Meditation: “If you think you are enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.” Ram Dass |
- “If you think you are enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.” Ram Dass
- For anyone with ADHD, or those that struggle with an overactive mind during meditation - This might help!
- Air is the first thing we take in when born, the last we give back before we die. Take a moment to appreciate the life sustaining air all around you.
- For anyone interested in how meditation works in the brain, and produces its effects check this out
- [Tip] Who else is finding it harder to sleep at night after spending all day at home? I find that listening to the same relaxing music every night sort of trains my mind to get into sleep mode. I use just one earphone and imagine I'm sinking into my bed. It's a useful technique you should try!
- "Meditate alone. Get lost. And don’t try to remember where you have been. If you try to remember it then it will be something that is dead. If you hold on to the memory of it then you will never be alone again. So meditate in that endless solitude, in the beauty of that love, in that innocency,
- Benefits??
- The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life
- Box Breathing for Stress and Anxiety Relief: How to Do It and More
- I recently realized that I was trying to meditate on autopilot
- Scary image while meditating?
- Meditation leads to crying
- “Meditation must be experienced to be understood. We can talk, think and read about it, but none of them come close to real experience.” - Andi, Headspace
- Which is better? Zen meditation or Mindfulness meditation?
- Pleiades
- I've noticed a lot of folks getting into meditation since the COVID-19 lockdown and I found this blog post that might be helpful to folks.
- Is it possible to relieve laughter energy without laughing?
- How often should I do chakra work?
- Bonus: How to do a Full Moon Ritual, Tips on Manifesting Love & Happines...
- Which Thich Nhat Hanh books do you suggest for young beginners?
- What can I do to focus my thinking on another subject?
- How do you cleanse your Chakras and what is Kundalini?
- Im new in mindfulness and meditation. Looking for advices and answers
- Meditation in lockdown
- Meditating in a mask?
| “If you think you are enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.” Ram Dass Posted: 07 Apr 2020 02:18 PM PDT As a college student quarantined at home, this quote from Ram Dass is becoming increasingly relevant. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2020 02:57 AM PDT Hello, I rarely post on reddit and I'm not entirely sure how this works - but I have a tip/method that I thought could be of use to some people here. I've been meditating for many years but have always struggled with a relentlessly overactive mind when sitting down to practice. I'm sure this is something that many people, if not everyone - at least to an extent, can relate to. A method I've started using to address this combines a few different techniques into one form. I will outline it briefly below in case there is anyone else that may find it beneficial to their practice:
And that's it! From this point on you just repeat the 3 steps: FOCUS on the inhalation, MANTRA on the exhalation, LISTEN on the pause between the breaths. The reason this works (for me) is that you are always giving the mind something to focus on. In the past, I have tried each one of these methods individually, but thoughts would always creep in the moment my focus wavered. For example, if I was focusing on the breath, the moment my breathing paused (ie, between inhalation and exhalation), my mind would wander and the focus would immediately be broken. After 10 - 15 minutes of the method I have outlined above, I find my mind has naturally 'settled' and the whirlwind of thoughts has died down. At this stage, I often stop using the 3-step method and simply sit and breathe (meditating, but without any particular 'method' or 'technique', so to speak). So there it is. I'm not sure if this would be considered 'poor form' in the meditating community, but it has been immensely helpful to me in its ability to bring me to a calmer, deeper state of meditation far quicker - so I thought I would write it down here on the off-chance that anyone else can be benefited by this! Feel free to comment if anyone has any questions about this and I will try my best to help out! [link] [comments] |
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| For anyone interested in how meditation works in the brain, and produces its effects check this out Posted: 08 Apr 2020 12:18 AM PDT https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190564/ I will note the actual title is neurobiology of spirituality, but it mostly talks about meditation, so I used this title. There might be a few irrelevant parts, but the information on meditations effects on the brain are pretty incredible. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2020 05:50 PM PDT This is what I listen to, but any relaxing music as long as it's soft and slow will work! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2020 09:33 PM PDT in the new then there is the bliss that is imperishable. "—Krishnamurti . From the book Meditations [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2020 11:58 PM PDT I'm new here and just started meditation but I want to know what are the benefits of meditation? [link] [comments] |
