Meditation: Can meditation help with ADHD? |
- Can meditation help with ADHD?
- Meditation is surprisingly straightforward. It’s our conditioning, preconceptions and expectations that make it complicated.
- My meditation journey thus far.
- Going through a tough break up - does meditation stop you processing difficult emotions and problems?
- Exploiting the temporospatial locality the brain offers, paying attention to the breath provides a link to the immune system, which is operated by parts of the brain that are not controlled consciously.
- Any tips on how to meditate through anger?
- why does meditating feel like a chore now?
- There is no fear in the age of coronavirus, what you think about becomes you, with our thoughts we make the world. A little mantra to practice, preferably while focusing on breathing & listening to singing bowls ( Heart Sutra ):
- Meditation isn't about trying to empty your mind, nor is it about trying to fill it up.
- Why does meditation lead to a loss of self?
- On facing an unpalatable situation (as the present crisis) - negative thoughts, depressive thoughts, doomsday prediction thoughts do come to the mind. We begin to seek relief from the uneasiness, these thoughts generate. Can you just see them as they are? Negativity begins to dissolve.
- If you're having problems sleeping, I made this chillhop/lofi playlist with calm beats that can make you fall asleep
- Any musicians here that meditate? Does meditation have an effect on the music you make?
- Is there a particular form of meditation better for addiction than the others?
- New experiences - any thoughts?
- Best way to teach meditation to a 10 year old?
- Not sure if meditation is gonna help while taking meds, please help (ADHD)
- Just starting out ...
- Strange feeling in the back during meditation?
- Dizziness/feeling spacy for a few hours after meditation
- Why isn't my practice advancing?
- Hi, having trouble to sleep or relax, i have made this playlist with just gentle, soothing guitar songs. It always helps me to calm down and focus on what i'm doing. And in the night it helps me to get into sleep mode. More than 3 hours soft guitar and frequently updated. I hope you will like it.
- Could someone help me to understand what's happening while I meditate?
- How can I convince my friend to meditate?
| Can meditation help with ADHD? Posted: 25 Mar 2020 04:25 PM PDT I am just now starting to seriously get into meditating daily. I have ADHD and I can't keep my focus for vey long, we're talking minutes. Can meditation help me with keeping my focus for long periods? I am currently meditating for 10 minutes a day. Thanks for the answers. [link] [comments] |
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| My meditation journey thus far. Posted: 25 Mar 2020 10:27 AM PDT January 2019 I ended a 3 year romantic relationship. Things went badly for me after that. I hated me. Throughout the day I began to have intrusive suicidal thoughts. I could not control them. The "you should kill yourself" thoughts were really worrying to me so in June 2019 I went to see my general doc. I told her everything. She said to take some Prozac, eat better, and get some exercise. It didn't feel like I had anything left to lose so I started doing those things. Along with a change of diet and the Prozac I began a gym routine, found a Tai Chi class, and a Yoga class. In the Tai Chi & Yoga classes we meditated for a time. Each class had a different meditation strategy. During the classes mindfulness and presence were often a key focus. I began to meditate at home using Insight Timer and Headspace. I also began to watch YouTube vids about meditation and I found this sub. I found Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Tara Brach, Conversations With God, NDE, and so on... The Tai Chi and Yoga classes come and go, however I started meditating on my own every day, sometimes twice a day. Just 10 minutes at first. It was really discouraging at first, my mind was all over the place, I couldn't focus only on breathing. Guided meditations worked really well. I felt... calmer after each session. After a month or so the guided meditations started to become a little bit of a distraction so I would just put on some rain sounds and using Insight Timer I would practice setting the bells further and further apart and adjust my breathing. I was seeing how long I could make my inbreaths, outbreaths, and pauses. I eventually got to about 30 seconds between bells. That's one full inbreath and outbreath per minute. I could probably have gone further however the effort of doing that became a distraction itself. So after a couple months I stopped using bells, and I stopped trying to breathe super slow. A couple of months ago I went to a new Tai Chi class where an hour was dedicated to meditation. The guy said it was a Daoist style of meditation and you keep your eyes