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    Earlier this year I was trying for long daily meditations of 90 minutes and ended up blowing them off entirely. Now I'm doing 2 sessions of 20 minutes of emptiness meditation each day. Its easier to do consistently but I wonder if I'm losing benefits by keeping it so short.

     

    What are good lengths? Traditionally are there any minimums or 'daily requirements'for meditators to shoot for?

     

    Thanks

    Michael

     

    Well. . .I find it helpful to do multiple meditations throughout the day (3 the most), at the same time every day I average about 30 mins each. I like the earlier post about quality, in any case its not something you can force anyway. Gotta make do with what you got! : D

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    Thanks 4 da help, I currently reside in brooklyn(NY) and have no teacher except God and Nature. I try to listen to both. Before my mother tried to restrict my meditation practices, I started off concetrating on my breathing in order to take my mind off of everything else and enter a "trance" for lack of a better word at the moment. Then right before my mother told me she doesnt want me meditating, I changed my meditation to visualizing that I was somewhere more natural than my environment and I would visualize myself breathing in energy. My mother wants me to find a teacher because she is afraid of me inviting demons or negativity through meditation. I guess part of her worries can be attributed to an experience I sometimes have after sleeping. Sometimes I conciousley experience Sleep Paralysis and she was worried that my meditation had something to do with it but she thought that this was new to me but I had experienced sleep paralysis twice before but she was unaware of this. If you guys want to hear more about my sleep paralysis experience you can ask me but I dont want to get too off track or make this post to long. Btw I have a question, if anybody knows about the user: Yogameditation on youtube and whether his practices have any weight to them?

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    Greetings all that dwell here in the house of taobums.com. Id like to thank you all for accepting me into your home and take this moment to introduce myself.In a matter of speaking, I am a baby that hopes to grow with the help of willing people from this forum. I am just begining my journey. Any authentic help i will deeply appreciate. I am pursuing the Thunder Path and currently I am a level one student trying to fill his dantian or xia dan tian as ive heard is the more appropiate name. As i said before guidance would be appreciated and if anyone wants to contact me, feel free to pm me or reply. -John