Can’t Meditate? This Is What Meditation Is Actually For | #110

Meditation doesn’t have to look like perfect stillness or a silent mind to be effective. In this Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn, Dawn Super shares a relatable, practical way to understand meditation - especially if you’ve struggled to “do it right,” your brain won’t stop, or you fall asleep. Using vivid metaphors and lived experience with narcolepsy, this episode reframes meditation as a short, restorative break that helps you return to life with less mental baggage.

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Meditation is like suspending yourself in jello.

This video is for anyone who has not yet successfully meditated or somebody who wants to meditate but their brain just won't stop or they fall asleep or they're too busy to meditate.

This is the daily dose of Dawn at Dawn. Number 110. videos designed to expand your thinking.

Why do we want to learn this? Because once it clicks for you, you'll understand the true benefit. And until you do, you might give up trying like I did for most of my life.

Welcome back to my happy matters collective. If you're new here, thanks for joining us.

So, how did this come into my awareness? The first time I tried to meditate, the something really cool happened. I was relaxing on the sofa and I imagined my neck going up like a giraffe and stretching out in my meditation.

And at the time I had this like a bump on the back of my neck from you know my pain disorders were giving me trouble. And then that weekend I went roller skating and I fell and smashed my chin into the floor of the skating rink and the bump was gone.

And I thought, "Wow, that's really cool. If that's how meditation works, sign me up." But it never happened like that again. It's just a cool story.

So four decades of narcolepsy, like what did I do about it? So, I can only meditate like 3 to 5 minutes at a time, but that's a surprisingly long amount of time to sit with your eyes closed when you have narcolepsy.

Okay. So, after like a year or so of doing these, you know, meditations, even short ones, even before I sleep, they make a big difference. So, I want to describe it to you.

Like looking back now, I can see what the difference is. Imagine you're in a very noisy room and there are alarms and people talking and machine noises and chaos and you slip into this supply closet and shut the door and magically all the noise stops.

You lean back on the door, feeling the relief of the quiet, the release of the cortisol that was increasing as the noise was increasing. You let yourself slide down the door.

Nothing's urgent. Nothing's on fire. Nobody needs you. You're not late for anything. you're comfortable.

This is usually the point where I fall asleep, but if I don't, I stare into the blackness. I have affantasia, so it's always completely black in my mind, and I look for the purple blobs that come when I hit that meditative state.

And if you've ever been like lost in thought and someone's like, "Hey, hey, hey." And then finally you hear them like the third time they say hey. It's like that.

It's like you're coming back from somewhere but you don't realize you ever left. But wherever it is or was that you came from it it was a little break and I always come back with less baggage.

And that's the point of meditation is to get you to that place where you're just like zero everything out so that you can come back to life again.

I've heard it said often that the practice of meditation helps you keep your thinking clear, but that wasn't my experience.

I had to get hardcore with clearing my mind, to the point of arguing with my thoughts and coming up with tactics and strategies to get my traumatized brain to stop thinking about things and ruminating and 100 tabs open.

And I taught myself how to stop doing all of that.

I have two long videos I'll put in the description about how to clear your mind without meditation.

And if you are at that place where your brain still is running the show, you can change that. Takes effort, but you can.

If you need help one-on-one, reach out to me, dawnsuper.com. I do take clients one on one.

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Go through How To Be On Your Own Side with Dawn!

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