Meditation: How do I handle escapism? |
- How do I handle escapism?
- How noting helped me regain my composure
- I get that big-lump-in-my-throat-time-to-cry-now feeling whenever I meditate. Anyone think they know why?
- I Done after Years!!!
- Any good resources for secular meditation?
- My hands/wrist/forearm feel like they are floating/expanding/lifting while meditating. Whats the go with this?
- breath meditation
- When you are unable to wish away any unpleasant thoughts - touch of the Original has happened, meditation has happened. The present crisis has automatically put you in a position when you are physically safe and secured, but feeling psychologically insecured, unsafe. The key is here.
- my medicatio
- The illusion of the self
- The world is full of sleeping people.
- Hyperventilating/anxiety
- Breathing question
- Ancient wisdom and meditation practices
- I Don't Know If This is Normal, But...
- Should I divide my meditation session to shorters session?
- “The best thing in life is death”-W.Blake
- Why do you meditate/ Started meditation?
- How do you deal with loneliness in these times
| Posted: 02 Apr 2020 10:36 AM PDT My excessive escapism is killing me. I don't do anything any more,just sit in front of my pc playing games or scrolling through social media. I can't even take out 20 minutes for meditation. I don't even have a normal conversation for days ,recently I have started smoking weed. I think i might also be addicted to porn. I basically reaching out for every bit of gratification I can get. Fuck fuck fuck. I don't think i can recover from this now. I don't even have the will to think there is a future where i can be better again. :( [link] [comments] |
| How noting helped me regain my composure Posted: 02 Apr 2020 09:19 PM PDT A little background: I've felt some dizziness on and off for a while since my anxiety and sleep issues surfaced late January. I felt some dizziness after my meditation yesterday and it really manifested itself in me. It feels largely disturbing like someone shook me up from a deep sleep and made me run. I can't focus on anything, my mind is sort of racing, and I become anxious. I felt some dizziness today as well and when I sat down to meditate I was still feeling it but instead of ignoring it, I began to follow as the meditation says and just noticed it. I didn't try and resist, I just noticed it and went back to the visualization and focusing on my breath. I did exactly that and it's like 99% gone that is crazy. I now firmly and fully understand the notion of noting. It took me a while to understand, but now that it's has happened I feel amazing. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2020 09:02 AM PDT When I meditate, I experience tremendous pain in my throat as one does just before crying. It quickly subsides when I stop. I never end up crying though... Does anyone have some insight? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2020 01:24 AM PDT first sorry for my english. i know, here are people, whoa trying meditation and it couldn't reach success. i had been trying meditation from child age, i knew what is meditation and i wanted it to be my rutine of my days. i have tried a lot of way , a lot of. often i had been trying make my comportable method for it, but no. case is different. i realize, what is awareness, it is very important a something in meditation. without it , meditation doesn't getting result. often people targeting result by meditation. expectation comes anxiety, if you don't realize, that you need awareness. i feel stoned now by meditation. you should realize, sensation ,feels, what is there with breath around. don't focus , that you should follow breath. breath is itself, breath moving and you should focus what is up during moving. it is kidding . thnx! [link] [comments] |
| Any good resources for secular meditation? Posted: 02 Apr 2020 01:00 PM PDT Anyone know any good resources for meditation from the perspective of boosting mental capabilities like focus, determination and creativity? Everything I can find seems to be written either for achieving enlightenment or as a help for mental problems. I would be more interested in how (if at all) I can use meditation to achieve specific things in life, such as writing a book - something I find incredibly difficult despite years of studying. Any help is appreciated. E: Thank you very much, everyone. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2020 11:20 PM PDT Just wondering if there are any explanations to this, if people experience anything similar. I tried doing a search on it and couldn't find much. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2020 06:53 PM PDT how does one simply become fully aware of breath? when i try to pay attention it feels fake for some reason. like im not fully aware. ive been meditating for about 3 weeks now and it seems as though i cant get the grip of it, even with guided ones. any tips on how i can improve? i usually sit on my chair with my back straight and feet flat on the floor and chin up a bit. i let my body relax. my mind seems too active though [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2020 11:21 AM PDT The present crisis has automatically put you in a position when you are physically safe and secured, but feeling psychologically insecured, unsafe. To acknowledge this insecurity, this unsafety, not to run away from this insecurity (by glossy explanations) is the key. Can you see that this is the total process at this moment – physically safe and secured but feeling psychologically unsafe? There is no way to come out of this format. Suddenly, the Totality is realized. Anxiety, fear has overtaken the human mind – 'what will happen', 'how life will go on', 'what the future holds' and so on. As of now when you are physically safe and secured, you want to feel relieved, satisfied about future, about something which can not be resolved now. Once we see that this relief can not be secured now, whole energy is concentrated here. What you want becomes clear. We do not see the fight within when we face any discomforting or confusing situation. We become busy in fighting away the unpleasantness by comforting ideas, explanations, complaining, blaming, feeling guilty including the idea that things will be alright in future. Thus miss the current of life. