Would you like to find out how strong are you? how much there is to perceive? how your mind works? who are you?
Meditation is Key
Life nowadays is busy. In this society, of competence and consumerism, our heads are fill up with to-do lists and with I-want lists. We just keep our minds focused on those lists:
How are we gonna get there, how are we going to feel once we get there and how the present situation isn’t enough for us. It becomes a race, and well, not surprisingly, the current education system that most of us have went through is made for people to be standardized, or normalized. We find ourselves in duty to fulfill a role in a society that impose a view of the world which sometimes is limiting, unfair, cruel and psychotic.
Every day we interact with each other. Mixing each other vibes in every moment that we breath in and out, and we do feel them in every moment of our lives. Like the sound of planet Earth (aca Gaia), that information is in your mind but slips into the subconscious mind, to find us in our Dream. Well, our emotions are affected for it too. Like, all the time! Whereas you notice them or not.
Can you remember a situation where everything seemed to be perfect, maybe a little boring, but something inside your guts wasn’t quite right about it; eventually, a time after, you find that the situation wasn’t right at ALL? That gust feeling was you telling yourself-conscious being about how screw up was everything in the perfect situation I had mention before. Consciousness is about bringing awareness on every aspect of our psyche, is its nature to expand into the unknown.
On top of that, we must deal with our human body! And it is a full time job of excruciating human basic needs related activities quite time consuming in a day. Our minds are just caught in the routines of human life
Let’s going to make a wee test!
Close your eyes and make 3 deep breaths.
Make sure to be 100 % concentrated in the feeling of the air flowing inside your body.
Your belly will relax and fill up with air,
Then your ribs and, finally, your chest. Keep it in for 3 seconds
And release the air back out. Keep yourself out of air for 3 seconds again.
Do that for 3 complete breaths!
It feels good right? When you open your eyes after just 3 conscious breaths your mind feels less crowded of thoughts, you get a sense of lightness, also, you feel merrier or peaceful. It has been a shift. You might have observed that those 3 breaths seemed very long, so the three seconds holding, in and out, the air. Time is flexible, if we put consciousness in it. Your breathing is the rudder of your experience of time. And it is a matter of time what this challenge is about.
Can you imagine how you will feel if you meditate 30 minutes? Of course thoughts will come to your mind. Some stupid, other draining, despite, don’t rush and just try to get your center and ignore whiny speeches. Just feel yourself, see whatever random images pop up in your mind, try to put a subtle smile like the Mona Lisa, but with your eyes close, it helps to feel positive during meditation. Keep yourself together and in silence for 30 minutes, feeling the now and letting go! It has to be a moment that you make special, or even two if it’s better for your schedule to split 30 minutes in two blocks of 15 minutes (more splits won’t make sense because you won’t have time to relax enough and train your mind into the meditative state).
Just decide when, light and incense stick, play some music, or check for any meditation you could fancy on Youtube, however we are developing a media area for inspiration too, we are going to try to share ideas and practices, while wishing for collaboration from anyone to show as many ways to sail our psyche as possible!
Even if it is as simple as sit in silence 30 minutes every day for 3 months. That should make a difference, right?
Be honest, try to improve, meditation is a race nobody can win, you just need to find the joy in the exercise!
Meditation is Key
Life nowadays is busy. In this society, of competence and consumerism, our heads are fill up with to-do lists and with I-want lists. We just keep our minds focused on those lists:
How are we gonna get there, how are we going to feel once we get there and how the present situation isn’t enough for us. It becomes a race, and well, not surprisingly, the current education system that most of us have went through is made for people to be standardized, or normalized. We find ourselves in duty to fulfill a role in a society that impose a view of the world which sometimes is limiting, unfair, cruel and psychotic.
Every day we interact with each other. Mixing each other vibes in every moment that we breath in and out, and we do feel them in every moment of our lives. Like the sound of planet Earth (aca Gaia), that information is in your mind but slips into the subconscious mind, to find us in our Dream. Well, our emotions are affected for it too. Like, all the time! Whereas you notice them or not.
Can you remember a situation where everything seemed to be perfect, maybe a little boring, but something inside your guts wasn’t quite right about it; eventually, a time after, you find that the situation wasn’t right at ALL? That gust feeling was you telling yourself-conscious being about how screw up was everything in the perfect situation I had mention before. Consciousness is about bringing awareness on every aspect of our psyche, is its nature to expand into the unknown.
On top of that, we must deal with our human body! And it is a full time job of excruciating human basic needs related activities quite time consuming in a day. Our minds are just caught in the routines of human life
Let’s going to make a wee test!
Close your eyes and make 3 deep breaths.
Make sure to be 100 % concentrated in the feeling of the air flowing inside your body.
