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    Meditation: First time meditation for an hour!

    Meditation: First time meditation for an hour!


    First time meditation for an hour!

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 09:10 PM PDT

    Guys,

    I have tried meditation few years ago, never last longer than 15 mins Today I decided to give it a try again after joining this sub. I felt it, omg the feeling of being nothing but merging with the air was amazing. I didn't feel any part of my body weight. It was just so peaceful and full of happiness.

    Then I woke up without knowing I woke up, no idea why it happened. Do you guys have a tip to wake up ?

    Anyway, I just wanna thank you guys so much!

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    Stop trying to buy a bus ticket to the same bus station. You are already there.

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 09:46 AM PDT

    Ego: I'd like a bus ticket to Detroit Station, please.

    Awareness: I'm sorry sir/madam, this is Detroit Station. You are here already!

    Ego: No, I NEED to get to Detroit Station.

    Awareness: Sir/madam, my apologies for any confusion. This is Detroit Station. You are here!

    Ego: Fuck it. Give me a ticket to Kansas Station and I'll come back.

    Awareness: I'm sorry, you want to take a trip just to come back?

    Ego: Yes you idiot! So I know I made it!

    This occured to me, and it pretty much was self explanatory to me, so I don't have much else to say.

    However, if this is not clear, I would be happy to expand.

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    I have a trio of beautiful playlists made with one goal: helping me achieve a peaceful state of mind, and find some concentration in all the chaos around me. The first is piano centric, the second is guitar, the third mixes some cello and harp into the recipe. And they are magic!

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 04:38 AM PDT

    They all update weekly with new releases to always stay fresh and surprise the listener, and I carefully pick the best pieces I can.

    Piano edition: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0QGRbe22EQ8zkI5B19wV6j?si=n-PGzITxTtqDP_8zH5kqnw

    Guitar edition: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/39Bmm1ZVkuKxcWCUmZokl8?si=OUPajxf_Tt6curnKeEUoNg

    Reading book of edition: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hibx8MRrinUl4OdIJTRrH?si=cGUO91yTTFqsnEX6uDP5tg

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    Obsessive thoughts/ depression triggered by breakup

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 05:18 AM PDT

    Just a few months ago, I was the happiest and most "actualized" I'd been in forever. I spent about a year recovering from a previous breakup, then went on a long solo trip in japan during the summer, came back and befriended a musician/artist who I admire, and I felt a lot of positive reinforcement from all of this stuff. I started making more progress in school, and started dressing better. I started to finally get out in the dating world, had a few pseudo relationships which boosted my confidence more.

    In January I met this girl from the city who I instantly felt a strong connection to before we even met, we dated for nearly two months and were both falling in love, and it felt like the relationship I finally needed and wanted. It was so healthy and cautious and slow and safe, we had more in common than I've ever had in common with someone prior. Then we had an argument which spawned out of some sort of misunderstandings, and it just snowballed into us both projecting, feeling like we were gaslighting each other, and the whole thing imploded in a matter of two weeks, and she became very cold and broke up with me in such a disposable way and the whole last two weeks of the relationship were very traumatic and triggering, especially because I still vacillate between it being a series of bad timing miscommunication, and it being all her fault and all my fault. It felt like all of the progress I made in the last year has been pulled out from the proverbial carpet under me. I didn't see this relationship ending anytime soon, let away the way it did. I feel very betrayed, yet also feel a lot of self loathing because I made some mistakes that added fuel to the fire. She made me feel like it was mostly my fault and never apologized for what she did, and I still know she's not wrong, but she's not right either. But I'm so obsessed with what she thinks of me, that she'll change her mind and come back. I've decided that this is probably the second real time I've been in love, and I know I'm only 23 and will find it again, but I feel like she checked all the boxes of what I wanted in my ideal partner and I'm so picky and it took all this time to find her, only to lose her before I even got to get used to her sticking around. She dumped me a few weeks into the quarantine building, and that didn't help with any of this either. Usually during a breakup, I go out into the city, meet new people, I don't know. But this feels similar to my first breakup which was a relationship of three years, yet I've only known this chick 2 months!

