Meditation: I meditated today. |
- I meditated today.
- Accidentally got a 1 year Sub to 10 Percent Happier but cause of Corona couldn't afford it. They refunded me and gave me 6 months free.
- i realized something while meditating the other day.
- Meditation helped me be better at Doom Eternal
- Any success stories using lessons from your practice to help with sleep disruptions?
- Does anyone else meditate while listening to rain & storms?
- I keep dropping Meditation, how to keep it going as a habit
- Frustration: I can't breathe normally
- Looking for guidelines to making my own solo meditation retreat at home
- Question: Breathing vs Vibrations
- Walking meditation?
- I would love some meditation recommendations for academic anxiety.
- приложение для медитации (rus pals only sry)
- Meditated 21 mins/day for the last 30 days. What worked for me and what didn't?
- Is there any negatives?
- My experience when i did first meditation
- Spirituality in the age of high-end technology and modern life
- I need some answers and help
- Meditation and anxiety
- “Your universe” is the best YouTube channel for meditation. Go check it out. It’s helped me so much. ����
- I think I get it - we don't have free will so theres nothing rationally to worry about
- Some guidance!
- How to cope with my own high hopes and over concerning.
- I want to stop meditation but please help me
- Sensation of hands touching the legs - how many of you use this as an anchor?
| Posted: 28 Apr 2020 06:57 AM PDT I sat in my backyard in my comfy chair and meditated for 10 minutes. It was great. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2020 02:42 PM PDT Absolutely love this company, give 10 Percent a try if you're looking for a new meditation app. [link] [comments] |
| i realized something while meditating the other day. Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:39 AM PDT my ego is in the way of my efforts to understand myself. this implies that i am in the way of understanding myself; in order to understand myself, i must somehow see through, around, or beyond myself. the thing that i am trying to study is in the way of itself. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation helped me be better at Doom Eternal Posted: 29 Apr 2020 01:44 AM PDT Doom Eternal is a very fast paced game that came out a couple weeks ago. I'm playing on a difficulty setting where it deletes your save file when you die. I've been trying to beat the game like that without much success, mostly dying in the first two levels. At the same I picked up my meditation practice again. After a meditation session I decided to play the game with a slower approach than usual and try to redirect focus on not getting swept up by the action. I've had a lot more success this way and have made much more progress than with my usual method of rushing battles. Meditation helped slow down and think of a different strategy. Now I'm a much better Doom Slayer. [link] [comments] |
| Any success stories using lessons from your practice to help with sleep disruptions? Posted: 28 Apr 2020 11:54 PM PDT I often go through bouts of waking up early in the morning (2-4am) and not being able to get back to sleep due to the anxiety inducing thoughts of the upcoming day. For some reason, thoughts and emotions are really amplified during this time and my mind tends to think these issues need to be solved with a matter of urgency, quickly spiralling out of control...so I just end up tossing and turning until the alarm goes off...with pointless thoughts being front and centre. I remind myself there's nothing thoughts will be able to solve and bring to mind the selfless, impermanent nature of reality, but all is in vain. When I get up, I'm so perplexed as to why these thoughts had such a strong grip over my mind, as they are usually seemingly trivial and during daytime would never warrant a similar response. Anyways, I'm sure many of you had encountered similar issues and here's hoping for some success stories or pearls of wisdom... [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone else meditate while listening to rain & storms? Posted: 28 Apr 2020 12:32 PM PDT I came across this on my searches earlier and really found it to be high quality and very relaxing so I thought I'd share. I'd appreciate other sharing sounds they mediate to as well. [link] [comments] |
| I keep dropping Meditation, how to keep it going as a habit Posted: 28 Apr 2020 10:46 PM PDT I used to Meditate every morning for like 3 years, the life goes tough and I was like dropping the habit. Now I meditate for a few days, then drop a few days, then life goes tough and I come back to meditation again like last resort. This makes me feel bad of myself, because I just couldn't keep this going everyday proactive but just react to life crisis. Do you have any similar experiences? How do you get over it and come back to the habit? [link] [comments] |
| Frustration: I can't breathe normally Posted: 28 Apr 2020 11:27 PM PDT I am at day 32 on the Waking Up app, and this session I was asked to focus on the breath throughout. The problem arises here, when I start focusing on my breath, I lose the ability to breathe normally. I don't know how long breaths I should take, how quick I should breathe, I can't even manage to keep a steady airflow. And every time the instructor asks me to just let the breath come naturally, I feel more and more stupid and useless for not even being able to do that. At the end of the session I feel angry and frustrated and useless. Any advice from experienced meditators? [link] [comments] |
