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Stabilizing the Mind: How Focused Attention Enhances Meditation and Calms Mental Fluctuations
A crucial aspect of meditation and mental discipline: the role of attention in stabilizing mental fluctuations (vrittis). Here’s how attention affects the stability of vrittis: Role of Attention in Stabilizing Vrittis Directing Focus: Attention directs the mind towards a specific object or thought. By consistently focusing on a chosen point, you can reduce the influence of distracting vrittis…
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#Attention Management#Calm Mind#Concentration Improvement#Controlling Thoughts#Deeper Meditation#Ekagrata#Enhancing Concentration#Focus Techniques#Meditation Insights#Meditation practice#Meditation Stability#meditation techniques#Mental Discipline#Mental Focus#Mindful Awareness#mindfulness practice#Reducing Distractions#Role of Attention#spiritual growth#Stabilizing Vrittis
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Question for the DPxDC crowd
what do you guys actually consider liminal? Like, I genuinely don't know anymore
because early on it was pretty much just Jazz having grown up with ectoplasm in the house for years and in her food, which makes sense, and it was an extremely rare thing
then it got expanded to Sam and Tucker
Then members of the Bat crew that got resurrected by a Lazarus pit(and Dick for some reason? He's never canonically died guys...)
Now it seems to be the entirety of Amity Parkers, All the Bat clan, half of Gotham, Half the Justice Leage, the entirety of the League of Assassins
is it just having come into contact with ectoplasm/Lazarus Pits? Prolonged exposure? Because it's starting to feel like everyone is liminal besides the guys in white for some reason
Like you guys have started using Liminal to basically replace the word "Ecto-contaminated" There is a canon word for the thing you guys have started using liminal to describe
#dpxdc#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#it just feels like a cool idea got watered down#everybody is liminal#tim hasn't died guys#Dick hasn't died#it used to be just make people a bit off and unsettling like a cryptid#not a superpower#idk maybe i'm just burnt out on it#like ghost king stuff#legit i have massively reduced my fanfic consumption because of how often some tropes are tossed in randomly#and i get distracted because it doesn't make sense in context unless the thing actually means nothing at all#and it's enough to ruin otherwise excellent fics for me#it's Chekov's gun that never get's fired#more like referencing another fic's chekov's gun#yeah i'm probably just burnt out and am nitpicking a minor bit of bad writing that keeps getting repeated
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#not shakespeare but it gets the job done (reducing me to tears)#hny everyone!!!#good omens#(edit: you can tell i posted this whilst distracted i just had to make so many corrections dear LORD)#classics omens
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Sorry for the silence, I'm still working on things it's just going extremely slow. Took me awhile to realize what was going on but basically my Anemia & Scoliosis have decided to make their precense known. We'll see how things go this weekend.
#ooc#basically when i altered my diet for dehydration i forgot to add more iron#so I'm waiting for my anemia to chill so i can focus and trying to reduce the migrains and back pain..#alsfjalfj#as a result my kiddo and friend took it as me having a drastic mood drop & have been pulling me into games & when they found out what is up#just kept at it to make sure my mood doesn't drop.#so i'm also a bit distracted.
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Had circumstances been just a little different, Anne Boleyn might still have lived. Had she produced a son, Jane would have been a passing distraction, Anne's enemies would have been silenced, and her fiery character might again have seemed, at least at times, beguiling to Henry. During the course of their brief marriage, which lasted just over three years, there had been many fluctuations. After the final miscarriage, Anne fought back, saying she had been frightened by Henry's accident, but also broken-hearted at his paying attention to another woman. This kind of criticism was not something Henry was prepared to tolerate in a wife; one of Katherine's strengths, as she herself acknowledged, was that she had never shown any sign of animosity or distress in response to the king's infidelities. Henry and Anne's relationship had been a genuine love-match, however, and the volatility which helped bring about the extraordinary events of the break with Rome remained a part of their relationship ever after.
