Do nothing meditation

[RawJudah]

Hi all, 

ive been practicing the ‘do nothing meditation’ for a week and a half now (not long I know) and I can successfully sit there for 20 mins just letting my thoughts come up and not controlling them. But pretty much ALL my thoughts are song lyrics. Is this normal? Is this monkey mind? Because none of it seems negative or frustrating... just getting a bit tired of it and I wonder if it’s completely normal to experience this? 

I do feel better afterwards and I feel I am a lot less anxious and depressed in general, which is the main thing.

Any reply and advice is greatly appreciated, thank you 

[Noego2020]

Hi Rawjudah,

I can only speak from personal experience, but what you are experiencing is normal. Continue what you are doing and take note in you mind afterwards to what you experience. 

All the best

[ADD]

When i started i couldn't even notice thoughts because i was so attached to them. Keep on going!

[Shin]

13 minutes ago, RawJudah said:

Hi all, 

ive been practicing the ‘do nothing meditation’ for a week and a half now (not long I know) and I can successfully sit there for 20 mins just letting my thoughts come up and not controlling them. But pretty much ALL my thoughts are song lyrics. Is this normal? Is this monkey mind? Because none of it seems negative or frustrating... just getting a bit tired of it and I wonder if it’s completely normal to experience this? 

I do feel better afterwards and I feel I am a lot less anxious and depressed in general, which is the main thing.

Any reply and advice is greatly appreciated, thank you 

Careful here.

[LaucherJunge]

@RawJudah
You have to keep in mind that you have an incredible amount of garbage piled up in the beginning, it is perfectly normal what you are going trough the longer your meditations are and the more time will pass, it will start shifting, you will at one point probably drift into past memories and then at a much later state will steadily go with what happened in the recent days, such things as song lyrics will probably not even stick anymore in the first place at that point.

[Torkys]

Completely normal. 

1) You gotta let these song lyrics be, without emotionally reacting or judging them. If you can't do this, expand you awareness and witness the judgement and the emotional reaction too. 

2) Garbage in, garbage out. Watch your information intake. 

3) You may not understand this now, but when your mind does this, it clears itself. Let them be. They will eventually dissappear. 

[RawJudah]

Thank you to everyone, really helpful feedback! It’s good to know this is all normal.