open. He said closing your eyes was for sleeping, you must open your eyes to experience awareness. See without looking, hear without listening. That made sense to me so I started doing that at home. The teacher recommended our home meditations be at least 30 minutes. At that time I was doing like 20 minutes per session so I ramped up each session by 1 minute a day, and after 10 days I was doing 30 minute sessions with my eyes open. During the inbreath in my mind we are told to think the word "hūūūmmm", silent pause, the outbreath is "haaaaah", the pause is "aum". When we are aware the mind has wandered we are gently, without judgement, thinking "just awareness" and starting over at the next breath. This is my current meditation practice. What has changed for me during the last 9 months of meditation has been an ability to sometimes focus entirely on just the breath. I haven't been able to do 100% in the breath for more than one breath cycle. But I can tell when I do. It happens during the pauses at the top and bottom of the breath. I feel slightly dizzy, very light, my hands tingle and I am aware of these physical sensations but unfocused on them if that makes any sense. In fact I'm not really focused on anything and I'm not taking huge breaths. My vision is blurred. My emotional state varies between gratitude for this occurrence and sometimes joy/love. I can feel a thought coming and when I try to push it away it all falls apart and I have to start over. Usually I have this experience once, maybe twice a session. And it takes between 10-15 minutes to get there. But I've been getting there the past couple of weeks. The suicidal thoughts have largely ceased, maybe I just have one or two a week during a trough in my mood. I am aware that there is more to existence than how I feel at the moment, what I do, and what I perceive. I am aware that what motivates me is my ego. I am aware that I tell stories about myself to myself, and to others and that these stories aren't real. Even the stories that others tell me about them aren't real. I am aware that we are all one consciousness separated by our ego. That our soul uses our egoic drama to work out our karma. That our chi goes where our mind goes. That this existence is all a dream though it almost seems so real. I suspect because I am aware of the experience of lightness, the gratitude, the tingling, that there is something behind even that conscious moment. The witness? I have experienced a profound personality shift in 9 months. My meditative practice is not the only cause of it, but it is in large part the foundation for it. It is where I go to experience reality, awareness, and relief from the onslaught of ego. I would like to share a couple of my favorite sayings with you: This is Ram Dass: "Prolong not the past This is Aeschylus, some Greek guy from a million years ago: "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair. against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2020 06:57 AM PDT I am currently going through a break up that is going to be pretty tough. It came suddenly out of nowhere and at the worst possible time during the lock down. Having to move flats while this happens is not ideal. My question: I used to meditate in the past quite regularly. I enjoyed it and it had some really positive benefits on my life at the time. I let the practice slide but whenever I have had tough times to go through it is something I pick back up because I know how much it can help you keep a clear mind at some of your worst moments. I was doing some yoga this morning before work with a 15 min meditation at the end of it. As you can imagine in the middle of going through a rough patch in your life, meditating is chaotic with a lot of thoughts and issues rising up. I worry that observing the thoughts that arise, not judging them but putting it out of your mind to focus back on the breath going to mean that I am not actually dealing with these complex feelings and emotions and just suppressing them in a round about way? Any experience of guidance any of you have had with meditation through tough periods of your life would be really helpful right now. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2020 09:29 PM PDT I simply state the above. Love to you all; stay healthy and safe. [link] [comments] |
