
💨 Do 3 such breaths
5️⃣ - similarly neighboring channel, mirror - clamp the right one first, inhale green light that fills the white channel ⚪️. And exhale through the central channel, clamping the left nostril with a finger.
Exhale that is connected with attachments ❤️, too strong desire, greed, etc. - extreme degrees of too strong interest in something;
💨 Do 3 of these breaths
6️⃣ - inhale through the central blue 🔵 channel with both nostrils, exhale unconsciousness, ignorance, lack of knowledge, doubts, etc. darkness, through the crown chakra, and dissolve in space.
💨 Take 3 breaths like this
💨 Here’s a total of 9 breaths.
7️⃣ - bring your pure attention to the center of your body.
Remember that everything is both a particle 🔘 and a wave 〰️
Strengten reminiscence. Start with what you see:
- 🏘 if you’re in a room, the 🪑 on which you sit is a bond of particles and waves
- The wall is a multitude of particles and waves
- The food you ate is atoms and particles in space 🥙
- Your hand and leg🦶🏿are collectible of atoms and waves
Continue:
- your emotions
- fantasies
- your inner talk are too - some kind of particles and waves, probably electromagnetic ✨
Dissolve everything and see all at the same time realizings that you’re in a soup 🍵 of particles and waves. Or in a cake 🥮
8️⃣ - Then ask yourself what is “you” then?
Done!
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Here it the guide from their site https://ligmincha.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/nine-breathings-final-2011.pdf