Meditation: The free-forever meditation app is finally out. Thanks to you �� |
- The free-forever meditation app is finally out. Thanks to you ��
- No one owns a monopoly on meditation or yoga.
- Its been a stressful week, job loss, and now the house I rent is being sold from underneath me. Roommates and I are very stressed and anxious, I started making some relaxing music to help us calm and relax. Sharing on youtube for people in similar situations. Hope it helps. Spread a little good :)
- Really interesting video about our brain and reality.
- Living in the present is...boring?
- Need help with sleep anxiety, 2 days sleepless
- How do you actually focus on the breath?
- 30 minute sessions
- The last weeks were hard. I'm trying to work from the house but can barely concentrate. How is this situation affecting you all? I'm sometimes honestly afraid of being able to provide for my family in this weird situation we're stuck in.
- Recently started meditation with Headspace along with reading The Mind Illuminated, am unsure which resource to focus on or how to integrate them.
- Pain vs. death
- Why should Men start Meditating
- Mindfulness of Breathing
- 6 things to do in this lockdown that will change your life
- Complete beginner ... Where do I start?
- Need some clarity here
- Addictions and attachments
- [please] Any advice for meditating in bed? I’m a starter
- Whenever I focus on the prefrontal cortex - I feel something in my body
- Keep my own practice or should I look for a meditation teacher?
- How to Meditate (no Credit Card Required)
- I feel like Im not doing meditation right
- Have any of you ever meditated for extremely long periods with little interruption?
- Distracting vibrations in my head during meditation
| The free-forever meditation app is finally out. Thanks to you �� Posted: 20 Apr 2020 01:12 AM PDT It's been almost a year since I posted this post on this sub. Thanks to all your comments, this sub, a lot of research, planning and hard work, I'm happy to announce the launch of Medito! 🧘♀️🧘♂️ You can now download the app for free! Will it be free forever? Yes, it will. We have set it up under a nonprofit. More content to come? Yes, this is just the beginning, but just to let you know, walking meditations are coming, a pack of "Meditating with great thinkers", a compassion course, sleep stories, sounds, more voices... More features to come? Yes. Coming soon we have a streak counter, offline mode, more duration options... Romain @ Medito Foundation [link] [comments] |
| No one owns a monopoly on meditation or yoga. Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:08 AM PDT It's so easy to look to others in directing our spiritual journeys. I'd like to encourage you to discover your own meditation and yoga. There are no right or wrong answers. We ppl start to tell you the "right way" to do something, they are expressing their bias. Breathe how you feel compelled to breathe. Focus on what you desire to focus on. Explore your mind, influence your body, you are the creator of your path. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2020 06:57 PM PDT All the tracks are instrumental with backing environmental ambience thrown in, and they are all calm and soothing, exactly what I right need now. Feel free to check it out, and provide feedback. If this can help someone else too also feeling the pressure then that would make me happy. Stay Safe Everyone. <3 [link] [comments] |
| Really interesting video about our brain and reality. Posted: 19 Apr 2020 11:40 PM PDT (Disclaimer, it's not by me or anyone I know. I just found it) [link] [comments] |
| Living in the present is...boring? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 11:56 PM PDT Hi all. On a mindfuljess journey as a lifelong overthinker. I overall love this second lease on life, the ability to draw out more enjoyment and detach from worries and anxiety. However, I am having trouble letting go of the excitement I used to get from daydreaming about my future self and goals. Is the ideal life lived completely in the present? How does one fantasize (about future) or reflect (of past) mindfully? And is it wrong to want certain goals like wealth, a beautiful and interesting partner, competitive success in sports or other realms? I see how this can all be achieved with humility and love, but with only living in the present and not striving to improve the self, I'm not sure why I would need to have future goals anymore. [link] [comments] |
| Need help with sleep anxiety, 2 days sleepless Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:50 PM PDT So right now my sleepless streak is at 2 days straight, I am constantly meditating through headspace app, but I cant get through the night with a clear mind. I am also very stressed and I feel like I'm forcing too much in my sleep that I deprive myself from sleep, which leads me to more mixed emotions. Thoughts and insights for my current situation please. [link] [comments] |
| How do you actually focus on the breath? Posted: 20 Apr 2020 12:45 AM PDT This is the most common technique but still while medtating, I wonder, how one actually have to do it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2020 10:11 PM PDT if i want to see results in meditation is 30 minutes too much? i looked this up on google and every website was like 5-10 minutes should be enough, but i just did 30. is that too much meditation? should i lower it? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:36 AM PDT I created a playlist of beautiful relaxing music that helps me tune in while I work. I think you will enjoy it too. All the tracks are instrumental with some little ambience thrown in, and they are all calm and positive, exactly what we need now. Feel free to check and enjoy it. