Meditation: If you are new to meditation here is a practice that I follow |
- If you are new to meditation here is a practice that I follow
- I am starting to understand how to deal with anxiety about the future and it seems like most of my anxiety is produced from wanting control of my current and future situations!
- Today, for the first time ever, I'm going to purposely turn my phone and TV off all day.
- My experience from consistent Vipassana meditation (I WILL NOT BE TALKING ABOUT THE RETREAT)
- Meditating to these shamanic drums I suddenly realized that my whole apartment vibrated. What a powerful song. Thanks.
- Is this what 3rd Eye Feels like?
- Reality is objective, look once
- A chest spiral?
- Guided meditation recording?
- What is the ego ?
- I realized I'm a narcissist
- This story might sound fake, but bare with me that it's true.
- Meditation is learning how to die by learning to "forget" the sense of self
- My first time meditating... Is this normal?
- On identifications
- The (spiritual) fact of the soul
- Strange sounds during meditation
- There is an energy in my body and I don't know what it is
- Does anyone else experience this weird but pleasant state?
- Why is it so hard to relax?
- Meditating through mental anguish?
- Have you ever astral-projected whilst meditating?
- The importance of long and deep Kriya Yoga meditation
| If you are new to meditation here is a practice that I follow Posted: 27 Mar 2020 11:26 PM PDT
Just to explain why we do this, because the whole goal of a meditation practice is to observe the reality as it is, the reason we are bounded by illusion is because we see reality from our own perspective filter which gets thicker and thicker with time. Every experience creates an impression in our mind which creates this perspective lense now the goal is to make this perspective lense thinner and thinner. How do we do that?
Hope, you can use this practice to deepen your meditation and realize liberation. I recently had kundalini awakening using this practice so I know it works, and I was experiencing vibrations before that. If you have any questions PM me, I would love to help you. :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2020 04:13 PM PDT Over the last few months, I have been working through some repressed feelings. Engaging your shadow self can take some serious energy, and once your feelings are given the go-ahead they just start coming up and you can quickly end up dealing with much more than you originally bargained for. I have also just been trying to process my anxieties about the future. Like how do I make the most of life, how can I have the biggest impact, what matters to me the most, etc. I have also been working through some residual feelings from my last relationship that I don't want to carry into my wonderful current relationship. So as you can tell, there have been lots of thoughts and feelings running around and at times it has been pretty overwhelming. Through these last few months, I have realized that I need to just let go of having to have everything figured out. I am learning to let life just flow at its own pace and trust that my soul knows what it's doing. I sometimes get so caught up in all the techniques that spiritual and personal development circles suggest that I forget to just relax and take a breath. It's not always easy, but the biggest cure to anxiety about the future is to surrender to the present moment and come to terms with not having the answers to everything all the time. Peace comes when our ego stops trying to frantically figure everything out. I posted a video on Youtube where I talk more about this. If you are interested, it would mean a lot to me if you gave it a watch! Spiritual Awakening: Dealing with ANXIETY about the FUTURE 🌿 [link] [comments] |
| Today, for the first time ever, I'm going to purposely turn my phone and TV off all day. Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:55 AM PDT Sorted some things out. Now I'm not turning them back on until tomorrow, if I feel restless I will sit and watch it. I believe my brain could do with a break. [link] [comments] |
| My experience from consistent Vipassana meditation (I WILL NOT BE TALKING ABOUT THE RETREAT) Posted: 27 Mar 2020 07:20 PM PDT I meditate 1-2 hours of Vipassana followed by a nice long one hour walk outside. I wake up 06h00 and start. Here is what I noticed: -Food cravings have substantially decreased (I used to have an eating disorder for many years). I definitely have a healthier relationship with food. I have not eaten any junk food close to a month. -I have more confidence in myself. I'm by a nature somebody with co-dependency issues and would get extremely depressed and anxious when I was not with somebody. Today, I can say that I have a better time dealing with this. I have a better relationship with myself. I feel connected with myself if that makes any sense. -I can easily enter 'flow state', a state where once I start task, I could with ease stay focused. For instance, when I open up a book (even the boring ones) or start to study or play the piano, I can sit for hours with minimum breaks and not be distracted by my phone or labtop. It's fucking liberating. -I feel as though I have better control over my emotions. If somebody says something to me that I don't like, I can in my own mind, detach myself from my emotions and calm myself instead of flipping out and dwell on it the whole day. I used to have anger issues and used to where my emotions on my sleeves. -I appreciate silence. I don't need music or tv in the background. I can enjoy just being in silence and it is awesome. -I'm calm. Covid-19 has everybody going wild. Strangely, although I worry, I am not losing sleep over it nor is it something that makes me paranoid or something I dwell on throughout the day. -I am practicing brahmacharya which is probably one the hardest things I have ever done in my life and vipassana has helped control my cravings. [link] [comments] |
