Meditation: Meditation saved my life |
- Meditation saved my life
- Tips for a beginner
- Cover your ears with fingers when you meditate
- How does smoking marijuana affect meditation?
- I meditated for the first time today. Also, I shit myself during the said meditation.
- My six year old has asked me to help him meditation.
- Some advice regarding frustration
- Stretches and yoga poses to help comfortably sit half lotus and other positions
- Is it normal that your leg becomes numb and red when sitting in the lotus posture?
- Academic
- How long do you meditate?
- I stopped meditation 3 months ago, after a 1 year, but the benefits are still with me. Thoughts and advise for others.
- please help. Stuck in life. Fucked up big time
- Presence is the fragrance of awareness.
- Can there be negative side effects to meditation, like depression?
- Body high from meditation
- How has caffeine affected your practice?
- Please support and enjoy .
- Book Recommendations - Taking the Next Step
- Been meditating for a few years and recently I have been making videos to help people with their meditation practice. If you are new to meditation or are confused if you are doing it right, you may find my video helpful!
- My Body is Working Hard to Keep Me Alive
- Meditation as a running break
- Question about this video on enlightenment - intelligence vs memory
- I could be wrong but, going for just four days of semen retention, ive noticed an increase in quality of subtle sensations with the breath. Anyone experience this?
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:50 AM PDT In December of 2017 I was going to kill myself. I had just called it off with a young lady I cared about a lot and my life was spiraling downwards. I started drinking, started smoking, and started acting like an asshole. I had a plan in place. I posted somewhere on Reddit (this was on my old account which has since been deleted) that I was going to kill myself. Someone replied to my post with something along the lines of "Try meditation for two weeks, if I'm two weeks you feel like going through with it, then so be it, but give meditation a try" So I did, right there and then. Two weeks later i felt slightly better. Better enough to not want to kill myself. I kept going with it, and after about six months of meditation I started going to therapy. Anyways, I'll spare you guys the ramble. I don't know who you are, or if you remember this. But whoever replied to my post in December of 2017, I wanna say thank you. You saved my life. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 01:02 AM PDT Hello everyone! I just joined this subreddit,, because I'm interested in starting meditation, and I would appreciate your tips. I tried meditation guide apps a few times, but I always have a hard time relaxing and letting go of my thoughts and nervousness. Lately my anxiety has been getting worse, and meditation is basically the only thing I haven't tried. That said, any input you can provide would be deeply appreciated. Thank you [link] [comments] |
| Cover your ears with fingers when you meditate Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:36 AM PDT I don't know if someone already posted something like this, I just wanted to show my experience whilst meditating. I randomly covered my ears with my fingers and it was amazing because you feel more the air coming in from your nose and out from your mouth so you focus more on them rather than let the mind travel randomly through thoughts that can just distract you. Give it a try, I usually can't last more than 1-2 minutes without thinking of something else rather than the breaths (I just started meditating) but with this technique I was able to go around 5-8 minutes, until I decided to end the meditation [link] [comments] |
| How does smoking marijuana affect meditation? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 01:29 AM PDT I am just curious about the effect that marijuana has on meditation, if it even has any. Does anyone know? And is the effect good or adverse? [link] [comments] |
| I meditated for the first time today. Also, I shit myself during the said meditation. Posted: 25 Jun 2020 02:38 PM PDT Yeah. I was following my breath and something felt like a fart but I was too focused to hold it in, so I let it rip. And the results were more... corporeal than a fart. I don't know anyone who meditates other than one friend, so it felt like a fun story to share with y'all. I'm definitely going back for round 2, hopefully this time with less... interesting results. [link] [comments] |
| My six year old has asked me to help him meditation. Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:07 AM PDT I am in no ways a meditation teacher, and though I have been practicing for about eight years, I'm not very "good" at it. I don't have a lot of answers. Any tips from you guys about making meditation accessible to a six year old? He specifically said he'd like to meditate to not get so angry all the time. [link] [comments] |
