Meditation: Meditation made possible for me to feel emotion |
- Meditation made possible for me to feel emotion
- Crying deeply after meditating (weird as hell experience)
- "What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale." — Shunryu Suzuki
- Just ran without headphones
- Thought: Effects of meditation, is it all positive or can it have negative effects on the brain?
- How do you meditate on something?
- everyone can relate?
- Meditation is "awakening" the right side of my body...?
- A question about meditation and recursive thinking (x-post r/samharris)
- Anxiety messing up meditation.
- Offering time blessed time
- Meditation making my anxiety worse.
- Does it matter what position I meditate in?
- How to start meditating to reduce specific feelings or to achieve a better way to deal with them
- Meditation Retreats
- I Used To (unknowingly) Meditate as a Kid. Now I'm Chasing the Experience.
- Any good lying down meditations?
- Discomfort with the silence
- A little lost..
- Sleep issues due to meditation.
- Extremely slow breathing during meditation
- Tips for a beginner?
- Want to know about meditation and depersonalization/derealization
- 3 Hours Quiet Night Deep Sleep Music Relax Fall Asleep with Ambient Music
| Meditation made possible for me to feel emotion Posted: 23 Apr 2020 03:44 PM PDT I started with meditation one year ago. I heard that you can enter your mind and discover a lot of things about yourself. At that time I was in a depression and had a social anxiety, went for 40+ hours without sleep too. I was in terrible state overall So, I was thinking like why shouldn't I do it, fuck it, I can't lose anything. And I have to admit, it was fucking terrible, hard and terrifying. I didn't know how to handle it and what to do, I was so scared. Same was the second, third, fourth and fifth time. After that, I learned how to handle it and how to let go, I learned how to live in the moment and how to show and feel my emotions. At the beginning I was struggling to do a 5 minute meditations(got ADD), now I can do 30 min ones without even breaking a sweat. My grandfather who I was really close to died in the year of 2018, and I just couldn't cry. It felt really painful, but I just couldn't cry. It was really weird tbh I mean, we were so close and he meant so much to me, he was like my second father, I used to spend time with him when my parents were on work and he basically raised me. Also, I used to be really apathetic towards everything, and I really didn't like animals. After I started with meditation I could feel emotion, I started to really love animals(even got myself a dog, the beautiful cane corso, he's my baby). And most important thing after all is that life isn't grey anymore. I can feel joy of life and I can actually live in the moment. Stay safe y'all! One love! [link] [comments] |
| Crying deeply after meditating (weird as hell experience) Posted: 23 Apr 2020 06:37 PM PDT I watched this documentary about the first humans in America and they found the skeleton of a 13,000 year old girl who died in an underwater cave. I felt this extremely overpowering connection to her like unexplainable deep connection & I couldn't get her out of my head for days. Tonight I decided to meditate on this feeling and about five minutes or less into this meditation I am overcome with emotion; I felt like I could feel her confusion about existence; the confusion we all feel when we look into the stars, I could feel all of her pain and suffering in life. I immediately lie down on my floor and burst into tears and cry while holding my dog. I am now typing this because I had to share this unexplainably powerful experience. Thank you for reading this and please share your thoughts with me about my experience, namaste. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 23 Apr 2020 03:34 PM PDT I have been in and out of meditation practice for the last 7 years or so. Just the last couple months I have developed a consistent daily sitting schedule. I always run with music, but today I decided to go unburdened by the headphones or my phone, and thought I would share my experience: Initially it felt good, it is about 43F here and the sun isn't out so it was crisp and refreshing. Almost immediately a feeling I've had for the past day or so came up and it arose so much emotion in me I almost cried. I quickly realized that the music has probably been keeping me from truly reflecting in the solitude of my runs. My mind wandered as I was focusing my attention on the sensation of the breath at the front torso/stomach. In between I was able to do some body scanning and noticed a gradual bodily warmth that was really welcoming. My mind was shifting through thoughts about the meditation specifically and current life issues, and that sadness I had initially slowly transformed