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How to deal with swallowing during meditation?

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It's a good question.

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Seems simple enough, but it can be quite a distress.

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It happens to be something that comes up as meditators often.

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And then you get concerned about your swallowing and it makes you worried and then worrying causes you to swallow more and that's one of these things that actually can snowball.

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The simple answer is just be mindful of it.

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With all of these things, convince yourself that there's no problem with it.

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It's not wrong to swallow.

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It's not wrong for these things to come up.

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There's no problem with them.

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When you do that,

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you'll find it less of a distraction.

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The key is that you can meditate on anything, in any position, and people don't, well, we're quite good at forgetting that.

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Even those of us who have been indoctrinated and instructed in the practice, we forget and we think, well, what do I do with this?

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Not realizing it, just be mindful of it.

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Because what it's teaching you is non-self.

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You don't want to swallow.

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You say, what can I do about it?

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And the meaning behind that is, how can I make it stop?

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Or how can I deal with this situation?

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How can I fix the situation?

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Often that's the case.

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People want to fix the situation.

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That being the case, it's the wrong attitude.

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And the right attitude is to simply be mindful and objective about it.

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And that's what it will teach you.

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You see that it's not actually you swallowing.

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It's a product of causes and conditions and it comes and then it goes.

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And that's it.

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There's nothing to do about it except let go of it, reject it, stop clinging to it.