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| Is this what 3rd Eye Feels like? Posted: 28 Mar 2020 01:19 AM PDT Hi, A year & half long consistent meditator here. I hope you all are safe & sound considering the pandemic. I started meditating because college is a stupid place which made me insecure everyday and I simply wanted to get rid of the self loathing. I had started smoking weed and consuming alcohol on a weekly basis, I would then overthink and feel bad about how bad my GPA is or Why am I so miserably single & then waking up the next day struggling with hangover with no energy to attend lectures with no drive to learn till another weekend all while living amongst picture perfect people with fit bodies, fat wallets, perfect grades etc. You got the idea, right? Now please be gentle while I describe my feelings. So far this community has been really good to me. I've learnt so much reading what you've felt. So here goes, Yesterday while I was meditating, I experienced what I can only describe as 'climbing ladders'. It begins when I close my eyes. I am then blown away by my wave of thoughts, ideas & feelings. Usually I just focus on breathing till I stop imagining scenarios in my head thinking "hey! I'm calm now". Once I'm sailing smoothly in the calm river, my mind elevated to eyes. Now I'm struggling with my eyes, felt like I have focus on right side of my brain more than the other. So you balance it. I tried very hard to to get back to my mind but it didn't happen so I gave up and focused on breathing again, five to ten minutes later, I'm in my mind. No imagination, no scenarios, no dialogues, no internal monologue happening. I'm simply floating and listening to my surrounding (fan running) in my brain till reach the top. I've climbed again to the top. I've never been here before and suddenly I'm feeling a connection with my body. I could feel every muscle, listen my heart beating, speed & intensity of my breath all while knowing what's around me. I could keep track of my body as well as the surrounding!? Woah! Feels like I have some kind of superpower! All of a sudden I want to know how this is happening and why this is happening and I lose that connection. But I was happy. What was this feeling? [link] [comments] |
| Reality is objective, look once Posted: 28 Mar 2020 01:09 AM PDT Reality is really real and is objective. When one stops living in their head and sees the world as is for once, that is one moment of liberation. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2020 11:23 PM PDT Hello! I need some answers for something that happened while meditating as it kinda got me slightly shook up. I was in perfect darkness in my basement, the only light source is a small electric candle in the back of the room. After around 20 minutes or so I think My eyes "opened" but were still closed. Only for a brief second, I saw a spiral going into my chest. Like a funnel going deep in. there were these black and white boxes/symbols going round and round. Everything was in black and grey. It was around where the heart chakra is. Pretty much exactly, honestly. Is this just me being crazy or is this something that happens sometimes? I've never seen this before. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2020 12:53 AM PDT I recently moved abroad from the US and now see a therapist who can have sessions in English, but most of her resources are in a different language. She's translated a guided meditation for me and suggested I record myself doing it...but I've done that in the past and it hasn't been very relaxing. I don't know how to link the document here (I tried to post it but it said no links allowed), but would anyone be willing to record the meditation for me or maybe guide me toward someone who would? Thank you so much. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:49 PM PDT Hi everybody, I started recently to meditate due to severe anxiety and depression, during this time, I've realized many things about me that were nice to discover, however, I've also realized that I have a bigger problem inside than I expected. Every single problem I ever had, or have, is that basically related somehow to being selfish, like really selfish. Every conversation I engage has to be around me or I somehow endup turning it around to get some attention, i'm always seeking it, I dont know why but I think its related to really low self-steem. Recently, I met a wonderful girl that is really caring and really secure about the future and we are having a distance relation right now, and everyday I keep thinking this is not gonna work, even if she sais it will, and she seems sure about it, i keep looking for reasurance. In the end, I've noticed it is because I can't understand the fact that she is not completely crazy about the possibility of loosing me, which is, a really selfish and unmature actitude. The main problem is that this extends to many other situations, I used to be really competitive while playing games or things like that and i always was looking to be the center of attention. These patterns are really deep in my brain, and today when I was talking with my girlfriend I had another "selfinesh attack" that i know are not good for her/the relationship, but it was really hard to beat it and I said bye in a kind of rude way because she wasnt as worried as i was. It's like being a kid. Now, I'm starting to doubt about everything, I think that she doesn't deserve to be with someone like me because I can't control this and there are gonna be probably hard moments ahead of us and I can't do that to her, but in the other hand she is wonderful and I really think she is really someone worth all my effort. Obviously, i'm still debating myself about if I am or not a narcissist because I think I have empathy, but, if I hadn't, how could i know? I'm really scared of future and this relationship ending, and things not going the way I want. I need some guidance, i discovered way too many things in this time. So guys, if anyone experienced something similar, or have any tip about how I should continue, I would apreciate it. [link] [comments] |