| Some advice regarding frustration Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:24 PM PDT So inevitably there will be some uncomfortable thoughts that pop up during meditation and some self critical. Throwing out another thought to try to stop another will only create more thoughts and a headache. Instead gently and kindly accept the thought or emotion, it's there and it's okay, no need to change it just guide your awareness back to the present or on your meditation object. I want to really emphasize being kind to yourself if you try to forcefully and angrily push away these thoughts it will only amplify them, so instead be encouraging to yourself and friendly to difficult feelings. [link] [comments] |
| Stretches and yoga poses to help comfortably sit half lotus and other positions Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:26 AM PDT Recently I've started feeling some pain when starting half lotus and a lot of paint and stiffness when ending it. Are there any stretches that could help make this position more comfortable? [link] [comments] |
| Is it normal that your leg becomes numb and red when sitting in the lotus posture? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:38 PM PDT Hi, I am meditating daily for about 45 minutes for years now. However I have never found a posture I am completely happy with. The only way I can really sit comfortably for a longer span of time with a straight spine is the lotus posture. I had problems with my knees ones, however I got this problem under control by doing some rudimentary yoga exercises before sitting. Still, after about twenty minutes, the leg lying on top will get numb. Many meditation sites will tell you that numb knees is ok, because it doesn't have anything to do with blood flow. However I find that hard to believe because my top leg will get visibly redder than the other one. The numbness will vanish about 30 secs after getting up but still I worry that this can't be healthy. I have three questions. First, is this normal? Secondly, are there any good yoga exercises I should try? And finally, will this problem become less severe when my body becomes more accustomed to the posture? Thanks for your help! [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:39 AM PDT I am quite new to meditating ( about two weeks ) and I usually set an alarm for ten minutes, I have tried 20 minutes, my back gets sore but I usually get through with it. How long should you meditate? Is setting an alarm bad? and do you have any tips for maintaining focus while meditating longer? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 08:30 PM PDT So if you look into my previous posts you will see that I've documented my journey with meditation sporadically over many months. I started well over a year ago and my initial experience within the first month+ was nothing but stunning. As a hyper rational person who shunned anything to do with religion and the like I always was somewhat skeptical of the benefits of something even as well proven as meditation. Well I was of course proven wrong. Within the first weeks I had access to moments of blissful peace and inner space I rarely experienced in the past. With time the growing awareness and presence of my practice seeped into my daily life. Then at some point along the way the tone of things began to shift under me without me fully realizing it. None of this should be a surprise to me as someone who has struggled with depression, attachment issues, deep seated feelings of loneliness, longing and self hatred. I'm not quite willing to say I went through a dark night of the soul for nothing so dramatic happened. But I will say that with time I found myself swimming in a sea of intrusive thoughts, unpleasant feelings, and much else. I slowly became somewhat obsessed with the idea of that I felt like a bad person, a terrible human being. Thankfully I've been in therapy quite a while and very open to working on myself. I looked at this as the need to work on my shadow self. Then the pandemic struck right as I was trying to take on some new challenges in my life in the form of dating. Long story short things feel apart for me over the span of several weeks during self isolation. I actually became semi suicidal for a short period. This did resolve though and I'm back out the other side. I should say this has also resolved a fair bit faster than previous mental blowouts I've had. I have stopped my meditation practice in the interim though. But interestingly enough the benefits still seem to remain with me. I find myself still very much more present and aware of my inner state of mind. There have been some interesting shifts in my state of mind of late as well. I have consciously shifted away from my emotions, thoughts and feelings, more towards actions. I have gotten back into running and photography with a realization that I need to fill my life with passions and interests. I suppose I'm more aware that I'm in control of this ship regardless of how terrible I might feel in the moment and only I can pilot it to where I want to go. I am now consciously trying to take a curious approach to my emotions, traumatic or not. One of the key things I'm picking up on is