Meditation: When I first started meditating I was curious about how meditating for years changes you. I'm 5 years in and this practice is amazing. It can truly transform your day to day life. |
- When I first started meditating I was curious about how meditating for years changes you. I'm 5 years in and this practice is amazing. It can truly transform your day to day life.
- Does anyone feel they’re in a perpetual state of anxiety?
- Just looking at the rustling leaves of the trees is so meditative
- Meditating while fasted.
- Food for Thought
- Meditated for 40 minutes
- Mindfulness is so difficult when doing random daily tasks
- I've been meditating for years and it's been making me sick.
- Constant strong chattering in my mind .. feeling like giving up meditation
- How dangerous is the act of meditation?
- Do you ever have trouble quieting your mind because you have a song stuck in your head that won’t stop “playing”?
- good podcast or YouTube channels of meditation to follow each day?
- Roommate affecting practice
- Head spinning, why?
- The more I learn about meditation, the harder it gets!
- I had a breakthrough today with thoughts/self talk
- Meditation with ADHD
- name for this technique?
- Vibration from Meditating
- is there a root cause as to why some thought patterns keep repeating over and over again or is it just my ego misbehaving?
- Can someone explain the meaning of "World becomes how your mind makes it"? And how to get it?
- What are some ways to go deeper in your practice?
- How to chant Mantras, Recommend ! https://youtu.be/DrPOrzArReA
- Making peace with death?
| Posted: 09 Jun 2020 09:51 AM PDT For the first few years, I felt like I was going in circles and missed some nuanced aspects of the practice. Parts of these nuances just require experimentation and experience, others are simply misconceptions. In hopes of helping point others in the right direction or just offering words of encouragement, I made a video talking about my experience with meditation over the past few years. Remember, taking time to sit can dramatically change the way you go about life. You don't have to do it every single day, but once you fall in love with the practice itself it blossoms into something so much more. Have a wonderful day everyone! [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone feel they’re in a perpetual state of anxiety? Posted: 09 Jun 2020 09:17 PM PDT I've just a completed an at home 6 day meditation retreat. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to do so, but I've realized I always have a background feeling of anxiety... my heart is always a bit elevated and unless I completely stop what I'm doing, close my eyes, and feel my body, then this is my state. I know I'm not alone and it's sad that so many people are probably in the same boat. To anyone who also experiences this, how do you manage? [link] [comments] |
| Just looking at the rustling leaves of the trees is so meditative Posted: 09 Jun 2020 07:25 PM PDT After meditating I look at the trees and its leaves it helps a lil bit to calm me and feel connected to nature more [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2020 10:09 PM PDT I have been meditating on and off for the past year,and I've been doing intermittent fasting for 5 years now. Yesterday, I started with a 72 hrs fast, which is something I do about once or twice a year. Ten minutes ago I meditated with 27 hrs into my fast and I had one of the weirdest/best experiences I've ever had when meditating. It felt as If I was pure consciousness, like my body wasn't a part of me, and even though I could feel my body, it felt really numb, like when you sit on your hand for too long and blood doesn't get to it. At first, I was scared, but then I realized how calming the experience was, so I tried to go further. I was listening to a YouTube video of the mantra "Om Namah Shivaya" and unfortunately it ended just when I was committing to the experience, that took me out of the state and then I was too excited to continue. I was wondering if this depth of meditation is due to the fact that I've been fasting, and If anyone ever experienced this I would really appreciate if you told me about your experience, and what is it and if this even has a name. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2020 02:31 AM PDT You know how whenever you look at something, or just look out and away at something in the distance aka zoning out and someone comes by and ask "what are you thinking about?.. And if you go "oh, nothing.." they might respond in a passive-aggressive fashion "Right, so you don't wanna tell me huh" or "Ah...fine, I shall let you be alone then" Seems like wanting to be fully present can sometimes go against social norms. Would be pretty awesome if someone swings by and ask the same question, only to join in and be present and aware together. Would be even better if he/she doesn't even ask the question and just sits in. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2020 03:25 AM PDT Hello everyone, I did things a little differently today. In order to get a head start at work, I opted to meditate for 5 minutes before breakfast and hold my 40 minute session for the afternoon. Uh, work wasn't great. I mean, I did what I could with the internet not working, but I was so anxious and second-guessing myself that I tore out part of my work and decided to start again tomorrow. As for the afternoon, my meditation went great. Granted, I mostly thought about sex, but the negative thoughts hardly appeared. If they did, I shrugged them off. Anyway, thanks for reading. I appreciate all the kinds words and support people have been leaving under my posts. Have a great day. [link] [comments] |
