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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if you'd like to meditate daily? It is supposedly very relaxing and centering. [/quote]

OP. I’ve gone through phases of regular breath work meditation (Ten Percent Happier type stuff, mostly). I have found it incredibly helpful, mostly to notice and by extension detach from my own thoughts. It made me much less reactive, and I felt more present/relaxed in my own life.( I am out of the habit right now, and typing this I realize I should get back into it.)

But meditation never made me feel connected to something bigger. It wax always kind of all about me — my breath, my thoughts, my observing, my returning.  That sense of “oneness” that people sometimes describe… I just never felt it. I’d like to. I’d like to feel like there’s something more, and that there’s some way of tapping into it.

I wondered if prayer was a way in, or if the fact that I don’t really “believe” (in what? In the bearded guy in white robes, I guess) means by definition it wouldn’t be prayer. Maybe I just have to try and keep at it and see for myself. [/quote]

When you’re meditating if you just stop thinking about your mind so much and yourself so much and thinking about the universe and how we’re all connected that might be better than just obsessing over your wandering thoughts.

Or do guided meditations.[/quote]

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