Meditation: I have done every drug on the planet Earth. Meditation is the most powerful and beneficial. |
- I have done every drug on the planet Earth. Meditation is the most powerful and beneficial.
- I want to meditate but it just bores me so much
- Beautiful session, but wth was that??
- Stuck in chasing the enlightenment
- I work in a small hospital. (55 beds)
- Experience Share: Former U.S. Special Operations Veteran on meditation and the "awakening" process
- You can get this course De-Mystifying Mindfulness at Coursera and get certification for free until the end of May
- How do I reduce my limbs going numb when I meditate?
- I really didn't think this quarantine would get to me but it is.
- Crying after meditating?
- what is the difference between meditation and down time?
- Metta is the bees knees
- Feeling trapped in vicious circles in life
- A Worldwide Mass Meditation on 4 APR 10:45 PM EDT / 5 APR 02:45 AM UTC
- shaking chills
- Help me get started.
- Something touched me?
- Feeling constant static/energy after meditating?
- Why does my mind need disciplining?
- Intuition energy
- The Story of Bodhidharma - 1st Patriarch of China
- Ego = My drive
- Gaps between thoughts. An excerpt from the talk "The Search"
| I have done every drug on the planet Earth. Meditation is the most powerful and beneficial. Posted: 29 Mar 2020 02:51 PM PDT If you can think of it I've taken it. Over time I find myself reaching more and more for meditation and less and less for medication. [link] [comments] |
| I want to meditate but it just bores me so much Posted: 30 Mar 2020 01:54 AM PDT I can't say I have much experience with mediation. Done it maybe 50 times in my life. And few times it really worked for me, I felt good and energized, clear-headed, more focused. And I feel that I should be doing that more often and it would get much better with regular meditations, but most of the times I just lose motivation cause meditating just bores me most of the time . I get myself to try just to find out that after three minutes I really can't stand the boredom that makes the meditation feel absolutely awful. Do you have any tips for me? Solutions? Maybe some of you had similar problems? I read about people feeling to busy, can't see the point or give up meditation feeling they're doing it wrong. But I can't really find much about what to do when the obstacle to meditation is the boredom. I can't just observe and let go because it's not that avoiding boredom is something that I decide to do, it's just that begin bored without no fighting it with my mind feels like the worst itch. [link] [comments] |
| Beautiful session, but wth was that?? Posted: 29 Mar 2020 11:09 PM PDT I've been sitting here the past 15 or so minutes trying to rationalize what I just experienced. I was practicing TM and I felt this great connection to everything. The universe, myself, life in general. It was amazing, and midway through, I swear on everything, my eyes popped open and I felt like I was looking at God. Perhaps my third eye opened? Did I see the Buddha? I kept repeating Dharma for some reason. That kept popping in my head. Very strange, but very beautiful! [link] [comments] |
| Stuck in chasing the enlightenment Posted: 29 Mar 2020 07:51 PM PDT I have been "enlightened" before in my first 20ish sessions of meditation and had "glimpses". I truly understood and had a glimpse of what I like to call "raw consciousness/awareness". My empathy skyrocketed as I understood that everyone (including animals) is the same as we all share this fundamental nature which is raw consciousness and that thoughts come up in the field of consciousness, as no one is the author of their thoughts (no self). I experienced true peace and equanimity even amid times of adversity. Now after 8+ months or so, after my initial glimpses I am afraid that my knowledge of the subject is acting as a road block to achieve this state again. Any solution(s)? and more importantly, I am curious to know whether that is a somewhat common occurrence? Have you or others you know have been enlightened but, after a while they are left chasing this state again? [link] [comments] |
| I work in a small hospital. (55 beds) Posted: 30 Mar 2020 01:42 AM PDT I'm seeing all these pictures of med techs wearing masks. My lab has yet to make masks even available to us, should I be worried?? 😂😅😅 [link] [comments] |
| Experience Share: Former U.S. Special Operations Veteran on meditation and the "awakening" process Posted: 29 Mar 2020 04:48 PM PDT I think that a brief share of my personal "awakening" experience may help some out there, and that sharing it will also help me too. I'm grateful for Reddit as a platform for me to share with you (I just learned about it within the last week). I think it's a prime example of the "good' that comes from technology. This is my first post, and in order for me to properly share my experience, I find it important that I first say these two things that are obvious: The content i'm producing on this forum is all based in form- all based in thought and in OPINION. The very nature of thought forms is so extremely limited in it's ability to be deep, and this post is no exception to that: It's extremely limited. I think it's important for us to simply listen and share with one another- not judge how "enlightened" we are based off each others thought forms. It's our job as humans to access our true self, to work to simply raise our consciousness and align with the whole. I was in the military for 6 years, from ages 18-24. I served the role of a Special Operations Helicopter Crewchief in the most prestigious Black Hawk helicopter unit in the world. I went on several overseas combat deployments to places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Any additional details are unimportant. 