- "Mindful breathing lets us see clearly that the abuse, threats, and pain we had to endure in the past are not happening to us now, and we can abide safely here in the present. Breathing mindfully, we know the events playing out in these mental movies are not real,
- Be content with being nobody.
- Trying to fix one's own mind with one's own mind is like a dog chasing its tail. It only needs to stop chasing to catch a breath and relax.
- The more often you unlock the safe, the easier it will be to remember the code.
- Successfully completed my first meditation!
- Accomplished a goal today, if only for a second.
- How do I recover from something in the past?
- Songs play in my head these days. How do i stop them?
- My longest meditation!
- Peace is freedom
- The desire for mindfulness and indulgence in anxiety.
- Seeing faces/eyes while in meditative states?
- So from 15-17 I experimented with psychedelics (mainly lsd) around 40 times. I hadn’t begun genuinely meditating since recently; before I just enjoyed closing my eyes and thinking; but last night I was so deep it felt like I had taken acid. Is this normal?
- What would be a mindful way to turn down drinking and smoking?
- Every night when I try to sleep I cant shut down my brain and it scares me
- I dont agree with what he is saying but I am curious to know this community's thoughts on this video.
- Can anyone tell how to meditate on Third Eye!
- Possibility of "ascending"?
- Vibrant purple color when meditating
- Was it a bad session?
- Does anyone here beat premature ejaculation with meditation?
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2020 01:03 PM PDT and simply remembering that fact removes their power to push us around. It's like when you're flying in an airplane. Whenever severe turbulence comes along, the seatbelt keeps you from getting thrown around the cabin. Mindful breathing is your seatbelt in everyday life—it keeps you safe here in the present moment. If you know how to breathe, how to sit calmly and quietly, how to do walking meditation, then you have your seatbelt and you're always safe. You're free to be here, in touch with life, not manipulated by the ghouls of suffering from events that are over and done." [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2020 04:47 AM PDT Everybody wants to be somebody, they want to be something. If they want to insult somebody they call them a nobody or say that they are nothing. In reality, being nobody is freedom. Being nothing is being one with life. If you go deep into meditation you'll either come to realise that you are nothing, or that you are everything, which is really the same thing. When you are somebody you are very limited, you are this or you are that, and it makes you psychologically depended on other people because to be a somebody, other people have to also acknowledge that you are somebody. But when you're nobody you, you never try to be anything or be liked, you become empty and limitless. You become one with everything. This realisation had such an impact on me that it inspired me to write an album called 'The Art of Being Nobody'. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2020 07:43 AM PDT An insight I had while practicing Do Nothing by Shinzen Young. Let whatever happens happen. When you become aware of an intention to control attention, drop it. These are the instructions for Do Nothing. One interpretation could be allow everything to be as it is. When you notice that somehow you are not letting everything be as it is. This could be mental talk like ruminating over past trying to better future self, projecting future to better prepare present self for future, criticising self over past, worrying deeply about the future. In one way or another trying to add to experience or somehow change experience for it to be better for you, now. So, while doing nothing, in the beginning there is 99.9% mental bla-bla and emotions and all the shit you hate about sitting with yourself, all there. And there is 0.01% silence. Eventually these percentages change and you get a bit more quiet, a bit of rest. There is silence, then suddenly there is you, the separate self, the external world, and some thought process that is trying to make you do something. Trying to change or add to experience. With time, it is seen that these thoughts are actually not the lifeline they often make themselves out to be. They are the product of a seductor that lives a life on the run from things that threaten it while endlessly chasing a mirage of future fulfilment that is never reached. So, eventually, you just let the thoughts go. You have made a new friend with silence. Silence doesn't complain about anything, doesn't worry about anything, doesn't scrutinise over your shortcomings etc. etc. One could find themself at the moment of catching themselves identified with ego and say oh damnit! I caught myself slipping again! This is so hard how on earth am I meant to do nothing? I suck at this! Well lets get back to doing nothing. Make sure you are definitely doing nothing and don't screw up like last time! Or, see that this is the mind chasing the mind. The mind will never find answers to how to do nothing, or answers to the end of suffering. So just leave it and relax. [link] [comments] |
