Amazing, incredible, brave and bold Aspies and Auties! We feel the fear, and we do it anyway!
Post here when you are about to do something challenging that you didn't think you could do!
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I'll go first:
I have been practicing Zen meditation for 4 years. It is now time in my training for my first Zazenkai, which is an intense, formal all-day sit. I must enter the Zendo, adhere to formality, and join my Sangha for sitting meditation from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. Lunch is an hour, but there's no speaking, it is traditional. This form of meditation being done all day with experienced practitioners is profoundly powerful. I am eager to stretch my "practicing muscles." Some of the sitting is broken up by formal periods of walking Zen meditation but, there is no stimming, no sensory breaks. I'm very stimmy. I'm also going through a period of dysregulation.
This will be highly challenging.
I am ready.
I got this!
Post here when you are about to do something challenging that you didn't think you could do!
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I'll go first:
I have been practicing Zen meditation for 4 years. It is now time in my training for my first Zazenkai, which is an intense, formal all-day sit. I must enter the Zendo, adhere to formality, and join my Sangha for sitting meditation from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. Lunch is an hour, but there's no speaking, it is traditional. This form of meditation being done all day with experienced practitioners is profoundly powerful. I am eager to stretch my "practicing muscles." Some of the sitting is broken up by formal periods of walking Zen meditation but, there is no stimming, no sensory breaks. I'm very stimmy. I'm also going through a period of dysregulation.
This will be highly challenging.
I am ready.
I got this!