into a melancholy, yet content feeling, as I cycled through prior memories of runs I've had in the past. I thought about my childhood neighborhood runs, my runs while living in Florida for grad school, and it was almost as if the running was a way to connect myself/ground myself to these other past life moments. Toward the end I felt fairly strong happiness and the initial sadness was gone. And I realized that in all my past experiences where I was happy, it was always when I was appreciating whatever was occurring in that present moment. I also realized that it was highly unlikely my life situation was ever perfect or even close to it during those moments. That realization gave me joy; knowing those moments of happiness can be accessed even in an imperfect life or situation. It led me to a metaphor that I thought I'd share, and see if you guys find it accurate: any instantaneous moment is a room. Suffering is the darkness, and peace/happiness is the light in the corner. It is always there, but sometimes the light is off and there is only darkness. Of course it's difficult to find the switch in the dark, but it is always there if you seek it. Also, there is never any loss in helping others to find their light switch when their room is dark. I hope this helps someone today. [link] [comments] |
| Thought: Effects of meditation, is it all positive or can it have negative effects on the brain? Posted: 23 Apr 2020 05:47 PM PDT Hey, I'm interested in the effects of meditation and how it compares to something like going in to a room for half an hour with nothing but yourself. There have been research done on the effects of isolation, even as little as 15 minutes can cause neuro-degeneration or the loss of brain cells, because the brain is not being stimulated by senses. So does that mean meditation stimulates a sort of sensory deprivation that can have negative effects on the brain? How does it differentiate from isolation? As human beings, aren't we inclined by nature to stimulate our brains, learn, explore, etc. Curious of everyones thought on this topic. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| How do you meditate on something? Posted: 23 Apr 2020 09:41 AM PDT I was listening to someone talk about how they meditate on death to get more comfortable with the idea of it. But how can you meditate on something? TIA! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2020 02:11 PM PDT I've been trying to meditate lots of times but I'm always in an anxiety state: even if I'm not that worry or anything else, even if I think I'm relaxed, I've always that tachycardia. So everytime a start meditating or just relax and stay with myself I can't do this and sometimes I have to quit "my moment" because it worsens how I feel. I'd really like to meet that "path", that part of myself or just understand more about this "state" that takes me with it everyday. Everyone of you can relate?? or just give me some advice to know myself more deeply? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is "awakening" the right side of my body...? Posted: 24 Apr 2020 01:19 AM PDT You know how there's an eye that you can wink easier with ? well for me it's always been the left eye, although I'm right handed. Anyway, I started meditating daily a few months ago. And in the last few days, it's like the right side of my body is feeling more "alive"? Especially my face. When smiling, I can feel this side is more involved than before. I can even feel the air in my right nostril better. Yesterday I was dancing alone in my bedroom and I felt the urge to move this side of my body too. It's really weird and hard to explain, but this happens especially during meditation, and lingers more and more after meditation day after day. Pretty weird right? [link] [comments] |
| A question about meditation and recursive thinking (x-post r/samharris) Posted: 23 Apr 2020 03:17 PM PDT I wanted to ask a question about meditation that has bothered me for a long time as I've attempted to learn it. I don't have immediate access to meditation teachers, and I request that my question be interpreted charitably. Forgive me for the length, but I'd like to err on the side of clarity. Sam Harris has a cute argument where he says that the instructions for how to walk a tightrope are very simple: stand on the rope, walk from one end to the other, don't fall. Of course, the point is it isn't easy at all. Likewise with meditation: focus attention on the breath, when you feel yourself drifting into thought bring the attention back to the breath, keep going. I myself found this cute at first, but upon thinking about it a little more I feel that the analogy doesn't hold up -- and not just in a superficial way, but in a way that captures my whole difficulty with much of this. Suppose you're trying to walk a tightrope. Yes, the