| The more often you unlock the safe, the easier it will be to remember the code. Posted: 12 Apr 2020 11:23 PM PDT |
| Successfully completed my first meditation! Posted: 12 Apr 2020 09:28 AM PDT I have ADHD, and sometimes its incredibly hard for me to quiet my inner monologue. I've attempted 2 days in a row with minimal success on the first day and none on the second. Today, however, I successfully managed to complete my meditation with minimal thoughts! I focused on my breath, gave positive encouragement when I could quiet my mind, and pictured a meditation buddy - me! I could easily see the red in "my" body and it helped me keep my focus. The chanting really helped as well. When I started there was some persistent lower back pain- it is now gone! [link] [comments] |
| Accomplished a goal today, if only for a second. Posted: 12 Apr 2020 06:46 PM PDT Peace & Blessing, everybody. So since all this quarantine business started I've been spending time at home during the day like I've never experienced before. I figured I'd take this time to get to know myself and get a little closer to my spirituality. Unfortunately, my neighbors decided they would instead be partying from sun up to sun down seven days a week. Rather than letting this ruin my experience, I figured I would use it as an opportunity to learn to meditate peacefully in the mist of (what I would consider) chaos. It's been three weeks of trying and I was sitting here today meditating through the sound of their loud music & screaming when suddenly, it all went away and all I could hear was the sound of the wind, the leftover raindrops from the trees hitting my skylight, and a bird chirping near by. It lasted for a few seconds before I realized what had happened and I got excited and came out of my meditation and I could hear them again. It only lasted a few seconds, but it felt like such an accomplishment to me. [link] [comments] |
| How do I recover from something in the past? Posted: 12 Apr 2020 08:01 PM PDT Tonight during mediation i was repeating the mantra "im enough" and then it turned into "i matter" and my entire mind set kind of took a turn. I began to think about and ask myself " why did i ever harm myself?" i havent in over 3 years but now I am feeling like I cant forgive myself for doing such harm to my sacred body. And in a way not forgiving myself is harmful to me. Its like im stuck and dont know how to get out. Where do i begin? [link] [comments] |
| Songs play in my head these days. How do i stop them? Posted: 12 Apr 2020 11:21 PM PDT After regular practice, songs have been playing in my head all the time and it's so discomforting. Sometimes when I'm waking up I still hear the songs play in my head. I just don't know what to do cause I've tried observing them and nothing happens. How do I stop them? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2020 05:04 PM PDT Hey guys, so I started meditation like 2-3 weeks ago and slowly built up the time. today I jumped from 10 minutes to 15 and it went by so quick its a lot easier now. but after the meditation, I found my body felts very very heavy and my vision and head felt very wobbly as if my body was just waking up I guess. Never the less I feel good but I was wondering if it's normal lol. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2020 12:30 PM PDT When you meditate, you're learning how to stop fighting. You learn that by relaxing and dissipating resistance, you find peace. By increasing your capacity for peace, you grow closer to liberation. Our illusion of separateness is a resistance to a bigger reality, and by softening your resistance, you grow closer to casting off the painfully tight shackles of ignorance. Peace is freedom. Be free, everyone. [link] [comments] |
| The desire for mindfulness and indulgence in anxiety. Posted: 12 Apr 2020 12:28 PM PDT I am typically an anxious person, I overthink action and I overthink thought. I find I get attached to self destructive thoughts and obsesively think them over and over in my mind. I think about loss, death, insecurity, suicide. Meditation has really helped to mitigate these obsessive thought patterns. However I noticed recently that often during a day when I am having obsessive thoughts, it occurs to me to stop, be present and be mindful, however rather than acting on that impulse and being mindful, I almost consciously decide to continue to think about the destructive and toxic thought. It feels to me like I am indulging in the self destruction and enjoy the pain, I get some kind of strange comfort from it. Anywone relate? [link] [comments] |
