What did you observe about your monkey mind?

Need to try it again in a better environment.

Just non stop anxious thoughts

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Just let it roll…. Realized I’m stressing over things more than they are worth being stressed over. Gotta play moment to moment a bit more and worry less about plans of many sorts.

I struggled
I have so many tabs open the more I observed the more anxious I got
Possibly need to go for longer next time

I found this quite difficult because I couldn’t separate my monkey mind from my regular mind. It almost felt like I was pretending to be my monkey mind and forcing my thoughts as they didn’t seem to be coming naturally

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I’m not 100% sure I get it, but I think with practice, I’ll become more in tune with what the monkey mind is

All over place. Self doubt, calmness, worry about future decisions, is it personal growth

Cycling through anxieties and fears and it felt liberating to just let them play out instead of dwelling on them

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Random thoughts and dreams. Then anxieties and worries.

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This is a helpful technique but takes practice as it’s hard to dissociate monkey mind worries and fears from yourself when you’re only starting out meditation and/or have no time to properly practice

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Hard to separate from it and observe.

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Had been able to break away and observe in the past after practice, but I took quite some time away from the app until recently so I’m refiguring things out a bit. My mind was busy, but calm

Tricky to get to grips with it on the first attempt but will try it again and see what happens.

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It freaked out and then, in the last minute, slightly relaxed and complied. in an almost sleep

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I wasn’t able to separate from my mind. When my mind gets going I’m fully engulfed in it. I see and hear and interact with sound and sight when I think so it might take me a bit to be able to separate that out.

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Mind still races quite a bit but I feel a bit more relaxed

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Mind was rather quiet, but heart still racing.

Too many thoughts.

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Need some work on this one. I need to find out how to truly interact with my mind

A lot of thoughts, need to practice more