high-level instruction is not to fall. So you make an attempt, and you fall. Then you go back and try again. You try not to repeat what you think made you fall, but you fall slightly differently now. And so on. So the actual process of walking the tightrope is spent steeped in self-monitoring to make sure you're doing the right thing, and to catch and correct yourself if you notice you're doing the wrong thing. My issue is that this natural progression seems to fail profoundly at carrying over to meditation, because you are supposed to not self-monitor as much as possible, at least in such a way as could be seen as being lost in thought. Is every decision not a thought? What is a thought? The exhortation "bring your attention back from the thought to the breath" is itself a thought -- a meta-thought, if you will. Am I supposed to avoid having this meta-thought as well, and draw my attention back when I see it going towards the meta-thought? And then the meta-meta-thought? ... Where does it end? I really don't mean this merely as idle intellectual exercise. My actual experience of meditation consists all too often of noticing that I sit, almost by definition, at some level of meta-worrying. And I am quasi-paralyzed because anything I might do technically seems to worsen the situation. At the same time, I do also mean it as a genuine, non-subjective, philosophical problem with the instructions for meditation. I find the instructions genuinely paradoxical, and hence impossible to follow. What is the definition of "thought"? If you consider that the contents of consciousness are all, perhaps almost tautologically, thoughts, then I'm really pretty confused what the resolution is. What I find when I try to meditate is that I get sucked into the recursive vortex of this paradox. To clarify: I actually do not see a problem with the "steady state" where one is not lost in thought. I believe that it is possible, although also that it is incredibly hard. My question is fundamentally about the instructions for getting there. And to further ward off a possible answer about goal-orientation being the issue: this is really not about predefining a certain goal. I'm really just trying to follow the instructions and stay in the present. I am sure this is a common problem, so any directions to well-written resources would be greatly appreciated. At the same time, it would be a great comfort for people to confirm that they understand what I am talking about. One of the horrors of discussing this has been the blank looks I get from people sometimes. I think that most beginners get around this by implicitly or pragmatically defining "thought" to be the something like "memory, thought about past or present, or external feeling", and I concede that this is reasonably effective and actually my own stopgap solution as well. But it is really a fuzzy non-answer to the real question. [link] [comments] |
| Anxiety messing up meditation. Posted: 23 Apr 2020 03:01 PM PDT Hello, so I am just now starting meditating everyday (pretty new to it) and I have tons of anxiety. I feel as if it's making it hard for me. I will be meditating and start feeling anxious as I feel like my mind is going elsewhere and it freaks me out and I just snap out of it. Any advice? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2020 12:43 AM PDT If you are dream and you don't remember or recall you have to try to move to your ancestors so that they can guide you and help you because every dream is message from above that is why I'm here too to guides you and tell you what are the things you really need to do about it [link] [comments] |
| Meditation making my anxiety worse. Posted: 24 Apr 2020 12:34 AM PDT I've tried meditation before. I was okay at it, and didn't stick to it unfortunately. With the lockdown, I've been struggling with a lot of anxiety and decided to try again. I can't. I'll sit and start focusing on my breath, and within seconds my mind is swirling with thoughts. When I realize it I pull my mind back to my breath but it's like I'm drowning in a current and desperately trying to get air, sometimes I get a snatch of breath and I'm pulled away again. My heart starts pounding and I'm starting to breathe hard and I get scared. I pull out my phone and read other peoples words, anything. How to make kimchi. Someone's difficulties training their new puppy. Normal things that normal people do. I realized that I always have my phone out, or the TV on, sometimes both. If I go anywhere I have headphones in. If I do chores I get halfway and forget what I was doing. If I'm not distracted I feel like I will drown. This seems like something meditation could help with if I could only get a grip on it. [link] [comments] |
| Does it matter what position I meditate in? Posted: 23 Apr 2020 11:56 PM PDT |