| Seeing faces/eyes while in meditative states? Posted: 13 Apr 2020 01:16 AM PDT So I have dabbled with my own fare share of psychedelics, and long story short during one trip i felt myself sinking deeper and deeper, until I start seeing faces rushing past me, forming almost infinite lines until it all lines up to be a long trail of what looked like my own face, staring back at me. I was honestly terrified, and the face I saw looked just as afraid which didn't make things much better. I've been sober for a while after that incident, and was just trying to relax on 0ug tonight, listen to music, sorta going with the flow. I started to feel the music like physically which isn't anything new to me, but while sober I felt that same sinking feeling. Like something warm was repeatedly passing over me. I opened my eyes, and unsurprisingly to myself I saw what looked like 2 eyes in the darkness, getting more and more defined. I slightly panicked and calmed myself down and just told myself what i was seeing wasn't real, but I need help as too figuring out what to do. If I see these "visions" again should I pull myself back to reality? Should I embrace them and just let it all pass over me? Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2020 04:37 PM PDT I was in a very high state of consciousness and I had this certain self enforced pulling in my brain if that makes any sense. It's like I could hold my thoughts back literally and was aware that if I released this force then I would unfocus, but I held it when I went pee and i don't know for sure but it definitely looks like I had taken a small dose. It was not a flashback I don't think and nothing was moving but everything was saturated a bit and I could feel that headspace. Is this just what it's like to be in a highly meditative state? It wasn't until last week that I achieved a real blip. [link] [comments] |
| What would be a mindful way to turn down drinking and smoking? Posted: 13 Apr 2020 12:07 AM PDT I've been practicing meditation and mindfulness for about a year now. I still feel like I have a long way to go but I'm pretty happy with the changes I've developed in my well-being at the moment. Before I decided to be Present and practice meditation, I used to go out with friends during weekends. We would hang out at a friend's house or at the bar. But since then, I've started to be missing from the picture. My friends never get tired of asking me to go out and I think I'm running out of things to say to them. I don't really see myself as trying to avoid their company, only the things that are associated with the occasion which is getting ourselves intoxicated. I believe any level of alcohol or cigarette smoke is detrimental to my practice but at the same time it's starting to feel as if I'm overthinking the situation by always coming up with excuses for the future to say no. [link] [comments] |
| Every night when I try to sleep I cant shut down my brain and it scares me Posted: 12 Apr 2020 11:52 PM PDT I have been looking for a subreddit to post this in for some time now. Every night I get in bed, close my eyes, and breathe. Not 2 seconds later my brain decides to tell me that noise Im hearing is a creature in the night, or that thing I said earlier ruined my relationship with that person. After trying not to listen I get scared and grab my phone and watch videos to keep my mind occupied. I havent slept in 24 hours and tonight is starting like the rest of them. This is probably the wrong subreddit for this but nothing i can find fits my problem. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2020 11:44 PM PDT Edit: The dark side of meditation video Please comment below and discuss the video. As someone who has just started meditating this video makes me second guessing meditation. But I have my doubts about what hes saying. [link] [comments] |
| Can anyone tell how to meditate on Third Eye! Posted: 12 Apr 2020 11:33 PM PDT |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2020 11:14 PM PDT I dont know if its called enlightenment, ego death or whatever. But I have wondered for some time if through constant meditation you can "ascend". I've tried to look up the science behind it but found nothing. I dont want to hear the woo that some people claim they believe. Is it actually possible to "ascend"? I mean scientifically and logically. Or is that not real? [link] [comments] |
| Vibrant purple color when meditating Posted: 12 Apr 2020 11:12 PM PDT Today I started meditating. I had a hard time clearing my mind, but when I finally did I felt so calm, then the most beautiful color of purple filled my eyes. My eyes where completely closed. I felt the most calm and peaceful feeling I've felt in my life. What is this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2020 10:04 PM PDT Im my last session i got totally distracted and I got lost in thoughts. I couldnt keep my center at all. It feels like I wasted that time and it had no benefit at all. So here is my question are these kind of sessions bad sessions or a waste of time? [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone here beat premature ejaculation with meditation? Posted: 12 Apr 2020 09:52 PM PDT I'm a 27 years old, male, healthy, married and suffering from PE. I went to the doctor and he said that it was all anxiety and that I needed to work on this. Does anyone here beat premature ejaculation with meditation? I was really looking to try other alternatives instead of medication for anxiety. [link] [comments] |
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