Meditation: Treat your wandering mind as a kitten |
- Treat your wandering mind as a kitten
- I Am Leaving
- Beyond Headspace?
- falling asleep while meditating?
- After 3 weeks of Meditation I feel way less angry. World has changed to me.
- Is it possible to gain self love from meditation?
- What have I experienced?
- Meditation is changing me
- After extreme meditation sessions and breathing practice for 5 months...
- Meditating on death
- Who am I?
- Meditation is helping me to get through my social media addiction
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- Feeling a weird taste on the back of my tongue when doing breathing Exercises
- QUIZ TIME ON INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY 2020
- Meditation makes me feel stoned
- Kava kava is extremely helpful in entering deep meditation
- I've been meditating and its working
- Quarantine got me messed up, how do i meditate ?
- Advice on proper yoga.
- Meditation Slump
- 999 Minutes Meditated with Headspace
| Treat your wandering mind as a kitten Posted: 20 Jun 2020 01:13 PM PDT I've always been troubled by frustration and self-criticism after my mind wanders, and then more frustration after noticing such self-criticism because I know I should not be judgemental about myself. I understand that I should accept and let go of mind wandering, but I still cannot do that emotionally. However, after living with a four-month-old kitten, I suddenly realize the similarity between my wandering mind and the kitten. The kitten can be quite hyperactive sometimes and it has a short attention span overall. It can be easily distracted by noise. However, we will never blame the kitten as we know it's not the kitten's fault or anyone's fault. It's just the result of evolution and the biological instinct. In fact, if at any moment we succeed to attract the kitten's attention, we always appreciate that moment and feel really pleasant, since we know the kitten doesn't have any obligation to comply with our intention. It's simply lucky for us to attract the kitten's attention even for a brief moment. Compared to a kitten, we have even more reasons to forgive and be gentle with our mind, since it's generally much more trainable than the kitten. Our mind even feels guilty when it finds out it is distracted. How innocent and adorable is that! How come we can be non-judgemental to a kitten but so harsh on our mind? Just treat our minds with the same appreciation, acceptance, and easiness when we observe it as we see a kitten. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2020 03:56 PM PDT I am leaving this subreddit because I have realized, the more I read, study, and try to make sense out of spirituality and meditation, the more I get tangled in it. I am leaving this subreddit so that I can find all the answers by myself, after all, I am the whole universe. It was a great time here and I learned a lot, but I guess it's time for me to unlearn everything and listen to the wisdom that is eternally present inside me. Just needed to let it all out. I say goodbye to this beautiful community <3 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:47 AM PDT I've got a 900 day streak on Headspace (10-20 mins per day). My subscription is ending next week, I'm not renewing and I feel I need to move on to progress and deepen my practice. I mostly do "semi-guided" or just use the timer. Aside from a bit of anxiety from time to time I just use it to counter stress and for general well being. I have done little to nothing outside headspace so far, but I do practise Yoga. Is anyone willing to share what they think a good next step up might be to challenge me? [link] [comments] |
| falling asleep while meditating? Posted: 20 Jun 2020 07:25 PM PDT im new to meditation. headspace is free with my job, and im going through a lot at the moment, so i gave it a shot. i like it. i work early mornings til afternoon, and when i get home i dont really think about meditation. i rarely have time before work to do much. because of all that, ill meditate at night. one afternoon while it was still light out, i started my session and accidentally fell asleep. from there i found myself meditating purposely to fall asleep (in favor of using bad coping mechanisms). I usually have a really hard time falling asleep in general, but I think I knock out 10 mins into a session. is this okay? should i avoid doing it even if it brings me comfort? does this effect my progress with meditating at all? [link] [comments] |
| After 3 weeks of Meditation I feel way less angry. World has changed to me. Posted: 21 Jun 2020 12:30 AM PDT Hey guys! My name's Alex I'm 23 and I've meditated for the past 3 weeks. I know it is not much, but my life has changed completely in a really short period of time (which matches the time I started meditating) and I wan't to write a bit about it, that way if someone isn't fully convinced to start out I hope with my text and explanation he will be. First of all, I tried meditation in the past (mostly with headspace app) and I've never achieved anything, ever. This time was different because I thought that the smartest way for me to start off would be staying silent, for as long as I could, with no distractions, focusing on the breathing and trying to keep myself relaxed. Sometimes I tried breathing from the chest, sometimes normally, it deppends on what I was feeling at the time. Turns out after 1 or 2 days I actually started feeling different.I've always been a super angry and negative person, I've played videogames for my