Meditation: “Emotion is the body’s reaction to the mind.” |
- “Emotion is the body’s reaction to the mind.”
- LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE
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- Am I the only one feeling really anxious when meditating in a dark room?
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- Didn't meditate - feeling defeated.
- The dark side of the force. Learning the wrong lessons from mindfulness.
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- Unable to not think for more than 30 secs
- Woke up with an idea about Meditation. I don’t know where it came from but when i woke up it was there.
- I get shortness of breath each time I think about shortness of breath. Any tips for getting back to normal once it happens?
- Whenever I try to mediate I become tremendously anxious, how do I overcome this?
- COLOURS SHOW
- Can sitting and mindfully listening to music be meditation?
- Took a different approach today
- Can meditation help with creativity?
- How can I combine my mindfulness practice with using affirmations from time to time ?
- Guided Meditation for Anxiety
| “Emotion is the body’s reaction to the mind.” Posted: 18 Jul 2020 06:21 AM PDT If all of our minds have the ability to change the way we feel emotionally and physically when a "negative" thought appears then it also has the ability to the the opposite. Smile and feel how your body reacts, even when you don't feel any joy. "Emotion is the body's reaction to the mind." A couple deep breaths can make us feel better. Breathing allows us to become aware of our illusionary mind. Everything is alright, you are just fine. Your mind isn't you it's just a part of you. It's trying to protect you from patterns and trauma you've experienced in the past. Say "thank you for trying to protect me but these stories no longer serve me" and forgive yourself. It's okay, it's always been okay. Become aware of the critic, this thing we know as the ego, which generates fear and tells you life is fucked. Because it's not. It's exactly how it's supposed to be, and that's what perfect means. Perfect perfect. EDIT: Check out the song "Perfect, Perfect" by East Forest and Ram Dass (or the entire album). It will put a smile on your face. Apple Music: Perfect, Perfect Spotify: Perfect, Perfect [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2020 12:14 AM PDT I'm so happy about the bad things that happened to me in my life leading me to find solace in meditation i feel I've become 10 times the man i was when i had everything and my life was stable now I'm ready to face another challange in life because I've found happiness and comfort in my mind and body I'm more aware of things than i ever was before and just like it is said in life suffering is emminent and we're the cause of our own sufferings i have come to peace with my past and learned to focus on my present [link] [comments] |
| Morning Meditation make me sleepy when I already am awake Posted: 19 Jul 2020 12:36 AM PDT Good day, my fellow friends! But here's the thing, at the end of the routine, my meditation is making me drowsy instead of helping me to wake up properly. When I am already full of energy from my morning workout, and meditation just turn that upside down, and making me sleepy and not prepared for the day. I would like some advice as to why this happens, and how could I incorporate meditation so that it helps to wake me up and ready for the day instead of sabotaging it. Tq [link] [comments] |
| Using Meditation To Avoid Anxious Thoughts? Posted: 18 Jul 2020 06:35 PM PDT TLDR: I believe I have a tendency to suppress my thoughts in an unhealthy way by forcing myself to focus on my breath. Recently, I have started coming to terms with how anxious I can be and how anxiety is coloring my life and experiences negatively. I am working on taking the steps to find a therapist. It has taken me a while to even begin entertaining that idea. I've had some sort of a meditation practice for years now, sometimes a regular "20 minutes a day" practice, other times I've just made intentional efforts to focus on my breath throughout the day. Lately, I've been doing a fair amount of reading on how to work with anxiety from a cognitive behavior approach. Through reading, I have discovered that there are unhealthy mental and behavioral strategies that are common with people that struggle with anxious thinking. Suppressing worries is one that sticks out to me personally. I think I'm avoiding dealing with my anxious emotions in a healthy way by "returning to my breath." It's almost like I'm forcing myself not to notice what's worrying me. The fact that I can even notice I have a tendency to do this signifies that meditation is incredibly helpful as a tool. I'm not sure what to do about this. Are there meditations that are helpful for anxiety that anyone can recommend? Has anyone else experienced something similar? Has anyone used meditation along with CBT to work though bad anxiety? [link] [comments] |
| If you are to remain present how can you plan? Posted: 18 Jul 2020 11:27 PM PDT Is there an underlying archaic concept to meditation that you need to set aside time of your day to focus on one thing at a time? Like "don't think about ideas or plans while watching TV, that only belongs during the thinking part of the day"? I ask because the meditation I do says don't let your mind wonder even while walking or driving. Just feels antithetical to human existence. To confine your imagination or creative thinking to a finite piece of time arbitrarily during the day. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2020 11:19 PM PDT I know very little I'm just impressed with my own speech I deem my insights profound Their substance: actually weak Wise sages see me as childish they do not correct Let me stumble down my path Until I find where silence is at. Even now ego judges and snipes at the imaginary other Knowing, at least in theory I am my sisters and my brothers [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2020 11:51 AM PDT Just feel your nervous system like you're a cloud of energy floating through time and space. [link] [comments] |
