Meditation: Try to breathe through your ears. Not literally but the trying of it will centre your attention |
- Try to breathe through your ears. Not literally but the trying of it will centre your attention
- Tip: The mind will attempt to convince you that in order to be happy you must do something immediately, whether that be think a certain way, fiddle with thoughts, etc. in order to remove anxious and/or depressive feelings. This is a thought in itself. Do not attach. You are right where you belong.
- Yesterday I quit my job.
- Insight Timer is now online
- 100 days of meditation!!
- Is this how meditation is supposed to work/feel? I started meditating to help me treat anxiety and panic. Just had a 20 min meditation session and I feel warm, fuzzy, drowsy, more relaxed, and have less anxiety.
- Did my second 20 minute meditation. I feel so GOOD. I'm constantly smiling afterwards. What is happening to me?
- Mantra meditation vs Mindfulness?
- Breathing difficulty
- I’m stuck with my practice
- Weird feeling while meditating
- My deep anxiety melted away with my first successful meditation of 20 min but 3 hours later I'm feeling drowsy/sleepy and walking feels heavy
- Hearing my Neck Joint(s)
- Do animals meditate?
- I Cant Meditate Like I Used To
- I stopped a meditation session because I just suddenly got terrified
- Optimal length of each breath
- Essay
- I am having bursts of laughter and am smiling a lot after my first meditation over 20 minutes. What's going on?
- Meditation help is needed
- A 5-minute meditation video I found really helpful. Check it out.
- Do you kill bugs?
- its been rough but i dig it lol
| Try to breathe through your ears. Not literally but the trying of it will centre your attention Posted: 08 May 2020 07:42 PM PDT And also this will automate your breath Follow me on Telegram law of attraction group for more such posts [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 08 May 2020 05:07 AM PDT I just don't want to be a programmer anymore. Thanks to meditation making me more mindful, I realized the cause of why I had such a low motivation to work since the last few months (even prior to the pandemic). I felt an intuition since at least a year ago, that this job didn't make me happy anymore. I tried to hide it, to tell myself lies, but in the end, I couldn't ignore it anymore. So yeah, now I am taking a huge break to figure out some things in my life, maybe even completely change careers. Even though I loved my colleagues and the company, I wouldn't go back on this decision. Thanks for reading! Edit: Thanks for your congrats, encouragements, advices and own life stories! I'm reading them all but am too tired to respond now. I'm happy to have inspired some of you, and I hope you all find fulfillment and happiness in your own careers. Edit 2: Here's a little something I just found on my home feed haha [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 02:09 PM PDT I do not know if you have realized already that insight timer is online as a web service and not only as an app. Just made this to inform people of what I do not realized. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 04:42 AM PDT I know these types of posts are kind of common, however I wanted someone to share this milestone with! I'm not really sure if I've noticed any of the benefits described, and I've certainly not had any of those third eye opening moments, but it's been a very nice experience so far on almost every day. Thanks :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 02:12 PM PDT I find the anxiety tends to come back not too long after unfortunately. I did deep breathing throughout the meditation. 10-15 minutes in I felt like I was as spacing out. Like my mind was completely empty and I was disconnected from everything. My breathing was getting lightervand gentler. With more meditation will anxiety just go away eventually? I almost just want to keep meditating to avoid feeling anxious. Unfortunately this sounds like escapism which can be dangerous but idk I'm taking medication for panic disorder and I'm normally anxious throughout the day. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 08:38 PM PDT I was put on anti-depressents over 3 weeks ago for panic disorder. I decided to start meditation to help my anxiety-related breathing; I kept having breathing problems because of anxiety throughout the days. But the pleasant surprise is I feel like I'm on weed or something after meditating the last 2 times... Just calm and overly happy.. [link] [comments] |
| Mantra meditation vs Mindfulness? Posted: 09 May 2020 03:01 AM PDT I've been doing mindfulness meditation, focusing on my breath for a few months now and I've started a new daily routine using a mantra, specifically TM. Are there any specific benefits that people have noticed between the two? Or is it more about finding which works best for you and just going with it? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 May 2020 03:32 AM PDT While trying to meditate and breath, I try breathing through my stomach and it's very difficult to hold on. Can anyone give me suggestion on how to breath? Will be of great help. Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 06:38 PM PDT Hello all. For the past 4 months I've been doing mindfulness meditation 30-45 minutes a day which has become a staple of my life. Now I'm looking to go deeper into my practice, but I'm not sure how. Specifically I would like to build on the relationship I have with my third eye. It seems like I'm in a bit of a slump when I comes to enthusiasm for meditation. I'm definitely going to continue because I know how helpful it is, but what's next? Are there any methods I can use to heighten my experience? You guys always give the kindest most thoughtful responses. I really do love this subreddit. [link] [comments] |
