Help me find a name for my meditation blog

[markern]

I want to start blogging a bit about meditation, qigong and related topics and I need a name for the blog. The blog will be on Substack.

It will have a quite technical focus. I like the mechanics of meditation, the maps and the techniques and understanding how different styles and traditions work.  

 

There will be a fair bit of material for beginners 

 

A lot of it will be advice but quite a bit will be me exploring topics I am uncertain of or just started learning about and hopefully engaging with readers and other bloggers about those topics.

Some of it will be commentary on things I've observed in the spiritual scene/the alternative spirituality culture/new age culture. 

Some of it will be looking at scientific research about meditation.

A big topic will be negative side effects of meditation, the research that has been done on that topic and how to avoid those kinds of side effects.

A big topic for me in my own life is grounding and becoming engaged with earthly life and that will be an important topic on the blog as well. I've always been sort of aloof and distant towards the world and preferred my own mind to the material world and have worked for a long time to change that because it created severe negative side effects in my meditation practice. 

I asked ChatGPT about name ideas and it came up with a ton. Things like:

Inner Mechanics, the Stillpoint, Practical Awakening, Dan Tien Diaries (lol), Beyond the Cushion and a ton of others.

One name I came up with myself, and which I am considering, is Up and Down the Mountain. I do like all sorts of topics related to awakening and advanced meditation practice and am highly interested in "ascent" so to speak. But I also have a huge focus on grounding, nature, being part of normal life and everything you can connect to the descending and down the mountain part of spiritual life. The most awakened teacher I have met also told me that almost all of my path will be about going down. She said I am naturally so light and have such an easy time going upwards that I almost only need to focus on going down and the ascendance part will mostly take care of itself. So, I like a name that holds both those parts of the path in it. 

Any views on and suggestions for a good name is very welcome:)

 

[thelerner]

Meditation: the peaks, valleys and plateaus.  

[wstein]

Words About Things Without Words

[steve]

Rather than suggest a title, I'll suggest that you pick a title that speaks to your personal relationship to the topic.

Why is it important to you? What does it mean to you? What image or feeling does it bring up for you?

I think that personal touch is communicated to people and makes a difference. 

[Marc2]

Thoughts on sitting 

[Sanity Check]

I struggle so much with finding good names for things.

 

Synonyms for ground, earth, descent and similar terms might be worth a look.

 

There was a guy who named his fish "swim shady" (pun on slim shady) great name.

 

Another named their bulldozer "diggy smalls" (biggy smalls) another great name.

 

A wildlife channel named their owl "owl capone" (al capone).

 

If I were you, I would just look for something in view to use as a name.

 

Which is not necessarily dissimilar to the origins story of my avatar.