Your belly will relax and fill up with air,
Then your ribs and, finally, your chest. Keep it in for 3 seconds
And release the air back out. Keep yourself out of air for 3 seconds again.
Do that for 3 complete breaths!
It feels good right? When you open your eyes after just 3 conscious breaths your mind feels less crowded of thoughts, you get a sense of lightness, also, you feel merrier or peaceful. It has been a shift. You might have observed that those 3 breaths seemed very long, so the three seconds holding, in and out, the air. Time is flexible, if we put consciousness in it. Your breathing is the rudder of your experience of time. And it is a matter of time what this challenge is about.
Can you imagine how you will feel if you meditate 30 minutes? Of course thoughts will come to your mind. Some stupid, other draining, despite, don’t rush and just try to get your center and ignore whiny speeches. Just feel yourself, see whatever random images pop up in your mind, try to put a subtle smile like the Mona Lisa, but with your eyes close, it helps to feel positive during meditation. Keep yourself together and in silence for 30 minutes, feeling the now and letting go! It has to be a moment that you make special, or even two if it’s better for your schedule to split 30 minutes in two blocks of 15 minutes (more splits won’t make sense because you won’t have time to relax enough and train your mind into the meditative state).
Just decide when, light and incense stick, play some music, or check for any meditation you could fancy on Youtube, however we are developing a media area for inspiration too, we are going to try to share ideas and practices, while wishing for collaboration from anyone to show as many ways to sail our psyche as possible!
Even if it is as simple as sit in silence 30 minutes every day for 3 months. That should make a difference, right?
Be honest, try to improve, meditation is a race nobody can win, you just need to find the joy in the exercise!
* Heavy snowfall, exaggerated icy cold, hurricane or anything out of the ordinary and safe. Just try to enjoy a rainy day, or a cold one… Don’t let lazyness get you!
Keep a record of your impresions
Reflect on your reflection
Writing is an act of creation. Your fingers take on an invisible force that begins to express itself through characters. If you stop for a second, you will realize that the speech being calligraphy (or typed) is retransmitted directly from the mind. As if the mind was a narrator, and the hand a diligent scribe that captures each of the words/symbols of the speech that simultaneously resonates in the head. The electric current kidnaps you; you begin to put order, understand and formulate the thoughts, emotions, memories, and impressions that float nonsensically in the psyche. Once the creative process is finished, here is a sample of the expression of your individual psyche, your own reality.
All in all, we believe in the words written in some/many books, don’t we?
The written word explores and brings to this dimension the abstract or what must be concretized. The daily activity of writing your impressions is extremely beneficial in the race to gain control in your mind. By writing a part of you become a narrator, that which must discern between emotions and thoughts, the one who witnesses everything that happens in your external life and the one who knows your deepest desires.
The viewer in your mind has a voice, and he likes to talk.
Hundreds of events, major and minor, occur daily, directly affecting our psyche. These events become emotions, thoughts and physiological or even spiritual reactions. Stop for a second and listen to your mind.
How does your mind manifest?
Is it a constant chatter or confusing images and sensations? Do it, become aware of the information that passes through your mind at full speed, realize the amount of information it handles, and the proportion that is actually processed consciously.
How do you feel about it? Is it a lot of information? A dark void maybe?
If the first option is chosen; what better way to process this information than to reflect on your own reflection and the world! This allows you to detach yourself from everything and having the observer more present in mind, as it takes control of the moment.
If you see a black, silent void, you may be able to use writing to talk about something that interests you, reflect on anything, or express creativity in words…
1.In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3.And God said, “Let there be light”, and there was light.
4. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day.
Such an eventful day!
♦To complete our PsycheNautics Challenge the contestant must reflect daily, that is to say, understanding the day from when we wake up until when we go to bed, for 3 months. At the same time, we will be doing meditation and conscious walking, which will surely be the source of our reflections. In this way we will be able to observe the evolution in ourselves in time, and share it with the community, if you like.
Focus on how you see yourself, analyze without judging too harsh, with kindness on yourself and curiosity towards everything else.
Deepen your Oniric life
Every night, when we sleep, we dream. It doesn’t matter if you remember it sometimes, often, or if you can’t remember the last time you had a dream memory.
As in many other aspects of life, dream recall can be trained and improved. Some individuals find it easier and others find it more complicated, however, the process to train this ability is the same and can help anyone who wishes to investigate their dream world and be part of the initiative we are undertaking in the Map of Dreams section.
What happens when we sleep has been the object of fascination ever since humans can remember the wonderful worlds and surreal stories that occur when we close our eyes and rest our bodies.
We invite you to take a look at the following post, in which we explain an action plan to improve our dream experience
