Meditation: Is anyone else just feeling.. totally fine? |
- Is anyone else just feeling.. totally fine?
- 4-7-8 Breathing for Sleep: How to Do It, Science of It, and More (resubmit)
- Body scan and genitalia
- Meditations during quarantine:
- A recent study found that practicing mindfulness, even over a short period, reduces feelings of paranoia.
- Coronavirus 2020 Meditation
- How to stop giving unsolicited advice?
- If the 4-7-8 breathing method is used to help you feel sleepy, can you invert it to 8-7-4 if you're feeling tired and want to stay awake?
- Severe nerve pain in my tongue and am suffering immensely. The pain is so bad. My tongue just aches and burns and aches. My lingual nerve is inflamed and no doctor can find out why. Can meditation help me? Please help, any advice
- A Year of Meditation: What I've Observed and Learned
- Discovered a new meditation experience that may be my stepping stone to meditation commitment
- Guided Morning Meditation for Relaxation, Healing and Vitality (30 Minutes)
- Meditation produces awareness
- F Coronavirus and start online meditation
- Can deep meditation kill my creative abilities?
- Mindfullness In Simple English
- QUARANTINE 2020 - GUIDED MEDITATION
- If you're interested in mental health and meditation through the angle of music, hope this helps :)
- What do you guys think about mindless phone using? Blankly scrolling through Instagram/Facebook (Even reddit!)
- Threat, Stress, COVID-19 & Meditation: Useful, Useless, Or...?
- Meditation for being housebound during Corona Virus
- [Need Advice] Can't seem to focus - keep giving into instant gratification
- For Those of You Who Started Meditating at Young Age(10-16), What Insight Could You Provide?
| Is anyone else just feeling.. totally fine? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 05:19 PM PDT So this is about covid-19. In the past days I have noticed quite an increase in people that I love and care about just completely going off the hook about this crisis. Now I completely empathize here: I too worry about my grandparents, or other loved ones being hurt or even facing death. However, its becoming rarer and rarer to see people be relaxed, or optimistic. Now I don't know if I'm a complete psychopath or just at a quite good state with meditation, but I just feel completely regularly "myself". The sun is just as beautiful, the days are just as precious. I handle my emotions towards the Coronavirus just as meditating has taught me to handle any emotion. I accept it, I feel it, and I let it pass. I'm learning to be a nurse, next week I will be back in the hospital.. but I am just not worried. Whatever will happen will happen. Things will pass. Things will be ok. They always are. I think meditating really has strengthend my mind a lot, and I am very grateful that the benefits of meditation help me so much in this global crisis. I hope I don't come off as a completely smug jerk lol. Anyways, how are you guys holding up? [link] [comments] |
| 4-7-8 Breathing for Sleep: How to Do It, Science of It, and More (resubmit) Posted: 20 Mar 2020 10:24 AM PDT 4-7-8 Breathing for Sleep: How to Do It, Science of It, and More How can a simple breathing technique help with insomnia and stress? The 4-7-8 breathing method has been really effective for many people – myself included – at helping relax the body and mind ready for sleep. The first time I tried it I was genuinely surprised the next day at how quickly I'd fallen asleep! It's also been successful for some sufferers of PTSD and anxiety at reducing their symptoms by stimulating the Vagus Nerve. In this article I'll explain what it does to relax the body, and why it is so effective. How To Perform 4-7-8 Breathing Exercise
To understand why this breathing pattern is so effective, we need to look at the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for regulating the automatic functions of our body, such as heartrate, immune function and digestion. Two Halves of the Autonomic Nervous SystemSympathetic Nervous System (SNS) – activated when we perceive danger or need alertness:
Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) – activated when our body feels that it's safe to relax
The sympathetic nervous system is super important, but with the busy modern life that many of us lead, full of stimulus and stress, it is activated too much of the time. Our PNS rarely has a chance to take over, which causes problems for recovery and especially for sleep! Using 4-7-8 Breathing to Regulate Your Nervous SystemEffects of Deep BreathingWe have minimal direct control over what our autonomic nervous system does, but via specific breathwork exercises it is actually possible to switch its state between the SNS and PNS. When we breathe deeply (i.e., from the diaphragm rather than from the chest) we activate stretch receptors around the diaphragm linked to the parasympathetic nervous system. Any deep breathing will have this effect, but it's especially powerful in the 4-7-8 method as we pause for 7 seconds in the slightly stretched position for a stronger "rest and digest" effect. For many people, the level