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Jen-Jen
ANSWERS: 4
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The practice of meditation can help a lot. The inner chatter will come up in the practice where you may increase your ability to focus on what you choose.
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Hatha Yoga... If you can handle it? Breathing si the center of the nervous system... Control that, and the mind does what it is supposed to. Becomes quiet and the the tongue is soon to follow suit.
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By seeing what we're seeing, tasting what we're eating, hearing what we're listening too. Most of the time, we're not really present. When we eat, our minds are elsewhere and we don't really taste the food. When we're having a conversation with someone, we're not really listening but waiting for our turn to talk. For example, notice how, so far, nobody actually answered the specific question you asked? This is why genuine meditation encourages us to be present, rather than trying to control anything - whether it's our breathing or our thoughts or whatever, to pay full attention to this moment, initially by unifying body, breath and mind and then by being attentive to this unified body/mind to experience things as they actually are. In doing so, we also really see the person in front of us and true communication which is not centered on what's going on in someone's head and which includes silence, begins to take place.
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The mind stuff seems forever. One thought after another after another. imagine if you will a pool of water looking into it, you see it's crystal clear and the colors and the sunshine flicker in the water at the speed of light and it is like the mind at rest without any chatter. Crystal clear communication. Now take a stick and stir that water up. Whoa-- all of the sediment at the bottom is all over the place. the water is all muddy and you can't see anything. there is your mind with all of the chatter How can anything be clear?
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