| Looking for guidelines to making my own solo meditation retreat at home Posted: 28 Apr 2020 08:40 PM PDT I figure since I'm isolated anyways and about to be finished with a project that it'd be a good time for doing a meditation retreat. What makes the retreat flow is the posted schedule that everyone follows. The understanding that everyone follows the schedule is sorta what gets you to keep on meditating all day. It'll take more discipline alone, but I think I can do it with the right preparation. Any thoughts on things I should consider? Are there any solo meditation retreat schedules already made that I could base mine off? One thing I insist on being different than other retreats is, I'm not getting up at 4am haha. I'd like to base my retreat off another schedule and shift the time to waking up at 10am. [link] [comments] |
| Question: Breathing vs Vibrations Posted: 29 Apr 2020 01:35 AM PDT Hey guys. Started meditation a month ago. I was meditating 5 mins, now im doing 20 minutes easly. Over this course of a month, i learned to recorgnize my thought and thinking behavour, and it was possible, for the first time in my life, to tame my mind and calm it down. As i got better and felt i was relaxing, this weird vibrating sensation / muffled ringing in my ears started to appear. It happens every time im getting into a slighlty deeper state. I read about this souns alot, and alot of people wrote its recommeded to focus on it - and heres my confusion:
Hoe should i proceed? P.s, this has been one of the most powerfull tools ive gained. People have been asking me if i smoked weed since i started to be chile, ive lost 14 lbs, and overall my wellbeing is alot better. Thank you guys! [link] [comments] |
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| I would love some meditation recommendations for academic anxiety. Posted: 28 Apr 2020 10:21 PM PDT I face excruciating anxiety surrounding difficult academic subjects that I absolutely need to pass for my dream job. I love these subjects, but my anxiety about not passing MAKES me fail. Since I won't start class for another month, I figured now would be the time to change my mindset before I embark on my academic journey. I would very much appreciate meditation recommendations on self-esteem, self-worth, self-compassion, and confidence. [link] [comments] |
| приложение для медитации (rus pals only sry) Posted: 28 Apr 2020 10:16 PM PDT кто-то может подсказать качественное приложение для медитации, которое можно скачать с торрента? друзья спрашивают как начать медитировать, а я не могу ничего подсказать, так как пользуюсь английскими медитациями. помимо приложений, как ещё можно их направить к медитации? [link] [comments] |
| Meditated 21 mins/day for the last 30 days. What worked for me and what didn't? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 03:26 AM PDT My depressive phases have reduced. It's kind of weird to experience that you no longer have that default sad state. The jealousy towards others have reduced. My internet and porn addiction haven't really declined much, though I occasionally catch myself well to control the urge. I reckon it would help if I become more mindful throughout the day. Now, I am aiming to be more mindful for the rest of the time. My biggest takeaway was that you should meditate without expecting any benefits, that way you would enjoy the process and benefits however little would accrue in the long term. Disclaimer: The biggest reason for me to start meditating was because I was tired of my emotional instability and had a realization that almost all of my life's desires were futile and that I can be very happy by staying in the present and enjoy being the part of the energy called God. It doesn't mean that I've given up on my career or a layman's life, just that I am trying to untether my happiness from my desires. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2020 06:09 PM PDT I've seen the odd anecdotal evidence that meditation can sometimes cause problems in people's life and mental health. Is it ever dangerous? Can it be abused? I'm looking for personal accounts if anyone has any first hand experience with this. The reason I ask is because I have bipolar disorder, and I feel that my meditation induces mania, however it feels absolutely amazing and doesn't seem to interfere with my life. It's quite addictive. Further, when I was in a psych hospital earlier this year my psychiatrist said that mindfulness/meditation might not be appropriate for me, but I didn't really get a concrete reason as to why. It seems that every time I am regularly practicing meditation, life is good. A little manic, but really good and controllable. Thanks for taking the time to read my rant 😁 [link] [comments] |
| My experience when i did first meditation Posted: 29 Apr 2020 02:48 AM PDT Last night before i went to the bed , i did short meditation about 10 minutes. Im skeptical about "something" like this. I felt a weird feeling when i did it , seems like middle forehead ask me to open the "gate". Am i just halucinating? or it just my feeling because im tired? Is the third eye is real? Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| Spirituality in the age of high-end technology and modern life Posted: 28 Apr 2020 10:47 PM PDT Life has always been hi-tech according to the age you live in. When has life not been hi-tech, you tell me? Even the cave man, when he first used a sharpened piece of stone, was really going hi-tech, and then think of the one who got an axe. The axe was the equivalent of fusion bomb today. So you say as if technology is something that has happened just today. Given man's intellect, technology has always been there. And technology is a function of time, 200 years from today, if man survives till then given the climate catastrophe and other things, all the technologies that you have today will be considered of the bullock-cart category. 