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I have started meditating again and I notice my feet fall asleep when I sit for more than about 8 minutes. I am using a yoga mat folded up to sit on, on top of a pillow. Something is cutting the blood circulation off to my feet.
I have thought about buying a zabuton but I'm not sure that will help. Any ideas?
Do anything else to stop this happening.
Sitting in a regular chair...straight back...is quite comfortable, taking our attention easily
away from the body...esp as we get older and cannot sit in Eastern positions.
Do anything else to stop this happening.
Sitting in a regular chair...straight back...is quite comfortable, taking our attention easily
away from the body...esp as we get older and cannot sit in Eastern positions.
Good grief!!!!! The Voice of Sanity is heard in the land.
Actually.. you do not need to follow only sitting posture to meditate..There are four posture you can use to meditate. Sitting, walking, Standing and Lying down...You can select the ideal posture for you...Whatever the posture does not matter until you are truly conscious about the intention
I agree, Claudia. When I used to occasionally go to the temple in Colorado Springs for the evening chanting and meditation, I thought I had to be in "the position", which was usually about an hour. And I had that trouble of losing feeling in one or both feet and legs to some extent. One time when I mentioned it to the monks they laughed and said, "No problem to sit in chair".
I have started meditating again and I notice my feet fall asleep when I sit for more than about 8 minutes. I am using a yoga mat folded up to sit on, on top of a pillow. Something is cutting the blood circulation off to my feet.
I have thought about buying a zabuton but I'm not sure that will help. Any ideas?
yes get a proper cusion. Stretch as much as possible. The more you meditate the more this feeling will go away.
You do not MUST sit in lotus pose to meditate. There is no absolute requirement for that. Any COMFORTABLE position is accepted.
You can stand, sit on a chair, heck, you can walk and meditate. Gautam will stand and walk every few hrs, when he was under the bodhi tree. There was a trotted circle around it, from those walks.
Don't be silly, true meditation is looking inward, not following rigorous canons someone decided to create.
I think I'm going to eventually end up investing in a good zabuton just because I haven't managed to meditate for more than about fifteen minutes before my feet fall asleep. I can do twenty minutes but by that time, I've lost alot of sensation in my legs and I have to stretch a bit afterwards.
Just sit in a chair, back straight, relaxed. Will give exactly same effect.
Better idea is to find out, WHY you can't attempt to meditate for longer than...
And if it's even meditation.
Again, any pose is fine. Lotus is more of a symbol, than necessity.
I'd say, environment you are in is more important. Though, personally, I use a monotonous sound as distrection from thinking. Helps to concentrate on it.
Again, it does not matter how you sit.
Also, do simple. Do ten minutes. Stand and stretch your legs, trying to stay in composed inner state. Then, go sit again.
Nothing wrong with that too.
Everyone has his own way. Dharma is abundant in choices.
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