| How to start meditating to reduce specific feelings or to achieve a better way to deal with them Posted: 23 Apr 2020 11:51 PM PDT Hey guys i recently heard that meditating can help your mind to be able to deal with feelings like anger, fear and frustration in a better healthier way because especially feelings like anger and frustration are clouding your mind and prevents you from taking smart decisions sometimes. I am very new to meditating so i wanted to ask if anyone has an idea how to start and what exactly i have to do. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2020 10:53 PM PDT Hello there! Hoping you and your families are well at this crazy time... I know travel is off the cards for next few months or however long, though I want to look in to some meditation/off-the-grid/"soul-seeking" etc. retreats (mainly as something to look forward to) I live in New Zealand so ideally something around here, like Indonesia. I am 23 years old. Let me know if you know of anything you would recommend :D TIA [link] [comments] |
| I Used To (unknowingly) Meditate as a Kid. Now I'm Chasing the Experience. Posted: 23 Apr 2020 10:18 PM PDT When I was younger, as a kid in my childhood home I can remember laying in bed at night and for reasons I cant remember (maybe to help me fall asleep) I used to meditate. I had never been exposed to meditation nor did I even know what it was until I was much older and started recalling the experience. I would lay in bed with my eyes closed and imagine myself in a white space. There were no walls, no doors, no one was there, just white. I would slow my breathing to the point of not being able to hear the air moving through my nose and keep repeating in my head something along the lines of: "Nothing exists. There is nothing to look at, there is no sound, nothing exists". I would repeat that over and over trying to convince myself that anything I was thinking or feeling did not exist. Eventually, something would happen. Its difficult to describe, but it was as if a switch would flip and everything was actually gone. My ears would turn off and the white space would just go dark. This wouldn't last long because I would be scared of what was happening. Not scared as in something was harming me, but scared in the sense that I didnt know what was happening. I do not practice meditation, but I have recently decided that I wanted to try to experience this again. I have tried many times to replicate exactly what I did, but it seems that as I have gotten older and have regular adult troubles and worries it has become impossible for me to shut my mind off. I guess I just wanted to get this out there and see if anyone can shed some light on what I was doing or what was happening. It's amazing to me that the memory is so vivid. I'm uncertain of how old I was or for how long I did this or how often. I had to have been in the elementary (US 1-6 grade) school age, maybe even younger. Thanks for listening. [link] [comments] |
| Any good lying down meditations? Posted: 23 Apr 2020 10:11 PM PDT Just curious, lying down on my back seems more comfortable to me. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2020 06:09 PM PDT About 15 minutes or so into my practice I start obtaining a reasonable amount of stillness in my mind. But the thing is when I achieve it for a moment it ironically becomes very uncomfortable. I have a real hard time concentrating in daily life and have gotten so accustomed to the monkey mind I suppose. When I achieve this stillness, even for a moment, it actually causes physiological responses such as tension and sometimes a slightly faster heart rate. Any tips? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2020 09:37 PM PDT I have been meditating consistently four about 4 months. I have maybe only missed 2 days in a row once and on average I sit for 1-2 hrs a day. I typically begin by counting my breath, for what I would say on average is about 20 minutes and then my mind just kind of naturally lets go. I typically go into a completely relaxed state and I truly become the observer. I do frequently sit for 3 hours or more in a single session. Now that's my practice. Here are my experiences - So throughout the last 4 months I have had some wild experiences. I have had very clear visions of the universe and its entirety (obviously IMO). Feelings of an extremely deep connection with what is ( this is frequent ). I have had feelings of opening up completely and letting go of mind, body, and soul which is usually followed by a very strong warming sensations around my head and body. It is very odd almost like my energy resides around my vessel rather than within and my body feels empty ( I could really use help understanding this.) My, by FAR, most incredible experience was what felt like nirvana. It makes me cry just thinking about it as I did during