    I'm having a lot of obsessive thoughts and find it hard with dealing with them. I know in reality I'm perfect as I am, and supposed to be right here, but I can't shake the narrative that I'm reality I was really supposed to be "there" , and by way of my insecurities I fucked up and lost where I was really supposed to be. Like I finally just got old enough to get accepted into the club where all the cool people hang, and just as I finally got accepted in, the bouncer kicked me out, and everyone watched and laughed.

    I feel obsessive now and this happened with my first ex too and took months to fade. I keep getting a wash over my chest and my head warms up and I start panicking realizing I lost her, and how it's all my fault. I worry about what she thinks even though she's gone. I want her to miss me and regret leaving. I subconsciously find a way to associate nearly anything with her. I see white walls in my room - her walls were white.. fuck I missed the warm feeling of being in her room... I wish she didn't leave.. I wish I didn't act that way

    It happens with literally anything, my brain has a creative way of reminding me of her. And I can't seem to believe that I should be here. I feel like I should've been in that now alternate reality and I think about what would be happening if we were still together now. I feel like that was where I was supposed to be, and now I'm being punished by the universe. I've stopped attending my classes online, and I am slowly catching up but it's likely I'll fail a couple now which I've accepted. My sleep schedule is nocturnal now - I wake up at 8 pm and then sleep the following afternoon. I play my instruments to pass the time, and watch YouTube videos, lay in bed, masturbate, and play video games with my brother and friend. Everyday feels like groundhogs day, everyday is the exact same. I'm losing my mind. I feel large bursts of anger for her leaving and neglecting me/minimizing my feelings, and I feel large bursts of sadness and anger at myself for doing similar things to her and I just feel like I'm a loser. I had something good and beautiful and I lost it, and it feels like it's mostly my fault, but if it was mostly her fault, I wouldn't know or feel any better.

    I hate how obsessive I've become. When we were together I wasn't this way. It's only when I the possibility /reality of being abandoned do I become insufferably clingy/anxious , and when I'm actually in a safe secure space with a partner I'm entirely chill. How do I stop obsessing over the feeling of loss and abandonment? How do I justify the reason to clean myself up and get out of this funk when I have nowhere to go but my living room or bedroom? I feel like disappearing, like sleeping forever. When I meditate , sometimes I get brief moments of warmth and love, but I have to listen to Jack kornfield podcasts all night while I sleep, and when I turn them off and the training wheels are gone, I don't know how to comfort myself and self soothe, I don't know how to talk to myself because while I logically believe things will get better, I am a person ruled by emotion and passion and my heart just won't believe anything I tell myself.

    I start to devalue my entire existence because of this rejection " I wasn't funny enough, I wasn't good enough in bed , I was too vulnerable too quick, i was too weak, I didn't impress her enough, it's because I wasn't as talented musically as her other boyfriends, maybe if I was successful she wouldn't have left me, maybe if I was famous, maybe if I was more attractive" it's so toxic!!!!

    sometimes what helps is thinking about my first gf, while she did leave me, she really made me feel so seen and loved, and sometimes I think about that and it reminds me what it really feels like to have the things this new girl didn't give me when I needed them, and my old gf could. My old gf saw my inner child, and validated me, and that makes me feel good to think about, to replace the thoughts of this girl with my old gf, but then I realize she left me too, and then I go back down that same road of the aforementioned toxic cycle

    I'm feeling very trapped inside myself, and I need some help <3

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    Seeing Yourself in Higher Light

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 01:30 PM PDT

    Seeing yourself in higher light is the key to creating the desired changes in your life. Learning to see yourself in higher light is required to create yourself anew. Without the ability to envision yourself doing something you currently can't, you will never do it. The vision of yourself doing something you want will be the focal point of your motivation as you move forward. Without the vision, the motivation is lost; without the motivation, the desire will remain unfulfilled. The unity of vision and desire leads to success.