| The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life Posted: 07 Apr 2020 09:42 PM PDT When you say, 'I'm the mind', that mind has two distinct entities; mind is brain plus intelligence. First, the brain, which is a product of millions of years of conditioning, all your evolutionary experiences and it is just a physical organ. So, you could say, the brain is a database plus a software. The brain is a database, which is coming from outside, and a software, which is again coming from outside. That's what the brain is. Second, the Intelligence. This intelligence does not come from anywhere, this is entirely yours. It works upon the information that the brain has, it works upon all the external influences that are provided to it, but it does not come from outside. Understand the difference. This intelligence is purely yours, no one can give it to you and no one can take it away from you. It is yours. In fact, to say it is yours is not accurate. It is what you are. Intelligence operates in attention. This attention has several prerequisites, there are several enemies of attention that will not allow the intelligence to operate. Remember the intelligence will not go away, it will just remain in-operational, hidden, dormant, dysfunctional. It won't disappear, it will become dysfunctional. When would it become dysfunctional? If the enemies of attention are not taken care of. What are these enemies of attention? They are prejudice, fear, beliefs, bigotry, insecurity, random thoughts. These are the enemies of attention. Till the time these are present, attention cannot be there and if attention is not there, intelligence will not be functional. There is only one way to know anything - To let intelligence operate in attention. So, what must you do? Can you bring intelligence from somewhere, is that what you will do? You cannot get it from somewhere, intelligence is already with you. Then, what is it that you can do? Get rid of the enemies of attention, that's all that you can do. Whenever you want to understand, you need not get into anything extra by way of doing. All you need to do is to get rid of a few things. If you approach anything, when your mind is randomly wandering, you will not understand it at all. Catch yourself when your mind is wandering. Catch yourself when you are afraid or insecure. The moment you catch it, it will drop. It thrives only in unawareness. Like those vampires that you have in movies. The moment light falls on them, they are gone. Similarly, on all these things, random thought, fear, the moment they are caught, and to catch something means to look at it, to throw light at it; the moment you see that it is there, its potency reduces. So, that is all that you can do, catch yourself. You have to observe it and in some way it is very-very similar to Science. You see, from where do we get the laws of Science? By observation. The ones who are intelligent, what do they do? They observe what is happening or did they dream things up? Are they coming by their imagination or are they telling what is real, what is actually happening? What does science do? It tries to observe the nature of the material, in a very unbiased way. Similarly, the laws of the mind, the functioning of the mind is understood just by observing the mind. Now, that's rare, that doesn't happen in our lives. We remain lost, we look at many other things, but we rarely look at what is happening in the mind. We do not know why we behave in a certain way? Today I have one goal and my mind wanders in one direction. Tomorrow it wanders in another direction and I do not know what is happening? Foreign Influences, come and come and they keep sweeping me off my feet. My mind is divided between these influences. The result of which is constant confusion and conflict in the mind and a feeling that I am lost, directionless. To understand the ego is also to get rid of the ego. To get rid of the ego is to find yourself out and become a free man. And only a free man takes right decisions in life, with respect to livelihood, with respect to every small thing he or she does day in and day out. The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life. The freedom of your mind is the freedom of your life. [link] [comments] |
| Box Breathing for Stress and Anxiety Relief: How to Do It and More Posted: 07 Apr 2020 02:36 PM PDT Hey, we've just published a new article (+breathing exercise guide video) for Box Breathing which helps tremendously with reducing stress and alleviating anxiety. You MUST try it! Whenever you're out of breath, need relief for stress or anxiety, or just want to feel better in general, then this practical and well-known breathwork technique known as Box Breathing, can work miracles in improving your state. Stress is a code word for fear. Luckily there's an easy solution: In order to manage stress and reduce anxiety, one can practice a slow breathing technique that stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system and helps to activate that ''rest and digest'' mode rather than your "fight or flight response" overdrive which is kicked off by fear (= stress) in your system. How to Perform Box Breathing Exercise (4-4-4-4)