| Weird feeling while meditating Posted: 09 May 2020 02:54 AM PDT Hi! I've been meditating for two weeks or so, on my own. I've been reading how to start in this subreddit and I'm practicing mindfulness or at least at the beginning of the meditation because it helps me to get relax. So I'm a comply beginner on this subject. So I had a recent meditation where I felt completely relaxed, seeing images, that I don't remember quite well but it wasn't anything related to memories nor things about my self just random pictures. These kinds of things tend to happen to me while meditating. I get lost on my meditation, sometimes I realized and tried to come back and sometimes I don't. The thing is that this time I was very relaxed and I remember seeing this figure like legs and a table, I don't know if it's relevant but at least it's funny because I got very very scary all of the sudden and opened my eyes instantly while I took a deep breath and my heart was racing. I wanted some opinion on why happened this, maybe I almost fell asleep and my body tried to wake me up? I remember being aware but who knows. Thanks for reading! And I appreciate your feedback! (If something it's badly written I apologize due that English is not my mother language) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 05:14 PM PDT I've been diagnosed with panic disorder in the past month or so. I've been having breathing issues related to anxiety so I tried meditating. Afterwards I felt at peace, happy, could not stop smiling, and my anxiety seemed to disappear. Now 3 hours later I feel sleepy, drowsy, and walking is heavy. This is preferable to being anxious but it's still a bit weird. Basically: anxious --> meditation --> happy euphoric calm --> drowsiness sleepiness heaviness Chain of last 4 hours or so [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 May 2020 01:40 AM PDT I started meditation a while a go. Mostly I use the Calm app for mediation with my in-ear headphones. Recently I started to hear my joints when I move my head. I think it is the joint where my head connects to my spine. Apart from meditation I do not hear this sound. Has anyone experienced something like that? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 May 2020 01:26 AM PDT I think I just had an impromptu meditation session with my cat and I thought I would share. It's been a while since I last meditated since I'm usually so distracted nowadays. A few minutes ago I returned through my front door after dealing with a chore, and my cat showed up to headbutt my leg, as cats normally do. I was going to just head into another room but I figured it wouldn't hurt to entertain his sudden want for affection, since he's a bit of a troublemaker 80% of the time. So I sat down next to him, cross-legged, giving him scritches, and he climbs into my lap and just sits there. There I was, sitting in the middle of the living room floor in the lotus position with my cat quite comfortable in my lap. Since it's a crime to move your cat once they've sat down on your lap, I just sat there and started to meditate - and I found it was really refreshing. I could easily focus on his purring and enjoy this calm moment, grateful that my cat - as odd as it sounds - decided it was time for me to meditate with him. Now I'm wondering - has anyone else had an experience like this? Do you think animals feel the need/benefit from meditation like humans do? [link] [comments] |
| I Cant Meditate Like I Used To Posted: 08 May 2020 09:37 PM PDT I started a job that's 10 1/2 hour days and my meditation practice seems to have gone with it. I wake up at 430 already and waking up early just wouldn't be possible since I have to make time for my SO and dog. I'm started to slip back into my old anxiety, depressed ridden ways and really need some support and advice. I went from meditating to an hour a day (when I didn't work) to basically nothing. I'm growing beyond frustrated with myself and the practice. Help me! [link] [comments] |
