Meditation: Too many people are told "you have to be tough to be a leader." Compassion is the most important quality a leader can have - we should expect it from ours. With guided meditation |
- Too many people are told "you have to be tough to be a leader." Compassion is the most important quality a leader can have - we should expect it from ours. With guided meditation
- the more i meditate, the less i connect with my partner..
- Constantly smiling under my mask
- For people in psychosis
- Is it just me or is it really annoying hearing people say "wake up people".
- Question about itching
- To meditate is to go beyond meaning, to transcend meaning, because anything with meaning must point toward something else. For example, hear the sound of a word rather than whatever a word means.
- In a deeper meditative state I had an odd vision and I wonder if anyone else has experienced anything similar
- What is it that causes the tingling sensation in your body?
- How do you meditate
- Is anyone diagnosed with ADHD and medicated? If so, how does it effect your meditation life?
- Journaling through vow of silence
- Can you you help me become mindful? Can you give me some cues to help me get mindfulness?
- Understanding meditation without the BS
- Survive long lasting pain?
- [Playlist] Hi everyone, do you also wish you could escape to a faraway galaxy? I've started putting together a collection of Space-related pieces perfectly suited for meditation I've chosen both tracks that echo my own imagery of outer space, and songs that are simply inspired by stars and planets.
- Meditation and lucid dreams
- Zen and Therevada.
- Does people with high IQ tend to reach higher states of meditation?
- What are the best meditation apps? How do you practice?
- There's no such thing as too much meditation
- Are you interested about the stoic philosophy, did you read about it?
- What you should do with ego, how to embody your essential buddha-nature
| Posted: 16 May 2020 10:30 AM PDT You may have heard "you have to be tough to lead." Its true that making difficult decisions does require a certain amount of resilience - but compassion is critical for good leaders to understand the consequences of the decisions they make and look after the wellbeing of their people. If you've previously ruled yourself out for not being tough enough to lead, you may ask yourself - is it really you that needs to change? [link] [comments] |
| the more i meditate, the less i connect with my partner.. Posted: 16 May 2020 07:59 PM PDT i've observed the more i meditate, the less i get ran by emotions. i've noticed i can't get intimate, i can't get sexually aroused, etc. i have also noticed i enjoy being alone much more, which pains me because i know deep down i have a love for her, but it's getting very hard to feel it. [link] [comments] |
| Constantly smiling under my mask Posted: 16 May 2020 05:21 PM PDT Before Covid, I would often feel like it was prudent to contain my constant smiling within a "disguise of normalcy". My smile continued on the inside but nobody could see it... Now that I'm wearing a mask anytime I'm visible to another human, I've noticed I'm constantly smiling underneath it. I have a very easy job that allows me meditate, read, stretch, etc. Pretty much whatever. That does, of course, make it easier to smile while at work... But meditation is definitely the main reason. All I have to do is breath with awareness, and I enter into that space which we all know. I look forward to studying everyone's mouths when the masks come off :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 May 2020 09:13 PM PDT It doesnt work for us unfortenately. It makes my voices louder and keeps me with my delusions. I tend to do vipassana meditation(focus on my chest, half a second to a second per each breath, which makes like more than 60 breaths in 1 minute). Also they state to let your breathing be deciddd by the body. I might have getting it wrong because I tend to control my breathing which is weird Sorry for my disorganized thought. Unfortenately il diagnosed with ongoing psychosid. [link] [comments] |
| Is it just me or is it really annoying hearing people say "wake up people". Posted: 16 May 2020 09:42 PM PDT Just seems like something a woke person wouldn't say...its like s saying oooo look at me I'm woke...and if u think your woke isn't that one of the main ways people stay asleep? It just comes off as arrogant and so off putting to me...like the only two ways I can take that as a person is "yeah! people need to wake up like me and this guy" or "I guess I'm walking through life asleep...oh man...I wish I was woke like him"...and then if I dont agree with what they said im not woke enough to get it but 9 times out of 10 they couldn't explain it to me even know my mind is totally open and If you can logically and clearly show me what it is I'm sleeping through I will be thankful. But that's cause I know i don't know every thing and have things to learn...don't just throw out some conspiracy theory and you're opinion based on you have a feeling something bad is gonna happen and then I'm not woke cause I don't just buy into it and believe it no questions asked... let me know what you guys think when you read the comment "wake up people"...I had one of my best friends delete me on Facebook because I told him please stop saying "wake up people" it comes off as self righteous...than he said your a dumbass...I'll say whatever the hell I want free speech bitch :)...and than I said so will I fuck stick :)... and then he said sober up...and I said if i pass a drug test right now you have to stop saying wake up people🤣(emojis were part of texts)...I thought we were just