You can play around with the number of counts, for example, 5-5-5-5, 6-6-6-6 etc. — the idea is that the pattern is "Box" pattern with equal lenght. If you're new to box breath, it may be difficult to get the hang of it in the beginning. You may get dizzy after a few rounds. This is totally normal and if you feel any discomfort then resume normal breathing. You can read the whole article here (which is recommended): Box Breathing Guide You can use this guided box breathing exercise video to try it now: http://blog.humabreath.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/4444.mp4 (you can also view it on the website above - this link is better for downloading & sharing). Hope this helps. Please let us know about your experiences! 💛 [link] [comments] |
| I recently realized that I was trying to meditate on autopilot Posted: 08 Apr 2020 03:04 AM PDT I've been stuck at a relatively stable amount of forgetting the breath for a few months now. A week ago, I've come to what I believe is an important insight for my progress. In my practice I would often make tweaks (some consciously, some not) to help me make progress in the future. Here are a few examples: focus only on the tactile sensations of the breath (they're easier to notice for me), focus only on your emotional state for the first five minutes so that it interferes less with the practice later, take a rest from paying attention between breaths to recharge for following the breath when it comes. The common trait of these tweaks is that they are all designed to let me meditate on autopilot. Focus only on tactile sensations as opposed to being open to many different sensations; focus on your emotional state so that less awareness is needed to meditate later; rest between breaths and take cue from the beginning of the breath to „tune back in" to automate the process of being aware. Reflecting on your practice and making tweaks is a good thing, and all of these examples of could possibly be beneficial in certain situations, but this tendency to make changes that all have an element of promoting autopilot reflects a wrong approach to meditation. This approach works in other areas. For example, exercise. For pull-ups, I can consciously tweak my back, neck and shoulder position, explosiveness of movement and other elements until they are just right, and then with time they become automatic - I'm doing the exercise while in my head I'm thinking about something else. It's like I was trying to come up with a set of rules like that for meditation, rules that would eventually let me escape awareness of what I'm doing. Except it doesn't work like that. Meditation is an exercise in awareness, autopiloting tendencies are contrary to its practice and can't both coexist. It's impossible to succeed in autopiloting meditation, because the moment you do, you're not meditating. I was trying to practice awareness by being unaware. Autopiloting works for everything except the practice of awareness, but even for everything else it's not optimal. If you automate your pull-ups you won't notice new details (and there's always more, about anything), stagnate, and won't change the details of the exercise unless injury or some other factor strongly turns your attention. I changed my approach. My primary goal now (along with appreciating returning to the breath) is to be ready for anything with each breath, to be present without many rules and work on sustaining that presence. Sitting became a time to be watchful. As a result, I'm looking at different aspects of the breath, exploring everything that can be found in it. I try to notice everything that could distract me before it does, and in doing so, am aware of pain, sound, bubbling thoughts, etc. I look at every breath as potentially bringing with it something new, something that wouldn't be enveloped by a rule I could make, which I'll have to wrestle with in the moment. Those are all the things I should be doing anyway! They come spontaneously now. When I was trying to do apply them earlier, it was difficult and barely productive because of the underlying tendency toward autopilot practice. Now that I'm trying to be aware, they flow naturally. It's funny how, while I may have phrased this post in my own specific way, its main points are not some deeply hidden secrets, but core principles of meditation - sometimes the very first things you hear about meditation. Yet I didn't hear the words the way they were meant before. Hopefully this particular phrasing will connect a few dots for someone else as well. Side note. Some forms of thinking seem to be opposed to awareness, which is fascinatingly surprising to me. In life in general, I'm often using my thinking to automate various tasks so that in the future I don't have to be aware of them. I'm trying to kill future awareness with focused thinking. Automation is very useful because it opens up space to turn attention to new things, but that's not what I am often doing - I am trying to deaden myself, bring myself to a position where I no longer have to think about or notice anything, yet am still alive. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2020 11:14 PM PDT I'm new to meditation. I've been trying it out during this quarantine. I've liked it so far and have had positive experiences. However, I was meditating just now and got kinda spooked. I was focusing on positive thoughts and all of a sudden I got a vision of a man's eye staring at me in the creepiest way. By this I mean a literal closed eye image, not an imaginative one if that makes sense?? It instantly made me anxious and I tried to reroute my thoughts but I had to open my eyes as I was too freaked out. I've only ever had visuals like that falling asleep sometimes, or sometimes when I wake up from a bad dream something like that appears in my vision but goes away quickly. Any take on what that meant or why it happened? Has this happened to anyone else and is something like that normal? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2020 08:40 PM PDT Have started meditating recently, and sometimes the guided meditation brings me to tears. Anyone else experience this? [link] [comments] |