| Mindfulness is so difficult when doing random daily tasks Posted: 09 Jun 2020 10:43 AM PDT I noticed that tasks like dish washing, vacuum cleaning or cooking would be a good way to practice my mindfulness. I would try to actually be in the present and feel/see what I do. Oh boy did I underestimate it. These things are so simple to do, but through years of having the habit of letting the mind drift freely when doing these tasks makes it so hard. I am actually used to day dreaming during these tasks, I always did it. Nobody wants to actually pay 100% attention when vacuum cleaning am I right? So just let the mind float in thousands of different directions. But this habit is so deeply rooted inside of my brain that its a lot harder to focus than I thought. But I see it as an interesting challenge and by no means do I get frustrated (: Mindfulness shouldnt be forced. Step by step, little by little [link] [comments] |
| I've been meditating for years and it's been making me sick. Posted: 09 Jun 2020 10:04 PM PDT Please search for guidance before getting serious about your practice, i thought i knew what i was doing from the bits I'd picked up here and there, i realised that i was doing it wrong. I was meditating wrong and it was dulling my senses, some of the issues this caused was chronic brain fog and a general loss of interest in life. To try and fix this i meditated more and got myself into a deep hole. Some of the many concepts that i didn't do enough research on include meditation preparation, intention setting, understanding awareness and attention and why that matters. Now I'm following a known practice everything is falling into place quickly. Edit: To clarify what i believe i was doing wrong, i was 'zoning out' ever so slightly which manifested itself into my daily life. Like being in a mild trance like state. Edit: to the people that are suggesting that I'm addicted to drugs. Seriously! [link] [comments] |
| Constant strong chattering in my mind .. feeling like giving up meditation Posted: 09 Jun 2020 06:28 PM PDT I have been doing mediation for a month and when I try to meditate I can calm my mind down to a point but most of the days, there is this "huge senseless random chattering" going on in my mind which I am not able to quite. Even when I try to effortlessly go back to my mantra it continues and even become more and more strong. I am realizing that chattering isn't me, I am not consciously trying to initate any of those thoughts and it seems like my mind on its own is producing 1000s of these thoughts, some of them have meaning and some not at all. Its hard to describe in words but it does seem like these thoughts are not just 1 person talking within my mind but number of people are talking back and forth/ back and forth without my permission, example some questions are arriving and my mind are also producing answers back and so on ... without me conciously asking for it. These thoughts are not needed in my life whatsoever and produce headache to me especially when I try to look at them through meditation. During this struggle to quite my mind while meditating, I came to a point to give up the practice for this session of meditation but then something within me said, whoever is initating this endless chat is NOT me and I started to look at this endless talk within me from the top down and asking who is it and why are you producing this chattering, as if my conciousness is asking my mind to give this answer back. I am not sure if I am making any sense here explaing but I wanted to share this experience with someone who can possibly understand what I am going through and possibly provide some insight or a meditation technique to look at this issue. Thanks in advance. [link] [comments] |
| How dangerous is the act of meditation? Posted: 09 Jun 2020 09:36 PM PDT Hi all, I'm a 21 y/o male who has experimented with Vipassana meditation before. At one point, I was doing 20 minute periods at morning and night. I'd say my longest streak was about a month, so I'm certainly not very experienced whatsoever. During my practice, I never truly understood what the goal of meditation was. I was mainly curious due to my interest in possibly taking better control over my mind and emotions; possibly creating a better, new lifestyle for myself. Western culture seems to promote meditation as a practice that only has benefits - almost like adding a nice cardio exercise to your routine. I stopped due to lost interest over time but I've always been planning on jumping back into it. However, I've done a fair bit of research on the spiritual awakening aspect of it and it honestly has scared me to doubting whether or not the practice is for me. I've seen stories on psychosis-like, adverse effects happening to people like Kundalini awakenings, the dark night of the soul, schizophrenic hallucinations, etc. In some cases, people without guidance can get caught in these states for decades. I've also read about the ego-death feeling as if your head is literally missing and it causing a lot of anxiety in people who maybe weren't ready for such an experience. I've read of this being common for people who are long into their meditation practice, or for people who've gone to ten day long retreats of prolonged meditation. Willoughby Britton is a researcher whose been studying some of these adverse effects. I've read that if you take meditation slow, that you can make incremental progress into the dissolution of the self/ego and it won't cause these effects. I'm curious as to how true this is. Can I avoid having these unwanted adverse reactions with just 15 minutes of Vipassana a day? Another issue I have is that now when I've started meditating, I can't shake the thought of possibly doing some sort of heavy damage to myself, and it makes the whole thing a bit unproductive. It's worth noting that I typically have had adverse reactions to drugs and alcohol, specifically one time waking up with a feeling of depersonalization that lasted about ~5 months. I remember that feeling like I was stuck inside a bad trip and I just don't know if