Henry VIII, Lucy Wooding
#'never' is doing a lot of heavy lifting/ obfuscating here lol#(it's traditionally thought that she never had harsh words about bessie blount-- and indeed there's no record of this--#although elizabeth blount's primary biographer has said that she had no court presence after the birth of henry fitzroy suggests a frosty#dynamic... just about the elevation of fitzroy#however there's the hastings drama)#also 'her enemies would have been silenced' is overly simplistic#unpopular queens having sons might have reduced overt hostility#but it didn't annihilate it. more realistically might have 'bridled' her enemies#and yet i still find this excerpt compelling so . here we are#lucy wooding#last part of sentence 2 tho...eminently plausible#prior to this storms always melted into sunshine . stormclouds gathered on the horizon and storms began again. then repeat.#and as reviled as the assertion 'genuine love-match' has been as of late. there is evidence which supports it .#would jane have been a passing distraction? again we don't know. their periods of 'royal mistress' (although there needs to be a better ter#maybe...object of king's affections?) are different in that there is only record of anne's in hindsight via cavendish etc#and also in their actions. in 1526 there was no royal watcher that believed the withdrawal of one of the queen's ladies was significant#in 1536 there was one who believed jane's meetings with henry were highly significant and they proved to be...#altho as wooding underlines here they proved to be mainly due to circumstance#it's not to say there weren't discussions behind closed doors of anne becoming queen among the boleyns circa 1526. but they were not known#and wouldn't have been guessed due to lack of precedent
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The way Charles just throws babe and baby here and there in a conversation like it's nothing 😭😭
#no wonder matt was distracted#anybody would be reduced to shits and giggles in front of that man#charles leclerc
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using VERY exaggerated motions currently and taking a lot of patience on my part, but very gradually his rate of correct to incorrect/random frustrated attempts is shifting. he caught onto spinning very quickly but (largely due to my ineptness at training) its been a lot more confusing for him to grasp the difference between being cued for a certain direction. but i managed to get him on video when he was having a good session
#hes geting to the point now where if he goes the wrong way he can tell and kind of stops and turns back to face me and see what i do next#sometimes#he often gets too excited and i have to distract with something else or just end the session#so we cann only ever do a few at a time#winston#training#if he ever gets super solid on this i will bbegin reducing the motions but toavoid so much confusion for him#im sort of halfway leading him in the correct direction#and he does know i dont have food in that hand#hes just figured oyt i want him to follow it
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#alex gets personal#i'm just so fucking tired of this#nothing works it never actually gets better it never stops being fucking excruciating work every single day#ive been stringing myself along with empty promises and 'it'll get better'#but it's just. not. getting better#do you know how exhausted i am? because i am not exaggerating or lying when i say that i have been trying not to kill myself since i was#three years old and alone and lonely and hated and disliked and reduced to my mother's puppet#and my father hated from the moment he got informed of my potential existence#and then it just got WORSE#all of it just kept getting worse and worse and it never stopped and i was never not alone and i'm so fucking tired#and did i already mention nothing works anymore#cause you can give me the best fucking pep talk ever and my response will be i dont care i just want it to stop#im just gonna keep distracting myself until i either die or get better#whatever happens first and we all know it won't be getting better so therapy's gonna be fun on wednesday
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honestly there's nothing better than reading someone's opinions or thoughts about a piece of media and realizing "oh! i was actually missing the whole point of it" because it happens! it happens a lot and people are just too prideful to accept that maybe i was the one in the wrong for this one and didn't actually understand the theme of it all
#especially when you're very caught up in the thing and end up with tunnel vision#or with the thingy they put on horses so that they won't get distracted#point is!!! there's nothing better than being able to actually engage in the discussion of a thing you like#and i tend to like reading different povs for things because i don't really think i'm that smart#so sometimes i do miss the point but reading what other people thought about it helps me actually get it#if it. you know. makes fucking sense LMAO#god is there any site that you can like. not take tests but test how good your media literacy is#because that's something i do kinda miss from book tests in school#but yeah love being open to different opinions unless those opinions are stupid#and come from people with no nuance for the topic whatsoever#like i'm not that smart! but i also won't reduce an impactful and layered backstory to just ''haha breakup''#b.txt#forgot to make this non rebloggable fuck
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i deleted tiktok so that i could reduce my distractions and my phone screen time has gone down DRAMATICALLY
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I want to make a post about how smart Gideon is but am bad at making posts rn. But I’ll get to it because I feel like defending my darling girl. She’s smart! She’s so smart she’s just thrown into a situation in GtN where she is not given the tools she needs to understand everything going on around her!
Gideon so often gets done so dirty by a lot of slices of the fandom in terms of painting her as like, dumb muscle etc. when there is SO much more to her character. And I can’t help but think that a lot of the time there’s an element of people being weird about butch women in terms of that treatment. And even more so and intersecting with that, I feel like racism, conscious or otherwise, undeniably plays a role in this treatment of her in many instances. It’s not my place to speak further on that (and I’m sure people who are much more qualified to talk about this have been talking about it and probably getting largely ignored a lot of the time), but it’s a thought that’s popped up for me and has been knocking around my head a lot lately
