Redeeming Disorder

When you're with a physical sensation, you're with the present moment. Today we start working with a new and simple (but powerful) technique: Body Scanning.

This meditation’s opening quote is from the Bhagavad Gita.

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This challenging meditation marks the halfway point in our 12-day meditation challenge. For the first time, we use primary objects of attention (a.k.a. "anchors" of attention) other than the breath!

The opening quote is from the 17th century French mathematician, philosopher and Catholic theologian, Blaise Pascal.

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Mental Notes:
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Feeling, Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting.
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Thinking (including "analyzing," "remembering," "imagining," etc.).
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In (or "rising," or alternative).
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Out (or "falling," or alternative).
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This meditation’s opening (and closing) haiku is from the 17th century Zen monk and poet, Matsuo Basho.

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In the practice of Metta, or Loving-Kindness, we wish goodwill toward ourselves, toward others, and ultimately toward all beings.

This meditation’s opening quote is from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a Hindu guru of nondualism.

May all beings be happy. ❤️

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Can you see a thought as a thought?

Today we introduce the technique of “mental noting” to create some space from our thoughts. This helps us see a thought for what it is — an ephemeral something-or-other that comes and goes, and doesn’t need to be a problem!

This meditation’s opening quote is from a film called the Samadhi Movie, which I tweeted out back in 2019, and still highly recommend:

Part I — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9zSMsKcwk
Part II — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQL6qcGqQ0Y

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Learn a basic but powerful concentration technique: Counting Breaths.

By counting the breaths, we can cut off the momentum of the trains of thought that pull us away, invite a sense of calm, and establish the conditions necessary for insight.

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Begin your journey with this simple 10-minute meditation about being here, now, with this — the breath.

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There has never been a better time to start meditating than right now.

It's no panacea cure for mental disorder, but meditation can transform your consciousness and your experience of the world. In this 12-Day Meditation Challenge, we start from square one; Guided Meditation 1 is an easeful 10-minute introduction. The lengths of our meditations will increase gradually over the days, but will only exceed 30 minutes once, averaging 23 minutes. Also increasing will be the meditative skillset you build as we traverse the landscape of meditation, covering the major styles of practice and leaving you fully prepared to continue practicing.

Happy practicing, safe journeying and looking forward to seeing you in Guided Meditation 1.

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A teacher’s true impact on the world isn’t seen directly, and isn’t measured. It exists instead abstractly, as a butterfly effect projecting through the lives of students they’ve guided. In Cullen’s and my case, this guidance was in sophomore year U.S. History. Yet, it also extended beyond the classroom, in large part thanks to the unconventional culture of my high school. At the Paideia School, we had discussions (often about race, gender and charged social issues) in a Socratic method, called our teachers by their first names, and frequently grew close with them.

If we evolved to go through childhood in community, then today, teachers are the closest thing kids have to those 30 aunts and uncles that the kiddos had back in hunter-gatherer days. Beyond figuring out childcare ahead of their time, hunter-gatherer tribes also lived communally and transparently, less able to “put on a face,” or hide a health issue, than we are today. Today we often know little about the personal lives of our teachers, employers or even co-workers; we have no idea who might be silently struggling.

In this era of compartmentalization and stigma, someone willing to buck the trends and vulnerably share their story uplifts those around them more than they could know. I’m honored to bring you this interview with just such a person — my teacher and friend, Cullen Sacha.

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WaitButWhy on Procrastination (Referenced in Episode):

Why Procrastinators Procrastinate — https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html

The Procrastination Matrix — https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/03/procrastination-matrix.html

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I met Nate Schorr right after Redeeming Disorder’s first episode; he reached out after hearing me on RHAP (Rob Has a Podcast) because, for him, it was something like two worlds colliding — he was a Survivor fan who also happened to work for one the largest grassroots mental health organization in the world: NAMI. NAMI stands for the “National Alliance on Mental Illness,” and Nate worked specifically at NAMI Wisconsin, finding himself quickly moved by stories of mental health challenges and journeys. It was through those stories that he came to better understand his own mental health, and through that work that he came to have the thoughtful and knowledgeable perspective he shares today on the podcast.

We touch on the politics of mental health — recent legislation like mental health parity, programs like crisis intervention training, contemporary discussions of gun violence and mental health — as well as the importance of open-mindedness and the ethos of the Socratic Paradox, “I know that I know nothing.”

NAMI Website: https://www.nami.org/
The Socratic Paradox Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing

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