@plzu4ever
The purpose of meditation is to quiet the almost non-stop chattering mind and hear, feel and experience your true inner self.
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Rather than try to tear this apart if you have not had this understanding, I only ask that you try to allow the understanding and experience of this to become a possibility for you at some time in the future.
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Definition of introspection
: a reflective looking inward : an examination of one's own thoughts and feelings
Thank you for this thread @plzu4ever - the careful use of words is important, and the connotations of words can impact people in a lot of ways. Interpretations of words - how they are used, when they are used, can cause the person reading them either pleasure, pain, anger, or whatever at the moment. I know - I got my panties in a semi bunch not long ago because of the use of a word that can have negative connotations when used certain ways. I TOTALLY get where you were coming from - when you compared or likened having an enema as spiritual. When I am really enjoying or 'into' an enema - I let the world melt away with all the cares and crap that it has, and I 'go with the flow' pun intended. I sometimes 'zone out' - when I am having an enema to get away from it all and have some me time, and I'm not just using an enema to run water into my ass for some bogus medical reason.
I've also probably referred to enema experiences I've had as being - 'spiritual' and probably wouldn't have thought twice about using that word to describe the way I feel about an enema sometimes. Your post got people to thinking - or discussing, the importance of using the right words, hell, I didn't go looking up synonyms for 'spiritual' because I'm a scholar, but because it is important for me to describe how enemas make me feel. Important for me to - help people understand why in the hell an old gal like me is so into enemas, and why they have made all the difference in the world for me and to me.
@plzu4ever your thoughts and feelings matter - but to ensure that your thoughts are understood by more people, words and their definitions matter. Take it from an ol' gal - who is sometimes like bull in a china shop and not real careful with my own words, I've been on the receiving end of having to explain myself.
So when I hang my bag on my hook above my bed - take my clothes off, and slip that enema nozzle into me, after a long day, and just try to clear my head, that is a time of profound introspection for me. And I mean PROFOUND -
Yeah - I'm becoming more cautious in the words I use, maybe not the spelling, 😉 because, as I said, I've reacted negatively to a word or words, that weren't meant that way. Lesson learned - on MY part. @plzu4ever - just keep writing what you feel, and maybe do as I have and put https://www.merriam-webster.com/ in your shortcuts. But you'd better hurry - because I'm wearing that site out! 😄 😄 😄