| Any tips on how to meditate through anger? Posted: 25 Mar 2020 03:22 PM PDT Hi all, My ex broke up with me a little over 3 months ago. It was sad for both of us, but instead of leaving me alone to grieve he continuously gave me mixed signals and hopes of reconciliation. 2 weeks ago I finally forced the truth out of him, and he shared with me that he isn't ready for a relationship with anyone, wants me to move on, but still hopes that we can reconcile in the future. I asked him to stop instilling hope in me and we ended the conversation on okay terms. I'm feeling a lot of anger towards him for leading me on for 3 months and being so careless with his words. I am also angry because he mostly blames me for the breakup and hasn't taken much ownership over his own mistakes. We both made mistakes, but the next time we'll be able to have a more constructive conversation about this is once the COVID pandemic subsides and the restrictions in our city are loosened. What are some ways I can meditate with these feelings of anger, frustration and contempt without overwhelming myself? I want to be clear minded and level-headed when we meet to exchange the last of our belongings, so I want to make sure I've really sat with and moved through my anger. Any help would be appreciated! I've been practicing meditation since the break up, so i'm a little new to it all but not a total beginner. [link] [comments] |
| why does meditating feel like a chore now? Posted: 25 Mar 2020 03:57 PM PDT title. can i do anything about this or should i just embrace the chore feeling of it and continue anyway? i have been meditating for a while now so i don't know why this is happening at this point, any help would be appreciated [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2020 11:59 PM PDT Body is nothing more than emptiness, emptiness is nothing more than body. The body is exactly empty, and emptiness is exactly body. The other four aspects of human existence -- feeling, thought, will, and consciousness -- are likewise nothing more than emptiness, and emptiness nothing more than they. All things are empty: Nothing is born, nothing dies, nothing is pure, nothing is stained, nothing increases and nothing decreases. So, in emptiness, there is no body, no feeling, no thought, no will, no consciousness. There are no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. There is no seeing, no hearing, no smelling, no tasting, no touching, no imagining. There is nothing seen, nor heard, nor smelled, nor tasted, nor touched, nor imagined. There is no ignorance, and no end to ignorance. There is no old age and death, and no end to old age and death. There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no end to suffering, no path to follow. There is no attainment of wisdom, and no wisdom to attain. The Bodhisattvas rely on the Perfection of Wisdom, and so with no delusions, they feel no fear, and have Nirvana here and now. All the Buddhas, past, present, and future, rely on the Perfection of Wisdom, and live in full enlightenment. The Perfection of Wisdom is the greatest mantra. It is the clearest mantra, the highest mantra, the mantra that removes all suffering. This is truth that cannot be doubted. Say it so: Gaté, gaté, paragaté, parasamgaté. Bodhi! Svaha! Which means... Gone, gone, gone over, gone fully over. Awakened! So be it! [link] [comments] |
| Meditation isn't about trying to empty your mind, nor is it about trying to fill it up. Posted: 26 Mar 2020 01:14 AM PDT It's about sitting back and watching. Give yourself permission to relax. [link] [comments] |
| Why does meditation lead to a loss of self? Posted: 25 Mar 2020 09:52 PM PDT Everywhere I see people talk about this but I just can't wrap my head around this concept. What does it mean? Edit: Conversation about this centers on the ego usually [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2020 09:28 PM PDT The present crisis has automatically put you in a position when you are physically safe and secured, but feeling psychologically insecured, unsafe. To acknowledge this insecurity, this unsafety, not to run away from this insecurity (by glossy explanations) is the key. On facing an unpalatable situation (as the present crisis) - negative thoughts, depressive thoughts, doomsday prediction thoughts do come to the mind. We begin to seek relief from the uneasiness, these thoughts generate. Can you just see them as they are? Negativity begins to dissolve. You land on the magical ground. Does not positive thinking help in tiding over the present crisis? When you are not carried away by the solacing ideas, that is, you do not run away from the uneasiness you are experiencing, any action or no action adds to the positivity. You can project anything positive, anything miraculous when you remain silent about the possibility of 'negative may happen'. You do not fight with the possibility of 'negative may happen'. You are on the magical ground. [link] [comments] |
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| Any musicians here that meditate? Does meditation have an effect on the music you make? Posted: 26 Mar 2020 02:28 AM PDT Started meditating a while ago. Do it quite structurally, almost daily. Im slowly noticing that my music is changing. It's getting more...calm. Im lookin for less layerd music, more efficient and im more receptable to 'vibes'. Was wondering if any other musicians had the same experience. [link] [comments] |
