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So I’ve seen some people expressing frustration with mediation here on /r/leaves — in the words of /u/tommybahami123:”It’s kind of tough in the sense that I get distracted while attempting to clear my mind or everything.”And from /u/jonny070389:”I’ve just given up on the meditation, my mind just goes off on crazy tangents.”So as someone who has meditated for many years, and credits meditation with making my life an easier place to live, I thought I’d pass along my thinking on it. (thanks to the Leavers above for the inspiration to write this.)To me, saying “I’ve given up on meditation because my mind goes off on crazy tangents” is like saying “I’ve given up on working out because my heart rate goes up and I start breathing hard.”Your mind going off on crazy tangents is exactly what you meditate to experience, and beginning to learn how to guide those tangents back to peace is exactly what you’re there to learn.Everybody’s mind goes off on crazy tangents. That’s why mediation is something you have to learn how to do, and why learning how to do it can take a long time.My first suggestion is that you begin meditation with an attitude that it’s something you are going to experience,, not something you are going to do. Saying that it’s something you are going to do makes it a job, or a chore, or a skill you feel you have to develop, and that’s more than a little ambitious when you’re just starting out.My suggestion is that you sit quietly in a comfortable position, in a darkish but not pitch black room, and set a timer for ten minutes. Tell yourself, “That voice in my head is always yammering away at me — for the next ten minutes I’m going to listen to it.”Then, just sit quietly and listen to it. Try not to guide it, try not to make mental notes on what it’s saying, try not to tell yourself you’ll have to remember that for later, just sit quietly and listen.Then, when the alarm goes off, go on with your day. If you can, try not to process what you heard — don’t think, “wow, I really obsessed about work” Just let that ten minute session go and move on with your day.Do that for a week.In your second week, you get to actively choose somthing to help yourself. Set your timer, and choose something simple and repetitive to concentrate on. Some people focus on their breathing — the actual sensation of air moving through their nose or throat. Other people count slowly and quietly to three or five in their head. Choose what makes sense for you. It should be peaceful and repetitive.Then, in your ten minutes, let your thoughts rest on that repetitive idea. “” or “” whatever you chose. You will, nearly immediately, lose control of that, and your chatty thoughts will intrude. When that happens, simply think quietly — “those were other thoughts, I want to go back to my peaceful repetition.” And return to whatever you chose.This losing of focus will happen ten or a hundred times during your session. Quietly guiding yourself back to your repetitive place is what you are there to teach yourself. Don’t get frustrated on how many times it happens, just note it, remark to yourself that it happened, and return you your peaceful repetition.This is the only task and only work of meditation. Noting when your thoughts have strayed and returning yourself to peaceful repetition.I have been meditating for nearly 20 years now, and as you practice your inner thoughts intrude fewer and fewer times, and when they do you are very experienced at returning to a place of peace.And, as you might suspect, the skills I’ve learned in meditating begin to extend outside of my meditation session. I’ve learned how to be much more aware of my inner dialog, and I’m much more capable of noting what it is saying, separating myself from it, and keeping it from taking automatic influence over my thoughts and actions.I hope this made sense. Feel free to AMA if something wasn’t clear.EDIT: Hey all! Well, it looks like I posted this at exactly the wrong time, I’m trying to get a big proposal for work out in the next few days so my time to reply is limited. Sorry, but I really didn’t expect this to splode! I’ll get to as many answers as I can, but it may take a little while.Thanks for all the cool responses and additions, I learned much more from this thread than I could have imagined.Back soon! via /r/leaves http://ift.tt/2u4OnQL

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Join the discussion here on r/Political_Revolution!Donate: http://ift.tt/2ucgqh8 My personal background:I’m a millennial father, Native Hawaiian, and third-term state legislator. Growing up, I saw self-serving politicians selling off the rights to our islands, and I knew that change needed to start at home. So at 23, I ran for the State House against a corporate Democrat and a tea-party millionaire incumbent in what was then a Republican district. They outspent me 10-to-1, but I had the people on my side. I won by a whopping 26 percentage points.And I did it through small donations, organizing volunteers, and personally knocking on 15,000 doors. But getting elected is not enough. Progressives need to fight to create lasting change. During my six years in the legislature, we fought to pass marriage equality, raise the minimum wage, expand the world’s largest marine monument, levy stricter gun control, regulate Super Pacs, increase taxes on billionaires and set the nation’s first 100% renewable energy goal, and more. Now, I’m taking this energy and record to Congress.My Congressional campaign is living out the values that mobilized America’s progressive base in 2016–championing Medicare-for-all, tuition-free college, living wages, the right to organize, strike, and bargain, aggressive climate action, a universal job guarantee, gender equity, LGBTQ+ rights, and an end to reckless wars abroad. And, I will do it without a single dollar of corporate PAC or lobbyist money. That’s how you know he’ll never sell out. My values can’t be bought.Over 2500 small dollar donors have joined our campaign, but we’re going to need a lot of help to compete with my corporate opponents. Let’s prove that young progressives who think outside the box can bring the change we need. My outro at a candidate forum a few days ago–http://ift.tt/2prJIDO want us to get to know each other, and I’d like to earn your support. So please, ask me anything!Website: http://ift.tt/2DOj50c http://ift.tt/2zSiMAd via /r/IAmA http://ift.tt/2puxHNJ