    The key to self-improvement is seeing yourself in higher light. The components of seeing yourself in higher light are: maintaining a positive lens towards yourself, believing in yourself, letting go of negative beliefs, and believing you are without fault. Maintaining a positive lens towards yourself will allow you to maintain vision. Believing in yourself is key to keeping your focus. Letting go of negative beliefs ensures you do not stop yourself from seeing yourself positively. Believing you are without fault is part of seeing yourself in higher light.

    Seeing yourself in higher light requires maintaining a positive lens. Looking at yourself and seeing the best parts of yourself is the way to be who you want to be. Placing your attention on your positive aspects is how these aspects will grow. Focusing on the parts of yourself you love is the way to see yourself in higher light. Motivating yourself completely requires you to look at yourself with the feeling of love. Being very clear as to why you are doing something is critical to maintaining motivation through the struggle.

    The next step is believing in yourself. Self-belief is critical to going your own way, maintaining focus, and going the distance to achieve your goals. Self-belief enables you to walk the path with confidence you are headed in the right direction. Believing in yourself will allow you to do what is required. Self-belief gives you the fortitude to go the distance to achieve your goals.

    Letting go of your negative beliefs is the most important step in seeing yourself in higher light. Your negative beliefs cloud your vision, undermine your self-belief, and stop you from being your best self. Letting go of them will stop all of this. This can be accomplished through an easy to perform meditation. The meditation involves working with your Higher Self to bring to light your most harmful negative beliefs. Your Higher Self can then release these beliefs and help you amplify new positive beliefs as well.

    The way to see yourself in the highest light possible is to believe you are without fault. There is nothing wrong with the way you are being. The way you are being is perfect in every way. When you adopt this view of yourself, you create the means to allow yourself to become this way in the future. Seeing yourself in this light is the way to let go of your faults. The faults you have serve a purpose. Their purpose is to allow you to discover you are faultless. Once you no longer see your current state as containing faults, the faults begin to disappear. Being without shame helps you to see yourself as faultless. Without the shame attached, the corresponding state of being is able to be released. The way to see yourself in higher light is to be free of shame.

    For a meditation to connect with your Higher Self to starting releasing your limiting beliefs, visit https://www.lifechangingmeditations.com/meditate. To do so, listen to "Gathering Light and Merging with Higher Self." Then set the intention to release your limiting beliefs, and allow them to come to your attention. E.g. "I can't...", "I am unworthy of...", "I am lacking..." Beliefs take 7 minutes to release. If there's enough desire, my next post will be on the best way to do this.

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    We all can sit and meditate in peace when we are in a good mood and life is wonderful. However, it takes so much more effort and control to really control anxiety and scary thoughts. Specially when you know your fear is right before your eyes. How do you focus on positivity then?

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 08:26 AM PDT

    Hi,

    First of all, I practiced meditation and other types of spiritual activities. I believe in the supernatural and I believe in energy and science. I have no doubts at all about meditation and it's impact on the brain. However, As I practiced, I find it easier to sit for the duration of my session, clear my head which is already in a good mood and then get out of it and go on my easy life day-to-day. Contrary to if I am depressed and in a bad mood. Where I cannot wait for the session to end so I can get back to my life and try to figure out a solution to my problem. Speaking of which, just basic thing such as "how will I eat today" and " how will I pay my rent" necessity things. That's all. I think it's quiet easy to sit here and preach how meditation can change and improve people's lives. However, I don't know how can someone in the middle of a chaos and uncertain future. Financially and emotionally. Even health wise. Let's say someone is jobless and out of money to eat for the day. How do you tell them meditation will solve their problem or at least, "help them, think clearer so they can solve their problem." I have often heard the saying: " never take an advice from someone who is full when you are hungry.

    I apologize if my view is quiet negative. I am looking for thoughts and reflections from those who had real experience through good and bad and meditated during the time. I am currently looking for a job and living of my savings in a foreign country alone which obviously won't last forever. If I ran out of money, I still cannot predict who would feed me then, if I didn't find a job at this time. Knowledge is power and I want to learn more to find solutions. I don't want someone to sponsor me. I want be independent as I had always been.

