benos Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 I've been doing this at my weekly steel matches here in town, and it's deffinitely helped with my first stage jitters. I've cut my overall time by an average of 30 seconds per match, over previous years. Impressive work! And yes, at any time, displacing anxiety with calm awareness is goog thing. Or as Bhodidharma said, "Everything good has awareness for its root." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jclap86 Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Going to give this a try. Could always use a little more control over my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetAwayDriva Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Definitely need to get back to doing this more often! Tonight while practicing reloads I realized just how badly my mind wanders!!!!! The moment it does..... Fumble! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 8, 2014 Author Share Posted August 8, 2014 Definitely need to get back to doing this more often! Tonight while practicing reloads I realized just how badly my mind wanders!!!!! The moment it does..... Fumble! Indeed! Attention is without error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetAwayDriva Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 So I know a big part of doing this game well is to allow the subconscious to do as much as possible and I struggle with this. I do a lot of things very consciously. Well tonight I was practicing reloads and they were going really well. Just seeing and doing, not thinking about it at all. Then on one reload, I saw the mag well and this thought popped into my mind "oh no, you didn't bring the gun in close enough". At that very moment I screwed up the reload. The gun wasn't too far away. I could see the mag well just fine but I messed it up anyways. And as I was fumbling the mag I realized that all the other ones I had done were subconscious!!! The moment my concious mind stepped in to the game, it totally screwed me up! Gotta get that thing to stay out of the picture!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aglifter Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 How important is the particular breathing style? It is very different/opposite to the breathing we do in yoga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 How important is the particular breathing style? It is not important. What is important is that you know you are breating, while maintaining the count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee B Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I like this exercise. I even tried it for a minutes during a staff meeting today. Worked wonders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart1 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Perhaps Zen is about simply observing the mind without making any judgments, and not about controlling it. Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 When you know you are silently aware, what is it that knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart1 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Some monkeys are still in the tree. Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Are you sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart1 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 LOL! You've gifted me a land mine to drink a cup of tea on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 Did you drink the tea, or did the tea drink you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart1 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Really now my friend, who is there to drink, and what can be drunk, in the vast luminous sky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 18, 2014 Author Share Posted August 18, 2014 Ahhh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart1 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 (edited) In Chan (Zen) temples back in the day monks played a game called "guest/host" in which they would practice verbally dueling with one another shifting between Guest (dualistic) and Host (non-dualistic) visions of r®eality as a way to show their understanding and learn from one another. What was it like? See the above! Thanks BE. Edited August 19, 2014 by stuart1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Aircooled6racer Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Hello: They say inhaling through your nose and exhaling through the mouth calms the mind. Some sporting clays shooters do this about 10 times before they call for the bird. Thanks, Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeDefy Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I've done some similar breathing + mindfulness exercises at work. They used some biofeedback devices to actually quantify the changes, and it works for sure. One interest thing I learned was that I received positive results from the exercises, even when the event and exercise was interrupted by physical exertion. The argument is that although your breathing and thought has been derailed, you still retain the positive effects for awhile. What I get from this is that even if you are doing it in your car before you walk up to the registration table, or if you are doing it in the safe area before the match- you may still benefit from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimo-Hombre Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Started doing this backwards. Up to 10-10 then back down to zero. The backwards part is a bit harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeDefy Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I did it today in Arabic- I pictured writing them in my head, I sometimes confuse 7 and 8, this was fun practice. I pictured the set I was on as a written word, then the number of the breath as a numeral- it was interesting and really made me focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted September 22, 2014 Author Share Posted September 22, 2014 I've done some similar breathing + mindfulness exercises at work. They used some biofeedback devices to actually quantify the changes, and it works for sure. One interest thing I learned was that I received positive results from the exercises, even when the event and exercise was interrupted by physical exertion. The argument is that although your breathing and thought has been derailed, you still retain the positive effects for awhile. What I get from this is that even if you are doing it in your car before you walk up to the registration table, or if you are doing it in the safe area before the match- you may still benefit from it. Definitely. I did a similar breating meditation on a 20 minute drive to the dentist. And then kept it up the whole time I was in the chair while he was grinding in my mouth. I was nearly euphoric when I left the dentist office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktm300 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I did this for the first time laying in bed last night. I remember getting to 2 - 2 and then waking up this morning. I completed it for the first time on the way to work this morning. Interesting for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbeef54 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 This is how i can sleep at night, epically when away from home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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