| I stopped a meditation session because I just suddenly got terrified Posted: 08 May 2020 12:41 PM PDT I was meditating alone on an elevated forest trail so this maybe have just been some evolutionary response to being alone and having your eyes closed in the woods, because I've never had something like this happen, I've been uncomfortable during mediation, but never truly scared I also feel like my mind was blanker then I'm normally able to make it so that may have played a part as well [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 May 2020 01:09 AM PDT Whats the optimal length of each breath? Always did 1 second per each breath,but I soon found out it causes you to 'hyperventilate' a bit. Per each breath: 7/8seconds? What do you recommend to me? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 09:23 PM PDT I would describe meditation as pausing in time and spectating one's thought without any judgement and accepting those thoughts as a part of ourselves. In this essay I have written things as they came to mind, and they may not have anything to do with meditation but it builds up a knowledge about our mind. There are two levels of existence 1.within 2. without. Every thing that you see, listen, feel is all projections of the surroundings in your brain and your brain is a part of you, The world is but a part of you. Sometimes we find ourselves too involved in without and forget about within. Meditation is a way to remember the within. It also works vice versa that if your have forgotten about the without meditation is a way to remember the without. It is a tool to help restore the balance. As my friend thanos says " Balanced as all things should be". Always remember that the within and without are not different the are one and the same, you are the boundary between them. Self-conscious: We often think that we have a certain personality a certain character that defines who we are and that we cannot change. This could not be further form truth, with conscious efforts and persistence it is possible to change. It is very hard and requires patience, you cannot change your identity you have been building up for your whole life into something new within few days or months or even years, it takes long time but it is a slow and gradual process so you may be able to see small changes. "It is the greatest power of a human mind" ~ Viktor Frankl Happiness : In meditation after a certain period of time you may find asking yourself why am I not happy, and the next time you will meditate you will try to look for happiness and chase around a feeling. You might start thinking why can't I be happy and this makes us sad, and this usually turns into a vicious cycle. Here is a good metaphor, imagine yourself sitting on a mountain and there is a clear blue sky ( this is happiness), now sometimes there are clouds over the blue sky(thoughts and emotions) and you may not be able to see it, sometimes we are so busy chasing a butterfly through the fields we forget about the sky, and sometimes even dark , thundery clouds come over us and we may feel that we cannot find happiness but you have to remember it is always there. "The thunder storms are temporary but the clear blue sky is permanent" ~ The guy from headspace Mindfulness : It means living in the present moment. We are often thinking about what is going to happen to us in the future. Always judging our actions from our fear of future or the guilt of the past but whatever you are to become in the future will depend upon what you do in the present. Buddhists say life is made up of moments which are occurring "now". Being aware of yourself and your surroundings is mindfulness. Practising mindfulness is not easy because we are preconditioned by our stream of thoughts. Meditation is sitting by the river and watching the stream. How can one practise mindfulness, watching your own thoughts and actions without judging them and accepting them. This is the mother of all intelligence. In the book wherever you go there you are the author suggests this mental exercise : "A good way to stop all the doing is to shift into the "being mode" for a moment. Think of yourself as an eternal witness, as timeless. Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear? " ~ Jon-Kabat Zinn. Self-aware: sometimes it is hard to realise what self awareness is, you may be caught up in a cycle of am I self aware now? Now? Have I achieved it now? Who is it that we truly are, that is a very hard question to answer. We can instead answer who we are not. We are not our actions. We are not our emotions. We are not our thoughts. We are not our feelings nor our impulses. We are the soul of our body. There is a very good analogy for what your soul is given by Krishna to Arjun, he says imagine on a branch of the tree there are two birds inseparable from each other one bird eats fruit off of the tree and the other bird simply watches the first one eating the fruit. Here the fruit represents the world, the smaller bird is you and the larger bird is the " real you " or your aatman or your soul. In meditation this is exactly what we do we take on the role of being the bigger bird. The goal of meditation is not to control your thoughts it is to stop letting them control you. It is to get off of the autopilot and assume the command of the plane manually. We tend to put life on autopilot because we are programmed to run away from uncertainties, sure it helped our ancestors some 80K years ago to avoid a leopard hiding in the bush but we don't need this programme in this day and age. One way to tackle this is to remind yourself consciously that you are prone to go on autopilot whenever you are in an uncertain situations, take a deep breathe, connect yourselves with the surroundings, be present in the moment and then