100 cups of coffee

I play piano. I don’t practice, I play. I play to hear the pleasing sounds, not to ‘get better’ although a byproduct of playing regularly is improvement. When I’m playing, the whole world is tuned out, I see the keys but my mind is focused on the sounds and tonal intervals . I make a lot of mistakes but am nuetral towards them, I simply play parts again and again until it sounds ‘right’ and I enjoy the process of finding the right notes. I don’t read any music or play covers, I just pick a key and use the circle of fifths to improvise melodies and chord progressions into something meaningful and pleasing to my ears.

Ohm chanting. The only thing that my adhd mind can get through w/o being distracted for.

I smoke a large amount of Marijuana, eat tremendously, grey out and kind of become one with the furniture.

I wake up, feed the cats, take my supplements including a concentrated CBD paste, then stretch and meditate in my darkened room with a sleep mask, sitting in a relaxed but yoga-like position, with knees bent and the soles touching, hands nested on my belly, my back straight but with support.
Then I stay there, watching my breath, getting distracted, returning to my breath, getting distracted again, etc., for around seventy minutes!

When I come back out, I make my morning coffee.
I have been meditating every day for the past seven years. I used to do forty minutes, but right now I’m really enjoying the really long sessions, so I go with it.

It gets to a point that if I move my arms, even with eyes closed and a sleep mask on, I can perceive the movements like the ghostly shadow of the change, as if the body is also “seen” by another movement-based sense, and it manages to imprint itself a bit into the optical system. I don’t know quite how to put it into words, and it happens every single time, it’s happened hundreds of times.

Meditation is like a low-key, healthy and daily psychedelic experience. It’s beautiful, one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life.

There’s a guy who lives near me who balances rocks on each other in the ditch. They eventually fall down but he’s always out there resetting them. It seems meditative.

One for me is the forms taught in martial arts. Think on the lines of a minute or so long sequence of moves that would never be used in a match/combat but they tend to flow together. A nice way to exclude the world for a minute of predictable peace.

I have a modded Valheim game where the only thing I do is cut trees and stack wood. The enemies cannot hurt me and I carried an axe over from another game, so the chopping happens pretty fast. It’s very meditative for me because chopping trees is literally my favorite part of the game.

Starting at my feet and working my way up, I flex each muscle as independently as possible and then let it relax. If you don’t manage to fall asleep while focusing on the process, you’re so relaxed by the end that you’re at least really comfortable.

Morning dog walking meditation.

Vipassana breathing body-monitoring meditation.

Mahayanan tong-Len.

Anything physical, strenuous and fairly complex. Lifting weights heavy enough that you really can’t slip on technique, climbing without a rope, wrestling, dancing with a partner or to a choreography, cycling in terrain or traffic, hiking on a steep cliff side.

If it keeps me in the moment and 100% connected to my body and/or my surroundings, I consider it meditative. It keeps my mind from wandering to the past or future, or any worries aside from my most immediate next physical movement.

Fast walking au naturel, that is, without headphones ;). I concentrate on my stride or my breath.

I like yoga nidra

Tantric masturbation (no orgasm).

Taking an afternoon nap on my recliner couch with hour-long space or ancient history documentaries playing on the tv at a low volume.