2 months after transitioning out, I was diagnosed with PTSD and General Anxiety. 4 weeks later, I started having crippling panic attacks. My body FUCKING HURT EVERYWHERE. I was having terrible nightmares. I basically just exercised myself to "death" to cope. I also drank a lot of alcohol, which made things significantly worse. I was prescribed several different medications, some of which helped me a bit.. but mostly leaving me feeling broken. I was working SO hard, putting SO much effort in and seemingly getting nothing back. I knew I cared for other people, but I only cared about "the good people." The black and white mental landscape was extremely real to me. I had A LOT of unconscious pain. I identified with ALL of the thoughts, and they NEVER stopped. I had a GIANT LOAD of ego..Ego like you ain't never seen before. I couldn't feel love. I couldn't feel compassion, empathy or have understanding for others. I always conceptually KNEW (in my conditioned thinking brain) what "the right thing to do" was, so I became a sort of an actor: playing the role of the big tough, badass US Army veteran who had "experiences" and pain no one else could ever relate to. It WAS my identity. My life situation improved, but I was still stuck in what I think of severe unhappiness. I was literally exercising myself sick- 12-15 hours a week, but still overweight and with high blood pressure. I binge ate, I binge drank, and was still taking a large amount of medication. A friend told me about meditation 2 years ago. I downloaded an app called "Headspace" and I tried it out. For the first year and a half, it basically just made me feel worse- add it to the pile of things i'm not good at. "Who the F**K has time to just sit and do nothing?!?", I remember constantly thinking. I had never even taken a concious breath in my LIFE. I tried for years, read books, but nothing really clicked. Just within the last 3 months, though, I have made some absolutely incredible breakthroughs. My entire world has shifted to a degree that is indescribable with words. I can attribute the shift to the lifestyle I began to live, as well as the books i've read and the habits i've created. I think there is a general misconception in the mass majority of people's eyes about "spirituality." I was definitely one of those people convinced it was some sort of, for purposeful lack of a more evolved term, hippie bullshit. I've found it's much, much simpler than anything I could've previously imagined. It's simply about self connection. It's about being able to consciously peel back and dissolve the layers of thought and conditioning, of the ego. I think that anything inside you that isn't Love has got to go. If that sounds ridiculous, it's likely because of this: you're conceptializing what i'm saying, making it into a mental image that you can "understand." Don't label, don't make into a form. The conceptual mind can't fully wrap it's head around what i'm saying, it can only be felt through intense presence and awareness. If anyone is interested in hearing more, please comment. I don't want to take up too much space here. Much love. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2020 12:04 AM PDT De-Mystifying Mindfulness: https://www.coursera.org/learn/mindfulness Source from here: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coronavirus-coursera-free-certificate/ The next session is 13 April, will definitely attend. Update: it looks that some people get free access, some not. In comments to this article said that you need to go to checkout and there it will be free. I haven't succeeded but will attend it for free anyway. Btw, maybe someone attended it here and can share its opinion about the course? [link] [comments] |
| How do I reduce my limbs going numb when I meditate? Posted: 29 Mar 2020 07:00 PM PDT |
| I really didn't think this quarantine would get to me but it is. Posted: 29 Mar 2020 06:40 PM PDT Usually I love staying at home and entertain myself with art, YouTube, reading, meditation etc. Tonight It really started to sink in as I haven't really left the house in two weeks. Im a senior in highschool so my parents have been doing everything necessary out of the house. Im not even excessively bored or scared of the world's situation it's just that each day is becoming a blur. Trying to find things to make my day exciting is getting harder and harder and with almost no end in sight I really think I should start doing less, meditating more, and doing more yoga. Take this excessive amount of free time and go inward. Thanks for reading<3 Stay safe everyone, let me know how you are all doing, I'd love to hear:) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2020 10:17 PM PDT This isn't the first time I've meditated however this was the first time I've cried after. I wasn't sobbing and I wasn't really sure why I was crying. I felt very safe and secured during my meditation. Maybe it was a way of me letting go of something? Or maybe I didn't want that feeling of peace to go away? I've had trauma my entire life and never really dealt with it. Maybe it's telling me to finally deal with it. Has anyone experienced crying after meditating? [link] [comments] |
