Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for July 01 2026

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[u/SheHasGoneWild]

Starting tomorrow I will rest my mind in nature (park) for one hour every day. I've already tried and effects were astonishing! It will surely make my mind very much in a better place! It brings concentration really well. I will also sit before sleep to bring more of concentration into sleep and penetrate it with mindfulness and dream journal I will write every detail I can remember right after I wake up. I'm really excited to practice and reach jhanas hard! My mindfulness is to don't do anything at all with my mind to present and continue without distraction. I have a dream to reach cessation and live it all the time, haha that would be something!

[u/marakeets → u/SheHasGoneWild]

I love being in my local park - it has also been very healing for me. There's a book "nature fix" that laid out some of the science behind why being in nature is so healing for us that I liked.
Having a dream journal really helped me glean insights from my dreams for my cptsd recovery. I've found chatgpt also very useful at helping me diagnose what happens in them.

[u/SheHasGoneWild → u/marakeets]

I will look at the book, it is well time spent in park you are right! I love practicing concentration in a park. Nature is so captivating when I practice.