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/66BrPS9RwzczUJrDZL5wNS?si=7NG9GImWQZmtjo2Ua20CLA [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2020 02:41 AM PDT To begin, I'd gotten The Mind Illuminated a few months ago after some recommendations but only started reading it last month. I was allowing myself to read through the first two section before trying to begin a regular practice so I at least had a ground work in what I should be trying to do. It was around this time I decided to try Headspace and I found it was a very easy way to start the habit of setting some time aside everyday. I've done 18 sessions (missed a few days) over the last three weeks in Headspace and have quite enjoyed it. Through reading TMI I've begun to question which resource would be most beneficial to use as TMI suggests starting each meditation session in a different way to Headspace with a six point preparation practice. I've noticed that I have a harder time keeping focus when I count breaths like Headspace suggests and have instead tried focusing on the breath sensation around the nose as I'd read in TMI, I found the latter worked better so have been doing that instead. Would it be wise to just continue with both resources and experiment with methods suggested in both while using the Headspace guided sessions? I'm working my way through the Basics 2 at the moment. At the moment, I'm using the app to keep things regular and at least get a start but I'm unsure about what to do in the future. I've read a few posts here about Headspace which give the impression it's good for beginning and could be useful for a few months to a year, after which you may want to try something different. I'm also try to do some reading, Power of Now, to develop a deeper understanding of mindfulness and meditation in general. If anyone has experience with these two things, or some general advice I'd be glad to hear from you. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2020 02:24 AM PDT My friend once told me, if he ever got a terminal cancer, he wouldn't wait for things to get painful. He would much rather choose assisted suicide, even if it meant less time spent with his wife, his family and his children. He said that the experience of assisted suicide these days is quite advanced: an injection that relaxes you to the point of death. He said that if he was to choose otherwise, his loved ones would suffer along with him, and it would be unfair to put them through it. At the time when he brought it up, I didn't have anything to respond. I just had an uncomfortable feeling that there's a problem with this way of reasoning, but what problem - I couldn't tell. It is difficult to overstate just how privileged are the majority in the western world, and that doesn't need explaining. Most people don't know what it's like to live in a constant pain. Most people don't know what it's like to have no roof over their heads. Many people don't know what having a mental illness is like. Many people don't know how it feels to have no stability, no ground underneath you. Many people don't know what it's like to experience terror and abuse every single day of their lives. Many people don't know what it's like to be abandoned, to be bullied lifeless, to be tortured, to be utterly isolated. Many people don't know what it's like to starve. Many people don't know what it's like to have no light at the end of the tunnel. Yet there are people who know. There are people who experience all of this and cannot picture their own existence without pain. We all have pain in our lives, and when it happens, we often, if not always, do everything we can to shove it off. We push it away by changing our environment, by distracting ourselves with happy thoughts, with social media, with films and TV shows. We push our pain away by drinking alcohol, or by taking Advil, or by getting affirmation from others. We look away from our own pain, and that extends into looking away from the pain of others. When we pass by a homeless person, how many of us look at them? How many of us sit beside them, how many of us talk to them, and how many of us burst out crying as we're near? We pass by, and, as hard as we can, we divert our attention to the passing cars, to the nearby office buildings, to the smell of the Spring, to the birds singing on the trees around us. We do everything to not see that under those same trees, there is a person who lives in the state of permanent pain. I believe there's a problem with how we look at pain. By looking away, within ourselves, we develop apathy and a disconnect from reality. We are naturally empathetic creatures. When someone else is perceived to be in pain, we feel it ourselves, not in exactly the same way and not as vividly, but still reflected in our own minds. That's why, when you perceive it in real life or through a video, your face frowns and you involuntarily say "ouch!" There's even a condition called mirror-touch synesthesia, with which a person may actually feel true pain upon perceiving someone else experiencing it. I believe that we all have this mirroring apparatus in our brains, yet normally, the crossover to our own perception is limited. So many of us look away from our own pain as well as the pain of others, without realizing how it aids our selfishness, and further disconnects people within our society. Is there a better way, a better approach towards pain? Is there a way that will contribute our society, and contribute each human being on this planet? What approach will actually help us live in society of connectedness and care rather than apathy and disconnect? What approach can reduce suffering? I believe that the answer is, mindfulness. As I sit and pay close attention to the pain in my back, I experience the pulsation of a feeling that has a shape of a crooked squarish balloon that pushes against my skin and gets pressed into my ribs. It pushes stronger when full of air, and less strong as it deflates. At some points, the balloon completely shrinks to the point where I don't feel even the slightest touch. This lasts many seconds before the pain returns. How interesting. If I didn't pay any attention, I would later tell myself that I had pain for the whole duration of my meditation. But now that I turned my attention towards the pain, I can actually observe that it was gone for a good while. As the pain returns, now slightly stronger, I pay a close attention to its pulsating nature, to how it appears, to how it increases, then