Between work and worrying about my personal health/fitness in general I’m surprised I’m not in a psych ward with how rampant my monkey mind went.
My mind is crazy busy at the moment.
At least the Mojo routine is forcing a bit of time to observe and meditate.
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I didn’t actually believe that meditation would calm me, but it did
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That was really interesting and calming. My mind is so busy at the moment - busy with important things and not so important things. It’s quite interesting just to watch the thoughts flow by.
I have never quite done a meditation like that. It was interesting to see how I could be separate from my thoughts.
It felt like my mind flitted about to various thoughts. I don’t know if I felt like an observer of my own mind though. Maybe with practice I’ll get there.
Wow there were a lot of thoughts. Is my brain always thinking this much — like during sex too? That would explain a lot…
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It’s amazing the amount of things your mind wanders through in seconds
It wasn’t really worrying about anything as I felt quite relaxed during the meditation, but I didn’t notice my mind wandering and random thoughts popping up. It did feel like they reduced a little bit when I started to focus on my monkey mind
Meditation is good, always loved doing it.
Never indulged my monkey brain to exhaustion before usually I shh it and move on. Different strategies, similar results.
Starting there were a lot of the thoughts I am worrying about, mostly task to be done. After watching them they quited and faded a bit giving room for a couple more less loud thoughts. Eventually things quieted for the most part. I feel calmer now than starting.
This felt like a huge waste of time. No true instruction or direction. Sit there and let your “monkey mind” go? Okay that’s what I always do and that’s the problem. Where’s the solution?
I found this a useful exercise. Watching those active thoughts were not taking them too seriously.
it was good fun. i had a lot of thoughts but not negative, some funny, some insightful, some horny. i liked watching them go by.
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hi! i think the point is that most of us let the monkey mind go without realising it. here the point is to observe it so its thing, be mindful of it. to me it’s great because i don’t feel the need to clear the mind, i can simply watch it do its thing. be kind and patient to yourself and couple this exercise with the other meditation ones, in which you focus on your breathing for example. i think that if you give yourself some time you’re going to see the benefit of this eventually, i was also skeptical at first. have a good day!
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It was a new experience, I didn’t feel bad about not having a clear and empty mind during meditation
It keeps bringing up random incidents from past few dags
It seemed to try and throw many random thoughts to the front at the same time, switching from past memories and analysis, future plans and possible scenarios, to random thoughts. It really did seem like a monkey jumping from one branch to another. It was interesting to observe this, because after a while, the monkey tired it self out and the mind became more slow and clear.
I felt that as I went on I got better at just letting go and letting my mind be active, and I think that allowed me to become more relaxed
Did the 15 minute version and had the full spectrum. Past present and future coming up but real moments of just calm and relaxation. I found it most enjoyable when my mind felt empty and I was settling into the calmness