flipping each other shit since we've known each other fir 15years and that maybe he would take my advice... then he deleted me off Facebook...i have a feeling maybe I shouldn't have "called him out on his wall" I think he took it as an attack. Even though I said please...or was he being overly sensitive? I need you're honest opinions on this...harsh or not...sorry if this is the wrong forum for this but I respect the opinions of meditators...is there a different sub u guys think I should post this in? Stay woke people!!! Like me 🙈 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 May 2020 07:22 PM PDT I just finished a 15 minute sit using the headspace app (4 day streak woohoo) and I noticed an itch on my face about 3 minutes in that lasted the whole session. It kind of felt like I was battling the urge to touch my face for the entire 15 minutes (I didn't cave btw). Throughout this I noticed a lot of emotions, frustration, anxiousness (i'm pretty sensitive to tactile stimuli), and happiness/pride in my discipline, I returned to the breath each time. Was I being too aggressive? After finishing the session (and scratching an itch on my face that was no longer there) I felt a little as though my intention for the session fell away in the battle against the itch. What can I do different next time? tl;dr: how can I better approach letting go of the need/desire to scratch an itch without feeling like i'm fighting it the whole time? EDIT: Grammar [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 17 May 2020 12:22 AM PDT This is the first time since I've started meditating when I had such a strong vision like this. While the images themselves were vague, I had that sensation where I witnessed my soul amongst others being in a row and waiting. The interesting part was that my soul and all of the rest were waiting eagerly for their turn to go back in a new body and experience life. I saw it how full of desire it was to come back and wanted to be picked (as if it was waiting for something to decide whether or not it should be back) to go through life as we know it is. But then I also saw that once my soul inherited that body, I forgot that being here was a gift, an opportunity for me and that I don't appreciate it at all. Living below 50% capacity. Needless to say that this shook me. Now I need to contemplate and I'd be really happy if anyone can share some stories along this line. [link] [comments] |
| What is it that causes the tingling sensation in your body? Posted: 17 May 2020 12:36 AM PDT I'm relatively new to meditation but when I do it I like to focus on trying to feel the blood pumping through my hands and feet. It makes me so hyper aware of my body like I can feel all the inner workings and then all the muscles in my limbs go all super tingly like everything is being rushed with adrenaline. It feels very similar to what I remember the experience of lsd to be like. It's one of the weirdest but most pleasant sensations almost like being aroused all over. Is it how certain happy hormones run through the body? Is it stress leaving the muscles? Is it just a weird manifestation of anxiety? Does anyone know what actually causes it and whether or not it's a good thing? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 May 2020 04:03 PM PDT Like omg which meditation is the right meditation. It feels like every source of information has a completely different idea of what you should do and how meditation works and what it can achieve. I have been told to meditate in so many different ways that i have no idea what to actually do and i'm pretty close to giving up on the idea Please can somebody just explain to me how meditation works? you would be doing me a huge favour [link] [comments] |
| Is anyone diagnosed with ADHD and medicated? If so, how does it effect your meditation life? Posted: 16 May 2020 08:04 PM PDT It feels like I am bringing a knife to gunfight when it comes to having diagnosed ADHD and trying to meditate unmedicated.... it's very frustrating [link] [comments] |
| Journaling through vow of silence Posted: 16 May 2020 05:56 PM PDT I have been researching the topic a bit and I would like to know if it would be okay to journal through my time doing my vow of silence? I have read from other sources that it's not recommended but they described it in the context of using writing to communicate with others. I want to write for myself and only to myself (and God if he's listening ) [link] [comments] |
| Can you you help me become mindful? Can you give me some cues to help me get mindfulness? Posted: 17 May 2020 01:21 AM PDT Cues teaching points anything that you think is helpful, perhaps things that help you the most? Thank you and kind regards to all! [link] [comments] |
| Understanding meditation without the BS Posted: 17 May 2020 01:19 AM PDT Hello good people. I am meditating for a while on off but try to do 10 minute very day now since the self-isolation. My main reason to doing meditation is that I get easily distracted: 1. when I work I have trouble focussing on one thing and 2. when I am in a noisy environment have trouble focussing on reading a book. So I would like to stop a wandering mind w ith laser focus and be able to tune out the outside world when I want to focus. I started meditation by doing the headspace beginner course which people may be familiar. The techniques are basically: Close eyes, feel contact of body with ground, scan body, focus on breathing sensations for the remainder. After paying for the app for a bit I stopped it because I generally don't like subscription services and rather want an unguided meditation. I thought I can use my basic knowledge to just do 10 minutes a day and I am doing that but I don't really know what I am doing. It is like I was given a rather complicated recipe, I follow it and get good-okayish results but I don't know the essence of the recipe: Why does it work the way it does, what makes it work, what can I add or leave away? What I would like is a resource (or someone) who can explain to me:
My problem is that a lot of the resources are focused on spirituality. And I cannot do anything with that, I would like an entirely secular, rational, scientific approach. For example more concretely regardig point 2: a) Whats the purpose of e.g. body-scan? Or about point 1: a) What am I doing when I meditate and focus on breathing? What happens in the brain? Or regarding point 3: What can I add and how? E.g. I think there are techniques to focus better (with thinking about a focus point in the space around you?) I tried out a few books, like "The little book on mindfulness" (quantity over quality, no explaination what works), "Buddha's Brain" (claims to be scientific but authors themselves talk about spirituality). So tl;dr: I am wondering if there is a reference that is a) practical (do this and that) b) explainatory (techniqe 1 works because of reasons 2,3,...), c) entirely secular and d) can be advanced with additional techniqes that are explained as well. Or to follow my metaphor from above: I want to become a cook who knows what he is doing and what works and what not instead of just following recipes blindly. Sorry for being all over the place! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 May 2020 01:14 AM PDT I want to "survive" the whole night without a blanket and naked. It might sound stupid, but I have to do this, because otherwise I wont feel good about myself. Anyways... how do I stop fearing cold and just stay in a cold room without a blanket for 8-10 hours with open window? I try to meditate, but it brings out the whining or crying out to the surface more lmao... [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 17 May 2020 12:22 AM PDT I'm interested to get into meditation and lucid dreaming. I'm a beginner at meditation. I listen to guided meditation recordings (and have done so without them) i have had one intense experience, my body went into a trance and I could feel and hear energy flow through my body. It was the most amazing feeling. I'm interested to take meditation further as the last few months I have been feeling blocked and heavy. (mostly to do with my toxic work place and my state of mind towards a few things) the last few weeks I have been feeling lighter which is a good feeling. If I get wound up at work I try focus on my breathing instead of reacting. I have a lot of crazy dreams and remember a good chunk of them. I always dream in colour apart from two dreams were black and white that I remember. One particular dream I had a few years ago I always tried to go back to that spot but it's never the same and doesn't happen. Some of my dreams are like chapters, the next night I'll pick up from the dream I had the night before and so on. I love dreams. No matter how good or bad the dream is. I have also dreamed of scenarios that has happened in real life that hadn't happened yet. So my questions are, where do I start and how? I love a good book so any helpful books anyone could recommend would be welcomed too. Thanks 🙂 32F [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 May 2020 12:21 AM PDT Hi all.. I have just started a new sub, r/zenspirit I would like to invite anyone who has an interest in meditation and self improvement to come and pay us a visit.. Post some questions or content.. I feel the small number of the community at this time, is beneficial, as we can all help each other on our journey. [link] [comments] |
| Does people with high IQ tend to reach higher states of meditation? Posted: 17 May 2020 12:07 AM PDT I read someone in a post that said there were scientific studies that proves "smarter" people reach higher states of consciousness through sadhana, or yoga. If haven't found any information about it. Does someone know about this? Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| What are the best meditation apps? How do you practice? Posted: 16 May 2020 11:20 AM PDT Hey guys, I was wondering if you can recommend specific apps for meditating. I'm thinking of getting waking up by Sam Harris. Have tried headspace and calm before. Also let me know what you think about apps in general, what does your mediation practice look like? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| There's no such thing as too much meditation Posted: 16 May 2020 11:23 PM PDT I know I will ruffle many feathers with this post. Please try to read this with a very open and loose mind, keep the ego aside for a second and consider a perspective which may be different to what you've been told for a long time. As long as you dont have any mental problems/illnesses etc. If you have a basic mental health .. you can meditate 16 hours a day if feasible. I'm not saying we should meditate that much, and I'm not saying we shouldn't. It depends on our individual goals. But I've been seeing posts about people announcing they do X amount of meditation per day, and perhaps sharing their struggles ... and then a lot of comments and replies about "have balance," "ease into it," "there's too much if a good thing," "consistency is most important," Etc. This is not good advice, even if well intentioned. "Too much of meditation is not good" is a widespread community myth. When we have struggles in deeper meditation, a lot of the time it means we are starting to make progress, we are purifying old traumas and pain. This stuff does come up and can be ugly. Backing off is one temporary solution, but it doesnt actually address all the old stuff. Having a teacher or a therapist can help us process the stuff that comes up as well. Meditating MORE (not less) helps cleanse this stuff faster. Sometimes it is better to run through the tunnel than to retreat out of fear. I'm not saying what we should or shouldn't do, sometime backing off is useful. But please if you can avoid telling people to meditate less just because you can't imagine meditating 1 hour or 3 hours or 8 hours a day. If this length of time is outside your reality, consider maybe keeping silent on matters you dont have experience on. The most enlightened individuals of the planet spent plenty of time meditating, not just 10 min a day. Consider that as well before telling someone to reduce their time. [link] [comments] |