of cortisol (the "stress hormone") is chronically high and this can hinder sleep. Deep breathing, such as in the 4-7-8 method, has been scientifically shown to reduce levels of cortisol. Effects of Slow Breathing Furthermore the rhythm of breathing affects our autonomic nervous system, with slow, controlled breathing activating the PNS. This should come as no surprise (given popular advice to "take a deep breath" when feeling overwhelmed) but it was only in 2016 that scientists first found the part of the brainstem that seems to cause this! In the 4-7-8 pattern, each breath is very slow – around 19 seconds, so again it stimulates the part of the nervous system that allows us to sleep. Reducing Effort for the Muscles The last thing you need when trying to sleep is physical effort. It generates unnecessary heat, increases heart rate and generally prepares your body for sport rather than rest. Even something as simple as a breathing exercise can require some physical effort. In particular, to extend the exhale for as long as 8 seconds, it is necessary to restrict the airflow out of the lungs. This would ordinarily be done by tensing up various muscles around the lungs and windpipe. The 4-7-8 method avoids this by simply placing the tongue against the upper gums to restrict the airflow considerably. The muscles have minimal work to do and we can physically relax a lot faster. SummaryIf you're like many people who have difficulty physically relaxing, this breathing technique may help you like it helped many before you. It quickly starts to activate the PNS and reduces cortisol, all while performing a meditative activity with minimal physical demands. --- This post has benefitted a lot of people, sadly it was removed after getting >700 upvotes, probably because I've included links here (now I've removed all links except the one that refers to a scientific article, has nothing to do with our website). I don't care about promotion, many people have benefitted from the technique and it should be available to everyone, so here it is. Thank you all for your interest (and the gold). Namaste 💛 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2020 04:04 AM PDT Hi all, Kinda awkward post I must say. I put the nsfw but I don't know if it is relevant 🤷♂️ I (26m) noticed today that I've never body scanned my genitals. Every time I simply omitted them as if they were not part of me. I'm sexually repressed and been through diagnosed sexual abuse of different forms so I would logically deduce a link. Do you body scan yourself completely? May I ask what do you notice when body scanning genitals? [link] [comments] |
| Meditations during quarantine: Posted: 20 Mar 2020 08:50 PM PDT When touch becomes impossible, when our minds are racing with thought that has no conclusion, there is one space to move into...the realm of your heart. Another level of understanding awaits to be explored. The boundaries of form and function have less command, which lends us to a softness and gentleness. This is the heart space. A lightness lifted. Like any new land, you have to orient yourself. You have to drop some habits and begin the skill of learning anew. A new kind of fellowship with yourself. Your heart is not bound by the pressures of time or to the limits of senses. It moves in slow churns — always available, but you can't sneak your way in. Your heart space is not now or here...it's transient. We prepare our bodies, our minds to then meet the heart—but only when it knows we are ready to. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 20 Mar 2020 09:05 PM PDT Hey. Just posting this again for late night people. Enjoy :) [link] [comments] |
| How to stop giving unsolicited advice? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 11:46 AM PDT I am a great meditator, and I know the answers to many people's problems, and all that. But how do I learn to keep it to myself? For example, yesterday I was talking to my friend, and she started telling me all about her problems, and I was like "hold my beer, girl" and bombarded her with tons of meditation advice that she didn't ask for. Bottomline, I like to talk about meditation a lot, and I feel like saving people from their problems all the time even when they don't ask for it. What is this, and how to stop this tendency? [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 20 Mar 2020 08:36 PM PDT I tried it for 6 months. 30 minutes a day. Used headspace, I didn't get any kind of relief, in fact I feel as if it made it hurt worse. Like it made me more aware I was in so much pain. I stuck through for 6 months, here I am 2 years later in the same amount of pain, have been traveling all over the US trying to get help. It is now evident to me I have some choices 1. Get in opoids, at 20 years old, as none of the other medication for nerve pain does much of anything. 