Vipassana is mindfulness of breathing, which doesn't work for me, so it's reasonable to expect it doesn't work on some other people too. Do you know of other types of concentration/meditation for Josh's instruction?
I don't tend to use any breathing practice, or at least not consciously. Still, learning about the concept actually helped me a bit. It can be used as a kind of crutch when things don't work out, but that's probably a rather unhelpful thing to say. Perhaps I've simply internalized the practice since my mother first taught me how to subjugate hiccups when I was a toddler.
What I used to do often as a child when my mind or body wasn't ready to be more at ease, was to close my eyes or hold my hands in front of them, and call up vivid images of what might be grand galaxies or beautiful visualizations of brain synapses, or sometimes just the Milky Way or star-like circles with flares, and also what I later learned to call fractals. I've read of people doing something similar but visualizing e.g. a waterfall or a beach instead.
There's also becoming aware of your heartbeat by focusing on your neck, wrist, or chest and using your mind to follow your bloodstream, as it were, from there to different body parts. The easiest way to get started is to put your fingers on your neck, your wrist, or your heart so you actually feel the pulse from the get-go, but it's not necessary. I don't particularly care for this method, but the heartbeat drowns out interference from strange environs or flu-related pains.
NB These are merely my personal methods. Use them at your own risk.
Haha, I'm sorry. It's just something that seems to be a global rule, observed in the evolution of languages all around the world. But there's no need to worry; there's a hypothesis that languages will start the whole process all over again once they reach the "end."
Well sure, I could make him a warm cup of tea which would help to relieve cold symptoms as well as prevent or reduce dehydration, and I could instruct in some basic vipassanā-like things* that should help to clear the mind and relax the body, consequently reduce pain and anxiety, and I understand even improve cognitive function.
* Or as I call it, the natural way of calming my mind before going to sleep, which I only later found out is apparently uncommon. What I have since found out is that it's better to do it the next morning anyway, even if I didn't before going to sleep because I was exhausted or late.
Usually it would; sometimes it wouldn't. But your question makes me think you misread or misunderstood what I originally wrote. It primarily addresses your formulation.
Most people around me who have headaches, they get them regularly all life long, young and old, with stable lifestyle or changing lifestyle, so there seems to be a persistent rather autonomous cause. How would you address it?
I'd say they should keep a log of a few basic properties of their life: what they drank and ate, how they slept, what the weather was like, anything unusual at home or at work. Above all, visit a professional—not me, a person who doesn't get headaches.*
Josh, the idea is that feedback is posted here for all to see. You can come up with feedback however you want.
As noted by string above, he produced the bulk of the text, taking into account a few remarks I made in advance. After a bit of back and forth between us, we presented the text to the other moderators for comments. A few more things were altered, and we both feel the text is now essentially finished. However, if someone thinks we overlooked anything, if something's unclear, or if there are any other concerns, that's something we'd like to hear. For further details please reread the OP, because this is string's show.
I'd like to thank string for taking care of this for me. It's much appreciated.
It's a joke with a serious undertone. If stress is giving you a headache, try to do something about stress. If it's dehydration, drink some water. If you indeed meant reducing the symptoms only rather than addressing the cause, in most cases that doesn't sound like a great idea in the long run.
Interesting, I'd never heard of that. I'm not looking for fast response times per se, but the only thing I lose by using PS/2 is the ability to easily plug my keyboard in and out. What I gain are potentially faster response times and full n-key rollover.
The Compose key sounds like a Linux feature. I have never used it, and I have never seen support for it in Windows. But it sounds similar to the Dead Key.
Unix. But yes, GNU/Linux is Unix-like. Anyhoo, there's third-party software to provide similar functionality on Windows. I prefer the explicit compose key mechanism to implicit dead key mechanisms. My layout is US International, which allows for easy typing of Dutch, German, French, English, and several other European languages.
It would seem that I use a yet another keyboard layout that is neither ANSI, nor ISO.
There's also the Unix layout. You'll note Ctrl and Caps Lock are switched, and the presence of a real Compose key.
Anyway, I'm afraid that I find your enter key an odd crossbreed between ISO and ANSI. What I dislike about ISO is not so much the enter key, although I prefer the smaller yet more accessible ANSI one, but the fact that there's a \| button where the left Shift should be. I can't stand that antagonist to proper typing.
Relax that thing between your ears. It's a relaxation exercise.
Drat, you preempted my semi-witty remark about how I don't believe in meditation techniques for relieving headaches, only in meditation techniques for relieving stress. Luckily there's a warning about new posts.
That's the benefit of separating semantics and presentation. I simply defined some padding between list items. However, it uses the same lists as the rest of the forum, so adding more would negatively affect the rest of the site. I suppose I could consider dedicated rules styling, but I'd prefer not to.
That's more important, but ultimately not that important either. You could find an i3 that also runs at 1.6GHz and it'd be a lot faster. In any case, the specs look like Windows 8 as well as most LInux distros should work—for Windows, Microsoft released some kind of tool.
It's the RAM I'm most worried about really. If you decide to go with Linux, you might want to look into zRAM.
So, those are my hard's specs — now, I mean, what's the best to pick? (Krake, who don't!? )
Windows 7 ran poorly on my broken netbook with similar specs while Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce ran quite nicely. But Windows 8 is technically an improvement over Windows 7—just not so much in the GUI.
In any case, you can try various Linux distros without harming your system in any way. I suggest you take a look.
Don't worry; they're still there. However, rather annoyingly the forum only shows topics with updates posted within the past 100 days. At the bottom, select "forever". That'll tell you there are over 7000 topics in D&D.
(But if your Model M has an ANSI layout I'm still jealous; mine's ISO.)