    Thank you,

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    Controlling your breath

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:19 AM PDT

    Hey all, this is my first ever post here! (exciting haha)

    Anyway, I've been meditating for a year or two consecutively for which I'm really happy to have sticked with it so long. I do notice that my mind is often trying to change my feelings or thoughts. In fact, I actually started meditating to feel more peace and calm in my mind as I've got a (very) wild one.

    Now, I notice that I subconsciously often try to reach this stage of calm through meditating. It manifests in when I'm meditating while feeling very busy and frantic so to speak. I am thus subconsciously controlling my breath to reach this mental peace. I cognitively know of course that meditation is about being with what is there in this very moment. Nevertheless, it is quite tough to just let things be. I think our mind has the tendency to try and change our thoughts and feelings. Anyway, with this recent epiphany, I am now no longer trying so hard to reach peace and suddenly I am getting more of it. It's really a type of inverse psychology! Well, as I have read in a book, if you try to reach a certain goal through meditation you will automatically resist what is here and what you resist persists.

    So now when I sit down to meditate, I just notice what is there and when my mind drifts off, which is does 24/7, I just try to gently bring it back without self-criticism (which is difficult), but I think that meditation is thus also a practice in self-compassion and kindness to yourself to allow whatever is there. Or at least, it could be. So when I finish meditation I try not to evaluate my session in terms of 'good' or 'bad' but just pat myself on the back for having had the discipline to sit down. It's not easy!

    Anyway, the experience of trying to control your feelings/thoughts/breath seems quite common among meditators and I am wondering about your experiences. I really notice I feel more relaxed after my meditation session now that I'm not trying so hard to pursue it anymore. It's so counterintuitive!

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    Feeling grounded when stopping meditation practice?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 12:40 AM PDT

    I've been practicing meditation for about 3 years now and since a year ago started feeling weird like feelings of 'derealization', alienation from people, and lack of connection to the world in general. I've done plenty of grounding practices in the past since that is my weakest point apparently but the most grounding thing for me so far is stopping the practice itself. In several days after stopping I sort of come back to daily life easier even if there is more anxiety without meditation. But getting stuff done becomes easier.

    Which leads me to thoughts of either if I've been doing meditation wrong all this time or if it's something deeper than that.

    Did anyone have experiences like this and what would you suggest? Thank you

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    What do you do when your legs fall asleep?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 05:34 AM PDT

    Hi! I'm 24 and have been mediating on and off for about 5 years, but only recently started taking seriously as a practice.

    I've found that after 15 minutes my legs fall asleep when I'm sitting cross-legged. I'll try to sit so that I'm not on top of my legs, but rather crossed infront of me. This helps a bit but I still find myself having to sit for 5 minutes after meditating while I get the feeling back in my legs.

    Does anyone have any tips for what to do when this happens? Are there tricks to sitting for long periods? Should I just meditate through it?

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    Free 7 Weeks Online Meditation Course: Cultivating Joy and the Heart of Service in Business

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 05:21 AM PDT

    Cultivating Joy and the Heart of Service in Business Free 7 Weeks Online Course

    May 3rd – June 14th 2020

    Overview

    This is a course for business people and entrepreneurs who want greater happiness, better interpersonal relationships, inner-peace, and self-awareness. You will learn to how to infuse into your business activities both mindful awareness, and the heart of service. The intention is to equip you to transform daily business activities into an opportunity for personal growth and source of fulfillment. No prior meditation experienced is required.

    Learning objectives: We will cover cultivating 1) mindfulness and self-awareness, 2) ethics that support integrity, trustworthiness, and true confidence, 3) sincere friendliness towards ourselves and others as a means for cultivating true happiness, 4) relaxation around uncertainty and risk and 5) how develop a daily seated meditation practice as well as 6) an informal mindfulness practice for your daily walking around life.

    There will be lots of space for discussion and questions about practice. The daily practice recommendation will be 30 minutes of formal meditation practice.

