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Meditation My thoughts on the subject, it's benefits, and a guide to help you achieve the state of meditation. Meditation is an altered state of consciousness and can be used as a technique to clear your mind and relax. It has many benefits and positive aspects to it that are life-altering. The sources I used to pull the benefits and images I refer to are as follows: Lifehacker, HuffingtonPost, FoodMatters, WikiHow My Thoughts A summed-up story regarding my life and explains why I find the idea behind meditation so intriguing: Benefits of Meditation The very purpose of meditation is to work off of the aforementioned basic focal points and to strengthen the use of your mind. Among the thousands of benefits that can be achieved through means of meditation, a few are listed below. Invariably reduces stress (the "silent killer" of society) Increased creativity Better memory (study) Increases compassion The ability to get to know your 'self' (look here for more info) Prevents aging (studies show that it increases the strength of your telomares - protective caps at the end of your chromosomes) Improves focused engagement in music (makes music sound better) Mindfulness, which can be broken down into four subsectionsBody awareness Self-awareness Regulation of emotion Regulation of attention Lowers depression Can increase job performance Increases sleep efficiency Increases immune system Most important out of the benefits (in my opinion) is what your brain waves indicate during and after being in the meditative state. The following is an image which displays the before and after effects on beta brain waves during meditation. As you can see in the picture, the difference in the population of waves is greatly decreased after meditation. This is to say that you had a thousand thoughts running at once, and now your mind is clear and you are able to think more peacefully and clearly. You may be thinking, "well, I was never able to do this even though I tried multiple times", or "it's too foreign to me". I wish there was an easy way I could answer the underlying question behind the statements: How do I begin meditation? The answer to that can not be explained through words - much like how your thought process cannot be fully explained to others through language. You must go and experience this yourself to get a sense of what, exactly, I am referring to. I am here to offer you resources, techniques, my past experiences, and to be your personal guide in being able to do just so. Preparing for meditation When preparing to enter the state of meditation, a few things need to be achieved for maximal performance. They are split into a few different subcategories. Make sure you are alone and not with any other parties. Environment Note: These vary per person, so experiment with different ways until you find what works best for you. In order to attempt to meditate, you need an environment which is calm, quiet, and not bright. This will enable you to focus exclusively on meditation and to avoid outside interruptions. (find somewhere in which you will not be interrupted) The space does not need to be very large, a place to sit comfortably on the floor works perfectly. If your floor is uncomfortable, place a pillow under where you are sitting. Make sure the temperature in the room is comfortable and will not distract you from being too hot or too cold. Turn all of your electronics off! This includes, but is not limited to, phone, TV, etc. Wear comfortable clothes that will not cause any irritation or distraction. They should also coincide with what was said earlier about temperature, meaning do not wear overly warm clothing. I recommend stretching out before meditation as you are going to be in one position for a good amount of time. Postures Unless you are an already seasoned veteran in meditation, sit in an upright position and not laying down. If you are laying on your bed, it's likely that you may drift into sleep. Some of the postures to begin to try are shown through this illustration (source, source): The position I use most often is something similar to #3 (center). The second picture displays the same posture, but from a different angle. Find whatever is most comfortable for you, it doesn't even need to be within one of these pictures. State of Mind Meditation requires a peaceful, relaxed, and calm state of mind. That means you can't just jump straight from playing Battlefield 4 right into meditation. By now, all of your electronics should be off, you should be sitting in a posture that you feel comfortable with, and you feel comfortable with all of the other factors listed above. Relax your body - Whether that means taking a walk, having a cup of tea, or taking a short nap. Focus on your breath - Count your breath, making sure you fully and deeply inhale and exhale. Thoughts - Don't let any negative thoughts distract you. Know that they are there, take note of them, but simply let them pass. If you are still unable to clear your mind after trying the previous techniques, refer to "Guided Meditation" below. Entering the State of Meditation Detailed page / source: here It should be noted that having your eyes closed during meditation is more effective for beginners. Techniques Follow your breathing The most basic and universal of all meditation techniques, breathing meditation is the best method for beginners to enter meditation. Become aware of the rising and falling of your stomach and lungs as you breathe in and out. Do not make a conscious effort to change your breathing patterns, just breathe normally. You will find that when you are thinking about breathing, you are forced to control it. When you are not, it happens to you. The hard and fast worlds that connect these two (what happens to you versus what you choose to do) are arbitrary. (for more see "Guided meditation: Alan Watts" below) Mantra Meditation Meditation through repetition of a mantra is usually used with spiritual meditation, and involves saying a sound, word, or phrase repeatedly until you enter into a state of meditation. You can choose any mantra you wish to use, the most popular mantra is OM (mystic syllable in Sanskrit, sounds like this). Below, I have listed links to some mantras to try. http://www.mayurivaid.com/images/Planetary_Mantras_b.jpg Visualization For visualization meditation, it essentially uses the same concept which I was referring to in my personal story. It is the act of creating a peaceful place in your mind and exploring it, until you reach a state of complete calm. The place can be anywhere you wish - however, it should not be entirely real, it should be unique and personalized for you. That means, don't play out the day that you had yesterday simply because you wish to relive it. This source is extremely helpful: http://www.innerhealthstudio.com/visualization-scripts.html Body Scan Meditation through the body scan method is more for those who are focused on getting a relaxed bodily feeling along with the mental benefits of meditation. Doing a body scan involves focusing on each individual body part in turn and consciously relaxing it. Make sure your eyes are closed, and focus on a body part to start, usually the toes. Focus on whatever sensations you can feel in the body part while making a conscious effort to release any tension you may have. Once the body part you were focusing on is fully relaxed, move on to the next part and repeat the process throughout your whole body. When you have completed the relaxation of each individual body part, focus on your body as a whole and enjoy the sensation of the calm and relaxed feeling you now have. Guided meditation In guided meditation, the speaker attempt to take you directly into a state of meditation through auditory means. There's not much to be said about it, so check out the following videos: I strongly recommend this one, Alan Watt's guided meditation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NonSfWKt_Yc Further meditation practice When you gain experience with meditation, you may want to incorporate a few extra things into your practice. Audio Meditation can also be used with different music and sounds playing while you are meditating. Here are some of my favorite meditation music pieces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE8n4U_tmuY Extending what you learn from meditation to everyday life What good are all of the mental benefits of meditation if you can't incorporate them into your daily life? Living mindfully is the short-term goal you are trying to accomplish through meditation. There are many ways you can do this, and a few are listed here: In moments of stress, try to take a few seconds to focus solely on your breathing and empty your mind of any negative thoughts or emotions. Practice mindfulness while you eat, becoming aware of the food and of the sensations you experience as you eat. No matter what actions you perform in your day to day life, whether it's sitting at a computer or sweeping the floor, try to become more aware of your body's movements and how you feel in the present moment. Hopefully, after all is said and done, you are able to enter the state of meditation and take something out of it. If mindfulness is achieved, then we are all able to coincide peacefully. Give it a shot, and as I said earlier, I am here for any questions, comments, or thoughts. Namaste and gassho, -@Natsu

