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Comments on: Motivation and the Five Percent Who Stick With It http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/306 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:47:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rocket http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/306/comment-page-1#comment-17578 Rocket Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:12:18 +0000 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/?p=306#comment-17578 The most well trained and experienced instructor I've met makes the point success and permanent change comes not from monumental effort but via sufficient relaxing into that deeply stabilized focus for sustained periods. The most well trained and experienced instructor I’ve met makes the point success and permanent change comes not from monumental effort but via sufficient relaxing into that deeply stabilized focus for sustained periods.

]]> By: Rocket http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/306/comment-page-1#comment-17577 Rocket Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:04:05 +0000 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/?p=306#comment-17577 Like Werner Erhard used to say, "understanding is the booby prize". What keeps people at it is success in acquiring freedom from the pain and lack of meaning in life. Its not about dragging your ass to the cushion, its about loving that cushion because of the enhancements it brings. Like Werner Erhard used to say, “understanding is the booby prize”. What keeps people at it is success in acquiring freedom from the pain and lack of meaning in life. Its not about dragging your ass to the cushion, its about loving that cushion because of the enhancements it brings.

]]> By: Sandy http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/306/comment-page-1#comment-17576 Sandy Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:26:49 +0000 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/?p=306#comment-17576 I kind of wonder if I would still be meditating if my life's problems were sorted out. Probably not. I mentioned the 5% idea to my counselor, and he thinks 5% is way too high an estimate of how many people stick with meditation. He bases that on his experience with people taking up any kind of spiritual or religious practise. He says people typically look for such things when times are tough, and they are quick to abandon them as things improve. He thinks it is almost funny how I get pushed back into meditating every time I stop because I seem to need it. In my case the meditation helps me cope with anomalous experiences, but it also makes them more common. Because they are more common, I really need the meditation more as I go along. A weird sort of feedback loop. My experiences are common enough that I've even managed to get some evidence of them on video. I spent my last counseling session discussing a video of me making my pk pinwheel spin. What my counselor noticed was how relaxed I was when doing that sort of pk (as opposed to light bulbs popping when I'm upset). That's what the mediation seems to be doing for me... making it possible for me to relax when unexplainable things are happening in my life. I think as long as those sorts of things keep on happening, I'm probably going to need to meditate. (I haven't given up on a cure though. I may find one yet.) I kind of wonder if I would still be meditating if my life’s problems were sorted out. Probably not. I mentioned the 5% idea to my counselor, and he thinks 5% is way too high an estimate of how many people stick with meditation. He bases that on his experience with people taking up any kind of spiritual or religious practise. He says people typically look for such things when times are tough, and they are quick to abandon them as things improve.

He thinks it is almost funny how I get pushed back into meditating every time I stop because I seem to need it. In my case the meditation helps me cope with anomalous experiences, but it also makes them more common. Because they are more common, I really need the meditation more as I go along. A weird sort of feedback loop.

My experiences are common enough that I’ve even managed to get some evidence of them on video. I spent my last counseling session discussing a video of me making my pk pinwheel spin. What my counselor noticed was how relaxed I was when doing that sort of pk (as opposed to light bulbs popping when I’m upset). That’s what the mediation seems to be doing for me… making it possible for me to relax when unexplainable things are happening in my life. I think as long as those sorts of things keep on happening, I’m probably going to need to meditate. (I haven’t given up on a cure though. I may find one yet.)

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