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 02 Apr 2020 09:31 AM PDT I'm having trouble understanding some aspects of the illusory self. Maybe it is that it can't be understood intellectually, only experientially? It is clear to me that consciousness itself is an open area in which all sensations and thoughts bubble in to and fade away. During meditation one can pay attention to all of these and watch them fade away. One can disentangle their identification with the thoughts and see them as themselves as popping up and leaving on their own. There isn't a particular locus that is the thinker of the thoughts, etc. Who then is the one that witnesses all of this? If the self is an illusion, and there is only consciousness with a stream of sensation and thought of which to become aware, who is the one that that can stand back and see this while meditating? Is this what the illusion is? It feels like there is something outside of consciousness' open basin peering in and looking at everything in awareness. Or are we simply consciousness itself, awareness itself, with no further outside vantage point? We are the awareness in which everything appears and falls away on its own, and there is no "I" outside of this. Thanks for reading. [link] [comments] |
| The world is full of sleeping people. Posted: 02 Apr 2020 06:05 AM PDT
They socialise in sleep, make friends in sleep, fight in sleep, get married in sleep and have children in sleep. They kill each other in sleep, discriminate against each other in sleep, hate each other in sleep and "love" each other in sleep. But because they're asleep, their "love" isn't really love, even parents don't really love their children. If they did, there wouldn't be any wars and there wouldn't be so many unhappy and hateful people.
One of the few times people experience a glimpse of awakening is during sex, that's why it plays such an important role in our society. Meditation is great because it is a tool for awakening from the sleep the world is in. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2020 09:02 AM PDT I've been meditating off and on for about 6 years now. lately I've found that my anxiety is getting worse when doing breath work or just in general concentrating on my breath. Then I inevitably start to hyperventilate and cause more anxiety. what do I do? how can one meditate with being too conscious of their breath? I just don't understand why it's such an issue all of a sudden... I'm at a loss [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2020 03:13 PM PDT When on Headspace, and they say "count your breath," does inhale count as 1, and exhale as 2?! Or does the inhale + exhale count as 1? Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Ancient wisdom and meditation practices Posted: 02 Apr 2020 02:54 PM PDT I have been meditating for a few years now, moving from sporadic meditation meetings, to daily Headspace-sessions, to mantra (Acem) meditation with simple bells on Insight Timer. This is working quite well, but I feel that I have stagnated a little. I feel the need for some inspiration, but all I can find is westerners that have seen the mindfulness light (I am one of them). Where are the teachers that have wisdom and meditation practices rooted in ancient traditions? [link] [comments] |
| I Don't Know If This is Normal, But... Posted: 02 Apr 2020 11:06 AM PDT TLDR: I have a hard time meditating. I see weird visuals when I meditate or try to. Is this normal? Help me meditate? I just want to start by saying that I really, really, really struggle with meditating. I think everyone under the moon has recommended to me that I try it, but it frightens me to no end. I have a history of trauma and abuse that hasn't been processed, so I don't know if that's related to this at all. Part of the reason I'm scared of meditation is that I'm scared of losing control, my thoughts are constantly like bouncing balls in my head, and I can't sit still. I don't know what to do about it, so my husband asked me to share with the Reddit community--he says y'all are super nice =) Anyways, on to the main story, last night, my husband was feeling irritable and antsy--who isn't under the lockdown, am I right?--and when I asked him what would make him feel better, he said meditating. So, trying to be a supportive wife, I said I would do it with him--but trust me when I say it was the LAST thing I wanted to do. I've had major medical procedures, and those seemed appealing to me in the light of meditating. He sensed my fear, and said hold on, I'll put something on that might help. Mind you, I've tried Headspace, I've tried Calm, I've tried Aura, I've tried Tara Bracht, and nothing gets me to relax or calm down--if that's the goal of meditation? I'm not really sure what is the goal of meditation, to be honest. My best friend, a psychologist, says it's about connecting with and inviting her higher self, my husband says it relaxes him and helps him find peace, and other friends have said it's calmed them and helped them feel relaxed. I don't know. I just know that I have lupus, I've had a stroke, I get migraine, I've had alopecia, I have PTSD, and every doctor and friend I've met has told me I needed to meditate. Moreover, a few months ago, I took a monster mushroom trip (this is a *whole* other story unto itself), and I experienced ego death through a fear-based passage, and I know I "died" wrong, and I knew there was a way to "die in peace," and I needed to return to life (the sober world) to figure out how to live and die in peace--and I know meditation is part of that. Anyways, long tangent, but my husband Proceeds to play "Great Falls (feat. Elena Brower)" from Above and Beyond, which is super cool, if you haven't heard it before. Anyways, I'm low-key