decreases, then increases again, then subsides to non-existence, all the while having tiny and almost imperceptible vibrations in its intensity. Every time the pain rises, a desire to change my position rises. Then a desire to stop my meditation. Then a desire to move to a chair. Oh, here's another desire to do something; oh, here's another. And yet I sit still, observing every sensation, every feeling and every desire at every moment. Without mindfulness, without paying attention, these desires arise just as much. However, they are not decoupled from each other and from the sensation of the pain. They are all tangled together in a murky fog of mindlessness. When we don't look the pain right in the eye, it feels like the end of the world, as if a massive flood starts to devour and drown us. Sometimes we feel forced to run away, leaving others behind, causing a habitual apathy. Other times, it causes us to build floodgates by changing the environment around us, only to be left vulnerable if changing the environment is no longer an option. And so we continue to run away from the flood our whole lives, even if that means the loss of connection, ignorance or even death. Why are we all here? Why are we born? Why do we die? Where did your consciousness come from? Where will it go? Wouldn't it be arrogant to claim knowledge of the answers? If so, who are we to say that our existence has no meaning? Who are we to say that our pain has no meaning? When you sit, with pain and look it straight in the eye, do you learn something? If you do, can you take this knowledge beyond death? And if the answer is yes, can you save humanity with this knowledge? I do not consider my friend to be wrong in making such choice, and I do not wish to criticize people who already suffer too much and choose the injection. But I believe that coming to terms with your own pain can be an extraordinary enlightening experience. Like in any other conscious experience, there is a jewel of wisdom and truth in the experience of pain. This jewel reflects bravery, strength and empathy. The knowledge of this experience can help others deal with their pain, so that it does not turn into suffering. If my friend was to sit still and persist despite the pain and use it as an opportunity to learn to find peace inside it, maybe that would inspire his loved ones to persist through their difficulties, too? And maybe, just maybe, this can help to save humanity? [link] [comments] |
| Why should Men start Meditating Posted: 20 Apr 2020 02:23 AM PDT |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2020 01:17 AM PDT Stop and notice the rhythm of your breathing. Is it fast or slow? Is your breathing shallow or deep? Are you in your threat, drive or soothing system? Just notice by being mindful of your breathing. Sit down and get into a dignified posture with you back straight. Gently see if you can deepen your in-breath, slowly breathing in and slowly breathing out, slowing down your breath. How does that feel? [link] [comments] |
| 6 things to do in this lockdown that will change your life Posted: 20 Apr 2020 01:13 AM PDT |
| Complete beginner ... Where do I start? Posted: 20 Apr 2020 12:06 AM PDT I have been reading a little bit from the posts, and whereas there is a variety of levels, I am finding it difficult to find information on starting from zero. Can anyone provide some information on the best ways for getting started? I am really struggling with negativity in my life and, by extension, my temper. I'm looking to just find some balance and hope to learn techniques to have better impulse control when it comes to my temper. Thanks in advance. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2020 11:54 PM PDT So I did a small meditation session after I asked the gods and goddess for help and make their presence known. Help me find my path. They can come on their own free will, not really going to force them to do anything, just going to ask for guidance, since I'm lost. Was honest and sincere. Etc. But afterwards, after it was done, I decided to meditate, to really reflect what was going on because after the ritual, the energy was, wow. It was like my voice was finally heard. Like actually heard. But during meditation I saw 2 visions 1.) Was a female hand grabbing mine 2.) Was female eyes like in a kaleidoscope. They were calm, but also kinda seductive. But mostly calm with a hint of seduction I'm still trying to collect and ground myself. Thoughts? I also learnt during the ritual and meditation that time is a illusion really [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2020 11:48 PM PDT I've noticed how just empty of an human being I am. Everyday I cant stay present because food is just always on my mind. Food food food. Waiting for mealtime. Thats it. Heck... sometimes I do things just to push through the time so mealtime can come faster. Im not joking... I workout, meditate (taking a break now from it), try to stay in the moment but its like im hungry all the time and food cravings come back. I even tried to do kundalini yoga (I want to awaken kundalini too) but food was just poping up lmao. I also cant seem to kick nail chewing/ peelimg habit too and I always check my phone too. I notice these things but like yeah I still do them. I also get attached to the things "I do". For example: I used to do cold showers / ice baths and go to the lake in the winter. And like I went all out on them (20min in ice cold shower), went outside to the winter with tshirt and shorts, because I wanted to become just like Wim Hof is or atleast his experienced students. I always compare and compete with others... like i make myself do things I dont want and I get way too competitive till I burn myself out... Or like if I meditate I have to reach enlightment and be as best as possible. The same thing happened with fasting. I fasted till I became underweight, because I got ATTACHED to the idea that I have to be as ascetic as possible to reach enlightenment and kundalini. And well it only increased my food cravings. And I want to get rid of food cravings. The thing about food cravings is that I have them all the time. (Even when I was normal weight). So its not the fasting that triggered them. Like I can eat non stop for the whole day no joke. Now lately I stopped meditating and cold showers because people here adviced me to do so, because I was fucking up my "energy channels" and burning nyself up with showering that long. How do I become more spiritual? Less attached/addicted? [link] [comments] |