| This story might sound fake, but bare with me that it's true. Posted: 27 Mar 2020 09:59 PM PDT So before meditation I lived a okay life. I was happy and still am. But with this whole virus situation and daily news, quarantine, not being able to go outside as much... I started feeling more isolated inside my room and house in general. Now I know this was long and some of you are probably skeptical as hell, but I'm not here to view opinions on whether people believe it was real or not. I just want to know why did this all connect? Was it because of me starting meditating? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is learning how to die by learning to "forget" the sense of self Posted: 27 Mar 2020 08:22 PM PDT Enlightenment occurs when the usually automatized reflexivity of consciousness ceases, which is experienced as a letting-go and falling into the void and being wiped out of existence [...] [W]hen consciousness stops trying to catch its own tail, I become nothing, and discover that I am everything. – Jin Y. Park [link] [comments] |
| My first time meditating... Is this normal? Posted: 28 Mar 2020 03:10 AM PDT So I recently tried meditating for the first time. After a while of focusing on my breathing with my eyes closed, my eyes just kind of naturally opened themselves. At that point I felt the weirdest calmness (I don't even know if I can call it that.), and my body was almost frozen. It felt heavy, not in a bad way, but in the way that my muscles were so relaxed I could not move. And for some reason rather than freaking me out, I was cool with it. Oh, back to my eyes... They opened, but my vision was super soft and fuzzy. Almost like I was crossing my eyes. I feel like I sound INSANE! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2020 02:59 AM PDT The more I meditate, the more I realise how much suffering is rooted in identifications. As a World, we condemn and laugh at people who are deeply identified with religion, but if one observes, we have just changed our identifications; now it's about being a liberal or a conservative, a man or a woman, an "Alpha" or a "Beta", a "quiet type", a "sexual type", a nerd... the list goes on. And it's not just themselves, people place so many identifications on each other! If only people would let go of their compulsion to, almost violently, become something or someone, they would have the chance to experience love. Meditation is beautiful. It helps me create a distance between me and my identifications. I can become someone/something when I want to, and I can retreat when I feel it's detrimental to do so. What do you think? Have you found any other way to do so? [link] [comments] |
| The (spiritual) fact of the soul Posted: 27 Mar 2020 11:02 PM PDT |
| Strange sounds during meditation Posted: 28 Mar 2020 01:09 AM PDT Hello, While doing metta chants and meditating, some strange sounds appeared above my head. It was the sound of spinning energy, something like the portal opening. What could that be? Did anyone had similar experience? [link] [comments] |
| There is an energy in my body and I don't know what it is Posted: 27 Mar 2020 11:26 AM PDT It comes up when I breathe in. It's electric. It sends tingling sensations around my body. Does any body else have this? [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone else experience this weird but pleasant state? Posted: 27 Mar 2020 02:12 PM PDT Sometimes when I meditate for a longer time (45+ min) I experience a kind of altered state. It's subtle but there's a definite difference. It always begins with the same sensations. My mind quietens considerably, there's a static sound in my head, and my breathing becomes very light and shallow (it becomes very pleasant to breathe), there's definitely a sense that I'm heading towards something. It's usually preceded by warmth rushing through my body and my body relaxing, then the static sound in my mind that I can always hear when I meditate suddenly grows much louder. I usually feel very good and relaxed afterwards, so much that it became kind of a goal of my meditation. Once I stayed in this state for a prolonged time, and I even had closed eye visuals (there was a door that opened and I went through, when I did all of the described sensations were magnified 10x, I actually thought I reached Nirvana lol). My question is does anyone else experience this, and does this state have a name? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2020 12:42 AM PDT My thoughts constantly go back to some bullshit and my body gets tense, plz help how to relax? [link] [comments] |
| Meditating through mental anguish? Posted: 27 Mar 2020 06:02 PM PDT I kind of just want to collapse. I've been distracting myself with the internet and barely getting my daily routines done. When I meditate, it just becomes painful. I just want to lay down in bed. I have been meditating for a while, but this is a particularly tough obstacle for me to overcome. Has anyone had any experience meditating through pain that doesnt go away? Trying to be mindful and observing without judgement is only getting me so far, even in longer sessions where I stick with it. [link] [comments] |
| Have you ever astral-projected whilst meditating? Posted: 27 Mar 2020 04:00 PM PDT |
| The importance of long and deep Kriya Yoga meditation Posted: 27 Mar 2020 10:25 PM PDT |
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