| “You” are the interpretation of the reaction that your brain has to stimulus from the environment Posted: 18 Jul 2020 11:36 AM PDT All that you are thinking about, all that you are feeling, and whatever narrative you are currently living in, is all the result of a stimulus from the environment that your brain noticed and that stimulus caused a certain pathway to be activated in the brain and "you" interpret that activated pathway as "you" based on the information you have learned and experiences you had throughout your life. Learning to notice what stimulus cause what reaction and how "I" interpret that reaction helped me understand how a thought starts. Learning to focus on the stimulus from the environment has helped me live in the present moment because to actually notice the stimulus, your attention has to be present in the moment. Hope this helps to see things in a different way. Peace, love, and happiness to all. Now go out there and notice all of the stimuli that the environment has to offer! [link] [comments] |
| Am I the only one feeling really anxious when meditating in a dark room? Posted: 18 Jul 2020 09:26 PM PDT I usually keep my laptop on for some light but when the screen goes black I'm getting really anxious and force myself to stop. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2020 01:45 AM PDT As I have just started learning and reading about chakra meditation and with my previous experiences of guided Mindfulness I discovered my chakra points and the high energy which flowed in my body while concentrating on them. I already have a decent enough body and mind connection which could help I guess but I can't imagine colours while closing my eyes so if I'm said to imagine orange color on my body then I can't imagine that( it's some kind of inability unrelated to meditation) so It would help me if you could give me some advice about it and just concentrating on a specific point is all it is? Or maybe a guided video recommendation? [link] [comments] |
| Didn't meditate - feeling defeated. Posted: 18 Jul 2020 11:24 PM PDT Today was the first day in 3 weeks that I didn't meditate. I figured I would never be able to make it to the right state of being since I've been in a tremendous amount of physical pain today as well as feeling emotionally distraught. Am I wrong in thinking this way? [link] [comments] |
| The dark side of the force. Learning the wrong lessons from mindfulness. Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:51 PM PDT Something occured to me the other day as I have been making recent progress in my mental health, which is that there is something of a danger in learning the wrong lessons from "spiritual" practices. I remain a strong atheist and have always tended to ignore spiritual teachings. But with meditation and mindfulness my mind was definitely opened and changed for the better over the last year. I still struggle with my mental health and will probably most of my life, but struggle and suffering are not bad things. Indeed I'm learning that suffering I choose to embrace instead of fight is an amazing source of strength and even hapiness. Pain is just a thing like anything else. I can suffer and feel pain, sadness, anger, loss, longing loneliness, even depression, it is only the fighting of these things that really causes the pain to become unbearable. Taking on suffering can be strangely freeing and empowering. But it occured to me just the othet day as I've felt some new surges of strength, confidence and hapiness in my life that there is a danger here too. I use the cliched term "the dark side of the force" somewhat tongue in cheek as I don't believe in true concepts of good and bad, evil etc. But it seems to me that the campy tale of star wars and indeed most spiritual teachings definitely have hit on something when they speak of the dangers of straying off the path when practicing "the truth". It occurs to me that the same lessons to be learned from mindfullness and meditation, that emotions and pain and suffering need not rule your life, can be used both for good and bad. There is definitely a danger in one's ego becoming hyper inflated at some point here and losing all sense of humbleness. Indeed it would seem that a certain percentage of the world's grade A assholes, and manipulative sociopaths have stumbled upon this truth. I dont believe I am in danger of becoming that which I fear. But it occurs to me that it is a danger if left unaware. Kindness, humbleness, compassion. These do not automatically arise from the act of mindfulness. They must be conciously cultivated. And it is vital that we do so. [link] [comments] |
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| Unable to not think for more than 30 secs Posted: 18 Jul 2020 10:04 PM PDT Coming from 8 years opd depression and anxiety, i am unable to meditate. My thoughts wander every 30-40 seconds . Is it common that a person is unable to focus even for a minute? And what can i do to improve? It frustates me alot. I am an overthinker in real life too Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2020 11:24 PM PDT So, I woke up today with a weird thought today,may be I saw a dream i don't know but the message I got was that Meditation is a path of transcendence from the physical plane to the spirtual plane. (I was reading The Kybalion the night before) Let me elaborate a bit more, according to the Hermetic Philosophy there are three planes of existence: 1. Physical plane: the plane where we all exist in physical form and it is the lowest of all planes of existence.