200 years from today, all of today's technologies will not merely be obsolete but actually laughable, just as today you look at ENIAC computer of 1940s and wonder of what use it could have been. But when that computer first came, it was absolutely hi-tech, was it not? We fail to see beyond the limitations of time because we're so identified with time. We're products of time so we think according to our times. We do not allow our thoughts to have a bit of expanse. You're calling these times as modern. And then you look at all those people who have been and you want to call them Dinosaurs. We take great pride in calling all those people as savage cavemen, oh the primitive barbarians! And we're modern people. And every generation that thinks of itself as modern. Here I don't use the word 'modern' in its technical sense. In the technical sense, modernity is defined by a particular era or a particular century. But every generation that thinks of itself as modern is brought to its knees, is brought to some humility by the successive generation who terms it backward, regressive, obsolete. So technology has always been there. Man has always been trying to do a few things. Think of the first car, think of the internet when it first came. Think of the man or the community that first discovered fire. Do you know how modern fire would have been? Think! And language! Language would have been an utter revolution. Man has never come upon anything as significant as language, the discovery of language in those times would have been magnificent. Spirituality is not reconciliation. All technology is just mind. All technology is just mind stuff. Spirituality is the light that shines upon mind. Spirituality is to look at mind and the mind's innovations and inventions, all the technical stuff, new gadgets, new technologies and see the mentality behind them. What do I need this thing for, what is man trying to do when he's trying to colonize Mars? What is man really trying to do when he's trying to clone a sheep and then clone a human being? When you look at something like crypto currency or block chain for example, then you should ask yourself what is really going on? Because what is happening is not just something in the outer gross space, what is happening outside is a representation of something inside man. What is it inside man that is bringing these things into the world? What is it that we really want? And if we don't know what we really want, then obviously no technology and invention can help us. Knowledge is a double edged sword. Knowledge with the knowledge of the knower will lead to salvation. Knowledge without knowledge of knower will lead to deeper slavery, and that's what the sages have been telling us. Let your knowledge lead to salvation because knowledge in absence of self-knowledge will not lead to salvation, it would rather lead to slavery. Technology can be useful tool to assist man's salvation, it can be. When the great books are printed, does not the very existence of those books depend on the innovation called the printing press. So technology can assist in salvation. The great meditative words of the sages wouldn't have reached us had men not invented language. Even right now what we're talking of here is reaching thousands of people online, real time through technology. So technology can assist in salvation but for that your worldly knowledge must be combined with self-knowledge, only then knowledge equals salvation or liberation. But if you just have the knowledge of apparent Universe without any self-knowledge, then the technology that would be created would be used in the most foolish and destructive ways. So the question needs to be modified a little bit, it's not about the special technology that we have in this age, it's not about combining old spiritual practices with modern technical environment. It's about asking whether all the knowledge that we have today is in the environment of self-knowledge? Without self-knowledge, the more worldly knowledge that you have the more pathetic your condition would be. That is the reason why today man is in worse condition in many ways than he ever was. Hypothetically just think of a tribe which has very little worldly knowledge, and that tribe has been living in their own particular way with even the language that is only semi developed. So the members of that tribe have very little self-knowledge as well but their condition won't be so bad because if they don't have self-knowledge, they also don't have worldly knowledge. So they're living at least as happily as the animals, they're living in the jungles and living like the other citizens of the jungle, like animals and trees. They won't be deeply unhappy. They don't have self-knowledge but they also don't have worldly language, so they'll not be able to produce destructive technology, at least. They will be alright. They won't be experiencing any kind of bliss of liberation but they won't be experiencing the depths of depression either. Man has lot of worldly knowledge and very little self-knowledge, therefore man's condition is worse than that of the beasts because of so much technology. And let there be more technology, let there be more knowledge but the more knowledge you have of the Universe or of the material, equally proportionately you should have deep self-knowledge, otherwise be warned: your knowledge will eat you up. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2020 02:31 AM PDT Hello! Last summer I tried to listen to this kind of music usually being high. Usually my state lasted for about 30 minutes and then i went to sleep. But yesterday i tried to do it without "special" help. I managed to enter in a some kind of state where my body feels weird. Let me explain: Legs: They went numb, dizzy, i knew they are there but I haven't know the position of them Arms: I made them hold eachother and like legs, they went dizzy and numb Head: That's the interesting part. I heard some kind of wind in my head, depending of how i'm breathing, if I'm inhaling "the wind" lowers his power and if I'm exhaling "the wind" intensifies. Even my ears started to vibrate and feel dizzy and numb. I tried to read something last summer about meditation and I've saw something like "know how to breath and stop thinking" but i cannot stop thinking, because my mind started to create different types of images. At some point I tried to see myself but i couldn't last long. When i decided to stop my "meditation", i stopped the music (yes, the music up above) and my body haven't stopped vibrating. I haven't expected to enter such a state, i don't know where to start, i don't know what i'm capable of during it. Someone told me that I'm able to enter somebody's dream and be present during it. I don't know if it's possible but after such an weird and unexpected experience. I'm an ordinary man, i haven't tried to do it before without special help My "meditation" lasted for about 3 hours. I don't know much. So, I appreciate every answer, guidance and support! Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2020 02:24 AM PDT Anxiety sufferers... I just wanted some motivation for the benefits you have seen from daily meditation, I'm severely lacking as I feel like I'm a terrible meditator and those anxious thoughts are so strong! :( [link] [comments] |
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| I think I get it - we don't have free will so theres nothing rationally to worry about Posted: 29 Apr 2020 01:23 AM PDT If i can't stop my thoughts then who am I in relation to my thoughts? I think we can become more and more aware and get greater degrees of freedom but never fully free. So theres nothing to worry about. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:49 AM PDT So, i have been meditating for some time now (not on a constant basis) and i was wondering if im doing it correctly.. Is the experience and feelings i have just because im relaxing too much during the meditation? How can i tell if im doing it right? [link] [comments] |
| How to cope with my own high hopes and over concerning. Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:41 AM PDT I am a kind of person who always had high hopes from me, and who punished himself mentally for not meeting my own expectation. That's why i get too much scared of failures, frustration and depression, and this is hindering my everyday life. I get scared of failure and mot meeting my own hopes so much that i get a mini-deperssion, When i start getting concerned, the cycle just keeps going on increasing my mental burden until i get totally worn out. As i am also trying r/pornfree to break my porn addiction, i cant help but to cope these feelings with porn, because i did it most of my life. i don't know how to stop them, because my concern for life and my dreams is so much that i cant help but give these thoughts importance. How can i help myself? [link] [comments] |
| I want to stop meditation but please help me Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:28 AM PDT I started a year ago, when i stopped consuming my medication to stop depression. I was quite happy. But i felt a bit anxious so i started meditation. I hated it. A lot of fucking time, and you even had to increase it. Well i went by with it, but still changing time, technique, etc. It made me forget how to think, how to act, who i really was. Its been this quarantine when i almost went crazy because i couldnt stop thinking that i was thinking, as an observer. And i want to quit, but im scared of losing benefits, if any. But ive been over a year focusing on it and i think that dependency is bad. I just want to be free, only think about videogames, mathematics, my family, but i dont want to be dependent on a practice that i may not be able to do all my life and that im looking at as a drug So please help me [link] [comments] |
| Sensation of hands touching the legs - how many of you use this as an anchor? Posted: 28 Apr 2020 06:50 AM PDT Practicing for 2.5 months as breathing as my anchor, I noticed that despite having already very good results from the practice, I never really competely let go of the breath and this is no wonder, I have a history of hyperventilating and it was recently triggered by a damn N95 mask! I tried to sit with it for a week but it only made it wrost at least during the session, so a few days ago I began exprimenting with transitioning to a different object of focal and this is my hands sensations, in specific their touch with the legs. This together with an occasional pursed lip breathing has totally settled my breath within the first sitting on the new object!!! I'm also very surprised how much better I seem to maintain focus on this object rather than the breath ! Is anyone here using a similar anchor ❓ Just wondering if it's a legitimate way to meditate for achieving as optimal benefits as breathing as an anchor does. Anyways I hope this will help anyone reading this who has long persisting problems with focusing on the breath🧘♀️ [link] [comments] |
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