When you lie down or sit down to meditate, what do you want to achieve?
If it's muscle relaxation after exercise or a short break from computer work, you want 10-15 minutes, that's enough.
If there was no pre-exercise and you are taking a pose for a long meditation, then it is more of a tribute to fashion rather than a benefit to the body.
Why? ?
When you are in a still pose with your eyes closed, the brain goes into low frequency mode - theta and delta rhythms. In this state, the body is very sensitive to all influences and becomes more controllable.
If your awareness is low and you are not constantly developing it, then you are unable to be disassociated from the flow of thoughts.
You know for yourself that there are constantly scraps of thoughts flitting around in your head that trigger an emotional response. Inside ourselves we are always sounding out, there is no silence!
Without high awareness, you cannot keep track of the fragments of your thoughts, and they control your perception, your mood, your behaviour.
During meditation, when you become more in control, fragments of thoughts take over your destiny completely.
They can be your fears, other people's voices - all sorts of cockroaches.
The habit of meditating against a background of low awareness leads to depression, reduces adaptive mechanisms, and makes one listless and "low-frequency", which you clearly do not want to be!
There is a silver lining, though.
You become a "good person", a goody-goody.
Suppressed, manageable and comfortable for others.
If you have the goal of making yourself comfortable for others - meditate lying down or sitting up all the time!
The real aim of static meditation, or any meditation in fact, is to enhance awareness☝️.
But mindfulness (which is not the absence of thoughts!) is not given easily, one has to learn, overcome laziness and discomfort.
In order not to make mistakes by meditating incorrectly in a static posture, start with dynamic meditations. And only after mastering them, move on to the next level of difficulty - static meditation.
In the next post I will write about the benefits of dynamic meditation?
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