whole life and every time I loose at ANYTHING (not even only in videogames, this has happened since I was a child, board games made me get super upset aswell) I've always got really mad. We're talking about breaking things and shouting really loud every time, not like getting a bit upset. While I was playing a card game I realized that I was getting TOO upset about losses and it needed to stop somehow, that's why I tried meditation. After a few days my life changed, I started being more aware that I was getting angry. I've always been super rude with my mother for some reason (there's plenty family drama involved of course) and this time I was able to stop and think. Whenever I was or am about to say something rude or with anger behind it now I feel like I have the awareness to say nothing instead or say it in a different way. It's so weird to talk about it because I can't say specifics because I don't know them, but there's been such a difference and my relationship with my mother has changed drastically. Whenever I was about to loose in any game, I could feel the tension in my body and react to it, faster than the anger spreads. It's so interesting how such a small time investment can make someone able to feel so much in comparison. Nowadays I meditate for 10 minutes (now I set an alarm and obligate myself to make it till the end) every night and sometimes even once more in the morning. What I feel after meditating is calmness, peace, it feels like my thoughts are more focused, no junk stupidity feelings or thoughts, only calmness and focus. I obviously still got a long way to go, but to anyone with my same issues wondering what to do, just give it a try. If the guided meditation videos don't work, try to do your own thing. I must say I have no trouble thinking about nothing, making my mind blank and letting thoughts come and go, for some reason my mother (which already started meditating aswell) told me the same, she can do it easy. I'm sure the text is full of badly written stuff and I'm sorry about it, English isn't my first language and it shows every time I write for a long period of time. Have a nice day guys! [link] [comments] |
| Is it possible to gain self love from meditation? Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:14 PM PDT I just realized I dont love myself. Can listening to guided meditations, repeating a mantra, or affirmation really help you love yourself? I just finished a 15 minute guided love meditation but Im curious if it actually works? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:28 PM PDT I'm a beginner. When I meditate, I usually focus on my breath (I visualize it as a sinusoidal wave) and try to cool down my mind. I was about twenty minutes into my meditation. I'd read on the internet that during deep states of meditation if you visualize yourself detaching from your body, you can induce astral projection. Knowing this, I imagined myself standing in the opposite corner of my room, watching my body meditating. It wasn't an astral projection, but it was very vivid. I imagined myself looking out my window, and saw shadowy figures walking on my street. For some reason, I felt like they knew I was looking at them, and wanted to get to my body. I saw them rushing towards me, and suddenly felt very scared. At this point, my heart started beating really fast and my body started overheating and sweating. I didn't break my frame though, I continued with my meditation. After about five minutes my body had cooled down rapidly (to the point where I started to feel cold) and my heart had stopped beating abnormally fast. After this point, my breath became so light that I could barely notice myself breathing. My question to you guys is, what was this that I've experienced? Is it just an illusion of my overly active imagination, or is it something more? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2020 02:27 PM PDT Meditation is changing me and I don't know who I am anymore. I feel both better and worse at the same time. Better by coming back to the breathe and being here now. Worse by dealing with all my issues I've repressed over the years. I don't think I will ever return to the person I once was. The person full of anxieties, hatreds, and fears. I meditate and something changes inside of me. I can't really describe it but I've been meditating almost daily for 2.5. months for 30 minutes to an hour and I know meditators don't like to compare how long they've done this practice but SOMETHING is changing inside of me. Where am I going? As I meditate more will I be able to let go of attachments and live a happy and peaceful life? Do you notice this change? If so, could you describe it please. I'm freaking out right now as maybe meditation can lead me to a scientific discovery about the universe or something [link] [comments] |