hyperventilating and getting anxious and working on my puzzle (it's my happy place in quarantine-time), and he's like trust me, just try it, so I go in with the intention of trying it and being okay with what I can do. I go into child's pose because I can't find a comfortable spot to sit, and then it starts... I close my eyes, and IMMEDIATELY, I'm falling down a rabbit hole at an intense speed, it turns into a tunnel that I'm tobogganing down without a toboggan, and it's going insanely fast, like I'm on a high-speed roller roaster, weaving in and out of darkness and light, unable to stop or get off the ride. All of a sudden I get to this clearing, and there's Frida Kahlo with her face painted for Dia de Los Muertos with a cartoony Diego Rivera, and she fades into the backdrop as twelve Friday Kahlos come out and dance around me, spinning faster and faster, until they merge into her famous self-portrait in which she has a pillar holding where her spine should be with nails in her face, and she's crying and crying. Suddenly, I'm tobogganing again, except this time, I'm miniature, and I'm on a leaf in a river. I'm watching myself going down this rough river as there are huge spiky roots sticking out into the water, and I get pierced on one, my body impaled and stuck, only to have myself separate from my dangling pierced self to go a little further down the river on my leaf only to get impaled again on an identical root, and this continues and the impaling and self-separations get more and more frequent. Suddenly, I'm in a cleaning, and there's a genderless, faceless human sitting crosslegged, meditating, and they are floating on what seems to be water at the center of the clearing that's all water, and they suddenly push down into the water, like a largely gush of air hitting the water, and the water ripples like it's been hit with a sonic boom, and even at the distance I'm at, I reverberate with the force of that boom. This is a snapshot of what I saw--not the whole thing by any means--but after feeling the reverberations, I feel like I'm going to scream, and I snap my eyes open, and my husband opens his eyes, and I just whisper, I can't do it. I can't do any more than that. It's barely been two minutes, and I'm a little shaken up, and I return to puzzling. Is this normal? Is this what meditation is supposed to be like? I don't feel like there's any obvious connecting with a higher self. I don't feel like I'm in control. I don't feel calm, relaxed, or at peace. I feel like I'm taken on a crazy, artistic, frightening, incredibly intense ride. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or this is just what meditations is going to be like for me. I wasn't trying to see any of those things or thinking any thoughts really. It was all nonverbal and visual. It's hard for me even to describe it (so I might have done a bad job at it). I just wanna know if I'm alone, if this is normal, and what am I supposed to do about it. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Should I divide my meditation session to shorters session? Posted: 02 Apr 2020 07:07 AM PDT I have practiced meditation for 2 months. My meditation session last for 15 minutes and there are 4 sessions like that per day. So the total time I spent for meditation in a day is one hour. The reason I divide my sessions because my physical stamina decrease over time and so does my concentration in that session. Do anyone have the same strategy, or if you can meditate for a long session, please share your tips and your experiences. By the way, I used breath as my anchor, should I switch to other techniques in the future? [link] [comments] |
| “The best thing in life is death”-W.Blake Posted: 02 Apr 2020 06:21 AM PDT "Crucifixion comes before resurrection. Crucifixion without resurrection would be unthinkable; it would be the utter triumph of tyranny. If I could yield myself to my dream and it would not become flesh, it would be complete tyranny over this wonderful concept of life. But you cannot fail if you yield. If you hold back within yourself, wondering "What will I play as my last card if this doesn't work?" then you have not yielded, you have not nailed yourself to it. It is a complete yielding. It is the great cry "My God! My God! Why hast Thou forsaken me?" If you know that you're God doing it, you can yield. But there must be complete abandonment as though it were true and then you make it a reality. The cost is that form of mental abandonment that Blake calls "madness." But man is afraid; he dare not so abandon himself to a dream, and so never "dies." So Blake was right when he said: "There is nothing like death: the best thing in life is death." Many people only age, but never change inwardly. They only mature physically, but they have not died in the mystical sense. There is no transforming power in the physical death, and they will still be anchored in a larger world with all the trends of this world. To our senses they seem to be dead but they will still, on another plane, have to learn the art of dying. I can anywhere so completely detach myself from what is taking place that I can "die" to that state. So every little death is the lifting of the divine image. This means dying as the mystic means it. It means dying mentally. Man dies to ill health, or poverty, or to disharmony, etc., but he does it by yielding to the other states." - N.Goddard [link] [comments] |
| Why do you meditate/ Started meditation? Posted: 02 Apr 2020 07:46 AM PDT For me, life is mad right now. being 19 and halfway through college it certainly is stressful and that's not the college work I'm talking about but the fact life itself is overwhelming and makes no sense. Meditation helps me calm my mind and not latch on to every thought that comes in. Even now I still have difficulty describing my struggle and I hope meditation helps me find the right words eventually. [link] [comments] |
| How do you deal with loneliness in these times Posted: 02 Apr 2020 12:40 PM PDT |
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