Meditation: Guys, I discovered how to concentrate on your breath effectively |
- Guys, I discovered how to concentrate on your breath effectively
- It can seem like meditation makes little difference in life. Tough times still happen. But on the inside, our perspective starts to change.
- Dreaming while meditating
- Ask any meditator, any real meditator. It doesn’t matter if you sit for a minute or an hour, meditating is meditating.
- Yesterday is history, tomorrow is still a mystery. Today is a gift, and that's why they call it the present.
- Trauma coming up from a result of meditation or something else?
- My life became better when instead of trying to be happy, I tried to be passive.
- Does mindfulness meditation increase imagination? Or are there other specific meditations for this?
- Further training advice
- The hidden power of insecurities
- I've always had strong visualisation, how do I improve and utilize this through meditation?
- Meditation and the Inner life
- [Discussion] Does meditation help increase the natural memory and brain functions?
- Trouble coming out of meditation
- Should I have kept going?
- How to truly release judgement of others?
- What is the best advice with dealing with a distraction that is always the same?
- Any long binauaral audio files ?
- You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
- Lovely talk from Jack Kornfield on meditation...
- Is there a name for this kind of meditation?
- Are there any preferred methods the make projections known?
| Guys, I discovered how to concentrate on your breath effectively Posted: 23 Jun 2020 09:54 AM PDT How many breaths can you take without thinking about something else? One? Two? The secret is to think of every breath as a first one. Every breath is the number one. Try it. It works for me! EDIT: Thank you guys for support! If you also have any advice on how to meditate effectively, please share it. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 24 Jun 2020 02:31 AM PDT So I have been meditating on and off for the last year or two. Although this year I didn't really meditate until last week. Now I do it everyday and I've noticed that my concentration, which is generally really bad, was better afterwards. My goal is to reduce my daydreaming, because that is what keeps me from being productive in the day. That's why also while meditating I would start to daydream and it would take me a long time until I recorgnised that and brought my attention back to meditating. But today I managed to to regognise it faster and go back to meditating. That's resulted in a weird experience though. I started getting really short dreams where I would only wittnes moments. For example I had a dream where I was sitting on the beach and I would only see my legs and a wave hit me and the dream was over. I had something similar once while meditating. Only then I was sort of falling asleep and everytime I would fall asleep I would dream something short and then wake up again when my head was starting to give in. And the cicle repeats. Did anybody else have a similar experience? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2020 12:26 PM PDT Say for twenty minutes today, first time in awhile. Not sure why I stoped a few months ago. Went from daily to weekly to forgot about it for two months and the mind attacks got so bad I just had to. Can't believe I ever missed a day! Hope everyone is well. [link] [comments] |
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| Trauma coming up from a result of meditation or something else? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:31 PM PDT I've been meditating and sometimes I just stare at a wall and breathe or listen to a guided meditation. But I was listening to my english college textbook when I fell asleep. The dream was intensely traumatizing and I felt like I was dying. When I woke up I was in such a shocked state that I "meditated" by staring at a wall in utter disbelief. The english college textbook was being read to me by a computer. I dont know if the two are related but I dont know where else to post this. So my apologies. [link] [comments] |
| My life became better when instead of trying to be happy, I tried to be passive. Posted: 24 Jun 2020 02:42 AM PDT Luke: But how am I to know the good side from the bad? Yoda: You will know... when you are calm... at peace... passive. I'm not a fan of using popular culture for life advice, but when I watched this scene a few years ago, I was genuinely struggling with morality. Did I want to be a person who takes control? Dominates? Or should I continue to be agreeable and pacifistic. What code do I follow to help me make a decision that could affect someone negatively but benefits myself. What path will bring me the most happiness. The quote hit me and I realised the value of those moments where you can truly trust yourself. You can hear your real self clearly without the noise. I know now not to listen to myself when I'm in a state of emotion. I make big decisions when I'm calm and am able to shake off resentment. That's why I meditate. I don't want to detach from the material world, because I like it. I want to have a good relationship with the world around me that I can feel and taste and touch. I rank passive above happy now. Happiness needs to come and go for it to mean anything. It is in sync with sadness and doubt. The higher that feeling of joy, the further you are away from the other extreme, and subsequently the more vulnerable you are to the fall. That's not to say strive to be apathetic, but simply know that you can't live on that cliff edge forever. Walk gently down the slope and appreciate that you had a great view. Passive is a stable home, with longevity. [link] [comments] |