do what your heart tells you to do. Sometimes it is very scary to deal with reality ( for me my heard starts pumping and heart start beating fast and feel very uncomfortable. I cannot be on manual all the time, and go into autopilot) and you don't have to be hard on yourselves and if things get too hard go on the autopilot. Being aware of existence of such a autopilot is a great leap forward. A problem that I sometimes have with meditation is that I am looking for a feeling of happiness , a feeling of enlightenment a feeling of having achieved something. Something that tells me that I am doing something that most of the world is not doing, something that helps me feel like I am on top of the world and in this sense most of the time I make meditation as a "work" a "job" that needs to be done in order for me to be better. Meditation is not about all that, it is not to make you feel better. It is not one of the things you do to feel something. It is the only thing that you do and not expect anything in return. While seeking to be happier is a good reason to start meditation. It is not what will make you happy. Meditation should not be seen as a task done to improve yourselves or as an instrument to feel good. The more you do it the better you get at it. Meditation is like an exercise and the mind is like a muscle. Patience, compassion , empathy these would be the nutrition, oxygen and energy for your muscle. The more you meditate properly the stronger you make the muscle that is your mind but it needs to be practised and not rehearsed. While rehearsal is helpful in getting some things done, it is not helpful with meditation as that would make things more complex, rather we should practise meditation , mindfulness. It requires practise to perform mindfulness for long periods of time, for now doing it is enough. The road ahead is always steeper what is important is you take a step forward. Purpose of meditation is to live in the moment. It should not be confused with "positive thinking" which while is good can cloud your mind. Be-aware sense what is going around you, ask yourself what are you doing? What is your path? Who are you? ( let the answers come to mind and let them go) Always remember that it is going to feel very hard and sometimes even impossible but that is just and indication of your progress. Always remember it is going to be a long journey which will end at the end of your life. Always remember it is not about how long you meditate, because moments are not bound by time and hence they are infinite and immeasurable. Always remember you are not here to change anything you are just here to observe. "Meditation is not about clearing your mind of all the noise it is about reminding yourself that the noise is not your identity, this clears the mind." ~ Random user on reddit. "And always remember you are not your thoughts and you are not your feelings" ~ Sadhguru You are something much bigger and much majestic. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 08 May 2020 07:56 PM PDT So I'm finally trying get back into my spirituality and start the path into the occult, but first thing is first, you meditate. I started about a month ago and I was really starting to get good at it, but today was different. So it's been a week or so since i've stopped (work reasons, mainly to tired as hell for working 8 fucking days in a row, stupid heartless retail company) but today I started to meditate again, and I decided to clear headed meditate, where you just focus on your breath while thinking of nothing of nothing, to start the basics again you know. I put on some music, I could barely meditate for 4 effin minutes. Like wtf?! I could have meditated for 30 minutes if I wanted to about a week or so ago, but now I can't like wtf?! [link] [comments] |
| A 5-minute meditation video I found really helpful. Check it out. Posted: 08 May 2020 11:31 PM PDT |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 06:46 PM PDT I am a vegan, and sometimes I will even carry spiders out of my house, but I just went to take a shower, saw a bunch of small bugs in my bathtub, and killed them all. Now I'm doubting if it was the right thing to do and I'd appreciate if others could share what they think of that, and how they deal with bugs in their home (because I'm conflicted). [link] [comments] |
| its been rough but i dig it lol Posted: 08 May 2020 09:04 PM PDT hi everyone! upon my return to social media i thought that reddit would be the best place to start. i do have experience with meditation and the power and insight mediation can trigger but most of them had been under the influence. whether it be medidtating on lsd or even dmt activation meditation while on a sort of benzo. although i did quite enjoy most of those experiences and my time on lsd has proved to be immaculate, im at a point where i would like to reground in a less trippy way if you will. its been about three days and im quite happy with just sitting and really getting to know what is exactly causing me suffering and lots of cognitive stress. its a rough start start but i know its the start to something really beautiful. [link] [comments] |
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