2.find a way to live with this, not being able to talk, dealing with disgusting tastes all day long and in so much pain I'm physically white with high blood pressure. It makes me sick to think about living in this condition. But if it's even remotely possible to live this way and be at peace, it's worth the try. 3. Die. Which I really don't want to do. I have a beautiful girlfriend and a sweet family. I just hate watching them having to see me suffer so bad. Words do not do my current situation any justice, I feel deeply deeply defeated and almost dead inside. I cry multiple times a day, I can't stop suicidal thoughts when the pain goes up (and yes I have like three psychiatrists and two psychologists and they have literally helped me 000 other than giving me a klonopin prescription for panic attacks when I feel like I can't breath) Before I was in pain, at 16-17 years old, I meditated daily. I also took lsd here and there, I found partnering the two made me feel completely at peace. Even when the drugs wore off. It was as if I was completely still and one with everything all day long. I was able to accept the good and the bad, I had goals and dreams and I was in a really good space. Then my tongue went numb driving home from school one day. And here I am at 20 years old. I'm hopeless. I need help. Please, anyone. Even if you don't think your advice will be helpful I need it desperately. Can meditation help me accept this high of a pain level? Is this even possible? Or should I just throw in the towel and get on opiates and raise my dosage until I suffer an early death? Thank you [link] [comments] |
| A Year of Meditation: What I've Observed and Learned Posted: 20 Mar 2020 12:24 PM PDT Hi Everyone, Long time lurker. Ironically, the idea to do this came to me while I was meditating and it became quite a sticky thought. I have been practicing mindfulness for a little over a year now, starting with 5-10 minutes daily and increasing the practice to 20 minutes. I have and continue to use Sam Harris's app "Waking Up", but for the most part now do my practice unassisted. I thought I would try to write down a few of the observations that I have made regarding my practice. This post is more than anything selfish in nature, as the process of writing helps to clarify my own ideas. With that said, here are a few observations I have had as a still yet novice of the practice of mindfulness. As a disclaimer, I am certain none of these observations are entirely of my own invention, and praise is due to Sam Harris in his intellectual assistance.
Thanks for listening to my rant. I'm sure someone has already shared this, but below is a link for a free month of Sam Harris's app. Although by now I'm sure I sound like a snake-oil salesman, it helped me a lot to form the intellectual foundations of my meditation, and I thought it was worth a share. By the way, if you cannot afford to pay for the app after the trial is over, I believe he mentioned if you contact them via the app store they can waive the monthly fees. Here's the link: https://share.wakingup.com/a51ff1a6f1fa Regards and have a great day. [link] [comments] |
| Discovered a new meditation experience that may be my stepping stone to meditation commitment Posted: 20 Mar 2020 07:58 PM PDT I have been struggling with meditation commitment and tonight I may have had a breakthrough. I have a 5month old son who has been crying non stop all day for past several days. We struggle getting him to sleep and it takes hours. He would stop only when we pick him up and walk around with him. Tonight my wife was exhausted and I picked him up and just started around around with him in the living room. I got kind of bored and decided to do walking meditation which I learned at a retreat. He was quiet but eyes was opened and after about 15minutes asleep while I was very mindful and blissful. I put him into his crib and the house is peaceful again. [link] [comments] |
| Guided Morning Meditation for Relaxation, Healing and Vitality (30 Minutes) Posted: 21 Mar 2020 02:38 AM PDT Hi! This is my first guided meditation. What do you guys think? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2020 02:15 AM PDT Meditation is not only there to achieve altered states of consciousness or to send us into emotional highs, or raise our vibration. Meditation is there to produce awareness in us and it is much more than something you practice for yourself. It is something you do to benefit both yourself and others through by bringing awareness into your actions. Because only through awareness of the consequences of our positive, neutral and negative actions and what gives rise to them can we end the cycle of violence in ourselves each other and the world as a whole. [link] [comments] |
| F Coronavirus and start online meditation Posted: 21 Mar 2020 01:59 AM PDT tired of sitting home? want to do something productive? start meditating with this online mediations already and explore something new. [link] [comments] |