| what is the difference between meditation and down time? Posted: 30 Mar 2020 01:57 AM PDT So if meditation isn't supposed to have a purpose what differentiates meditation from me just chilling on my couch not doing anything? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2020 04:10 PM PDT I am a bitter person due to my messed up childhood. Meditation offered me a new and unique way to deal with that. I have so many examples of what a fucked up person is and the people closest to me since birth have had nothing but overt malicious intent. That being said, I have still made some good friends. Recently, I have started a metta practice as a part of Sam Harris meditation app "Waking Up". I do about a 10 minute meditation per day. Its something that I can stick to. I just added another 10-15 minutes of metta afterwards. Its only been two days and it has been helping a lot. Its a pretty uncomfortable practice, but thats a sign that theres a lot of room for growth for me. For those who don't know, metta is practicing focused compassion on someone you love as a person. Then switching it to a random person. Then someone who may have harmed you. Then ultimately yourself. Does anyone else practice metta? before or after your main mindfulness? please let me know I am only on step 1 of that so far. its huge. [link] [comments] |
| Feeling trapped in vicious circles in life Posted: 29 Mar 2020 09:58 PM PDT Im sorry if this doesn't fit here, but I didn't really know where else to post this and I'd really appreciate some outer perspective. Ever since I was a teenager Ive had a few goals that I've aspired towards for years - and still counting. None of these things are external desires or material. I've been trying to create a healthy relationship with my food and appetitive, and break my unhealthy relationship with pornography which started when I discovered porn at only 9 years old. I've now recently turned 20 and I've built up a very bad weed habit that I am trying to quit also. I've maintained a good diet for weeks at a time before, I've stayed away from porn for weeks at a time, and I've actually quit weed (for what I thought was forever) twice now. The problem is that I've been fighting these daily battles for almost half of my life now and whilst I've had some great times - I'm getting increasingly frustrated, and at the same time, apathetic towards these goals. (I'm conscious of how long this post is already, so I'm going to try and condense it as much as I can) There are times where I manage to stick to all of my goals for a period of time and I feel really, really good about myself - I have an insane amount of mental clarity, discipline, and purpose - but these phases do not seem to ever last long or become apart of who I am. I know we cannot attach ourselves to feelings, emotions, and circumstances and that we always have to let go - but I feel that life is all about growth and I end up carrying resentment for myself for sabotaging my effort. To cut a long story short - I feel very burnt out by the activities that genuinely bring the greatest happiness and satisfaction to my life. These goals genuinely help towards my well-being and yet I feel like a slave to my impulses and fleeting desires. I'm stuck between this perception of myself as an algorithmic biological machine that responds to patterns, triggers, and habits, and this idea that I have something inside of me that is above all of that and will allow me to rise and overcome my own mind and body. I am fearful of waking another day and making the same mistakes I make EVERY SINGLE CONSECUTIVE DAY by smoking weed with a friend, eating ridiculous amounts of unhealthy food, wanking myself to messed-up porn and falling asleep to my own shame. Don't get me wrong, I know that I can be better than this and do better than this - I've proved it to myself before many times - however whenever I am able to motivate myself to try and try again I am in constant fear of when the next time I will slip up will be (even though I am against the idea of being back to square one after one mistake). I genuinely long to accomplish these goals every day when I wake up - however I allow my thoughts and desires to take my energy and focus and tire me until I submit. I don't even partake in my maladaptive behaviours because I enjoy them anymore - I do them for the release of tension and friction between who I want to be and who I am. It just perplexes me that I am gripped by something so contradictory. I cannot accomplish my simple dreams because I'm too busy distracting myself with things I hate. I paralyse myself by blaming my situation, circumstances, relationships as to why I do the things that I do - but honestly I have no idea why I never act in my greatest of self-interests. I can not bare the guilt of disappointing myself every day anymore. I deserve to treat myself better than this. I deserve to show myself love and compassion. I deserve to be the person that I've always envisioned myself to be. I am pleading and begging to anyone to help me understand my own suffering further. Why have such simple innocent goals become the most largest of obstacles in my life? [link] [comments] |
