The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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It's not a "meditation for wakefulness". Wakefulness is always one of the two factors that should be present in any meditation. You should be both calm and wakeful/alert in any meditation. I do not observe my state in the morning specifically, though a serious meditation practice will make your awareness of your mind and your sati (mindfulness, working memory) stronger at all times. The advice to deconstruct dullness is one of the things you should do to get a handle on the problem, to understand it. The other thing you should do are the antidotes I mentioned. You must respond to dullness with sufficient antidotes every time it shows up. As much as it takes. This is the way to train it out of your system. If you're not in a place where you can start hyperventilating, do muscle tensing and deconstructing of the dullness in order to understand it better. Set aside as many minutes for this as it takes.
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