Meditation: I love meditation |
- I love meditation
- Physical exercise, eating healthy and meditation.
- There is nothing to find or fix
- use your ego as a tool
- Meditation helps me forget who I'm pretending to be
- You are the vital force of the universe, you are life itself and the witness of life
- Breathe! You are alive!
- You are the manager of a hotel, and your thoughts are your guests.
- Question about Mantras
- My back starts to become sore after 10mins of meditating
- I usually meditate before sleep everyday
- Strange meditation
- When did you start noticing positive changes?
- Instead of just focusing on my breath I have started to work through feelings that arise. Its transforming my inner world
- Depressed Feelings
- I usually maintain meditation for two-three weeks but I didn’t meditate for two days due to changes in my schedule yesterday and the day before. I really want to get it as a habit. But I dont want to be attached to it neither.
- A small visualization exercise for the mentally scattered
- Fear of Death and the deathless within
- Scientific Research?
- I think I’m fine, but people think I’m sad?
- Advice on how to take deep breaths
- Too lazy to start
- Help needed
- Does the body understand philosophy
| Posted: 07 May 2020 01:43 PM PDT |
| Physical exercise, eating healthy and meditation. Posted: 07 May 2020 08:58 PM PDT 42 years old here. I was obese in my early 20's. I was in denial of my weight gain until I stepped on a scale at work. That day I bought a scale and was determined to lose the weight. I got the exercise habit down. I've been exercising 4-5 times a week for the past 20 years. I think I plateaued for the longest time and my workout routines were just maintaining my fitness level. I was totally fine with this. I then started to include yoga in my exercise habit two years ago which has made me more fit and flexible, and leaner as well. The healthy eating has had its ups and downs. I would eat healthy for the day however would treat myself to a dessert after dinner. And on Fridays and Saturdays, I would eat whatever I want. Often I would end up binging on food on those days. I still indulge in food (I LOVE FOOD) however it's only two to three cheat meals total on those days instead of all the time. For dinner, my usual sugary dessert is replaced with fruit or a low sugar dessert. I can still do better in terms of what I am eating however for the most part I am almost there. This is likely why I started a meditation routine in the fall of last year. It was time for me to focus on my mind as well and not just on my body. I started meditating 20 minutes a day and have now worked myself up to half an hour. I am reading Dan's Harris' 2nd book of meditation where he puts it (paraphrasing) that we exercise and eat healthy to strive for our best physical body, and we meditate/practice mindfulness/are present to strive for our best mind. If you read this far, thank you for reading where I am in my journey at this time. [link] [comments] |
| There is nothing to find or fix Posted: 07 May 2020 03:35 PM PDT Recently, much thanks to my therapist, I've started treating all off my inner world as being exactly the way it should be. No thought, feeling or wish is incorrect. I own all of them. A few days ago, I looked back on the past five years. A constant battle with anxiety, or rather, a battle with myself for having anxiety. And in all of that I wanted to find something. That thing, that thing that everybody wants. For meditators it often goes by the name of bliss or enlightenment. I realized that there is no thing. The part of me that wants to find the thing is itself standing in the way of finding. Because it arises from the assumption that you are LACKING something. You can argue endlessly that you lack this and that. You're a cat chasing its own tail. What happens if you stop chasing the tail? Was the tail there only to be chased after, altered, changed, improved? The chase itself is what stands in the way, not that which is being chased. Assuming instead that nothing needs to be found. It's liberating. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 02:10 AM PDT |
| Meditation helps me forget who I'm pretending to be Posted: 07 May 2020 08:55 AM PDT A lot of my actions and speech are attempts to project an identity of myself to others. Seeking their approval through appearing smart, funny, confident, etc. Am I living or am I performing? Time to throw out the script. [link] [comments] |
| You are the vital force of the universe, you are life itself and the witness of life Posted: 07 May 2020 01:50 PM PDT "My struggle is that I constantly seek pleasure", that is not yourself speaking. That is the thought. Thought says "I am this person. I struggle with seeking pleasure". That thought appears in the vast consciousness that you are. You are not any of the content within consciousness, you are not any of it, you are that in which it (thought, emotion and sensation) all appear. What happens when we identify as thought is that we become that thought and see life through the filter of that thought. Thoughts by themselves have absolutely no power, but the moment you give them the power of your belief, they are able to appear as reality. That reality is not the absolute reality, it is only a thought believed in, then appearing to be true. That thought is perceived, it is perceived by presence (yourself), that presence can also be perceived. That presence is life, and it is what you are in essence. That presence itself is seen, meaning you are both life and the witness of life, one being. You must not believe yourself to be anything appearing in consciousness, know that you are the pure space in which they all are able to appear. Thought, emotion and sensations can't appear without the awareness behind them, you are that awareness, and that awareness can be observed also. Be in that place in which you observe the awareness of thoughts. Rest in that peace, that is your silent place within. That is the home within. That is your ever-present truth.
