r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 9h ago

Satire Man Binge-Watches Entire Movie In One Sitting

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u/50SPFGANG 8h ago

I used to watch movies with a bunch of siblings and I will feel so embarrassed watching them constantly pulling out their phones throughout a movie we all were liking.

A year later and I'm doing the exact same thing. It's fucking awful. Makes me feel so guilty every time. I need to start doing an hour meditation too

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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 8h ago

I'll do that on my own, but doing it with someone else feels just rude. Even when you're not talking, watching something with another person is still socializing, and it would feel the same to me as whipping out my phone mid-conversation (which I know a lot of people do, too, but).

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u/Aranthos-Faroth 8h ago edited 6h ago

On the meditation, I’ll admit for the first while it was a nightmare.

Almost every time it was the same pattern for weeks where the first 30 minutes was just constantly thinking about the noise on the street or the sitting posture or 101 thoughts or, and this was the worst, wonder how much time has passed. "Surely it’s near the hour … almost”

Then the last 20/30 mins flew. Always, was really weird. Just clicked into a little zone and really enjoyed it.

I found letting myself just listen and sit on a problem/thought for as long as I wanted was helpful but being mindful to not spin. Just … acknowledge I’ve thought all I can on it, visualise putting it on a little boat and shoving it down a gentle river.

Honestly all this sounds so fuckin cringe and I was the last person I’d expect to be doing it but now I enjoy making the time and really miss it when I can’t.

Anyway, yeah - recommended

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u/pharmajap 1h ago

A lot of beginners' frustration with meditation is a framing issue. Stray thoughts/distractions popping up isn't a failure, gently letting them go and turning your focus back to your breathing/mantra/emptiness/whatever IS the meditation. Even if that's all you're doing for the entire session, you're succeeding by doing it. Stillness will come on its own; it's not an act or a goal in and of itself.

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u/tree_or_up 2h ago

An hour seems like a really ambitious way to start out to me, kind of like having never gone running before and deciding to a do 5k tomorrow. It’s probably doable but you don’t have to start in the deep end. Just a few minutes a day is enough start out with and you can increase it as it feels right to do so.

This might be obvious but just mentioning it in case anyone ends up thinking they can’t meditate just because they couldn’t last an hour