Otherkin Praxis 

So the other night I mentioned to @starkatt ​that I had some ideas of stuff otherkin folks could do (meditation, visualization) to help with species dysphoria/yearning. It ended up getting sorta long, so I posted to my Tumblr instead, so you cna find it here: bit.ly/2AQc66v

Also, a number of other folks apparently wanted to hear too, so pinging @PluralPupper @Taylor @KawaSeadrake @Jssra to make sure y'all don't miss it, sorry I was so slow about this. :)

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Otherkin Praxis 

@indi oh wow, thank you! this is good stuff, and gives me some good ideas for what to do while meditating (which I kind of flail around with for some reason), and helps me define... what I do, um, yeah. *flails* anyway this is helpful thank you! ^___^

Otherkin Praxis 

@green I think there's a lot of flailing around the general concept of meditation in the first place! Folks use that word to mean so many different things that I was a bit concerned about using it here at all. ;) I never had luck with 'empty your mind' but I find a lot of use in 'let your mind focus inward rather than obsessing over every little exocosm thing'

Otherkin Praxis 

@indi @green i have trouble even with that these days (which i hear is a trait common to autists) but instead of sitting in silence i usually attempt meditation-in-motion or to particular kinds of music. total lack of stimulus just makes me restless and does nothing

Otherkin Praxis 

@bug This makes sense to me and I have similar things, if not the same ones (In my case, not music, but some specific ritual and noise (a crackling candle) _to focus on_ (rather than to mask other noise, which is what I think NT folks usually use that sort of sound for)).

I'm in favor of a broad definition of 'meditation' that is basically... the best I can put it is maybe something like "oblique methods that help guide thought processes"

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