That is also thought saying "I bury myself" and then you (consciousness, pure awareness of the present moment) give it the power of your belief, and then it appears as if it is true, and you also are able to perceive the suffering of the thought and the emotion and sensations it brings, that is only because you are like water, you can take any form, and will feel as if you are that form. Truly you are formless, you choose to be any form you want to be, you are extremely powerful and you must always know this. That which says "I feel awful about myself" is just a thought feeling awful about a thought. It is not yourself, these thoughts have nothing to do with you, they merely appear within the infiniteness that you are, you choose whether you believe that thought or simply observe it and let it go where it came from.
That is not what is taking you away from presence, what is taking you away from presence is believing thoughts and expecting life to be a certain way. You have expectations of life to be aligned with whatever the thought desires. It doesn't work with that, instead of aligning life with your thought, instead align thought with life. Root the attention in the silence of your being, and simply move in that is-ness, in that silence. Do not entertain any thoughts and do not waste any time believing any of them. Do not have any desire to repurpose your time, do not have any desire to do any positive activities. Let go all of expectations completely, be with whatever is present in life, do not ask for it to change, only once you are present with whatever is, that you realize the power of the present moment and realize change can happen, but it is only when there are no expectations and no thought, only silence and presence. You must realize yourself to be the vital force of the universe, nothing less my love. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 May 2020 05:26 PM PDT |
| You are the manager of a hotel, and your thoughts are your guests. Posted: 07 May 2020 10:48 AM PDT Some guests are pleasant and friendly, and even like to spend time with you. You enjoy their presence and positivity. Then there are those that are unpleasant and cause a lot of problems for you, treating you like a machine and disturb other guests by drinking all night and partying. They don't care about anyone else. But both the rowdy guests and the nice guests have one thing in common: they will both pack up and be on their way eventually. Maybe the nice guests will stay for only a couple nights, and the rowdy guests will stay for a week. Or maybe its the other way around. Either way, the guests will be on their way, and you will either enjoy them while they are there, or tolerate them so long as they are there, knowing they will leave eventually. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 03:16 AM PDT Hi all, I'm wondering if there's a difference between meditation in which you are merely observing your thoughts (like watching clouds float by), or meditations where you are focused on a mantra (like repeating a phrase, focusing on the breath, or envisioning a pillar). It seems to me as if the former is better at learning how to let things go, whereas the latter works better at increasing focus? Technically though, aren't they necessarily the same, as when you are primarily observing your thoughts, isn't that your mantra? I guess I'm just wondering as to whether or not there is an inherent difference in meditating with a mantra or not. [link] [comments] |
| My back starts to become sore after 10mins of meditating Posted: 07 May 2020 01:45 PM PDT I cant go any longer than 20mins of meditating? any tips pls? i would love to meditate for longer but my back is keeping me from it [link] [comments] |
| I usually meditate before sleep everyday Posted: 08 May 2020 03:07 AM PDT Been doing it for about 3 months now but when i wake up i always do with a really really loud mind i can't even stop talking and it's extremely annoying could it be due to meditation [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 May 2020 11:01 PM PDT Whenever I can, I meditate outside, in the backyard usually grounding myself and doing some breathwork. I've been focusing on daoist breathing, where you inhale and pull your diaphragm inward, and you exhale and expand it. It's a powerful breath with energywork. I was breathing this way, and whenever I do this and the sun is out, it feels so good. Today it was about an hour before sunset and it stayed with me the whole time. I'll see bright yellow light and feel all this energy rush and when I'm inhaling and focusing on my third eye, it feels like I'm charging with each breath. Sometimes it even feels like its vibrating or I'm spinning, but that hasn't happened in a while. But it did today! And in that moment, I'm pretty sure you can astral project, so I was trying. But from what I read with