#there is one particular scene where she reads ‘dulcinea’s’ expression is pretending to be one thing but actually being a look of#‘animal cunning’ or something to that effect#and I love it#I WILL talk about this at some point#and like yes joking about her being distracted by hot ladies in canaan house is all well and good#but I think a lot of times things turn into people calling her dumb#which really reduces her character#and does such a disservice to her#and it feels like in so many cases yeah that is very much tied in with perceptions of butches#and women of color#and butches of color#etc.#the locked tomb#gideon nav#gideon nav/kiriona my beloved you're currently my fave female character in the series today#it changes at any given time fghjk#but i always love her#also i realized 'qualified to talk about it' is weird wording but brain is tired and i am blanking on a better word to represent what i mean
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officially survived the 1 year anniversary of getting hit by a truck
#i was very very anxious about today#luckily i was also busy enough to be distracted from the scarier thoughts#but definitely been ruminating about my own mortality the last week or so#i just can't stop thinking about how i really could have died#i could have been reduced to a name on a 'please drive carefully' sign#still could be#there are so so many around here#and so so many on the blvd i got hit on#just thoughts
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sometimes i always every day think about how cassidy's not allowed to exist in his own tag without hanzo standing next to him, cheek to cheek —
#✯ — нorѕeѕ ιn тнe вacĸ × [ ooc ]#sorry — it's been too long since i've complained about this.#like...don't get me wrong#it's a great trope#i even ship it when developed correctly#but DAMN — I'VE NEVER BEEN SO TIRED OF SEEING A MAN'S FACE BEFORE ;;#cassidy exists outside of his ships you know...#honestly#it's why i made this blog in the first place.#to give him purpose and personality beyond that.#and i'm not just talking about his ships or h.anzo —#but IN GENERAL. like. OVERALL.#blizz definitely dropped the ball when it came to his character and development imo#a lot of people have told me that they just don't care or are indifferent about him as a character — and i hope to change that.#i honestly hate what fanon has reduced him down to tbh lmao#but that's a rant for another time //#i've stuffed some things in the queue#we'll see what else i can get done before i fall asleep at my desk#maybe reply to some dm's i'm sorry i've been neglecting y'all#i got distracted#tbd
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pro-bending is such a fun sport
#lok#thinking abt different strategies#because each element works differently each member on a team will have a slightly different position in terms of knocking out#the opposing team#for example. fire isn't as solid or physical as earth and water. but it's bright and has the most energy to iy#a good probending firebender knows exactly how to strike to blind and distract the other team leaving them open to knockouts#mako specifically is able to use a powerful firebending to force opponents into drawing up their defenses in a sloppy way.#leading the resulting elemental collision into knocking them out#the waterbender is great at distrubing the balance of the opposing team and disorienting. water is also a great combining force with#both fire and earth to create steam and dust and things like that reducing opposing team visibility#and earth is the obvious choice for a classic knockout. earthbenders are hard-hitting and best at slamming opponents back#even at their sturdiest#probending style earthbending is so interesting to me in particular because all bending is focused on the disks and the sport requires you#to be light on your feet and able to move dodge and recover from glancing hits#which is very counter to the way earthbending is tradiationally taught#it's why you see bolin doing flips and leaps and throwing a lot of fast small chunks of earth around. it's because he's a probender.
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#btw this isn’t like a sad vent i just can’t sleep and figured i’d talk on here for a bit#so i have an ear infection (pain i wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy fr it is so bad)#and the pain for the first 3 days was AKSJQJWJSJJAJAJAJSJWJSJSJSJSHSJSJSHSH like i was writhing in a hot bath with my eyes shut#gripping the tub walls and shit couldn’t play music or anything to distract myself bc it hurt too bad#and i went to doc the day after it developed and got antibiotics and was taking a shit ton of ibuprofen and acetaminophen#and the pain reduced a lot after those first few days (thank fucking god. the only thing more painful that i’ve experienced was foot surgery#and that was on my bones). but my ear is completely clogged#can’t hear shit at all and for the past week it’s been draining tons of disgusting pus and other fluids#like fucking soaking and staining parts of my pillow from all the liquid 🤢#but i finished my course of antibiotics and was trying to go abt my life#messaged the doctor after a while like ‘hey i’m done with the antibiotics and the pain is better but i cant hear anything#and i’m literally leaking everywhere all the time’ and they were like ‘your symptoms will resolve w time’ and i said ‘how much time’#and they said ‘weeks idk’ and i was like fuck alright but i guess this isn’t that bad#and THEN the day before yesterday i was eating lunch and noticed that my bottom lip felt numb or something like weird#and i kept having to wipe drool and food off the corner of my mouth which is not normal for me and it was freaking me out#and by evening by eye is constantly watering and i can’t figure out why like there’s nothing in it to irritate it#and the next day i go to work and by the time I’m done with work I’m like this is not right and bc i’m a hypochondriac i’m like#‘am i having/did i have a stroke’ and so i go through the FAST stroke symptoms thing (face / arms / smile / time)#and i realize that i cant SMILE like the right side of my mouth will not do it and it’s all lopsided so i freak out and call my mom#she’s not sure that it’s a big deal at first but then she’s like okay make a dr appt bc something is up#so i call dr and luckily there’s an urgent care w our insurance that’s still open and she takes me there an hour later#turns out 1) the ear infection never went away and it’s still swollen and inflamed to all hell 2) i’ve developed swimmer’s ear on top of it#(which i’ve had many times before when i was an active swimmer so that’s not that bad)#and 3) and most importantly i’ve developed something called bell’s palsy which is partial facial paralysis#caused by the infection damaging my facial nerves#so the right side of my face (infection side) is partially paralyzed#most noticeably in my bottom lip and my eye#in that i am having trouble doing things like blowing air out of my mouth#sucking on a straw or eating food (soup was a nightmare) or smiling or drinking etc#and my eye can’t fully close bc the muscles don’t work so i’m constantly crying out of that eye and it’s getting more and more irritated
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i am never blogging more than when i am in class
#i used to draw all the time in class bc i need a layer of distraction in order to listen#but i lost my artistic braincell somewhere btwn my depressive episode and upping my meds#so now im reduced to refreshing my webbed sites like an understimulated animal#my posts
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