the end goal of meditation is worth going through something like that again. I've been doing the research for a bit but I'd like to hear responses and advice from real people are more experienced than I. Thank you to all responses [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2020 10:04 AM PDT Novice here, been practicing meditation several days a week for over a month now with mixed results. Often times, I can't get my mind to be still because it has a song stuck in there. Sometimes it's one that's been stuck in my head all day, but I swear sometimes my mind searches for any random song to "play" in the background as soon as I sit down to meditate, just to mess me up ha. I'm guessing it's a product of my anxious mind that always wants to be doing something. Anyone else have trouble with this, or ideas for working through this particular distraction? [link] [comments] |
| good podcast or YouTube channels of meditation to follow each day? Posted: 09 Jun 2020 09:03 PM PDT |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2020 05:18 PM PDT I had a solid practice until my roommate went through their breakup. They're addicted to hate and anger, and it's been affecting my ability to practice loving kindness meditation or even have my own time away from their energy to practice yoga and meditation. I find I run out of the house as soon as I wake up to walk to dog, and just avoid coming back to avoid coming into contact with them. Everytime I ask how they are they launch into something hateful and full of gossip. How can I come back to my regular practice? How can I set space away from them? If I stay in my room away from them they will invite themselves in. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2020 03:38 AM PDT While I was meditating after +-10 min my head started to spin and I was feeling dizzy and I had a light dizziness for the rest of the day, what does it mean? [link] [comments] |
| The more I learn about meditation, the harder it gets! Posted: 09 Jun 2020 04:08 PM PDT I've been struggling a lot lately to meditate, I started meditating and practicing yoga almost two months ago but I quit after 3 weeks streak since Ramadan started, it was pretty hard for me to focus when I spent the whole day not eating/drinking, although I didn't fast but had to pretend I did in front of my Muslim family and I didn't have any way to actually eat. Ramadan already ended and it was hard for me to go back to practicing both meditation and yoga. But it's been really hard getting back on track, now I'm back to practicing yoga twice or 3 days a week while practicing some stretching exercises almost every day, but meditating had been really hard to get it back, neither guided nor by myself. And every time I meditate I start thinking about what I should do and how I should do it, sometimes when I reach something I'm too excited to just share it with everyone rather than enjoy it and this really bugs me. I would really use some help if possible, Namaste 🙏 [link] [comments] |
| I had a breakthrough today with thoughts/self talk Posted: 09 Jun 2020 12:57 PM PDT So today while meditating, for one of the first times I consciously made the intention to focus on my internal thoughts and use them as the object of attention. I made a couple pretty interesting discoveries. I realized that a BIG majority of my distracting thoughts and periods of mind wandering are self-talk, where I am speaking my thoughts in my head either to the image of a person/people I know, or to an imaginary audience. My first question is: is this the norm? Or is it unique to the individual? After making that realization I began playing with the thoughts, and quickly realized that if I make the intention to 'remove' or 'let pass' the mental image of the audience I'm talking to, I can then very easily let my self-talk pass. And at that point, the thought itself seems to disintegrate like sand between my fingers. Has anyone else done this or recognized this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2020 12:56 PM PDT Hi! My name is Allison. I was introduced to meditation by my therapist about a year ago, but didn't start attempting to try it until a few months ago when the pandemic started. I thoroughly enjoy the peacefulness of it, and how calm I am once I finish. But, alas, I have ADHD. I've been taking adderall since the 3rd grade (I'm a freshman in college now), and that is truly one of the only ways I am able to pay attention during school, meditating, or even reading in my free time. I have attempted to meditate while off my adderall, but my mind is constantly wandering in every direction and I can't keep my focus on my breathing. I prefer not to take my adderall, because I really want to be able to achieve meditation without its. If anyone has any tips or input on assisting how I can control my short attention span while meditating, I would love to hear it and I would greatly appreciate it! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2020 10:36 PM PDT I've recently gotten into meditation a few months ago so I am a NEW NOOBIE at this haha please go easy on me But even after only just months of doing this, i've noticed great difference in how physically observant I am. In fact, i no longer even have to be actively meditating anymore in order to relax my muscles and really be aware of my own weight, and feel a little bit of that tv static feeling we are all familiar with. In fact, im doing it right now as im typing this lol My question today is about my technique. I have pectus excavatum and focusing on my breath is very uncomfortable, so I've kind of had to tailor my own technique. instead of focusing on my breath, i've been using my weight as an anchoring point. i lay down on my back with earplugs in and a facemask on to drown out as much light and as much sound as possible and I just pay attention to my weight, and how my bed feels on my back, and how it feels to sink deeper into my mattress. After maybe 5 or 10 minutes of this, I start to get little audio hallucinations. random words from random voices, maybe some kind of synthesizer sound. This is when I shift my focus from my weight to my vision. I really focus on the blackness that's surrounding me, and the colors and the shapes and the patterns that are hidden in my eyelids. 