Robert Monroe, and his out of body experiences, best way to travel isn't by thinking about someone, but feeling about them. Meaning, don't think logically about them, but think with your heart, or feel what its like when you're around them. Remember how you felt when you were with them. Feel their presence, remember their smile, recall what it felt like hugging them or laughing with them, etc and it brings you to them. So in that moment, as I was feeling a rush of energy flooding my third eye, I thought of my mom. I moved outta state 6 months ago and haven't seen her since. I miss her, so it wasn't hard for me to remember and feel her warm hugs, while all that intense energy felt like it was swirling at my forehead. I did that while focusing on my breath for as long as I could. Before long I started to feel overwhelmed. I felt like my heart was racing and my breathing was labored, but it wasn't. I was able to observe that my breathing was very slow and I was barely physically moving. Felt like part of me was having a panic attack and another part of me was observing how impossible that could be because I was still as a rock. I began feeling light headed and kind of dizzy. But I hadn't opened my eyes or done much of anything on a physical level. Once I started feeling my psychological panic attack, I stopped focusing on any kind of out of body experience. I felt like I just needed to catch my breath. Tho I had the smoothest deep inhales and exhales. I felt uncomfortable and wanted to end the meditation immediately. Like that moment when you're dreaming, it gets intense and you just wanna wake up. But I stayed in the trance I was in, and tried to just breathe smoothly for a bit. I was able to calm myself into another state of stillness that felt like I wasn't even there. Then I remembered I had to make food and I snapped right out of it and exited my meditation. Afterwards I still felt dizzy and even queasy. I had to lay down. I meditated right after smoking so maybe that's why it was so intense, but afterwards I felt like I physically needed to recover. It was one of the more powerful results I've gotten from meditation. Afterwards I had to lay down for like 15 minutes. And it was only a 10 minute meditation! Has anyone else experienced a meditation that really took it out of you? [link] [comments] |
| When did you start noticing positive changes? Posted: 07 May 2020 11:01 PM PDT I'm roughly a week into a 15-20 minute daily practice. Already feel less overall stress. What can I look forward to timeline wise? If you could compare you're old self before you started meditating, to yourself now what has changed? So thankful for this community as I begin my journey into meditation 🧘♂️ [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 May 2020 03:58 PM PDT Hey everyone, I figured I would share since we seem to be experiencing a little more stress and anxiety than usual. I have found this technique to be SUPER transformative and has actually helped me permanently work through some of my anxious tendencies. When I am meditating and my mind is more active than usual I place my awareness on my feelings and any tensions in my body. When my mind is running more than usual I note that I have anxiety or I am stressing about something. Then I work with the feeling. I give it permission to be. I accept it. I love it. I stop resisting it and I let the feeling run its course. This doesn't cause everything to just disappear, but I do notice a shift in my mental state. I become calmer, my body relaxes and my mind settles. And I have found that I can become aware of my feelings much easier than I have in my entire life. I get to actually work with them and it is INCREDIBLE. Sometimes its messy, sometimes I'm dealing with emotions that I don't like. But I always come out feeling better and it feels like some of the things that used to make me anxious are permanently resolved. If you want more structure on the process I use: [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 May 2020 06:59 PM PDT I've been mediating pretty much daily for the past four years, and for the last two weeks or so I've been doing two hours a day (after doing 20 minutes a day for most of the previous 4 years). It has been going well, but today I got hit with really bad depression, ruminating over bad things in my past and feeling very alone. Is this something that others have experienced? Is it part of a process where the feelings are drawn out through the meditative process on order to be dealt with? First post here, thanks for reading. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 02:27 AM PDT Well, I like the idea of meditation. Of being able to sit aside and just rest the mind for few minutes since I have it working the whole day, why not just give it some rest. I also like the feeling of peace in the present moment. That I am not hurting and if I am, at least I can focus exactly on that spot and see what I can do about it. Its liberating to know that pain is either in the future that we are worried about or its in the past and its the memories that we are suffering or hurting from. Yet, I keep procrastinating and postponing my meditation sessions from ridiculous reasons. I am guilty of it. But then again, my brain would start coming with excuses like: "you know meditation is useless. I am only improving because I am journaling my thoughts and getting it out of my system by writing it down" , "meditation is not a necessity. Its a habit and I might get attached/addicted to it." Which thats what we literally working against: attachment and addiction to things/habits/feelings. How do I fix those intrusive thoughts and enjoy my meditation in peace? Thank you [link] [comments] |
| A small visualization exercise for the mentally scattered Posted: 07 May 2020 10:17 PM PDT DISCLAIMER: I am not a professional by any nature. Please follow at your own discretion. The Steps:
The takeaway (and TL;DR):Since having these sensations, you realize that your mind, in spite of your perceived "failures" and "accomplishments," is actually made up of billions of circuits. Those circuits make up all of your sensations. Your sensations, following this logic, are you. You are your sensations. Even if you--as a human--are proven capable of meta-cognition-- thinking about thoughts-- the thoughts are still, at their core, made up of sensations that you've experienced personally. TL;DR: Without sensation, you have no thought. I implore you to go back to your roots. Feel the space you occupy. The matter you're cobbled together with. You are that. You are matter. You matter. Author's note:If this gets a positive enough response, I will probably record an audio version of this meditation and submit it as an audio file on the r/audiomeditation sub. [link] [comments] |
| Fear of Death and the deathless within Posted: 08 May 2020 01:35 AM PDT THE DEATHLESS IS WITHIN YOU. You become free from whatever you are aware of. Where there is awareness there is light and where there is light there cannot be fear because fear arises out of ignorance. Knowledge is born out of experience. And in this very experience you emerge victorious. Death is the only certainty In life. There can be inequalities in life. However, Death treats you the same. Death can never be un-equal. You can be unequal in your riches and miseries, but when the great day comes, you stand at the same pedestal. Death is the only communist. The moment we are born, Death is certain. It is like a train that we catch from Delhi to reach Mumbai. The moment we sit on the train, we are a step closer to reach Mumbai. Every second that passes by on the train is getting us closer to Mumbai. Similarly, there is never a moment in life when we are not inching closer to death. In fact, there is never a moment when we are not dying The very thought of Death creates ripples in our minds. The fear of dying sends a chill down our spine. This fear is the reason why we pray. Prayer is surrender, but we have reduced it to a bargain only out of this fear. This fear is the reason why we love god. Have we known god out of our experience and not that we know from the books and clerics? How can we love someone we do not know. We do it because we do not want to die. This fear is the reason why we run after money. We chase security all our lives out of ignorance. There is no security in life. Life remains uncertain. That is how it is. We build houses thinking that it is going to keep us safe but in the end all is lost. It is out of this fear that we go on repeating the idea that -" the soul does not die, it is immortal, only the body does ". Do we know as an experience that the soul does not die and only the body does. However, repeating this idea does brings consolation to our existing fears and miseries that we are not going to die. Had we known this out of experience that only the body dies , there would not be any fear of death. But we are identified with our body and mind and that begets attachment. No matter how much we turn a blind eye to death, we never forget it. Everyday death occurs somewhere and everyday it comes as a reminder of our own death. The fear is too deeply engrossed in the minds that we really do not know what life is. Where there is fear of Death, how can there be a life that is authentic. As long as we tremble with fear , we cannot live our life to its fullest. But , The enlightened masters say that Death is false. Death appears to be true, It seems to be the primary truth of life but, It does not exist, so how do we know that it is false? Until we know death, the fear of death remains. Until we know the falsity of death, our lives will remain false. We wouldn't know its bliss and Beauty. Death will have to be known and