| After extreme meditation sessions and breathing practice for 5 months... Posted: 20 Jun 2020 08:47 PM PDT I hyper-de-realized, disassociated, disappeared in my daily life, 24hrs a day for almost a week now. It's not something I recommend for anybody who has ever had any trauma to them whatsoever. It's not going to have the same experience for you as for others... I'm one of them, and it's making sense why folks seem "detached" after going after this pursuit. It's essentially psychopathy training. I don't recommend going deep. Relaxation is one thing, going the way of Christ is absolutely mad. You tell yourself a self-fulfilling prophecy and confess onto everyone else that they live in only the same mindset as you. I think it overstimulates the frontal lobe, making you dream in reality. It's f'd up. Not cool. Feels literally like hell. Like you're becoming a demon. Remember to walk behind the Buddha, to go the middle way. Not too far one way... no absolutes. This is simply my opinion. My strong opinion. Admitting this to myself has helped me get over this. Again, I do not recommend going too far with this for certain people. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:44 PM PDT I watched this video about samurais meditating on the concept of death, so that when they are on the battlefield, they are resilient and least scared, because they had gone through this scenario a thousand times in their head. This is interesting to me because it reminds me of Stoic philosophy about being aware of how short our lives are and to live to the fullest. However, I thought the whole point of meditation was not to think and be present and be aware of our surrounding. So the warrior meditation contradicts the original philosophy. So how do one handle this contradiction ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2020 03:05 AM PDT When I first joined the military back during basic training, a large bunch of us were marched over to an auditorium to watch a short film. The movie was titled Who am I? What am I doing here? The film's purpose was to make most of us realize that we no longer lived in the safe home with our mom and dad, that our lives were about to change tremendously, and most of all... that our training sergeant was not our mother. Aha! I was still in the military, the USAF, and stationed in Viet Nam, when I first learned meditation. And the very first "aha" moment was when I began to question, "Who am I?" That's what meditation does. It not only grabs us out of the past and future and gets us to live and be in the present moment, it not only increases our awareness of both our self and our surroundings, meditation makes us realize that we are not our thoughts, we are not our mind. We become an observer, the observer, of our thoughts, of our mind. Aha! That's why some people stop meditating. I don't think any of us liked that film very much. It's not easy when someone or some thing tries to mess with our perception. That's exactly what the movie did, and that's exactly what meditation does. It messes with your perception. Or should I say your "mis"perceptions. Yes, from the beginning, your mind has been in charge. And you believe your mind. You believe it no matter what it tells you. It is your mind, after all. Why wouldn't you believe it? And when your mind tells you that meditation is not for you, why wouldn't you believe it? So that's our choice I guess. We either continue to search for what is the truth(?) or we drop it and live with our misperceptions of reality. The latter is easier I suppose. But I've always disliked "the easy way out", and that's why I stayed with meditation. When that first "aha" moment came and the question arose emblazoned across the sky of my mind, "Who am I? Who the hell AM I???", that was when I began to like meditation. And I've liked it ever since! [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is helping me to get through my social media addiction Posted: 20 Jun 2020 04:42 PM PDT I've been using social media for so long (since 2005) that it led me to become a little bit addicted. But in the past recent months, the Coronavirus' pandemic made me reflect on all the wasted time I gave to those virtual platforms. Instead of taking care of my few friends and family, I was constantly updating my Instagram feed with pics of myself, or writing furious words about my country's politicians on Facebook and Twitter (I'm a Brazilian woman, so you can only imagine that I have a lot of reasons to be mad about politics). When I realised that the majority of my online interactions just made my life more miserable and sad, I saw that something was wrong in the way I used the internet. That was the moment I've discovered Meditation and Buddhism. And I knew I wanted to be a better woman, getting closer to my loved ones again. At first it wasn't easy. I struggled to cement new mindful habits in my daily life. There were times I thought Meditation just wasn't made for me and I almost gave up. But I was resolved to live a meaningful life from that moment on, because being a zombie with a smartphone in my hand all the time wasn't healthy and I knew it. So I kept on meditating day after day, trying to get focused on the present moment, trying to know my own mind better. Now I think I made it. I have no need to prove myself to others. I've deleted most of my social media accounts and now I just use the ones I truly need. It's not that I became a technophobe or something like that, it's just that now I've learnt to balance my social media usage, staying on the present moment and having a mindful posture about it. I've decided to write these words to encourage people who are struggling with social media addiction. Be perseverant and give Meditation a chance to improve the way you live your life. I hope you can make it and have good benefits as much as I did. [link] [comments] |