| Is there a particular form of meditation better for addiction than the others? Posted: 26 Mar 2020 02:28 AM PDT |
| New experiences - any thoughts? Posted: 25 Mar 2020 02:52 PM PDT Dear meditators, I have been meditating for a while now, and have started experiencing something new. When I've been sitting for a while, I feel like the space inside my head disappears, or flattens. I don't know if this makes any sense. And when I finish meditating, I feel like I am just traveling along inside a giant body that acts mostly of it's own accord. Has anyone experienced something like this? [link] [comments] |
| Best way to teach meditation to a 10 year old? Posted: 25 Mar 2020 10:55 AM PDT Hi all - I am seeing a lot of great meditation guided videos for kids, but mostly they are for very young kids and focused on quick experiences of mindfulness. I am looking for something for a 10 year old, and having trouble finding suggestions. Can anyone recommend anything to offer to a lovely 10 year old who wants to learn meditation? thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Not sure if meditation is gonna help while taking meds, please help (ADHD) Posted: 25 Mar 2020 11:55 AM PDT Just started 50mg of Vyvanse Last week as a last resort for my ADHD symptoms. (I dont really like the idea of taking medication). The problem is that i just learned about meditation and i want to practice it but im worried about if doing it while on Vyvanse is not going to make any change for me, i mean, if it will be just a loss of time because the amphetamines is gonna make me focus so easily. Do you think it is helpful to practice meditation even when im taking my meds? or it is a waste of time? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2020 12:57 AM PDT With the current issues going on around the globe, I find myself becoming more and more anxious as the days go on. Today, I unfollowed every subreddit that mentions the virus in its title because I found myself scrolling endlessly through the pages, holding my breath while waiting for the other shoe to drop. I really would like to start meditating. In fact, I'd like my whole family to. So, can someone point me in the direction of how to start meditating correctly? I know it's a loaded question, but I'm really looking for guidance. [link] [comments] |
| Strange feeling in the back during meditation? Posted: 26 Mar 2020 12:10 AM PDT Okay, as the title says during last night's meditation I felt some kind of ''popping'' in my back. At first I thought to myself ''It feels as if I have wings on my back'' but then it just felt as if someone was popping bubble wraps on my lower back. During the meditation I was listening to this video and the popping occured around 2-3 minutes into the video along with a blue orb floating infront of me while with closed eyes, which is a common thing for me during meditation, also a slight catarsis occured by the end of it. So, would this some form of cleansing or awakening? Or any other thoughts on that? The mentioned video: [link] [comments] |
| Dizziness/feeling spacy for a few hours after meditation Posted: 25 Mar 2020 12:35 PM PDT Hi All, I practice TM (20 min/2x day since last September) and have noticed myself feeling dizzy/spaced out for up to 3 hours after some sessions. I've also been experiencing some minor headaches throughout the day that last only a minute or so. Sometimes it happens during exercise (I workout a lot so it could just be a coincidence). I am a writer so these symptoms aren't ideal for my job. I usually can't stare at my computer screen if it's bothering me or focus enough to put quality words together so it can and has wiped out parts of my workday. My TM teacher advised me to sit longer after I meditate and that sometimes helps; I sit for 5 min instead of 2 and sometimes lay in bed for a few extra with my eyes closed. I've read a bit about this online already but I didn't see much about prolonged symptoms...mostly just during or right after. In general, I'm very high on meditation and have experienced serious benefits from a regular practice. I do not believe the solution is to stop TM as it's had serious positive impacts in such a short period of time. Does anyone have experience with this or can point to any information on what might be happening? Or advice that might further reduce symptoms? Thanks for your input! [link] [comments] |
| Why isn't my practice advancing? Posted: 25 Mar 2020 11:40 PM PDT Hi. I've been meditating every day for 3 years for an average of 40 minutes a day. I do various kinds of mindfulness meditation (for example, body scans, open awareness meditation and breathing meditation), and the occasional metta meditation (these includes some guided, some timed). My postures not great, and that's something I need to work on, I recognize. Most stories I hear about, where someone's meditating as much, or even less, than me, include much greater gains than I've experienced. I'm wondering what kind of things I can do to improve my gains. [link] [comments] |