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| Which is better? Zen meditation or Mindfulness meditation? Posted: 07 Apr 2020 07:53 PM PDT |
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| Is it possible to relieve laughter energy without laughing? Posted: 08 Apr 2020 12:56 AM PDT Before you make any conclusions from the title, I don't mean this in some sort of woo-woo way. I mean it in the sense of how when you're angry for example and you get that adrenaline in your body, you might make an angry song or run in order to release it. But with regards to laughter, I'm stuck. I used to have a laughter problem where any situation would make me laugh. I've found a solution now to where I can have a poker face and hold it for however long I want, any time, anywhere. This is especially important when comforting people or being in serious environments. But now, a new issue has cropped up. I get a residual laughter energy in my chest that is now stuck in my chest. If I go somewhere alone, it's fine to just laugh like a crazy person and let it out. It's the same as holding in tears and then going somewhere to cry alone. But how can I deal with this energy through an outlet, without having to necessarily laugh? Would writing funny stories help? Maybe making jokes, if the environment is appropriate? Because I noticed that when I let the laughter build up too much (once it reaches a certain threshold), my body goes into shock and I go into panic attack mode. It's strange how the body works like that, but there you go. So any tips to redirect that energy and "cleanse" it? To disturb the tension, or so-called "laughter" energy? [link] [comments] |
| How often should I do chakra work? Posted: 07 Apr 2020 06:41 PM PDT So I use guided meditations to meditate, and I am wanting to work on each chakra to improve them, I heard some scary things about how you can accidentally trigger a kundalini awakening by doing so. The reason why I fear a kundalini awakening is because of the unknown, some people say you can lose your sanity and some people say it's the best thing that's happened to them. Anyway, is it safe to work on each chakra for about 25 min a day? Thank you [link] [comments] |
| Bonus: How to do a Full Moon Ritual, Tips on Manifesting Love & Happines... Posted: 07 Apr 2020 10:45 PM PDT |
| Which Thich Nhat Hanh books do you suggest for young beginners? Posted: 07 Apr 2020 10:04 AM PDT I am 13 years old, and I want to embark on the journey of meditation early in my life. I've been searching in the internet for a good author to read books from and I chose Thich Nhat Hanh. However, I have no idea what book I should read first. [link] [comments] |
| What can I do to focus my thinking on another subject? Posted: 07 Apr 2020 09:59 PM PDT for the last 7 months I have been obsessed over a relationship that went pretty shitty and its taken up most of my time and thinking. I am wondering what style of meditation I can do to forcefully shift my focus to something more productive that I will get something out of and will take my mind of this relationship. I suffer from OCD as well so things like this can be on my mind 24/7. Thanks any help would be amazingly appreciated and I will forever be in your debt. [link] [comments] |
| How do you cleanse your Chakras and what is Kundalini? Posted: 07 Apr 2020 09:48 PM PDT Hello everyone, I just saw a post on here regarding cleansing your chakras. Some advised not to unless you're in a stable point in your life because "kundalini" could happen. I'm honestly not sure what Kundalini is so I think I definitely used it incorrectly in that sentence haha. Could someone please explain to me what it is, how chakras can be cleansed, and what the dangers are if any? Thank you in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Im new in mindfulness and meditation. Looking for advices and answers Posted: 07 Apr 2020 09:27 PM PDT Hello im 27 im new to mindfullness and meditation and i would like to try and see how it affects me because im open to trying things that maybe would help me. I would like to ask whats the difference between mindfulness and meditation and mindfulness meditation is a combination of both? Im looking for a combination of both. How can i combine/practice both during the day? Any good legit resources/turorials/apps to learn more and practice it? Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2020 09:24 PM PDT In this lockdown period to Focus I am starting to learn meditate and practise it. I am following this series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcjgXQkHWH44d-sh-5JWjtWPCVpX5X-Si If anyone happens to know any other good videos, or article which can help me learn meditation please add below. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2020 09:03 PM PDT What are our thoughts on meditating while wearing a mask or a weighted mask? For mindfulness purposes. [link] [comments] |
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