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Picking berries is my meditation

https://www.tsoon.com/posts/picking-berries-meditation/
13•mooreds•4d ago

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LemonLama•4d ago
LOve it
abstractspoon•4d ago
Shelling peas has a similar quality
steveBK123•35m ago
I get it, same reason I enjoy gardening alone in general.

Most of us spend our work time balancing 100 different things, putting out fires, bouncing between meetings, answering adhoc pings via calls/zooms/slacks, and struggling to do the deep work we are allegedly paid for in between.

There's a therapeutic aspect to certain kinds of physical hobby/chore work or full focussed hobbyist time that counterbalances this.

Otherwise at the end of a day of being burned out, we ruminate & doom scroll which only makes things worse.

stantaylor•15m ago
I do long distance solo road cycling. The riding takes just enough of my cognitive capacity that the rest of my mind wanders lightly, usually not thinking about anything of substance. It feels like meditation to me.
unimplmntd_trap•12m ago
It’s amazing what 5 minutes spent picking weeds out of my garden does for my mental health.
Geffrey•5m ago
I should start collecting all these 'touch grass' kind of situations. As inspiration. ;) I did learn that being in 'a flow state' and meditation are two different things, though. Super pedantic, yes yes. Both have merits, but dedicated meditation does have other, long lasting effects.

My two cents that no-one asked for.

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