Meditate with some nice, only mildly creepy jellyfish

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The Monterey Bay Aquarium, in an effort to assist the world take it a bit simpler within the midst of a pandemic, is internet hosting one thing it calls “Morning MeditOcean” with the assistance of its tanks filled with jellyfish. The first of these videos went stay yesterday and, in case you’re capable of cease your thoughts from questioning what it could really feel wish to be trapped in a swarm of those stinging bastards, it offers a chance to meditate whereas looking at footage of the aquarium’s Pacific sea nettles.

Over an 11-minute clip of a bunch of jellyfish swimming throughout the display, a girl’s voice gently leads viewers by a meditation session. She covers nearly the whole lot essential to correctly calm the thoughts and physique, besides, after all, how to not assume too deeply concerning the havoc the creatures in the video can have in your physique.

Other than having neat-looking, gently undulating, colourful our bodies, the Pacific sea nettle is, like so many different cool underwater animals, an absolute freak. “When prey brushes up in opposition to their tentacles,” one part of the jellyfish’s Wikipedia page explains, “1000’s of nematocysts are launched, launching barbed stingers which launch a paralyzing toxin into the quarry. The oral arms start digestion as they transport the prey into the ocean nettle’s mouth.”

Hopefully you’re capable of ignore these info and easily benefit from the sights on show within the meditation session. Because the video itself says, any unhelpful ideas about, say, what it could be like in your toxin-paralyzed physique to be drawn slowly right into a jellyfish mouth by a set of “oral arms,” ought to simply be seen “with out judging” and let go earlier than guiding “your consciousness again to your respiratory.”

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For extra the place this got here from, come again to the aquarium’s YouTube page after “eight AM PST by Friday this week” for extra meditation movies. When you’re at it, in addition they have stay broadcasts of the jellies out there, alongside streams displaying what their penguins and sharks are as much as. The second to final of those animals, in our opinion, is simply pretty much as good at soothing the thoughts as any jellyfish.

[by way of Mashable]

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