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| Is meditation what we are looking for? Posted: 21 Jun 2020 12:48 AM PDT I believe that most people desperately look for not a relief from but a easy solution to distress and tragedy. I see us commonly putting hope into procrastination and very transient pleasures such as entertainment like watching TV, browning the net, playing games, activities like eating and drinking, play, hobbies or relationships or goods like clothes, electronics, and other clutter all out of anxiety and to flee from an existential void. These pleasures usually won't fix a thing after all since we will still have to face what we interpret as unhappiness (i.e. work, fights, life). And this is what we call everyday life, the up and down of fortunes. I'm sorry if my observations are false or if this is common knowledge here but it is a good introduction to my question. So here's my question: Is it that meditation is a solution to this? Does meditation bring balance into life that involves relief from worry or a mindset that lessens it? [link] [comments] |
| Free 1 Year Headspace Subscription!! Posted: 20 Jun 2020 03:10 AM PDT Just discovered Headspace is offering a year of Headspace for free for the unemployed. Pretty awesome, been using it and it's great. I don't know if many already know but i thought i'd share this just in case :) [link] [comments] |
| Feeling a weird taste on the back of my tongue when doing breathing Exercises Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:12 PM PDT |
| QUIZ TIME ON INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY 2020 Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:48 PM PDT |
| Meditation makes me feel stoned Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:43 PM PDT Most of the time when I get super in the moment it can make me feel very similar to if I smoked a small amount of marijuana, I get really strong association feelings when I am high on weed and it makes my emotions super amplified and meditation makes me feel this without even smoking, Of course there are differences but it is still amazing how I can make myself feel like I am in the set of a movie or something just by observing my surroundings and living in my heart [link] [comments] |
| Kava kava is extremely helpful in entering deep meditation Posted: 20 Jun 2020 06:20 PM PDT I know that many here are against substance use and meditation (I am too, to a certain degree), but hear me out. Kava (for those who don't know) is a non-addictive root that is made into a drink which produces mild sedative and hypnotic effects (along with muscle relaxation), this drink does not necessarily "intoxicate" a person, you get to keep a clear consciousness (which is the only reason I'd ever suggest a plant medicine to use alongside meditation) and it blocks out most unnecessary thoughts. Take what you guys want from this, hopefully some of y'all found this interesting :) [link] [comments] |
| I've been meditating and its working Posted: 20 Jun 2020 12:21 PM PDT Healing my anxiety day by day at first i was very sceptical. I started off with this one that a friend made Hope it works for you [link] [comments] |
| Quarantine got me messed up, how do i meditate ? Posted: 20 Jun 2020 02:19 PM PDT That's basically it, since quarantine started the anxiety, overthinking, intrusive thoughts and my mind creating problems took over me. I heard medidation can help, so that's why im here. How can i do this in my house ? How do I start ? Thanks in advance and sorry for the bad English (im portuguese) ☺ [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2020 09:48 PM PDT Hello everyone, I think in recent uncertain times, I am getting obsessed with yoga & it's philosophy, not the asanas simply but the deeper mental practices like dharna & dhyana along with pranayama but recently I am having a problem continuing my practice, mostly because of certain methods. You see I am not very good at breathing or visualization techniques & it's often gets annoying for me when I want to go deep in my practice. So I want to ask any long time meditator of the yoga traditional is mantra meditation good for dharna ( concentration) & is it easy to practice pr there is any other method that I can practice. PLEASE DON'T SUGGEST ANY APPS, NOT A FAN OF THOSE THINGS. THANK YOU! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2020 09:40 AM PDT Anyone ever experience periods where meditation becomes difficult? I've been meditating for about 6 months daily, anywhere from 5-25 minutes a few times a day. My preferred method is to spend a couple minutes scanning my body and releasing tension, and then I begin focusing on breath and imagining I'm breathing in pure white light that fills my body and mind with every inhale, and breathing out black smoke that contains all negative emotions with every exhale. My mind wandered quite a bit when I first started, but I've improved tremendously to the point where long sessions fly by, my mind rarely wanders and I feel completely calm and centered after. However, lately I've had a really hard time focusing my mind and finding that calm. When I sit to meditate my mind jumps from topic to topic and it's a major struggle to get myself to focus, and it's difficult to sustain when I do. It feels like I'm back to square one some days. Is this normal? Am I overthinking this? If anyone has had similar experience and/or advice/techniques that may help please share. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| 999 Minutes Meditated with Headspace Posted: 20 Jun 2020 09:55 AM PDT I just reached 999 minutes in the Headspace app after 86 sessions over a couple of years. Currently on a 5-day streak doing 20 minutes a day. I definitely feel calmer and more present throughout the day and managing stress and anxiety is fairly easy. [link] [comments] |
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