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“What an extraordinary result,More than 100,000 Canadians have spoken out about Bell coalition’s plan to introduce a mandatory website blocking system!101,302 people have spoken up about website blocking This is huge! Just the one day of action on February 28th against Bell’s plan saw the total exceed 50,000 submissions, and since then, thousands more have weighed in on the future of the Internet in Canada. It is fantastic to see so many comments flood the CRTC just over the course of a few days! Thank you so much for being a part of it!But it is not over yet — comment submissions to the CRTC close on March 29th — your friends and family still have time to take a stand against Bell’s website blocking scheme. Comments can be submitted at dontcensor.ca or directly through the CRTC.Katy, on behalf of the OpenMedia team” via /r/canada http://ift.tt/2GdUI12

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I remember seeing this a couple of weeks ago – https://unfairplay.ca/ I haven’t seen or heard anything on it since… Is it not happening anymore, or are we just not doing anything about it? And if it is happening, what the fuck are we doing? via /r/canada http://ift.tt/2DysZ5N

This is the Email I received from Katy, on behalf of the OpenMedia Team. They are currently asking for donations via the email and website.”Radio stations are refusing to run our ads educating Canadians about Bell’s proposal for extrajudicial website blocking. Why? Because they’re afraid the ads would give the CRTC ammunition to remove their licence.What a cold and hard reminder of why it’s so critical to keep the Internet free of censorship like this, which makes it easy for a small handful of powerful entities to police what we can and can’t say online.This is exactly why we can’t back down.In a desperate attempt to front up public support for their Internet censorship proposal, Bell is asking its own employees to file pro-website blocking submissions to the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).The consequences of Bell’s manipulation could be far reaching:If the CRTC takes Bell’s side, it would force your Internet Service Provider to blacklist websites because Bell and a group of other corporations say those websites help promote pirated content. No judicial oversight would be involved in the process. Can we trust a group of corporations, including shady players like Bell, to police what we can and can’t see online?Absolutely not. That’s why we need to make sure opposition from the public is so overwhelming the CRTC doesn’t even bat an eye at Bell’s dirty attempt to win their favour. But we’re running out of time—the CRTC’s deadline for public comments is creeping up fast.Bell is known for using dirty tactics to prop themselves up. In 2015, they paid a fine of $1.25 million after employees were encouraged to post favourable online reviews.This time, we can show them their tricks are no match for hundreds of thousands of Internet activists like us.”Thanks for all that you do, The OpenMedia Team via /r/canada http://ift.tt/2IqCuHL

Please post helpful links and information below.[CRTC Website] This is where you can go to oppose the Fairplay initiative, the default is set to “support”, change that to “oppose” http://ift.tt/2FGOkjA censorship] https://openmedia.org/en/ca[Fairplay website] https://www.fairplaycanada.com/about-us/[Unfairplay response website] https://unfairplay.ca/[Opinion Piece] http://ift.tt/2DxL1oF if I got anything wrong, I’m not very good at Reddit. Correct my mistakes please. via /r/canada http://ift.tt/2FTb8Md

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My Husband was rear ended in a car accident this week. At the scene, the at-fault driver presented an insurance card showing coverage through May. We thought everything would work out fine.As the week progressed, however, our insurance agent updated us on the truth behind the other driver. As it turns out, he was arrested after we left the scene. He had a warrant out for his arrest regarding a previous hit and run, he was driving on a suspended license, and the car wasn’t his. The car belonged to his girlfriend, who had let the insurance lapse. We had been hit by an uninsured motorist. Our car was totaled and my Husband was accruing medical bills. For a few anxious moments, we thought we were looking at huge out of pocket expenses with little chance for reimbursement, given the character of the other driver and the fact that he was currently in jail.Thankfully, we pay an extra $11.10 every 6 months as part of our insurance premium for uninsured motorist coverage. By opting into this additional coverage, we saved ourselves from the stress and impossibility of suing the other driver personally to be reimbursed for our damages. Instead, our insurance will write us a check for our totaled car and pay our medical bills, and they will be the ones suing the other driver, not us.All for an extra $23 a year.EDIT: I’m being told that this reads like an ad, but I guarantee it isn’t. I am a writer by profession, which might explain the tone of my narrative. Plus, this happened on Tuesday so it is all still very emotional and fresh in my mind. I’m very happy that this post has motivated people to learn more about their own policies and insurance coverage.EDIT 2: Our cars are insured in Oregon, so those are the state laws / minimums that apply to our situation.EDIT 3: Also make sure your car seats are properly installed, and if a car seat is in the car when you’re in an accident, know that you most likely need to replace it! Car seats lose their effectiveness after a collision. We included our car seat in our claim and we will be reimbursed for a new one. via /r/personalfinance http://ift.tt/2DwfS4X

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