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- Just want to share: First time that I cried during meditation
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- Can I pay attention to my heartbeat instead of my breath?
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- I think I have found an almost perfect mantra (for me)
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- How do people have such emotional experiences during mediation?
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| Just want to share: First time that I cried during meditation Posted: 28 Jun 2020 11:08 AM PDT Just for the record, I have been on and off meditating for over 20 years with phases of daily meditation for six months including retreats, but today was the first time that I was so overwhelmed with feelings of love that I cried. It was just a simple body scan that I added in the beginning of my daily workout for more mindfulness I usually do some breathing exercises and a quick body scan on my own, but I just saw that the Plum Village App has so many body scans I wanted to try one. Everything was going as always, mindfully appreciate all the body parts, showing gratitude and love and then she said my heart loves me back? I never thought of it that way! My heart loves me, my body loves me just as much as I love it. I was in tears. So weird how such a simple thought can move one so much! The feeling of being loved back was just so intense. It filled me with joy and love. Thoughts about my daughter filled my mind, like she was my heart and loving me back. I just wanted to share, cause I think lots of people enjoy reading stories about meditation and the nice and weird things that sometimes can happen. And if you want a lesson: don't discard guided meditations. Usually I meditate without guidance (just some bells) or minimal guidance (lots of stretches of silence). But if you are open sometimes you hear just the right sentence at the right time and a new and wonderful idea can fill your heart. [link] [comments] |
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| More than 18 million meditators with 1 million new meditators each year in the United States alone Posted: 28 Jun 2020 06:57 PM PDT in the introduction... (from a 2017 study). Wonder how many more there are since we started staying home a lot more? [link] [comments] |
| Mindfulness meditation training promotes prosocial behaviors even without ethical instructions Posted: 28 Jun 2020 03:48 AM PDT New research provides evidence that mindfulness meditation training results in increases in prosocial behaviors, even in the absence of explicit ethics-based instructions. The study has been published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://www.psypost.org/2020/06/mindfulness-meditation-training-promotes-prosocial-behaviors-even-without-ethical-instructions-57150 [link] [comments] |
| Can I pay attention to my heartbeat instead of my breath? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 06:59 AM PDT Hello, beautiful people. Can you enlighten me on this one? Last week I started to feel an urge to only listen/ sense my heart during meditation. Very little attention was paid to the breath. When I tried to focus deeply, instead of counting my breaths I started counting my heartbeats. Have you ever done that? Is this a real thing? I am currently struggling with a lot of anxiety and low self-esteem, so maybe my soul wants me to listen to the heart... What bothers me is that I have never heard about it before. Usually, people try to be mindful by focusing on their breaths. Thank you, God bless. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2020 10:52 PM PDT Just a small note how meditation is helping me. I try meditate 10 mins most days for past 2 years. I've just suffered a major blow by loosing my father and am struggling imensly with the grief. However, I've noticed that I can see when my dickhead mind conjures up sad images that make me breakdown. I was not there for his passing and it was as peaceful as it could possibly be. But my mind creates images of him suffering and even now whilst he is awaiting cremation, my mind tells me to get someone there with a blanket cause he may be cold. I feel that knowing this has helped me deal with it. Just my experience [link] [comments] |
| I think I have found an almost perfect mantra (for me) Posted: 28 Jun 2020 02:30 PM PDT |
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| My mind is always thinking - Is this normal? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 05:55 AM PDT Hello all, as the title says, I am always thinking, and really can't stop it. It's kind of frustrating because I feel some kind of brain fog and fatigue for as long as I can remember that I badly want to get rid of. Perhaps this is the cause of my issue. What is your take on it? Is this normal? I feel like I am totally addicted. I do meditate regularly though and it gives me a temporary relief but only a little bit. [link] [comments] |
| How do you know you are meditating correctly? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 09:28 PM PDT So I have been doing meditation for several months now, every day for at least 1 hour (some days I manage to do 2 hours, and on weekends I tend to do 3 hours per day, but I don't really time myself so there may be variations here and there). I started the practice by following the Anapanasati sutta from the Pali Canon on the mindfulness of breathing, and more recently I have been doing Vipassana (basically paying attention at how the thoughts and sensations arise). Although I have become more adept at sitting still and being aware of my breath and bodily sensations, and even reducing the number of thoughts that come into my head during the session, I don't yet feel like I have made any progress. From what I have read and heard of online and in plenty of books, many people seem to claim to have attained different jhanas, others explain feeling or seeing these mystical things like their bodies disintegrating into single atoms and so forth, or feeling sensations so extreme that they burst into tears, etc... I understand meditation is an individual journey, but given that I don't feel like I have gained anything from it so far, am I even doing it right? Is there like a specific feeling or 'thing' that indicates whether you have become better at it? Or is the simple fact that I can sit still for longer than before enough proof that I am becoming better? [link] [comments] |
