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cybersharp · 08-08-2005, 12:12 AM

Hey,

Ok I am a runner mainly I have occasionaly done martial arts and play soccer and do track regularly. Ive read serveral books on mediation and control breathing and can pace myself very well. I was just wondering if anyone would share the various ways they meditate and focus their minds and breathing.

Suave · 08-08-2005, 01:17 AM

One of the major ways I know of is to focus on your breaths. You allow yourself to breathe naturally, but with each breath out, you move your focus further inward towards yourself. While doing this, you must make sure not to grab ahold of any sporadic thoughts that present themselves to you. As of now though, I just naturally do it. I try to stay in a semi-meditative state through as much of the day as possible.

thingstodo · 08-08-2005, 03:16 AM

To me you need a learning tool. Yoga has helped me greatly. It's actually an excercise developed years ago for people that wanted to meditate for many hours at a time.

You get to the physical through focus on the breathing. The main breathing difference is that you breathe in AND out through your nose, which adds heats to your body. I breathe out through my mouth when I'm riding at a higher intensity but through the nose only at lower levels. This all helps me manage my heart rate.

Yoga helps you "quiet your body" so you can use your mind. I ride bikes and it really helps me experience what my body is doing rather than watching a clock. I can ride much longer because I titally get into the physical aspects of what I am doing.

cybersharp · 08-08-2005, 12:04 PM

Thx for the replies any others willing to comment? Also, as you learned to control breathing what would you say you acheived first and after? I mean did you focus on breathing and then through time become more able to clear your thoughs more effectivly or did focus on concentrating on not thinking but simply breathing?

One other thing I am curious about is besides yoga do any of you use other stanses that you body is more able to relax in?

Suave · 08-08-2005, 11:04 PM

Breathing normally comes first, then through that you clear your mind.

thingstodo · 08-09-2005, 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Suave

Breathing normally comes first, then through that you clear your mind.

I agree with that 100%. You need a focusing element, at what better element than your own bodies musical notes.

raeanna74 · 08-09-2005, 04:23 AM

To be honest I don't often focus on my breathing for very long. I concentrate on it only long enough for me to settle into a natural breathing rythmn. Then I begin to focus on a other vibrations in my body. My heart beat for one gives my body a vibration but there's a hum sortof that I find when I'm focusing on my body. It seems like my breathing will slow down while I'm focusing on that vibration. Dunno if any of this makes sense. I've not had anyone teach me to do this. I have found though that when I do that afterwards I feel so much more relaxed and have so much more pure energy to accomplish what I need to. I'm not trying to slow my breathing but so often we tend to take short shallow breaths and slowing it and making it deeper is what I need.

cybersharp · 08-09-2005, 10:22 PM

thx anything else anyone would like to add? You all seem to agree and your posts have been very informative for me thanks tons

thingstodo · 08-13-2005, 04:37 AM

I thought of one other things. A bike rider told me years ago to focus on breathing out because you will naturally breathe in. That worked for him and has worked for me when I'm riding hard.

08-08-2005, 12:12 AM	#1 (permalink)
cybersharp Insane	Focus, Breathing, and Meditation Hey, Ok I am a runner mainly I have occasionaly done martial arts and play soccer and do track regularly. Ive read serveral books on mediation and control breathing and can pace myself very well. I was just wondering if anyone would share the various ways they meditate and focus their minds and breathing. __________________ 0PtIcAl

08-08-2005, 01:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
Suave Twitterpated Location: My own little world (also Canada)	One of the major ways I know of is to focus on your breaths. You allow yourself to breathe naturally, but with each breath out, you move your focus further inward towards yourself. While doing this, you must make sure not to grab ahold of any sporadic thoughts that present themselves to you. As of now though, I just naturally do it. I try to stay in a semi-meditative state through as much of the day as possible. __________________ "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato

08-08-2005, 03:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
thingstodo A Storm Is Coming Location: The Great White North	To me you need a learning tool. Yoga has helped me greatly. It's actually an excercise developed years ago for people that wanted to meditate for many hours at a time. You get to the physical through focus on the breathing. The main breathing difference is that you breathe in AND out through your nose, which adds heats to your body. I breathe out through my mouth when I'm riding at a higher intensity but through the nose only at lower levels. This all helps me manage my heart rate. Yoga helps you "quiet your body" so you can use your mind. I ride bikes and it really helps me experience what my body is doing rather than watching a clock. I can ride much longer because I titally get into the physical aspects of what I am doing. __________________ If you're wringing your hands you can't roll up your shirt sleeves. Stangers have the best candy. Last edited by thingstodo; 08-08-2005 at 03:18 AM..

08-08-2005, 12:04 PM	#4 (permalink)
cybersharp Insane	Thx for the replies any others willing to comment? Also, as you learned to control breathing what would you say you acheived first and after? I mean did you focus on breathing and then through time become more able to clear your thoughs more effectivly or did focus on concentrating on not thinking but simply breathing? One other thing I am curious about is besides yoga do any of you use other stanses that you body is more able to relax in? __________________ 0PtIcAl

08-08-2005, 11:04 PM	#5 (permalink)
Suave Twitterpated Location: My own little world (also Canada)	Breathing normally comes first, then through that you clear your mind. __________________ "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato

08-09-2005, 04:23 AM	#7 (permalink)
raeanna74 I'm not a blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot! Location: Upper Michigan	To be honest I don't often focus on my breathing for very long. I concentrate on it only long enough for me to settle into a natural breathing rythmn. Then I begin to focus on a other vibrations in my body. My heart beat for one gives my body a vibration but there's a hum sortof that I find when I'm focusing on my body. It seems like my breathing will slow down while I'm focusing on that vibration. Dunno if any of this makes sense. I've not had anyone teach me to do this. I have found though that when I do that afterwards I feel so much more relaxed and have so much more pure energy to accomplish what I need to. I'm not trying to slow my breathing but so often we tend to take short shallow breaths and slowing it and making it deeper is what I need. __________________ "Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama My Karma just ran over your Dogma.

08-09-2005, 10:22 PM	#8 (permalink)
cybersharp Insane	thx anything else anyone would like to add? You all seem to agree and your posts have been very informative for me thanks tons __________________ 0PtIcAl

08-13-2005, 04:37 AM	#9 (permalink)
thingstodo A Storm Is Coming Location: The Great White North	I thought of one other things. A bike rider told me years ago to focus on breathing out because you will naturally breathe in. That worked for him and has worked for me when I'm riding hard. __________________ If you're wringing your hands you can't roll up your shirt sleeves. Stangers have the best candy.