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| Could someone help me to understand what's happening while I meditate? Posted: 25 Mar 2020 11:33 AM PDT Hello! :) I'm a bit confused with some events that happened to me while meditating and maybe someone in here could help me. ContextLike many, I started looking for Buddhist teachings in order to get less anxious. That started an year and a half ago, when I also started to meditate and went to psychological therapy. All of them helped me and now I practically don't feel the anxiety anymore. Although my meditations weren't much regular, they became quite so in the past weeks because of this intriguing events. That said, I recently went through a period where I had the strangest dreams. Three of them were more significant. In the first one, I was seated in the dark, and a blue spider would delicately descend from the above and enter in my mouth. Therapist said that spiders represent (apart from femininity) life and universe. In the second one, a smoke was penetrating my body and diluting it. The last one took place under the ground, the ceiling was made of giant roots. Inside that place I would hear drums being playing from afar, and as the sound came closer, I started feeling this extremely strong force vibrating from the ground. It also fulfilled my body with amazing vibrations and made me hear deep heavy voices. I've got very intrigued by the last one, since I've never heard such type of sound, and searched on youtube to see if I could find any song, music, whatever, similar to it. Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir: Tibetan Chants for World Peace happened to appear and I was shocked with the similarity with the sounds in my dream. I read about this mantras being used in meditation practices and gave it a try. It was bizarre how quickly I started to feel my whole body vibrating with these mantras - and that had never happened to me before. From the top of my head until the bottom of my whole body, this energy would emanate like an wave. I also felt a strong point of energy (or something) in my forehead, specially with closed-eyes. On another day, with opened eyes, I felt that everything was visually coming together and started to have this feeling of proximity with it too (but not in a physical way) . That scared me and I stopped meditating immediately. Following meditations were accompanied with all these feelings again. I asked about it to a friend whom had had an Ego-dissolution experience due to a car accident and spent years trying to figure it out. He mentioned that what I was feeling may be the Kundalini. Of course, I had to research about it. Next day, I was in the living room talking to him on my phone, deeply desiring for some book or literature that could help me understand all of it. My mom entered the room and opened a door of our sideboard. In the middle of many books, one of them immediately caught my attention and I asked my mom what was it about. First she claimed not remembering owning that book to soon identify that she'd bought it almost 10 years ago. She leaved and I ended up alone with "Vibrational Medicine" by Richard Gerber. I looked the Summary and there it was: chakras, dreams, vibrations, dimensions, energy, Kundalini and more. Telling that to my friend, he mentioned "synchronicity", saying that that book may have been "waiting" there during 10 years for me to pick it up. Finally my QuestionsIs it normal to have all of this happening when you meditate? Why would Tibetan choirs appear in my dreams? How could they impact my meditation practice in such way? Does anyone knows if these mantras have translations or meanings? Thank you in advance! [link] [comments] |
| How can I convince my friend to meditate? Posted: 25 Mar 2020 02:35 PM PDT I'm trying to get my friend to meditate, but he says that he doesn't want to because he doesn't want to be calm. He says he uses his anger when he boxes, and he says that when he gets angry he becomes less afraid in a match (confusing adrenaline with confidence). He says that he needs to hold on to the anger so he can better himself and prove others wrong. I've pointed out that he should do something to prove to himself and not others, but he still doesn't seem to listen. I genuinely believe meditation can help him, but I don't know how to get him to do it. EDIT: Thanks to everyone for the advice. I realized shortly after posting this that I shouldn't try to force it on him if he doesn't want it. I wanted him to do it out of concern for his well being, but I was failing to ignore the fact that being there for him and supporting him is all I can really do. [link] [comments] |
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