| How do people have such emotional experiences during mediation? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 12:36 AM PDT I just meditate to relax and become a little more happy overall but I've heard of people crying from experiencing such strong emotions whilst meditating. How do people do that? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2020 08:32 PM PDT As my title states, I'm looking for advice. I would like to learn more about habit changing and general mindfulness. I do mindfulness based meditations and various other guided meditations. But still I feel like I can't make the internal changes that I aspire to. This causes me to have feelings of disliking myself. I have been stuck in this for a few weeks. I'm just over feeling like this. So, please, any tips are appreciated. Please be kind I feel weird making this post but even weirder asking people I know in real life for advice on this. Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| Has anybody else had difficulty truly wishing other people well during Metta practice? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 05:10 PM PDT For those who don't know, in Metta you visualise somebody you know, and you form an intention that they be happy and free from suffering, you wish them well and then you try to let that feeling grow and radiate from within you. But as much as there are people in my life who I wish well, I can only seem to form that wish on an abstract intellectual level. No feeling comes, no matter how hard I try. I attempted Metta in a group sitting on the final day of a 10-day silent retreat several years ago. And by the end of the practice I was positively boiling over with frustration and self-hatred, because I couldn't do it. Afterwards, because it was the last day, we broke silence and talked about the experience with Metta. Which was unanimously about how it was an incredibly powerful positive experience, and I felt like the truth of what I had experienced was not welcome to be talked about, so I just had to bottle it up to myself. I'm not sure if I'm emotionally stunted, or too selfish, or maybe I need to not be in pain myself before I can truly connect with a positive wish for others (I guess I've had a lot of depression-y issues in my life). Regardless of the cause, I was just wondering if anyone else has also had this experience. I feel very alone in this. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 28 Jun 2020 11:00 AM PDT My morning was seemingly rough so I took a walk to the beach to meditate. I deeply listened to the ocean and for a brief period it felt like my physical being was separating from my environment and then afterwards it felt like a clean slate to continue on with the day. [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone used meditation to increase appetite? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 05:55 PM PDT I have difficulty with eating at times just due to lack of hunger/appetite. Even with exercising. I'm wondering if there are any stories out there of people inducing hunger through meditation [link] [comments] |
| Have you seen this?�� best instrumental music for meditation Posted: 28 Jun 2020 09:40 PM PDT have you seen this? best instrumental music for meditation https://youtu.be/7SUytx2RY7o [link] [comments] |
| People who post feed their ego Posted: 28 Jun 2020 03:41 PM PDT I feel like a big part of this subreddit who gives advice feeds their ego. When giving advice you put yourself in a superior position, and makes you feel better and stronger than others. And they come up with ideas such as : "My practice is better than yours you cannot contest it !" I have seen such behavior here that gives a boost to the ego. I'm just saying that a lot of you who reply with basic meditation advice are feeling like they are boudhist teachers when they really aren't. I know that your advice is for a good intention and that you want to share your knowlegde, but sometimes people should ask themselves : "Do I truely have the knowledge and wisdom to answer you?" (Sorry for spelling errors, english is not my native language) I hope some of you understand what I mean by "feeding the ego", and also understand that it is not because you meditate that you are smarter and more counscious than people who don't. Good luck on your journey, and if you want real advice, I'm not sure reddit is the right place to find it. [link] [comments] |
| Whenever I focus on the breath my breathing feels "unnatural" Posted: 28 Jun 2020 03:16 PM PDT Whenever I make the intention to use my breath as an object of meditation my breathing feels unnatural almost as if I am unintentionally forcing it to sustain my attention to it. If I don't force it my attention wanders elsewhere as my natural breath is so subtle it doesn't generate a large enough sensation to hold my attention. I do not want to force my breath, but its seems unintentional and when I don't my breath doesn't generate a large enough sensation to hold my attention. [link] [comments] |
| What’s the best meditation app? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 01:48 PM PDT There are SO many out there these days. Instead of sitting through them all (and potentially wasting time on the ones I don't jive with), I thought I'd ask you lovely folks which apps you prefer. Definitely open to a paid subscription. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2020 07:44 PM PDT I have been working on my root chakra and when switching to sacral it becomes difficult to remain still, my entire body begins to twitch and shake? Any help? [link] [comments] |
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| Tratak meditation overwhelming?? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 07:16 PM PDT Hi! So I started meditating regularly about two weeks ago, starting off with small durations of time because of my adhd. A couple months ago, I took shrooms and experienced what I now know was an ego death. When it happened I was unaware of it and uneducated (I was hell bent that I would get stuck in the trip) so eventhough it was liberating my anxiety was at an all time high. I decided that is should not take them again until I am much older (I am 19) because it was borderline traumatic for me, as well as enlightening, and I genuinely just don't feel the need/want to do them. Now onto my question/experience. Last night I decided to meditate and start it off by ringing the Tingsha bells, I also smoked a little bit of weed which I usually smoke daily but recently I've been cutting back. The meditation was intense and directly infront of me was a picture of an eye that I began to focus on unintentionally (I just found out this is Tratak). My whole body was vibrating and I felt the energy in me moving up and down my body. Then my vision started to get darker and darker (starting at my peripherals) with my eyes still open. It did not feel like my body was moving up towards the ceiling but it felt like my mind was. All of a sudden the overwhelming anxiety I felt during my trip came back as everything was getting more and more intense. I don't recall thinking of anything i believe my mind was completely clear. I also heard this noice (I'm assuming it's an auditory hallucination) that sounded like a jail cell or a dungeon door being shut or open. Once I started feeling the immense anxiety and my mind start to go where ever the hell it was going I had to stop. I thought maybe it was because I was under the influence of the bud so I tried it again today sober and I was able to get to that point again but without the intense vibrations in my body (I stopped this meditation quicker than the other when I realized it wasn't just from the drugs). I am 99% sure that the anxiety comes from the extreme lack of self love that I have for myself, eventhough I have no issues giving love to others/animals/nature, and my fear of never returning to my vessel (and I'm not talking about OBE). I am posting this because I want outsider opinion to make sure I am not doing anything wrong or putting myself in danger. I know fear is constantly being fed to us and that we can't let it control our lives, but I feel like I can't form the right questions to asks in regards to this fear. I want to believe it is fear of the unknown, which is what you guys will probably say, but I'm afraid that I will ascend before I die. I genuinely have no clue if that is possible and I really hope it isn't so please educate me because I don't know how to ask this question without sounding like I think I am better than everyone. Advice would be greatly appreciated too. I really hope this is all just because I need to work on my personal trauma. [link] [comments] |
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