| Are you interested about the stoic philosophy, did you read about it? Posted: 16 May 2020 09:51 AM PDT A few days ago I started a blog about the stoic philosophy and trying to explain it and help people understand themselves and others more. For instance I wrote about Procrastination and how to overcome it. I also dug deeper into something called Dopamine detox which almost all of us have in the current society, it's an interesting thing and was a game changer in my life. Have a read and tell me what you think. I hope you stay and subscribe or at least get into the stoic philosophy. https://findyourstoic.blogspot.com/2020/05/on-procrastination-and-dopamine.html [link] [comments] |
| What you should do with ego, how to embody your essential buddha-nature Posted: 16 May 2020 07:55 AM PDT The ego isn't bad, it is not something to be "pushed aside" because that is just a waste of time. It is not our job to interact with the ego at all. This is not life. Life is independent from ego. Ego is an extremely small box life puts itself in, unconsciously. Ego is when you identify with some thought, emotion or sensation about yourself, and believe yourself to be that appearing thought, emotion or sensation. The ego is not always there. In sleep there is no ego, but there is awareness/consciousness (while dreaming, while in deep sleep), ego is not there when you wake up first thing in the morning, it takes checking the phone or some interaction usually to boot it, or if you are very identified in daily life then it will appear first thing in the morning, but in deep sleep there was no ego. That is why we all love sleep, because there is no ego there, total rest. Ego is personality, whatever you believe yourself to be as a personality is ego. You believe you are great, that is ego. You believe you are worthless, that is ego. Ego is just the psychological-mind that needs to be set free for the soul to flourish and be what it was truly meant to be here on earth, free, pure, joyful, loving, compassionate and peaceful, being wonderful and divine. The ego must be transcended for the soul to shine and for the soul to radiate the infiniteness of one's-self, if the ego is not transcended, you are in an extremely limited box, unaware of life completely, stuck in your own mind and helping the suffering to manifest and appear. Unconsciously that is what most souls do, simply because they are conditioned to do so. The ego does not actually exist, it is merely a thought believed in. There is absolutely nothing there, no substance, no meaning, nothing. It literally exists only as a thought, and that isn't really existence. It is not living, it is not alive, what makes any thought appear to be alive and "real" is only when you (consciousness, the true aliveness) identify yourself with a thought, and therefore that thought borrows your energy (consciousness's energy) and appears to be real and powerful, but that is only because yourself has given the thought/emotion/sensation the power. Without you supplying power to ego/thoughts/emotions/sensations they naturally dissolve into the infinite silence and emptiness of being. The habit currently is to be identified with ego, thoughts, emotions and sensations. The "goal" is to reclaim our true nature, our buddha-nature by simply being aware of the awareness that is ever-present. By being aware of the awareness, it means we are perceiving from our true place, and we are perceiving that which is true (awareness). When you stay in the place of perceiving the perceiving itself, you are calm, serene, peaceful, joyful, compassionate, loving, beyond fear, doubt, anxiety, you are in a timeless space, you are home, you are one with the universe. The "goal" is to stabilize yourself in the knowing that you are that. To not feed anything with your attention other than awareness itself. That is living meditation, enlightenment, by being that which you truly are, you are radiating infinite impersonal love, presence, joy, peace, compassion, freedom. Naturally in this state the whole universe conspires for you and life becomes blissful externally just as much as it is blissful internally. First you realize yourself internally, and then naturally the realization follows and appears in the external. You did not change, you simply have discovered your true nature, and rest in that, instead of chasing useless thoughts, emotions and sensations. By being what you truly are, unconditioned and pure, you are an infinite blessing to the whole universe, to yourself, to your family, to the birds, to the fishes, to the trees, to anything that is, you are a blessing. Every single thing will appear to flourish in your presence, naturally, effortlessly, simply because you have reclaimed your own true buddha-nature. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
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