I really hate when people tease me with promises of my more confident beliefs being wrong. Hey, everyone: I've read around as much as y'all on rationality, physics, geography, and I just wanted to tell you that the Earth is flat. Yeah, yeah I know it's hard to believe, but you're just going to have to trust me. I might go in to more detail some other time, but y'know it would be kind of a lot of work (I think)... soooo probably not, but maybe! maybe... anyway you're wrong.
Guys, guys.. I can see you're upset, but I'm posting this on the internet for my benefit not yours.
Hi everybody,
There's been a bit of talk of Mindfulness meditation around. I am curious about this, because it looks like it might be practical advice backed by a deep theory.
Unfortunately, all the tutorials on mindfulness meditation seem to be semi-practical advice backed by totally bogus theories (focus your energies, blah blah). I've been able to extract some useful stuff from such articles, but I don't know what I can trust, and I still don't fully understand how it's even supposed to work.
My current understanding is that you are supposed to pay attention to something and then pay attention to your attention, notice when you go off track, not judge yourself, and focus your attention back on the thing you were paying attention to. Or something.
I'd like to understand the technique at least well enough to judge success. When I'm doing chin-ups, it's easy to see if I did a chin-up or not, and how many, but I don't even know what this mindfulness stuff is supposed to look like.
If anyone knows more about what it's supposed to feel like, what the steps are an so on, I would really appreciate if you posted your knowledge here.