encountered. Generally no one remains conscious at the time of death.We become unconscious because we are pained at loosing our loved ones, there is anguish at loosing the house we built, we are pained at loosing all that we chased and achieved and wherever there is great pain, the body goes unconscious. Lives after lives we have died unconsciously and lives after lives this fear has grown exponentially. If only once if we could be aware at the time of dying then we would come to a realisation that there is no death.That there is a deathless within you. But there has be a way other than death, the moment itself to know and experience death itself otherwise life is a waste. The masters say that you can experiment with entering death out of your own free will and they call it meditation. With regular practise and ceaseless efforts there come a time in meditation when the body automatically drops and a distance gets created between the body and the self. This happens in death too. Just like a dry coconut. Its kernel had shrunken in size and become separate from the shell. But at death we become unconscious. We are unable to experience and become aware of this separation. We die unconsciously. Meditation is learning to separate this shell and its kernel - consciously and willingly. The moment that the shell (the body) and the kernel( the consciousness) separate willingly and with complete awareness, you realise that these are two separate things and if the shell (body) dies, you( the consciousness )continue to survive inside and in that experience you know that whatever you are not( the shell, the body) will die but what you are( pure consciousness) will survive . Now even if the shell is broken, the kernel remains untouched.. In Meditation, gradually with constant efforts, things begin to drop away. A distance is created between each and everything and a moment arrives when everything feels far away at a distance, even your own body but , still you exist. There, lies a deathless within you, the immortal ATMAN. And whatever you know out of experience and awareness is the truth and nothing but the truth. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 May 2020 07:06 PM PDT Anyone have any books/resources that reinforce the science-proven benefits of meditation? I am starting this journey, already see personal improvement, but I'd like to know more... [link] [comments] |
| I think I’m fine, but people think I’m sad? Posted: 07 May 2020 04:14 PM PDT Since I started I've learned a lot about me, my reactions, how certain emotions feel, and in a way I feel I'm advancing, yet one of my closest friends told me he feels I'm sad, and talking to someone about that comment she said she feels I'm just over quarantine yet I feel like I'm making huge steps internally. Opinions? [link] [comments] |
| Advice on how to take deep breaths Posted: 08 May 2020 12:42 AM PDT When I breathe through my nose the air seems to get stuck in the base of my throat, kinda like a blockage, and I end up having to yawn to get the breathe into my lungs, anyone have any advice on how to help this? It effects my ability to focus properly while meditating [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 May 2020 06:32 PM PDT I want to start meditating and I already know how it works because a friend explained it to me, but my problem is that I'm often too lazy to even start doing it... Idk if it's the adhd, the laziness or both. Can you give me some advice on how to encourage myself into starting? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 May 2020 06:18 PM PDT My life is a mess right now, and so is my mind. I've been having dreams about a departed loved one for months and they cause pain. And besides, I'm trying to not be the toxic person I think i am and i thought about meditation as a way to work stuff through but I've never done this and i need some advices for a beginner [link] [comments] |
| Does the body understand philosophy Posted: 07 May 2020 08:25 PM PDT I have a question in mind that i cant resolve, when dealing with bad news, life stress .. what can philosophy do ? For example i got a traffic offence today ($600) Im a guy who meditate, chilled, philosophical.. If someone ask me what would he do In this situation I would start giving him some philosophical words how to not worry about it, etc But when it happens to me, even if i deattach my self, i get this anger inside, its like an energy that is burning, it hurts, while my mind knows that there is no point in being angry or stressed, but my body doesn't understand, can someone explain to me what can i do in this situation? Being aware of this energy or thinking doesn't help. I get angry , my body gets numb , and i get very bad mood that i cant go on with my day.. does the body understand philosophy? [link] [comments] |
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