| Does mindfulness meditation increase imagination? Or are there other specific meditations for this? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 08:40 PM PDT |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2020 02:05 AM PDT Hi all - I got into meditation about a year ago and it has helped me come through some tough times. I've been mainly self-teaching and learning through headspace, but I've also been reading some Hindu texts on the practice and wider yogas. I'm considering whether this might be a path for me to take more seriously, and even think about becoming a teacher. With that in mind I want to deepen my practice and learn from some of the best places possible. Although I am leaning toward Hindu traditions I am in no way married to them yet. I wondered if anybody had any advice about the best places/retreats to learn more about mediation - possibly in India.Thanks in advance :-) E: Although I am not based in India (in the UK) - I just like India and would like to learn from some people more culturally connected to the tradition. That being said am very open to European recommendations too. [link] [comments] |
| The hidden power of insecurities Posted: 24 Jun 2020 01:53 AM PDT I have noticed that a great way to see my ego at work in everyday life, is to be extra attentive about observing myself in situations when i have a feeling that one part of me is forcing another part to do something, or is judging the other part. For example: I have never been comfortable dancing, and recently i noticed that its so deeply rooted that even when i try dancing with my kid, all alone in the house i still get a sensation of resistance. Intellectually i can clearly see how ridiculous this is, and i can hear myself saying "Dont be so fucking stiff, just let go and enjoy!" But unfortunately that has little to no effect on the sensation of resistance to the situation. Its also quite easy to force myself to actually dance but that too has no releasing effect. Isn't this exactly the type of thing that meditation\self reflection is so great at highlighting!? Before getting in to meditation\self reflection this type of inner dilemma was explained to me by me, something like "Its stupid to dance and i dont like it" "There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know." - Alan Watts [link] [comments] |
| I've always had strong visualisation, how do I improve and utilize this through meditation? Posted: 24 Jun 2020 01:25 AM PDT |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2020 06:31 PM PDT I had the realization that I only really started to understand my inner life until a year or so ago. It was about the time I started meditating. The inner life I started to become aware of was dark and yet beautiful. What are some visions of your inner life you've discovered by meditation? [link] [comments] |
| [Discussion] Does meditation help increase the natural memory and brain functions? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 11:52 PM PDT People with first hand experience of long term meditation practices, do you see a change in yourself, your memory and cognitive functions, or your performance in general, at work, school or socially, before and after getting into this practice? I am trying to generate a motivation because right now it feels too difficult for me to form a habit, but without apparent intermittent progress, I'm unable to take it up for a long term. In talking about mindfulness and meditation both. [link] [comments] |
| Trouble coming out of meditation Posted: 23 Jun 2020 05:45 PM PDT I've been practicing yoga nidra for a little over a year now. For the last few days I've been feeling unable to wake up or get back in my body. It takes a couple hours to feel normal. Has this happened to anyone else? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2020 11:38 PM PDT I was feeling anxious before, so i sat in my chair and meditated. It was ok for about 10 minutes, but then I felt my heart beating really hard and i was becoming light-headed. I was feeling more anxious than before I started, so I stopped. After I stopped, the feeling disappeared. But should I have kept going? I've read that bad feelings during meditation is nothing to be afraid of, and the whole point is to observe these feelings. But at what point do you stop? I've become light-headed while meditating before, but I always stop. Is this nothing to worry about, or is it an actual problem? Thx for reading :) [link] [comments] |