| Can deep meditation kill my creative abilities? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 08:47 PM PDT I'm a creative / artsy kind of person and sometimes I use intense emotional states etc. as a way to get into a creative flow. I find that a certain hyperactive mindstate makes me much better at creative activity. I work myself up with music or just extreme fantasizing and I find that my mind can generate all kinds of ideas very rapidly in that state, like its buzzing with ideas and sense-formations every second. Extreme overthinking. It's basically the opposite of equanimity and no-mind. I actually enjoy it. I've been doing daily 30-60min meditation and the longest I ever did was a 10 day Goenka retreat. So far I don't think this has had any adverse effect on my creative/hyperactive mind (which I would like to retain, this trait of mine has been a tremendous asset for me in my work) I'm looking to do something like a 60 - 120 day retreat but I'm worried about any potential 'dulling' effects it might have, since I will abstaining from sensory pleasures and all that. I fear that I won't be able to get that hyper/rapid thought formation type state of mind once it becomes equanimous to a certain degree. While many do meditation to put a leash on their overthinking mind, I'd like to retain that ability as much as possible. Just wondering if anyone here is a creative / musical type of person and whether deep meditation practice has had any effects on you. [link] [comments] |
| Mindfullness In Simple English Posted: 20 Mar 2020 06:06 PM PDT I recently got recommended a book called Mindfulness In Simple English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana. It would be the first book to get me started in meditation and I wondered if it is worth the read. [link] [comments] |
| QUARANTINE 2020 - GUIDED MEDITATION Posted: 20 Mar 2020 02:47 PM PDT Hey there. As promised, a brand new quarantine-focused guided meditation, just for you. I know they all say this but really, you need headphones for this one :) Please like and subscribe, and share with your loved ones. Namaste [link] [comments] |
| If you're interested in mental health and meditation through the angle of music, hope this helps :) Posted: 20 Mar 2020 03:47 PM PDT Hey everyone - hope y'all are hanging in okay with everything that's going on. My name's Amol, and I'm one of the creators of www.ensu.com. Me and a few of my mates have built an app to help people use their music listening (Unfortunately Spotify only atm..) as a tool to more easily understand and manage their mental health! Sometimes it can be tough to be introspective (probably less so in this community though), but still it can be very hard to keep track over-time of how you've been going emotionally (aka - how has your emotional state been in the last 3 weeks, in comparison to the 3 weeks before?). We're trying to help make that a lot easier, and in that way give people a compass for their journey of mental health! The app gives you insights around how your music listening correlates to emotional states, makes it easy to track emotions over-time, gives you new mood-based playlists in Spotify, lets you check in on friends when they are upset and vice versa, and can also give you small prompts of something you can do to come back to the present and improve your emotional state if you check in that you're upset. You can check out who we are as people on the team section of the website! And if you want to get to know us more, feel free to join our team's discord server too :) If you're interested, please go to www.ensu.com/download and sign up! Feel free to message me if you have any questions :) P.S. if you do end up downloading the app, you can go to the social page and in the codes section, enter in "PANDA" and you can then see my moods and how I'm going! (Go vulnerability!) [link] [comments] |
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| Threat, Stress, COVID-19 & Meditation: Useful, Useless, Or...? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 11:02 PM PDT See the brief article originally posted here, but now moved to this link. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation for being housebound during Corona Virus Posted: 20 Mar 2020 06:42 PM PDT I was wondering if there was any type of guided meditation I could do that will help me with being inside for long periods of time. Normally I have to go out twice day or else I start getting agitated or anxious really badly. Thanks [link] [comments] |
| [Need Advice] Can't seem to focus - keep giving into instant gratification Posted: 20 Mar 2020 05:45 AM PDT Hey peeps I've been struggling with my anxiety for a while, my mind perceives threat even in safe situations I'm guessing that's my conditioning but it's making it hard for me to be aware open and productive. This flight or fight comes on whenever nowadays, I've realised it starts the second I give into my thoughts which usually happens way before I notice it and there I am uncomfortable and anxious most of the time. It's hard for me to focus, even if it is to read a book. I've been using pot and alcohol to cope with the anxiety over the last week and I know it's time to make a change. Throw some tips at your boy Peace and love [link] [comments] |
| For Those of You Who Started Meditating at Young Age(10-16), What Insight Could You Provide? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 06:15 PM PDT |
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