Over the past 5 to 6 weeks I’ve been experiencing a meditation plateau. Similar to physical exercise \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb or studying \ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udcbb. T<\/p>\n
he law of diminishing returns also applies to mental workouts like meditation. (If you just want the answer<\/strong> without any context, scroll to the bottom)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I understand what’s happening, <\/strong>but it’s kinda fucked up how strong your\u00a0mind can be in pulling you back into the pain body. \ud83d\ude45\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f To fix this. I focused on self-reflection. Why did I start? Why Continue? Why is my mind doing this? What makes me complex?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I found that after an extremely challenging time… followed by months of exponential personal growth… I’ve finally hit a plateau. The effectiveness of the mental exercises that had previously lifted me up, has now become stagnant.<\/p>\n Like a chore (Or what I thought was a chore). My unconscious mind was telling my physical body that the meditation, workouts, gratitude, humbleness, thankfulness etc. are now ineffective and shouldn’t be practice.<\/p>\n If you think about this at a fundamental level, it seems like pure insanity!<\/strong><\/p>\n Why would I choose pain over happiness?<\/p>\n Why would I choose self-doubt over self-esteem?<\/p>\n Why would I choose the ego over humbleness?<\/p>\n Why would I choose negatives over positives?<\/p>\n Why would my mind pull me down, exchange personal positives for selfish interests, and tell me positive new habits are now superfluous?<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n It could be the 26+ years of pleasure seeking, environmental conditioning and poor mental habits… My mind is trying to get back to a safe and comfortable place. I get it. Back to the pain body…\u00a0That place just happens to be miserable and not for me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Answer:<\/strong> Self-Reflect. Be uncomfortable to the Max. Challenge yourself motherfucker.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guard your mind. Sometimes it needs to be told to “Fuck Off<\/strong>” \ud83d\ude0f<\/p>\n learn or die. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the past 5 to 6 weeks I’ve been experiencing a meditation plateau. Similar to physical exercise \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb or studying \ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udcbb. T he law of diminishing returns also applies to mental workouts like meditation. (If you just want the answer without any context, scroll to the bottom) I understand what’s happening, but it’s kinda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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