Some reflections on my experiences of mindfulness and embodied awareness as meditative practice.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2023/07/mindfulness-and-embodied-awareness

#climateChange #meditation #science #philosophy #polyCrisis #trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT1dy0-lNFc

As someone who is trying to work on #mindfulness and who is absolutely terrible at #meditation, I will say the #BodyScanMeditation is great. It's something to gently return my focus to that I can actually focus on. A mantra or my breath just doesn't do it for me.

We have a YouTube playlist called Littoral Relaxocean

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq_DVMr7CmlL1LtHmnJxnAa8Q_CATpFIp

Tuesday PsyTrance

There's an entire album, from all the way back in 2018, which exemplifies a canonical example of perfectly designed patterns and focused, driving beats which have defined the PsyTech sub-genre ever since.

It also features some of the best and most appropriately sci-fi / zen audio samples used since the mid-2010s. The descriptives on it are effectively precise:

> The purest of progressive vibes are invoked by expertly crafted sonic palettes, laying comfortably on raging basslines, rhythms and pulsating arpeggios.. haunting yet beautiful vocals that lead you dreamily into another dimension; filled with mystical pads and stabs; killer percussive patterns, fierce synthesizer lines, breathtaking ethnic instruments and mind blowing vocals. It pierces the soul, infiltrates the mind & body, elevates our energetic field and unites us as listeners...

Artist: Mindbenderz
Album: Tribalism
Purchase (IONO): https://ionomusic.bandcamp.com/album/tribalism
Streaming (soundcloud): https://soundcloud.com/mindbenderz/sets/mindbenderz-tribalism
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/tribalism/2414293
Spotify: it's on there too!

While we're at it... they're follow-up album "Cosmic Package" deserves an equally attentive listen, especially if they're combined into one back to back playlist.
- https://ionomusic.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-package

Overstory.

The archetypical park bench with over-arching old tree.
Despite the frizzling dappled light, it was so cold and windy that I didn’t even want to sit down and eat my lunch here.

So I took the photo.
I regret that my memory will be one of documenting the tree and the table, and not the experience of sitting under the tree at the table… eating my homemade cheese and hummus and cucumber and chilli-jam sandwiches.
Perhaps shivering across a chapter or two of the book Im reading, listening to the tree turn the pages.

Instead, I took the photo and then ate my sandwiches in the car.

Can meetings where no one says a word exhibit significantly different interpersonal dynamics? After my third silent meditation retreat, I say: Yes they can!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/06/the-interpersonal-dynamics-of-silent-retreats

Do you struggle with creative thoughts during meditation? Try this simple technique to tame your creative mind without losing your best ideas.

#meditation #CreativePractice #MindfulProductivity #mindfulness #post

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/05/tame-creative-mind-meditation

Promising research.

And FYI ‘The Matter With Things’ by Iain McGilchrist is the most impactful #book I have ever read.

#meditation #psychedelic #neuroscience #philosophy

https://neurosciencenews.com/psychedelics-right-hemisphere-28946/

Do you struggle with creative thoughts during meditation? Try this simple technique to tame your creative mind without losing your best ideas.

#meditation #CreativePractice #MindfulProductivity #mindfulness

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/05/tame-creative-mind-meditation

VisionHouseStudios is now streaming Music on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/visionhousestudios

Playing songs that you don't know. Making them up as we go! #gsg #gsglive #improv #music #modbap #meditation #chill #HipHop

#SynthStream #twitch #GSGLive #music #musodon #synth #synthesis @synths

You can buy my book, Wellness While incarcerated, from Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wellness-while-incarcerated-anonymous/1146356790?ean=9798988816133

Many penal institutions do not accept Amazon orders for books, but do accept Barnes & Nobles.

Do you struggle with creative thoughts during meditation? Try this simple technique to tame your creative mind without losing your best ideas.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/05/tame-creative-mind-meditation

Taking my dog…less seriously.

I look at some of the photographers I admire, like Takuma Nakahira and Saul Leiter and Vivien Maier and plenty of others.
I want to be like them. I want every photo to speak, to capture the essence of the moment. The zeitgeist. The Koan.

Scrolling back through my file of keepers, I mostly fall short. Every so often I approximate a little glimpse. Mostly by accident. The harder I try, the more I miss. The closer I focus, the more shallow I expose.

Then I remember not to take the whole thing too seriously. It is perfectly OK, I say to myself, to just post the process. The journey.

Sometimes that journey is just a cute picture of your dog taken at home. On the couch. That’s all I got.
Its enough.

Do you struggle with creative thoughts during meditation? Try this simple technique to tame your creative mind without losing your best ideas.

#meditation #CreativePractice #MindfulProductivity #mindfulness #newpost

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/05/tame-creative-mind-meditation

Hi all, I've just setup my own #GoToSocial instance, so it's time for an updated #introduction

I'm very much into #yoga and #meditation and everything related to that. I'm trying to learn #Sanskrit because its a beautiful language and also in order to be able to read text like the #BhagavadGita #Upanishads #YogaSutras which greatly inspire me.

I'm from the #Netherlands and work in #science in the field of outdoor #AirQuality I may occasionally share something about that, but this is not a work account (and any opinions are my own).

I love #photography , mostly related to #nature #weather #clouds #trees
I love the #forest, I'm grateful to live at the edge of the beautiful #Veluwe nature area.

I love growing food in my #garden using #organic #permaculture and #RegenerativeAgriculture inspired methods, I'm dreaming of tending my own #FoodForest some day.

Unfortunately I'm operating at half power thanks to #LongCovid since Feb. '22, so most of my hobbies are in "maintenance mode".

I'll post in English, my Dutch account is @kedara_nl
I also have a personal website @ https://kedara.eu where I #blog, tend a #DigitalGarden / #wiki and try to contribute to the #Indieweb #smallweb communities.

I've done my fair share of instance hopping and had hoped to solve that by starting my own Akkoma instance, but found GoToSocial more suitable to my needs in the end. I hope to stay here now indefinitely.

Let me know if you have similar interests and I'll be happy to chat!

Do you struggle with creative thoughts during meditation? Try this simple technique to tame your creative mind without losing your best ideas.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/05/tame-creative-mind-meditation

You were
never meant
to hold
their pain.
You are
a sacred vessel
designed
for love.

#mastoprompt - vessel

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/listen-to-your-own-voice-sharon-cummings.html

Do you struggle with creative thoughts during meditation? Try this simple technique to tame your creative mind without losing your best ideas.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/05/tame-creative-mind-meditation

Inspiration for all the #photographers out there….

#photography #nature #meditation

https://shojiwax.com/2025/04/06/photographer-per-bak-jensen/