Il buy a bond, once pipi stops being a tight ass and pays my money back.

Why wouldn't you just give him the jar file....and why are you using groovy...

That'd be allowed since they're the same age? jokes ily levi

Hey all, It's time for another giveaway, this time it's a $10 OSBot voucher you can use to buy things such as scripts or VIP! This contest is simple, simply respond in this thread with a joke and after 7 days I'll pick a random winner! Rules/tl;dr: Like this thread! (not required) Respond to this thread with your best joke You can make one response a day (24 hours in between) I'll pick a random winner You will only be considered if you had 20 posts or more on February 21, 2014 and you did not post more than once within 24 hours Best of luck all!

I'm back after a 3 day ban! Just getting a few things straight, I wasn't banned for threatening, hacking, or scamming like people have asked me. I was banned for OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE. Moral of the story- Don't tell staff "Fuck off, You piece of shit" I love you all

Congrats everyone who made it! Hopefully one day my script(s) (if I continue) will make it to the SDN! It's good that the scripters are getting recognized because it takes quite a lot of work xD

Still botting strong over here.

2arrogant4me. But seriously, just because something works perfectly fine for you, and a select group of small people you choose to listen to, doesn't mean that there aren't legitimate issues occurring for others. Anyway, keep up the good work, and keep working on fixing randoms and making them perfect, in my opinion, that's the only major flaw with OSBOT at the moment, imperfect random support.

you flipping! jesus! and never put your RS name on the forums... yew logs are 450-460 ea!!1

You are so consistent, I would definitely trust you staying long

Agreed, it's not like we all don't just go on the hub everyday.