10 or 15 minutes in is when things get really interesting for me. at this point, i am usually fairly hypnogogic, so right on the edge of falling asleep. i am not very good at making sure i dont fall asleep, i fall asleep maybe half of the times i do this, but when I'm able to retain consciousness it's a very intense experience. First of all, I can now see my room. with my eyes closed. It's not a very clear picture, it's mostly just shade, but I can still see it in the same way i would be seeing it in real life. now obviously i am not ACTUALLY seeing my room, just a detailed memory of it like in a dream, but it's still very cool. Second of all, my body feels like it is dismembered. like my limbs are detached from my torso and connected by some kind of glue made out of TV static. And perhaps most interesting of all is that at this point i am floating a few inches above my bed. So I now have an audio and visual and textile sensory experience going on. Keep this up for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, but I usually meditate an hour every day or every other day. Anyways that's about all I have to share. Is there a specific name for this kind of meditation? I've really enjoyed doing this and it is definitely a skill that I would like to keep and get better at. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2020 01:36 AM PDT I did some good energy release with meditation yesterday. It felt great. But i don't know how I feel now. My body is still a bit vibrating likely shaking and I'm feeling very nauseous. Anybody tips for me or something I need to do now? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2020 12:47 AM PDT Specific scenario in question: my brain keeps thinking negative end scenarios with the girls I'm dating. Like me and the girl could have a beautiful conversation or time spent at 10pm but by 12am when I am going to bed, I'll find myself lost in imaginary breakup scenarios picturing the fights we'll have or what we'll say and feel when we have a ugly breakup. I've never had any really bad relationships, no bad breakup, no issues at home growing up, nothing. The opposite gender has been nothing but wonderful to me. Yet I catch my ego picturing horrible scenarios throughout the day for no apparent reason I partly thing this is a defence mechanism by my ego. Whenever I get emotionally close to a girl, my brain sort of warns me that if you fall head over heels for this person, you might end up getting really hurt later on. Which is true and very much a possibility. But I partly too feel that this is just a manifestation of mindlessness and ego. Love, breakup,hurt, sex are few of the most powerful emotions the ego can feed itself on and over the years because I wasn't mindful of these thought patterns, the ego loved popping these random bubbles of imaginary scenarios and got me sucked into the vortex So I don't know. It's barely been a very short while since I've started meditating. I would like to know from more experienced mediators for insight on this topic. [link] [comments] |
| Can someone explain the meaning of "World becomes how your mind makes it"? And how to get it? Posted: 10 Jun 2020 12:42 AM PDT If you look for negative, the world around your seems negative. If you look for positive, happy, beautiful, love... the world around you becomes positive. I am having really hard time to be positive. The world is so mean, cruel, selfish. I feel like everyone hates me and everyone is about to get me. There is so much negative. I feel so much negative around me when i look around. How do i change this to being positive? how do i look for positive? how do i look for happy things? How do i look for positive bright side of the world? Are there any affirmation for change my mindset which will change my perspective for world? [link] [comments] |
| What are some ways to go deeper in your practice? Posted: 10 Jun 2020 12:27 AM PDT I have been able to reach a state during my meditations where thoughts no longer enter my consciousness but I feel as though I can go deeper yet do not know how. Normally I don't notice me getting much out of meditation unless I go for at least a 30 minute session because the first 10 or so minutes I'm still getting in the zone. I have tried to not "feel" my body but sensations happen that remind me I am still in physical form. What are some techniques I can implement so I can go deeper during my meditations and how have these deep meditations benefited you differently that short quick 10 minutes or less sessions? [link] [comments] |
| How to chant Mantras, Recommend ! https://youtu.be/DrPOrzArReA Posted: 10 Jun 2020 12:19 AM PDT |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2020 12:51 PM PDT As long as I can remember I've been anxious about death. I remember being like 12 and thinking about getting older and dying and getting really anxious. Now I am 26 and I have been living in Guatemala for 2 years for a job. I feel like living here has me thinking about death a lot, because death just happens more here due to lack of safety regulations and other reasons. It's just a bit more present in life. Now also with COVID around taking some young lives here and there it really does trigger me. I'd like to make peace with death as a part of life. I got into meditation because of anxiety and migraine being a major problem in my life. Is there any readings or talks that anyone would recommend toward this end? [link] [comments] |
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