    About the teacher: My name is Cedric Reeves I am a long term meditator, and certified Unified Mindfulness coach. Moreover, I'm an life long entrepreneur, having founded multiple businesses in the precious metals and e-commerce spaces. However, about eight years ago I found that I was getting more and more depressed, anxious, and overworked. Something had to change. So, I rededicated myself to meditation, doing meditation retreats and consistent meditation at home. As a result things drastically improved. Now, I enjoy teaching meditation, especially to fellow business people.

    Cost: Free.

    The class will be recorded and will be available after the course is done. We'll meet using the online video-call software Zoom.

    We'll meet online once a week for the seven weeks, and each session will last for 90 mins.

    Course Overview

    Week 1: Introduction to the class & mindfulness and the benefits of establishing a regular practice(May 3rd 2020)

    • What is meditation? The practice of cultivating of 'attentional skills'
    • Mindfulness instruction suitable for beginners: the See Hear Feel Technique
    • Learn to be present in your life and in your business
    • Quick primer on how to practice meditation in daily life while walking, eating, talking, brushing your teeth etc
      • micro-hits
      • background practice
    • Mentalizing: the key to mental health, understanding yourself, and effective cooperation with others
    • Ethics as a foundation for basic mental health, integrity, trustworthiness, and authentic confidence
    • Practice Homework
      • 30 minutes of daily meditation practice plus daily life practice

    Week 2: How to be a friend: instruction on loving kindness meditation(May 10th)

    • healthy relationships are the foundation for a happy life and successful business. Loving kindness (friendliness) is a skill that can be learned which will transform the quality of your relationships and life.
    • Develop a true heart of service and true win-win attitude that promotes long term business and relationship success
    • How true ethics comes from heartfelt friendliness
    • Practice Homework
      • 30 mins daily of loving kindness meditation plus daily life practice

    Week 3: Instruction on compassion meditation(May 17th)

    • keep your wits about you when you are dealing with a difficult person or situation
    • how the heart practices cultivate epistemic trust
    • how compassion helps maintain epistemic trust when things fall apart
    • learn to metabolize your own difficulties and be there for others when they suffer
    • Practice Homework
      • 30 mins daily of compassion meditation plus daily life practice

    Week 4: Sympathetic Joy instruction on how to cultivate joy at the good qualities of others(May 24th)

    • Learn how to be a good friend, employee, boss, partner, client
    • By becoming the kind of person you want to be around you attract the kind of people you want to be around.
    • By developing trustworthiness you facilitate that business relations, business deals etc get done very quickly.
    • Traditional walking meditation using noting
    • Practice Homework
      • 30 mins daily of sympathetic joy meditation plus daily life practice

    Week 5: Don't know mind and how to cultivate a peaceful mind(May 31st)

    • how to find ease around risk, uncertainty, failure and rejection
    • how equanimity (friendly impartiality) supports creativity and the ability to embrace uncertainty
    • by lessening reactive habit patterns around thought we learn to think more freely and creatively
    • How to have "beginner's mind" that remains fresh in the moment
    • The bliss and functionality of letting go of outcome (craving)
    • Practice Homework
      • 30 mins daily of equanimity meditation plus daily life practice (See Hear Feel, and/or loving kindness)

    Week 6: Trigger Practice, and Daily Life Practice(June 7th)

    • Learn how mindfulness can de practices all the time not just in formal practice
    • The metric for success of meditation practice is positive transformation in daily life, not what it feels like when you meditate.
    • Trigger practice
      • Learn to apply mindfulness to the times when you are triggered and about to make a mistake and how to catch it before you regret it.
    • Practice Homework
      • 30 mins of daily practice of your choice

    Week 7: How to deepen your practice going forward(June 14th)

    • Meditation retreats
    • the importance of having friends who cultivate themselves in the direction of positivity
    • listening to and reading to content about meditation and related contemplative subject matter
    • modeling mindfulness, friendliness, and ethics for those around you
    • modeling livelihood in line with your ethics and kind intentions
    • Practice Homework
      • 30 mins of daily practice of your choice

    Time

    The class will be taught twice to reach people in different time zones. The content is the same. 1) USA Sunday Morning & Europe Wednesday Evening Class:

    • In the US:
      • 12:00am Eastern Time Zone
      • 11:00am Central
      • 10:00am Mountain
      • 9:00 am Pacific
    • In Europe:
      • 18:00 (Central European Time (CET) which is UTC/GMT+2)
      • 17:00 (Western European Time (WET) which is UTC/GMT+1)
    1. USA Sunday Evening Class
    • 7:00pm Eastern
    • 6:00pm Central
    • 5:00pm Mountain
    • 4:00pm Pacific

    Schedule Common to each 90 minute class:

    - 5 mins of meditation

    - 5 mins brief review of the prior class (first class will be introductions instead)

    - 20 mins practice questions relating to last weeks material (first class would be lecture instead)

    - 15 mins lecture of new practice

    - 5 mins brief clarifications as to the technique

    - 20 mins guided meditation for technique just discussed

    - 20 mins follow up questions and homework assignment.

    To sign up go to: http://www.cedricreeves.com/onlinecourses/joy-and-service-in-business/

    Post any questions you have below.

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    Did meditation help you stop being upset by others mood swings?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 04:31 AM PDT

    This quarantine made me realize how much my mood changes based on what other people feel, could meditation help?

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    I often don't know what to say when chatting, could meditation be the answer?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 04:26 AM PDT

    I don't know what the cause of this is, but despite living a fairly adventurous and fairly decent life, I have always struggled to form deep connections with acquaintances, friends and in relationships. Part of the problem is that I often don't know what to say to keep the conversation going and can end up just repeating myself or talking about the same things, often to do with logistics (what have you been up to, what are you doing tomorrow, this is what I've been up to etc.). I rarely find myself laughing, making others laugh, joking, having fun and engaging in banter. I also would love to make people feel brilliant when they're around me.

    I would say that I struggle with the following (but perhaps some of the below is more my perception of myself rather than fact):-self-esteem-self-confidence-cognition-focus and motivation-being happy and content. I don't have a problem meeting new people but wish I was more in control of forging friendships/relationships with the ones I want to.

    I wonder if it's a nurture thing, as my parents weren't exactly great at the above and didn't really support my brother and me emotionally as we grew up.

    The more research I do, the more causes I seem to stumble across, from social anxiety, testosterone, introversion, imbalances in neurotransmitters, possible autism and mild depression. I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do, but I know that I'm not living the life I want to...

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    What brain waves do we use when meditating ? alpha? theta?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 12:34 AM PDT

    Failure to heal inner child

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 05:34 PM PDT

    I just tried to do a guided meditation for healing the inner child and I couldn't do it. Part of it was imagining unconditional love coming out of your heart and when I tried to do this my heart just felt hard and my chest got tight. I continued with the meditation and kept trying hoping I'd unlock that feeling of love but when it got to imagining myself as a child and trying to channel the unconditional love to her, I realised I felt hatred. I couldn't help but look at her as annoying and ugly and just got frustrated so ended the meditation. I was abused in my childhood but I never thought it had affected me to this point. What do I even do here?

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    First time hallucinations??

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 02:33 AM PDT

    I've been trying to get into meditation recently and the other day I was sitting in the shower focused on the hot water running down into the drain and the sounds it made. I sat there for about 10-15min and I was completely relaxed, I just listened to the water and closed my eyes but as I got deeper into relaxation I could see these waves of deep blue and green running down my vision (as my eyes we're closed). Is this a normal meditation experience? Is there any tips you could give a non experienced person like myself for meditation?

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    Thank you metta practicants

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 03:51 PM PDT

    After few years of practicing breath meditation, I decided to make metta my main practice. At first attempts I realized that I have major problems in cultivating positive emotions, especially towards myself (that was a major sign to me that I need to practice metta even more). During the practice tonight I managed to cultivate continuous positive feeling towards general population and when it came the time to generate positive feeling pointed at me I realized that there are numerous people in this world who are practising metta and sending positive thoughts to me and I felt great and I felt like I really deserve this feeling. So this helped me a bit and I was really excited... So much that I wanted to say THANK YOU here to all of you who are practicing metta for sending me positive thoughts and emotions. :))

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    I started meditating consistently about 2 weeks ago. I have found that periodically I “fall asleep”. I looked on previous posts about how to fix this and y’all said stand up or sit without a chair back. Now I do this but still “fall asleep”.