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I have a slight form of OCD when it comes to Forums that comes off as perfectionism, and so I noticed a few minor (mostly aesthetic) issues on these Forums that were bugging me to a small extent. Add a "Guides" or "Tutorials" subsection to this, I will be posting a few tutorials in the near future: OSBot :: 2007 OSRS Botting > Official > Community Discussion > Computer & Technology When it comes to the user panel on the side of whatever posts you make (pictured below), change it so the "Joined" and "Location" match the format of that of the "Time Online:". It's just for a bit of a cleaner look, you'd just need to add a colon in ACP. So, it would look like this: As for more of a larger-scope suggestion, a revamp to the account section could be made in order to improve the organization and search-capabilities overall. It would take a very small amount of JavaScript and HTML knowledge coupled with a bit of time in order to complete it. It's essentially where you can enter the skills of the account in which you are selling in a table, along with quest points, warnings, GP, etc. and it will store those entries in the database paired with the thread that was posted. Of course, pictures and further description of the account would be provided within the thread, but the table would serve as a search tool. For those searching the database for an account, you would enter the skills of the account that you are hoping to find. It would generate a list of the accounts for sale that are close to the ranges entered. Some easy and interesting things to add to this concept could be the following: Search within fields using range (#-#), minimum (>#), and/or maximum (<#) Starting bid, buyout bid (at $x , account is bought), and current bid fields Membership days left and timer that subtracts one day every 24 hours. (timer starts when posted) These sorts of ideas could be ported over to the currency section, where you could perhaps sort threads by price / mil. As for other things to suggest: When you are a guest (have no account), the view of the Forums is quite dodgy in terms of what sections are visible/accessible to you. All it would take to fix this is to sift through each Forum section in ACP and fix the viewing permissions. Fix the registration name filters, for christ's sake you can use "********" in your name. Add new themes. Get rid of the troll emoticon Either switch the emoticons up, or add some additional ones. These are rough suggestions and serve no purpose as non-changeable ideas. The concepts of them must be adapted to what others feel is best for the site. Thus, let me know what your thoughts are on some of these.

You spelt graphic wrong.. You put grapic Goodluck never the less

Feedback removed, sorry for any delays. Dispute Closed.

yes! thats quite nice

I'd like to personally thank mod Jordan and Smart for helping with a case I had opened yesterday. They were understanding and precise in dealing with the case. I had been scammed for 30m from a user that is no longer on this site. A heads up for everybody, watch out for scamming and fraud. Daniel/Aesthetics is a big scammer and acts innocent. Once again thank you to the moderator's who keep OSBOT functioning and a safer place. Cheers - Electro.

amg u baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack welcome budd :PP

Hey, fuck you.

Just let him keep it yo! Hit me up skype later, I got you!

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Awesome, I guess actually manipulating a script is good, ensuring you have basic java knowledge beforehand. Wish you the best of luck when this has all blown over

1. I told you I will not test it until I have time. I have school to focus and could care less about a script when compared to school. 2. Either delete this thread or I won't test it nor even consider to buy it. You have absolutely 0 patience. -___- 3. If you do comply I'll test it on Thursday/Friday. If its good then yes I'll buy it off you..... also what you're talking about I have no idea how to do.... I told you before my knowledge of java is extremely limited..... What I would do is put it in eclipse and export the file to OSBot and run the script -____- Yeah I do! It'd be a nice project and what not. But I told him before the weekend is up and I do not get involved in wasting my time and do any scripting related things during a school week... I told him wait until the weekend..... His patience is horrible.

What if he doesn't like it. Then whats the point of testing it. Why.....

just block new server ip's and you never get there not 100% sure, but these appear alot recently 8.26.16.118 8.26.16.163

yup it was full, LOL thanks :p

This newb made me laugh on the forum thread

So you think clicking a thread that says RSPS is advertising, DON'T CLICK THE THREAD. From now should we ban everyone in chat that links a account thread since you aren't allowed to see it under 100 posts and there are people in there with under 100? Grow up and stop acting like a 5 year old the staff is getting sick of it I close threads when they aren't needed, answered, targeting a staff member. Also you can't tell who closed a topic, so i'd advise you not to assume things.

Good luck Green drag won't last long aha

Tbh, it should be mandatory that everyone include a version whenever they post a problem.

Looks great man!!! Ill definitely buy from you in the future man

These spam signatures were only funny about 8 months ago.

Just so you know I didn't message anyone to take your rank away or anything. I check everyone's work on tineye and saw that just thought it was fishy (You would too if you were in my position haha) Sorry about the inconvenience! Keep up the good work man

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Inb4 Locked

@Mikasa says that you can not link to porn sites because not everyone is over 18... This is not true. LEGALLY, everyone who has an account and can see links is over 18... SOURCE: http://osbot.org/tos.html I'm not trying to start a war here, but I feel we should be able to post nsfw links if they have a [NSFW] tag.

No

I think there should be a 18+ sub forum somewhere, and warning upon entering.

yea something needs to be changed, i dont wanna be seeing peoples favorite gay porn they watch everymorning tho..

@Smart should be our admin..

So after you nice people told me you enjoyed the first one, i decided to make another! So GO. CLICK IT. >>720P BTW<< EDIT: Fixed the problem with the small screen and also updated the video

I told people Kiko didn't know what packages were, but they never believed me. ._.

osbot2

you make me sick bro.

> Head in ass > Pro > Much Wow

I'd like to see a proxy feature in osbot 2. Would be great for the market too. Promote proxies and bring more money into the market, along with more people paying for VIP. I think it would only work for Sock proxies though.