| A Worldwide Mass Meditation on 4 APR 10:45 PM EDT / 5 APR 02:45 AM UTC Posted: 30 Mar 2020 01:42 AM PDT Dear Meditation Community! This is a call to action to all The Leaders & Influencers around The Globe! You are now being asked to reach out to all Meditators to participate in Mass Meditation. To unify the greatest alliance of meditators to use meditation as a tool to dissolve the spreading of coronavirus and shift the course of events on The Planet Earth into the most optimal timeline by Unified Field of Global Consciousness as One Global Mind The time of mass meditation on April 5th at 2:45 AM UTC is chosen to be synchronized with the astrological alignment of Jupiter/Pluto conjunction which will magnify our intentions to unite in our consciousness for - Global Health, Peace and Abundance From this moment on, let us dispense with personas and personalities, names and labels, egos and agendas. Let us unite and focus solely on the goal – manifest Harmony to All Beings on Earth. It's all about the principle of critical mass participating. A principle of putting a signal in the energy field.The greater the amount of people focusing on the same intention, the grander the influence. #DoItForTheWorld #MeditateForTheWorld #AscendTheWorld [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2020 11:58 PM PDT Hi, i started to practice meditation about 5 weeks ago, i do it about three times a week listening to audios to guide me. Friday i had a new audio and when i got to a part that it said that i had to open up and accept the message from light i felt shaking chills.(escalofrÃos) anyone knows what that means or had a similar experience ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2020 08:01 PM PDT Should I use audio? How do I sit? what do I think about? How do I keep my mind from racing? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2020 10:31 PM PDT I felt something graze my foot while meditating. Anyone else experience this? Any explanations? [link] [comments] |
| Feeling constant static/energy after meditating? Posted: 29 Mar 2020 05:23 PM PDT Hey guys, this is my first time posting here! I consider myself pretty new to meditation and have been doing it on and off for the last year or so, but since I'm stuck at home I've been doing it a lot more regularly. Recently, I noticed that I've been feeling a constant energy around my head (almost like static? I'm not exactly sure how to explain it). It goes away when I'm eating or talking to someone else, but as soon as I'm alone again the feeling comes back. Is this normal, lol? I've mentioned it to some of my friends and family and they found it strange/couldn't relate. Does anyone have any similar feelings or experiences? [link] [comments] |
| Why does my mind need disciplining? Posted: 29 Mar 2020 09:06 PM PDT I have heard the saying "the very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce the affliction of negative emotions". So I have a few questions... why does my mind need disciplining? Also why do I even have negative emotions? Which emotions are the negative ones? Is anger a negative emotion? Is my response of anger not allowed, wrong or bad? What if I want to be angry about something, can anger or a "negative emotion" ever be a postive one? Also how do I start meditating? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2020 09:04 PM PDT Ok so sometimes when I meditate or even when I'm not meditating, I'll feel an electricity of loving warm energy enter into my body. Which feels amazing, usually starting at my head than encompassing my whole body. It typically happens when I have a certain thought, meditate or come across information that resonates with me. The sensation varies in time because sometimes it's only a couple seconds and other times it can last for minutes. And the sensation brings feelings of peace, love, bliss and ecstasy that makes me feel like my true self with no fear and ready to try anything without fear. But sadly I don't feel that way a 100% of the time, it's just in the moments but it gives me hope and makes me know that anything is possible. So is this intuition or what is this experience that I'm having? Either way it feels amazing and right. Any insights anyone? Tldr; meditating bringing feelings of love into my body that feels right for my soul wondering if its intuition [link] [comments] |
| The Story of Bodhidharma - 1st Patriarch of China Posted: 29 Mar 2020 08:55 PM PDT |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2020 10:45 AM PDT TL;DR: I know my ego is essentially my enemy. But I'ts the only place I find drive for life. So it's really hard taking action. I suffer being in this loop. Ego = my drive A reddit comment explained my situation SPOT ON. I'm caught in a loop that's incedibly hard to get out of. I really want to hear what some of you in this sub thinks. Here's some context to why that comment made so much sense to me.(comment further down the post) I made a decision to not go to high school, as the only person in a family of only academics. I didn't go because I had a traumatic experience, that caused severe anxiety for public speaking, right before I was about to head for high school. When this fear took over my life, I decided high school was too much to handle for me. (I can manage fear of public speaking now, 7 years later, at 23). Cognitive therapy and exposure to my fear helped me manage it, only recently. My decision to not go to high school, caused a domino effect of decisions based on fear. I havent been myself the past 8 years of a decade. It gets complicated, thanks if you read it through. I was really happy and optimistic until my anxiety started. I was the popular kid in all aspects. Good at sports, friends with everyone etc. A kid people believed in. But my fear destroyed the ability to keep up with who I was. Couldn't be the best version of myself anymore. Couldn't go to high school. My desire to be liked made me happy, because I had the ability to accomplish that exactly. That's where my big drive came from. That's what made me work hard at everything and gave me courage. Made me believe. I had a growth mindset that made me listen carefully to anyone that spoke to me. Always something to be learned. Young curiosity. Trauma made me lose my ability to work with my ego, at 16. My most vulnerable point development wise. My personality took a 180 twist to