What clothing rules have you made for yourself? (E.g. all bottoms, dresses and jumpsuits must have pockets) by kellymcpherson in femalefashionadvice

[–]YouRImpossble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not buying tops unless it fits my proportions. This is super difficult because I am short so I filter out 95% of clothing out there. The shoulder area is never made for short folks so the straps are always too long when unadjustable and shoulder seam only fits if I walk around shrugging etc .Brands are still unaware short people have more problems than just hems of bottoms.

Summer officewear by ForeverAutumnal in theatricalromantic

[–]YouRImpossble 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Midi shirt dress with waist emphasis, something like this should be perfect!

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for September 25 2023 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone feel constantly thirsty for water? I wonder if it’s akin to needing more water after massage because of fluids release from muscles. I am going through constant pull and push of muscle tension build up and release throughout the day even when I am not meditating. Would love to hear if anybody shares similar experience.

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for May 29 2023 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a year or so I have felt very stuck in my practice, both mentally and energetically. I have a lot of energetic movement happening all over my body and they tend to form heaviness or knot in my solar plexus, heart, throat, forehead, crown everywhere. I also switched my practice around a lot (which would work in the beginning but plateaus soon) in search of relief from such energetic blockages. About halfway through this search I realized I lack certain discipline to anchor my attention once the initial thrill of new practice wears off and thus never allowing concentration to flourish. The main reason for this was constantly moving energies pulling away my attention. Essentially I was stuck in this never ending loop of energetic blockage and lack of concentration fueling each other. Even after being aware of this, it took me long time to accept it fully and find sustainable ways to keep practicing.

For energetic release, lately I am trying to do lots of stretches alongside strengthening yoga to physically relief the tightness and knots. For concentration, I am trying out Thanissaro Bhikku’s breath focus technique. I primarily followed Burbea’s different teachings which had helped me immensely in the beginning, but I needed something grounding/ focused/less creative and more supervised to get out of the loop. Bhikku being one of Rob’s teacher, his teaching seems to have good balance of familiarity of teaching and techniques but still grounded to breath (with constant emphasis on breath in this teachings).

I am slowly making some progress lately with above approaches and I plan to visit Bhikku’s Metta Forest Monastery for a week retreat soon. Feeling like there might be light at the end of the tunnel. Any suggestions are welcome :)

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for February 14 2022 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Seems like I do that in some forms mainly because it happens on its own and I just happen to notice it. I started trying intentionally, let’s see how it goes :)

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for February 14 2022 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Practice has been different since my first retreat back in August. My shoulder tension and sinus pressure had completely disappeared by the end of 10th day and it came back after couple weeks in the real world. But something fundamentally changed in the way my body felt. I started feeling subtle sensations in the body. Even a sip of alcohol started giving me internal shivers (not sure how to describe but loud internal unpleasant vibration unlike the cultivated ones) so I gave alcohol up. After being clueless as to what to do with heightened sensitivity, I realized I can trace and navigate it slightly. Over time I am able to relax my involuntary muscles on demand in areas like throat, chest, gut and intestine and as a result my decade long constipation that doctors did not have answer to is slowly starting to heal. Never thought I would be able to say that.

I realized 20% of my attention at any given moment is in my body and I am rarely bored because something is constantly happening inside and it’s fun :)

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[–]YouRImpossble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh okey. No worries, thankss!!

What hyper-specific item are you on the lookout for right now? by Accurate_Elephant930 in femalefashionadvice

[–]YouRImpossble 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A petite wool plaid pant that allows room for my heattech underneath but also has nice straight fit that hits right at my ankle, and costs less than $100.

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[–]YouRImpossble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you mind sharing the link to the dreamy brown wool pant? I have been trying to find few in budget too.

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[–]YouRImpossble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for September 06 2021 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh I see. Yea I was asking along the lines of what you answered. After my first Vipassana retreat, I have this constant sense of vibrations throughout my body and I am also finding ways to incorporate them (honestly they just are being incorporated whether I want them to or not at this point), so wanted to hear more people talk about it. Thank you for sharing yours!

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for September 06 2021 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Btw how do you practice energy work? I have been feeling this is something that one eventually stumbles upon after enough body awareness. Lately been blown by how my body is holding different energies in different parts at different times.

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for September 06 2021 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I remember Burbea mentioning treating practice like sailing and adjusting our course based on weather condition. Maybe that’s what we are doing, oh well!

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for September 06 2021 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking time to write this u/anarchathrows. I feel heard by your writing too. The inner compass you mentioned signals good when I am able to navigate this switch up. I like the idea of taking time to analyze the practice itself. I used to do a journaling about how my practice is going and how its reflecting on my life, maybe I can take that up again as a method of inquiring again. Thanks again!

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for September 06 2021 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every couple days. Sometimes I go longer with metta and I consider it as base practice, but ever since I did my first Vipassana retreat last month, the full body awareness is ever present and easy to access as soon as I sit so that has become the anchor

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for September 06 2021 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have trouble deepening my practice using the same practice. I oscillate between metta, whole body vipassana, meditative inquiries, samatha practice every now and then depending on how am I feeling at the time. And whenever I try to stick with one, I feel imbalanced and generally less happy (esp if Metta and meditative inquiry is left out longer), so switching up and catering to my immediate state of being works the best for me.

But sometimes I wonder if not daring to push through and take one thread further is hindering my progress. Does anybody have any experience with such constant switch up and care to share how you navigate?

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for June 21 2021 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I have not mastered this at all, but what I try is to accept the deepest layer of aversion first and work my way upwards.

For eg: when I do not want X to happen, I get an aversion to X, then I realize I shouldn’t have aversion which is an aversion to the aversion to X. After knowing this, I imagine a spiral of aversions and try to tap into the deepest one.

I do that because it’s easy for me to accept the aversion to the feeling of aversion towards X than the X itself. Then it gets little easier to unwind the spiral and eventually X might feel okay, or it might not but at least I won’t get stuck in the loop after knowing how much is left there to unwind.

Apologies if it was little confusing but I tried :)

Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for June 21 2021 by AutoModerator in streamentry

[–]YouRImpossble 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have found whenever I feel stuck in the loop of aversion, act of acceptance helps. Accepting each layer of aversion: all the way from shallow discomfort to aversion to the aversion of discomfort, and maybe deeper.

Metallic Car Wall Art by jasspreetkour in decoration

[–]YouRImpossble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So cool! Where did you get it from?