| [please] Any advice for meditating in bed? I’m a starter Posted: 19 Apr 2020 09:51 PM PDT I want to perceive myself on a different level and receive intuition about where my life is headed rather than meditating and falling asleep. Advice please. [link] [comments] |
| Whenever I focus on the prefrontal cortex - I feel something in my body Posted: 19 Apr 2020 06:32 AM PDT Hi, Whenever I try to focus on the prefrontal cortex area of the brain, I feel like an electric charge or like a nervous connection through my legs, like being more active. I don't know how to explain this clearly, but has anyone experienced this before? [link] [comments] |
| Keep my own practice or should I look for a meditation teacher? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 01:38 PM PDT Hi all, For the past 2 years, I've been practicing 45 to 60 minutes of meditation almost every day. Sometimes the practice brings so much pleasure, so much joy, or such a deep acceptance of what is happening that becomes hard to break. Besides that, in my opinion, the best parts of meditation are the insights one can get about life and existence in general. I think that if I want to improve my practice I need a more structured approach and I've been looking for teachers or coaches in the subject. Unfortunately, everything I've found so far is teachers that advertise how to fortify the ego through meditation. For example, reduce stress and anxiety, become more confident, That is a bit of the opposite of what I have realized while practicing meditation. Through the daily life, it is easy to buy into the idea of a self that lives in this universe but is separate from it in the sense that its decisions and actions are independent of the laws of this universe. But really by investigating this self a bit (and meditation is a great way to do it), it is possible to realize that this self is just an illusion, it is just a thought that comes and goes like every other thought, it is not real. The mind for sure can be trained to become more resourceful, however, I'm not sure if meditation is an effective way to do so. I somehow think that if meditation teachers promote this improvement of the self, they either have not gone deep into the practice of meditation or are just being completely disingenuous. So my question is it worth looking for an experienced and honest meditation teacher? if so, where to find him/her? any suggestions? [link] [comments] |
| How to Meditate (no Credit Card Required) Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:11 AM PDT The human species has a very strong realtionship with rituals. Repetition associated with an action cause the mind to predict that situation when it happens again, and act accordingly. This is why some people find a place in the house, or a time of the day to meditate. The repetition of that situation, associated with the practice can automatically induce the mind to concentrate and automatically enter a state of mindfulness. I personally want to be able to meditate anywhere, so my ritual consists in sitting in seiza with my eyes closed, under the sunlight, preferably. Find hat works best for you, and relax. After you've found a place to sit (laying down is not a problem if you don't fall asleep), return your attention to your breath, and to the present moment. It's not like thinking about the breath, but feeling and being aware of it. You can start with your eyes opened, but closing them might help you focus. The thoughts will come, but always gently return the attention to the breath and to the present moment. That's it, this is the essence of mindfulness meditation. Do it for 10 to 20 to 40 minutes if you want to, but it's better to increase length gradually, and not stay 40 minutes lost in thought. The good news is that you don't need anyone to guide you, neither do you need any paid apps. You can do it wherever, whenever you choose. The hard truth is that it requires a lot of discipline and patience to reap the benefits of this practice. But believe me, it's completely worth it. By exercising it regularly, I managed to encounter other situations throughout the day where my mind wants to wander through thoughts that aren't helpful in the moment (that I'm writing, for example), but as I'm training the 'attention switch muscle', I find it much easier to return the attention back to where I need it. Thank you so much for reading! Stay Safe [link] [comments] |
| I feel like Im not doing meditation right Posted: 19 Apr 2020 06:59 PM PDT So I meditate by the way I know it is done but I think Im not doing it right.Beginner meditator here Ive been stress out and I find it hard to relax so I hope meditation will have a good impact.How do I meditate?Teach a brother out guys [link] [comments] |
| Have any of you ever meditated for extremely long periods with little interruption? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 06:56 PM PDT I would love to hear your experiences. This can range anywhere from a few hours to an entire day [link] [comments] |
| Distracting vibrations in my head during meditation Posted: 19 Apr 2020 06:17 PM PDT I have recently started to come back to meditation after a hiatus from both a breakthrough and subsequent challenge. As I am focusing on my breath and attempt to let my mind quiet itself, I feel vibrations that feel like it's coming from around the top/middle part of my head. While I believe it could me my pineal, it has been interfering/causing me difficulty in overcoming this hurdle to reach a state where I can simply focus and let things be. By putting focus on it and just accepting it, it has not helped much. Any thoughts or advice? [link] [comments] |
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