| How to truly release judgement of others? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 11:07 PM PDT I desire to not unwillingly judge others. If I find one person out of a group to be distasteful, then I will judge them. I will hold them accountable for their short-comings and hold disdain for them. My solution for this is to withhold these negative judgements and instead accept the person for how they are. If they carry out an action I would think negative, i.e. being selfish, imposing their negativity on others, etc., instead of watching my mind fester on how a person can act such a way without being conscious of it, I "allow them" to be as they are. As if I have a choice in how they are. Now, I think the idea of not attempting to intervene unsolicited in their personality is down the right path, somewhere along the path I find condescension. I think "Well you are simply blind to your short-comings, isn't that disappointing". I think the ideal would be recognizing what I believe to be a personality fault, then having my mind continue on enjoying my experience. I believe the solution many would advise is "love yourself, and them as you would yourself". Hatred of others may largely be a reflection of self-hatred, or sometimes hatred of their control of you (though this is not the case, unless we extrapolate to their control over my emotional state i.e. 'causing' me annoyance). The problem I run into with simply loving the other person is it feels condescending, as well. It feels like I am saying "You don't understand what you're doing wrong, I 'love' you anyway, you silly person". Is the solution to consciously understand that they have their own personal journey to undertake and attempt to release judgement? Understand that judgement of others is a personal poison and avoid it? Just not care? TL;DR - Holding on to judgements of others is not the correct decision. Releasing my belief that they have a responsibility to understand their faults feels condescending. "Allowing" them to carry on in a negative way feels damning or demeaning, and also incorrectly implies I have some power to change them. I find it hard to simply not care. What do? [link] [comments] |
| What is the best advice with dealing with a distraction that is always the same? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 11:06 PM PDT So, when I meditate, there's this one thought that always comes up. Without question. It's consuming me in my regular life as well (I may have OCD just based on this experience, but this has never happened before with any other thought or compulsion). It's the same thought and developed initially in meditation (which discourages me, because that means I wouldn't have had the thought throughout my daily life if I didn't meditate). It's very simple and almost neutral: the saliva that is produced in my mouth - and sometimes it is a metathought (thinking and thinking about the saliva in my mouth). When I think about it, I usually manually swallow and have a large, semi-uncomfortable amount under my tongue. No, putting my tongue on the roof of my mouth does not stop production at all, it may slow it down a little. Regardless, what's your best advice for this? I would classify this as different from regular distractions as they are usually something like: oh, I need to go to ____ in 45 minutes! or I need to call _____! that are more fleeting, while this is concrete and overstays its welcome. While with most distractions, you return to the breath and think about something else potentially as a distraction, this is ok, I noticed I am thinking about my saliva, and I'm going back to the breath -10 seconds later the same thing happens again-. If anything fits the phrase "constant battle" this gets the cake. [link] [comments] |
| Any long binauaral audio files ? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:19 PM PDT Hello, I am trying to find any audio file on good quality binaural audio for deep meditation. I can find many on Spotify but they are small 5 minutes audios and not long designed specially to bring meditative state from start to the end I.e alpha state to theta state slowly, hopefully at least 30 minutes to 45 minutes. Can anyone point me in right direction or provide me a source? Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2020 05:45 PM PDT Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try [link] [comments] |
| Lovely talk from Jack Kornfield on meditation... Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:58 PM PDT It's a little over an hour but I really enjoyed this talk from Jack Kornfield. Not sure what peoples' feelings are on him. Not sure if he is respected or not so much. I always like what I hear from him. He seems more grounded in reality than some I've heard speak/teach. Hopefully some of you can enjoy this and get something out of it :) Love to discuss it some in the comments! Love you all. Have a lovely evening. <3 [link] [comments] |
| Is there a name for this kind of meditation? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:41 PM PDT I notice a drastically different effect by moving my awareness in an "outward sphere" into my environment, as opposed to inward. Is there a name for this kind of awareness or meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Are there any preferred methods the make projections known? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:14 PM PDT |
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