that the difference between rumination and obsession, and mindful awareness is VERY much more subtle than I realized. I thought I would be able to tell the difference but I couldn't. During my mediation I slipped into identification and rumination over time. It's interesting because I THOUGHT during this time that I was aware of the difference and even pondered if this was the problem while I was in the middle of it. Here's the thing. Meditation in and of itself DOES NOTHING. Now I knew this myself. I wasn't looking for a CURE. But unconsciously I must have been in a way. I felt that if I sat with the uncomfortable feelings long enough, something would change. And that of course is a mistake. I wasn't even conscious that this had become a goal of mine. Meditation made me more aware that I was in pain. Great I thought, well lets sit with this and work with it then. Well... yes that is good to a point. But not if the rest of your life falls by the way side. The key I have been missing all of my life has been action. Perhaps even a conscious awareness that I CAN take action. Fear has held me back from much in my life and in other places depression. In many ways this has left me trapped in a prison of my own making. I suppose meditation made me more aware of the iron bars I had built for myself. This is not the fault of meditation but indeed an EXTREMELY important benefit! A life time of viewing the world through this prison I have built for myself does not go aware in a day mind you. Now the practise is to do things anyway WITH this awareness of the cage I feel around me. [link] [comments] |
| please help. Stuck in life. Fucked up big time Posted: 26 Jun 2020 01:29 AM PDT I am in awe every day at the state of my life. About a year ago I had everything and was the happiest person alive. Was about to go to uni to study and be successful. I wouldn't wish the worst on anyone in life. Then the people around me started to screw me over. Firstly, my dad cheated on my mom and I found out by going through his phone, then my girlfriend started being unfaithful, then my friends fucked me over (kind of solved this one). Ever since then I started smoking weed like an idiot. Then I started doing psychedelics. From then slowly all of the good things in my life fell apart. My catholic family and I started to disconnect, this is one of the very things i'm reminded of every day, they were the most important part of me. I had 2 bad LSD trips and it feels like all of the good parts of me have entered my brain and are stuck there and have brought out this soul-less shitty dumb person I am now. I have forgotten how to live like I used to. I have forgotten how to love and why to love. I have lost touch with my good self and good life. This is actually completely my fault. People told me not to do these drugs and here I am now. I'm writing on the meditation page because it has been one of the only things that has helped me. I've always been a meditator at heart. I often lie around and think about life and things. I know this is not meditation but this is the kind of thinking i've always loved doing. I used to be able to go into amazing thoughts and come up with great ideas. Now I have nothing, just headaches and really depressing thoughts. I have no curiosity and cannot see the world in a positive way. I can't get out of my thoughts. I am way too aware of my shit life. [link] [comments] |
| Presence is the fragrance of awareness. Posted: 25 Jun 2020 09:39 PM PDT |
| Can there be negative side effects to meditation, like depression? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 04:16 PM PDT Been meditating daily for about 45 days. Every morning for at least 20 min. I just focus on my breath and observe my thoughts, most of which are negative. I have gotten really negative this week and I've been feeling very depressed. I seem to be hyper aware of my surroundings and always on edge about what people are thinking about me. I make up false stories in my mind, call myself many bad names and view myself as an ugly piece of shit, but i've been told by many people im good looking talented ect. I have made progress in my life, went back to college, got sober(2 years clean) and made extream diet and lifestyle changes, given up all processed food, exercise often, and recently started meditation as mentioned. All this and I still feel so worthless. Could the meditation be making this worse? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 09:28 AM PDT This is awesome! I've been using hemi sync in the mornings and doing metta before bed and after around 450 consecutive(ish) days I'm starting to feel a permanent body high! The body high gets "topped off" in the mornings and it'll be acompanied by a very slight nausea that diminishes through the morning. Sometimes I'll be sitting around staring into space and I'll start tearing up (in joy) for no reason. Wow! I'm so glad I stuck with this. I'm super excited to see what happens after several years of this! [link] [comments] |