a path that's been hell for me. By loss of ability to engage socially how I wanted. Cognitive malfunction when speaking/presenting in front of people. Losing my ability, made me lose interest in alot of healthy things and gain alot of unhealthy viewpoints and habits. Habits of thought that are extremely hard to undo. Now I see, that not being able to live out my normal ass ego in those youthful years, makes me feel incredible amouts of emptiness, now. Like I lost my whole youth. I don't feel old at 23. But I'm feeling a big lack of experience. That would have been there, if I could still work with my ego. It depresseses me that I doubt that young curiosity and spark for life will come back. The 'wanting to impress' (in a good sense). Where my whole drive for life and accomplishment came from. I've done my absolute best in finding humility and I have. I am a humble man, that doesn't look down on anyone. But my ego is the person that will ask a girl out. My ego is what sets goals etc. Ego = my drive. I am too young to lose my ego. It wouldn't do anything good for me. The comment that explained my situation SPOT ON: Someone posted this: How to reconcile competitive drive and hardwork with ego-death?Someone commented this on the post: (I make remarks throughout) " They're not compatible. But my suggestion to you is this - focus on hustling and engaging with the world through action, your goals, attainments and the traditional positive path to happiness while you are young. I couldn't do that because of fear Practice and study negative paths to happiness: (mindfulness, spirituality, memento mori), but treat it as secondary and there to support you I put that first, not secondary. I thought it would be the only help to my problems (By positive path, the commenter means "to fill your checkboxes". By negative he means "to lose the need for checkboxes"). Comment continues: Over the course of your life after engaging in the positive path for enough time you will find your pursuits and attainments ultimately empty of meaning or that 'something' is missing. Triple problem for me. I couldnt pursue anything because of fear. I havent done my "pursuits and attainments". The only thing that can pursue anything by action, is my ego. Philosophy and spirituality makes me DISCUST my ego's desires. But my ego is still the ONLY PLACE where there is drive for action. Without action, you dont make a life. So living out my ego now, is very awkward. See how I'm in this loop? When that day comes the pendulum will swing and only then can you really embrace the negative path without the cognitive dissonance of two opposing values you describe. Different stages of your life. For now you are young, engage with the world through action. " Pressing the reset button again, is so hard for me to do. Lack of credibility, starting from zero and going back to school. It's not my ego that's the problem. It's that I havent lived out my ego in my youth(Not taking action). If I had, I would be positioned better now, from experience and goals. I can't go one way fully, they meet in the middle, ego and spirituality. And they completely SLAY taking action, which DEPENDS on my ego. Now I'm passive in my mind and it depresses me. So if action is only in my ego, I will choose that and put philosophy and spirituality secondary, like the commenter says. I wish I was a less complex person, that only had action. It feels like the only mindset I have, is a depressed spiraling one. It's so hard to tap out of it. Im scared for my future, but no alarm bells are ringing, that I need to pass my math test in a few weeks. No call for action. I wish it was the other way around, that I worried about the math test and not the future. That would call for action. [link] [comments] |
| Gaps between thoughts. An excerpt from the talk "The Search" Posted: 29 Mar 2020 05:53 AM PDT "Without gaps, thinking cannot exist. Between two words the gap is a necessity; otherwise the two words will not be separate, they will overlap. Between two sentences there is a gap – necessarily so, otherwise there will be no division between the sentences, between two thoughts. Just look within." At the supper table one night a farmer was very angry. "Where were you boys when I called for you to help me an hour ago?" he demanded. "I was in the barn setting a hen," said one. "I was in the loft setting a saw," said another. "I was in grandpa's room setting the clock," said the third. "And I was in the pantry setting a trap," said the fourth son. "A fine set you are!" exclaimed the farmer. "And where were you?" he asked, turning to the youngest son. "I was on the doorstep setting still." So find a few moments when you can be just be "setting still"; immediately you will be in the gaps. Sitting silently, you will be in the gaps. Thoughts are intruders; gaps are your real nature. Thoughts come and go. The emptiness within you always remains; it never comes, never goes. The emptiness is the background; thoughts are moving figures against it. Just as you write on a blackboard with white chalk – the blackboard is there, you write with white chalk – your inner emptiness functions as a blackboard, and on that blackboard thoughts appear. Slow down! Slow down a little. Just sit silently, relaxed, not doing anything in particular. When you ask "if" questions, you are wasting time. In the same time and with the same energy, those gaps can be experienced and you can become immensely rich. And once you have tasted the gaps, then thoughts' hold on you will disappear." From Osho's talk "The Search". [link] [comments] |
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