What are your favorite ways to meditate?
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I'm no expert ,just been into meditation for about 4-5 months. My method is 60 minutes daily that I must do before the day ends. I usually space them in chunks of 10 or 30 mins , if time's not enough I do some while doing other stuff (just breath control and awareness ) . Anyway here's my top 3 "styles":
1]Fight or flight breathing "programming": Similar to box breathing but more "technical". INHALE: Like your body is a balloon filling till it can't take more (try to use the Diaphragm) --> KEEP : As if you had just run a sprint and want to "feel the oxygen" .---> EXHALE : Now your body's a balloon getting all of its the air out, here you literally try to get out all of the oxygen in you, stop once you feel you have nothing else to exhale(even pressing the abs) ---> 👑"VOID": Here's the most important part. You must delay the urge to breath as much as you can BUT it has to be done "quiet" as if you were dreaming or the need to breath wasn't't there. Personally I like to imagine the body impulses to get oxygen as if it were tickles. ---> REPEAT🔁
2]-Memory-recall: You put the timer and try to remember everything that you did during the day (this one's good to wind down before bed) . You can do it freely tho , putting more time and going further in time.
3]-Trascendental meditation: I'm not so experienced at this one but you basically repeat a word/phrase/mantra or sound in your mind . You keep doing and doing never stoping repeating the main "mantra" and you mind starts giving you inputs around that. Personally I recommend this one in the afternoons or evening it helps to stay on track and avoid procrastination or autopilot .
What are the types/styles of meditation you enjoy the most?
I'm low key addicted to the first one, that "VOID tech" is just dopamine once you hit the 35-40seconds mark