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6 Reddit comments about How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind:

u/topaz420 · 11 pointsr/IWantToLearn

Meditation.

As you improve at it, it will not only help you during your sessions, but allow to you remain in a meditative state throughout your day--focused on your window of consciousness, rather than worrying about the nonexistent "past" and "future."

Here's a good primer:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Meditate-Practical-Making-Friends/dp/1604079339/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413559929&sr=1-2&keywords=meditation

And a blog with good frequent Zen posts is zenhabits.net

u/hiigaran · 8 pointsr/getdisciplined

You are a procrastinator BECAUSE you are a perfectionist. Your perfectionism is misguided, you can use it as a justification to sit on your hands for long periods of time. When I was in college I would not do essays or programming projects because "I'm not sure how to do it right yet. I'll think about it more and figure it out before I start." A week later I had still done absolutely nothing.

Your procrastination is a mood repair strategy you deploy unconsciously and habitually in order to protect yourself from feeling bad about not doing your work.

My advice? Learn a little bit about Growth mindset, shame and self-compassion. You need to find a way to quiet your perfectionism first. By taking care of the perfectionism you give yourself room to practice and failure won't be as scary. At that point I would put money on the bet that your procrastination will virtually vanish.

Good books for reading to deal with that:

u/HighImSlane · 3 pointsr/nonononoyes

I recommend seeing a psychologist in your area. I can't say much for certain without doing any tests in person. However, there is a lot of treatment for PTSD (if that's what you've got) that isn't drug based. As far as what you can do to be proactive, I suggest looking into mindfulness/meditation.

Here's a short article about mindfulness to get you started:
http://sklatch.net/thoughtlets/awaken.html

And I recommend getting a book on meditation, this is a good author (there are a lot of people who write on meditation who are not adequately trained, this lady is a proper Buddhist monk):

https://www.amazon.com/How-Meditate-Practical-Making-Friends/dp/1604079339

Also, she is a Westerner who became a monk after a huge trauma in her life. So she understands Western problems when approaching mindfulness and meditation, as the problems can be unique to our minds. However, it's important to get your information about mindfulness and meditation from actual practicing Buddhists, because mindfulness is a Buddhist practice dating back thousands of years and perfected through their very specific techniques and ways of seeing reality.

u/blackplague1 · 1 pointr/Mindfulness


Best two books I've ever read on meditation:
Sharon Salzberg Real Happiness
Link: http://amzn.com/0761159258

Pema Chodron How to Meditate
Link: http://amzn.com/1604079339

u/pitagrape · 1 pointr/getdisciplined

I do not recall where, but I read an article that gave a good review of an app, HeadSpace. I read a book called How to Meditate by Prema Chodron, which might be useful to you and while this video isn't directly aimed at mediation, the concept presented at the end (surfing the urge) is meditative-esque, at least to me.

u/kale3 · 1 pointr/peacecorps

https://www.amazon.com/How-Meditate-Practical-Making-Friends/dp/1604079339

This book is fantastic and comes with exercises you can use for different situations. Very down to earth and not too hippie.