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 06:00 PM PDT

    So like the title I fall asleep. It happens even while standing, but I stay standing. I wouldn't call it a deep sleep but it's like my mind wonders so long I kind of loose my self... I don't know if this is common but it's for sure new to me. I am usually completely awake before, but afterwards I'm a bit tired/heavy eyes, that's why I think it's sleep. But it's really unique I have had people come in and I am completely coherent, and I usually need something to snap me out of it. Idk it's like I'm in the moment right before REM (I think). Teetering on the point of sleep and not. Haha I feel crazy typing this out. Has anyone else experienced this? Do I need to see a doctor? Any fixes? Thank you and stay safe.

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    Is meditation benefitial if you don't do it everyday?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 01:13 AM PDT

    I've been trying to meditate everyday, but I just don't want to. I just want to nap afterward, it's time 'wasted', I don't notice any benefits yet etc. So basically I've been slacking, sometimes only meditating once a week other time I'll meditate a few days in a row. At some point I want to mediate everyday.

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    How do I stop obsessing about the past and worrying about the future?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 01:00 AM PDT

    All my life I've either obsessed about a specific time period in my life where I felt truly happy or I've looked longingly to the future with the hope that "things will get better then." I have always struggled to stay in the present and lately, I've been wanting to break that pattern.

    I started meditating regularly 4 months ago and it has changed my life. When I am practicing, I am able to calm my mind. But because of the situation with Covid19 I am out of work and not currently studying and have had to move back in with my parents. I am not happy with the way my life looks right now and I am finding myself thinking even more about the future now than ever before.

    How do I stay in the present moment when I am not happy or satisfied with my life situation?

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    Thoughts and opinions about meditation with metronome?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 12:25 AM PDT

    Radiohead's Ed O'Brien spoke about meditation in his AMA today

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 04:39 PM PDT

    Question:

    Ed, this might be a more personal question, but I've been reading your new interviews lately, and I've found a lot of things you said to be very wise and inspiring.

    What do you do when you're feeling down? How do you mange to have faith in yourself? To focus more on the bright side?

    I know these happens to every human, and I'd really love to hear your experiences and thoughts. ❤️

    Answer:

    Thank you .. great question.. the most important thing that helps me is my daily meditation .. I taught myself about 18 years ago... it's such a profoundly important exercise for me and others

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    CBD effect on meditation

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 07:58 PM PDT

    Hello everyone,

    I've been taking cbd for some time now. I find that it helps me feel more grounded. However, I've also noticed that I have difficulty meditating after taking it. I find it difficult to "sink" into meditation if I have taken CBD earlier in the day. Has anyone else experienced this? Or does anyone have any insights as to why this could be happening?

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    Meditation Spirit???

    Posted: 21 Apr 2020 11:30 PM PDT

    -DISCLAIMER- I am not on any drugs and have been sober for about six months.

    So I just finished The Midnight Gospel and decided to try meditating alone in my room for the first time. I looked up some meditations on google for five minutes and then decided to do my own mental exploration. I dimmed the lights, lit an incense, and set a candle by my head and laid down to just think.

    I set a timer for five minutes and let my mind wander. Pretty soon a voice came into my head which I believe was my brain talking but I also didn't feel like I had control of it. I saw that it took the image of a crow in my head and it had a deep voice. After I asked what it was it said I could call it (an) "emberoige" and I was like okay. Then as it continued to speak it felt almost as if I was being guided away from my body like in the movie INSIDIOUS. I pulled myself out of it and felt as if I was being watched in my bedroom, and I'm still anxious to leave.

    What I'm asking if that is somehow linked to some form of meditation and if I was in any kind of danger. If I'm just acting crazy then just lmk.

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