the experience. I had the most crystal-clear/HD vision I have ever had, not just in meditation but even in thought. I was sitting on this beach with my children and their mother. I could feel the breeze and the warm sunshine on my skin, I could smell the sea, and I was filled with what I believe would be considered ecstasy. It felt like my being was completely there. All of my senses were present and it was a controllable atmosphere. It felt godly.. All I can say is it was the truly the best feeling I have ever felt in my life. I have had this vision a couple times. I would love people to weigh in on similar experiences or just feedback from reading mine. And finally, on to the dilemma - I have come to understanding that peace comes from just being and I am trying to stick with this, but somehow I feel empty, like I don't know how to put it but it has given me kind of a stark view of what is. It is certainly a form of situational depression, but softer than I am used to. I say softer because I know depression all too well and this doesn't feel severe. Part of the reason is I think I have accepted it and understand its part of the ebb and flow of the universe, but... it has brought up some question about my practice and what I should be doing differently if anything at all? Should I continue with what I am doing and tell myself this to shall pass? Can any of you relate or have advice for me?? I would really appreciate it. [link] [comments] |
| Sleep issues due to meditation. Posted: 23 Apr 2020 09:31 PM PDT Recently, I have noticed whenever I would go to sleep, I would feel like I'm always alert in order to notice the thoughts and not being able to go to sleep. When I do sleep, I still feel like I can't get enough rem sleep as I still feel like constant on alert and being mentally aroused whenever I noticed a thought. Due to this, I feel very tired throughout the day and find it challenging to mindful to whatever I'm doing at the present moment. Any help to change this habit? On a side note, I take night shifts at my work place in the weekends which my possibly affect my sleep too. [link] [comments] |
| Extremely slow breathing during meditation Posted: 23 Apr 2020 01:09 PM PDT Hi everyone, I just did a 15 minutes meditation with around 20 seconds per breath. 8 in, hold at the top for 2, breathe out for 6, and hold at the bottom for four. By counting and focusing on the rising and falling of the chest, it makes it easier to stay focused. I barely had a thought in 15 minutes! Try it out [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2020 02:35 PM PDT I'm out of work during this crazy virus and want to use the time to be productive. Meditation is something I've always wanted to do so I decided now's the time to build a new healthy habit. Any advice/tips/tricks/suggestions for a newb are greatly appreciated. Here's what I've been doing: I put rain sounds on YouTube and listen with noise cancelling headphones on (the walls of my house are very thin so if I didn't have the headphones on, it'd be a distracting amount of people talking in the background). Then I sit on my bed with my eyes closed and try to focus on my breath. When my mind wanders, I just recognize it and focus on my breathing again. Sometimes I count my breaths to help keep me focused. I do this for five minutes when an alarm (a soft, non-startling one) goes off on my phone. I think I'm going to up it to ten minutes because I've been shocked at how fast the five has been going. This is my third day of this practice so I'm really in new territory for me. Anyway, I'm interested to know what you more experienced folks have to say. Thanks in advance for any insight you share! [link] [comments] |
| Want to know about meditation and depersonalization/derealization Posted: 23 Apr 2020 08:10 PM PDT So i have got my dpdr almost 6 months ago from a pretty traumatic experience. The very bad dpdr moments and the attacks at night would only last for avout 3 months. Now i usually just feel this altered empty feeling all the time and memory problems but stopped getting those dpdr attacks at night. So i still do sometimes get them (but it's probably a process of healing), they get worse after cold ahowers and today i meditated and i feel so depersonilzed for like an hour and had a high heart rate while meditating. Does meditation help overcoming dpdr or does it worsen it? Like does meditation bring up or enhance all these feelings because it's like pulling it all out but while it's pulling it all out i feel very bad, but is a process of healing? [link] [comments] |
| 3 Hours Quiet Night Deep Sleep Music Relax Fall Asleep with Ambient Music Posted: 23 Apr 2020 08:10 PM PDT Relaxing with music during this pandemic and let calmness bring happiness [link] [comments] |
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