| How has caffeine affected your practice? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 03:30 PM PDT Its inevitable I will take the plunge but any stories of success will only help the morale. [link] [comments] |
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| Book Recommendations - Taking the Next Step Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:27 PM PDT Hey Everyone, I started doing guided body scan meditations close to a year ago in hopes of fixing issues with insomnia, anxiety, irritability, etc. Turns out that they helped a lot! However, I sort of feel like I'm at a standstill, and life just feels sort of static. I'd like to dive deeper into meditation, and as I'm wrapping up the current book I'm reading, I figured I should look into a meditation-centered book for the next read. Anybody have any recommendations? I'm particularly interested in the idea of the third eye. It's always been intriguing, but also sort of intimidating as I feel like I don't quite understand the process. Any book recommendations would be amazing. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:11 AM PDT I'm not trying to promote or sell anything here, I just know how valuable meditation has been for me and I want to give back to this community. I know there are tons of different people with their own ideas on how to meditate, but I wanted to share the method I use because I find it to be super simple and effective. Over the past years, I have tried many different approaches to meditation (transcendental, mindfulness, visualization, etc) and have figured out generally how I like to meditate. I like to keep it simple and not over complicate the practice. I find that many online resources and people who talk about meditation overcomplicate the practice. Meditation is about doing nothing while maintaining awareness and a gentle focus. It's not about eliminating all thought. It's not about reaching enlightenment. It's not about manifesting. It's about understanding yourself on a deeper level. This video shares what I believe to be the core essence of meditation and shares how to overcome some of the obstacles that many of us face when learning to meditate. I hope you all have a wonderful day! [link] [comments] |
| My Body is Working Hard to Keep Me Alive Posted: 25 Jun 2020 02:44 PM PDT I tried meditating again for the first time in a long time. This time it felt different. Time slowed down. I only did it for 5 minutes but it felt much longer. I also focused on my heartbeat. I don't think I've ever really paid attention to my heart. I could really feel it beating, I could feel it working to keep me on this earth. I don't show that little guy enough love. He deserves the world. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:50 AM PDT Just wanted to write this down. I often meditate after a workout. Today i went for a run and it's really hot outside so i sweat more than usual. After a short sprint i sat down on a bench and meditated. I concentrated on my pounding heart and on my breath as i always do and the sweat began to run down my face. It helped me to imagine the drops as thoughts that were leaving my head to let go. It was probably not even 10 minutes but it felt really good. Also gave me a lot of energy for my run home. [link] [comments] |
| Question about this video on enlightenment - intelligence vs memory Posted: 25 Jun 2020 06:00 PM PDT Short video. How do you recognize enlightened being ? Sorry to be quite vague here but I watched this 8 minute video which left me little confused and would like to discuss and get some of your comments to understand my confusion. I have huge respect to Sadhguru but I have a question. It seems like it's noted in this video that memory is not you as it's the stuff we have gathered\ accumulated throughout life, from body to mind to materialistic things.indo agree. But in my opinion, memory plays a huge importance, I.e if I look at a tree I know it's a tree with roots and leads from my memory, my body, house, birds, everything my eyes see. If I completely remove my memory I can literally not survive and my breath will stop. So memory is me because without it I will die. Living in this world day to day, how can you possibly remove memory from the equation to become enlightened because, the moment you remove it, you for get who your wife is, children are, house is, tree is, curtain is, sky is, earth is? Also in my understanding intelligence is because of the existence of memory. Just to take an example, If you put me on a planet where I don't know anything at all, example what is animal, what is friend, what is not friend, etc etc, I will die instantly as inwont be able tonprotect myself even though I have a sharp intellect or intelligence. I can try to use my intelligence as best I can using my instincts without any memory example assume this statute in this world will not eat me but it might. My point is that only if I know my surroundings through my memory i can be intelligent and take right decision. So how can we seperate memory from intelligence ? Sorry I am amature, Can someone get my confusion and help me correct it? [link] [comments] |
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