So I woke up with a thought that in order to reach from Physical plane to the Spiritual Plane, Meditation is way to transcend. Let me explain: When we first start meditation, we focus only on the physical part of it and it shows us our presence here in this moment, that we are present here physically in this moment and in this body. It is the physical plane of existence. But as we practice more and deep we tend to move to the mental plane, where we lose physical sensation but are watching or observing everything our brain thinks or sees. In this moment we are on the mental plane of existence. With more practice and deeper states of meditation, may be meditation for hours on end like the Tibetan monks do, one may move on from the mental plane to the spiritual plane. Here during this state of meditation, the person meditating loses all bodily sensations and is so deep into meditation that he is being able to be one with the light and it is in this state, he strains what we call "The Enlightenment ". Because once you reach this state, on this spiritual plane of existence, you are no longer interested in Material World and its maladies but are only concerned with the light that you can see. What do you guys think? Anticipating Your Views on this and are very much appreciated. Thank you. Love and light to you all. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2020 11:07 PM PDT Any meditation exercises you can recommend specifically to help with the above? Anyone ever dealt with such anxiety and can vouch for them? [link] [comments] |
| Whenever I try to mediate I become tremendously anxious, how do I overcome this? Posted: 18 Jul 2020 06:36 PM PDT I'm someone who is fairly busy, which as a result means I don't have much time to just sit down and relax. I work Monday to Friday, exercise regularly and study everyday, including a 10 hour class Saturday and Sunday, which is entirely in a foreign language and takes a lot of my energy. Then I have various tasks outside of that I need to complete. I think because my brain is constantly preoccupied with all of these tasks, so it doesn't know how to relax. Whenever I try to mediate, I become overwhelmed with anxiety almost immediately. I just can't relax. I try to breathe and focus, but I can't do it. Does anyone know the best way I can try to overcome this issue, as I really don't know what to do. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2020 01:59 AM PDT Hey all, During the last months I've start to meditate often in order to control my anxiety better and all the stress from work the results were so good and the all in meditative experience has been so curious , intriguing and necessary. I'm enjoying the journey. However is something that always brought my curiosity ... the COLOURS yes the COLOURS while meditating always called my attention and would like to share it with you and gather more information of why this might happen. I tend to see really often purple and green like they are dancing with each other while I have my eyes closed and I'm absorbing the experience. One day I start to see white like it was a huge light coming up and in the meantime I felt huge rush of energy coming back from my spine until my head and it was amazing the peace, the feeling, the love honestly that feeling took seconds and I would wish to stay on it for longer but I got scared and immediately finished. I've read somewhere that the chakras have colours but I would like to know why that? Why those colours anyone has something to share? Thank you. All the love from Spain [link] [comments] |
| Can sitting and mindfully listening to music be meditation? Posted: 19 Jul 2020 12:48 AM PDT In my head it must be similar to breath meditation where you completely focus on your breath. Thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Took a different approach today Posted: 18 Jul 2020 06:43 AM PDT So I've meditated many times in the past, normally using guided meditations. Some sessions went great and others not so great, I have a lot of trouble sitting still even for just 10 minutes. I've never really been able to build that habit of consistently meditating every day. I've been meaning to get back into it but have been viewing it more as a chore rather than wanting to do it so I've been procrastinating. However, I saw someone say that we are uncomfortable in meditation because we aren't used to just sitting alone with our thoughts. For some reason that really hit me because I've been doing shadow work and thought I was already sitting alone with my thoughts, but didn't realize how powerful meditation could be for me in that aspect. The idea of approaching meditation as almost embracing the discomfort made it more encouraging for me to get up and do it. Instead of a guided meditation, I decided on this first day back into it, let me just listen to some binaural beats and just observe. I wanted to just literally let my mind wander and do it's thing, I would just watch and listen. It made doing this a little bit more fun and less stressful for me. At the end (and I did make it through a 15 minute session without stopping!) I grabbed my journal and wrote out all of the thoughts that popped up. I was amazed that most of them were literally just random blurbs, and not anxiety about my past or what I need to do today or tomorrow. My thoughts were almost like zaps or surges, they came and went so quickly. Going forward I'm going to focus on guided meditations suited to whatever I feel needed, but I really enjoyed this approach. It will be fun to do it again later on and see my progression. And I'm very proud of myself for challenging myself and getting up and doin the thing! [link] [comments] |
| Can meditation help with creativity? Posted: 18 Jul 2020 12:22 PM PDT I feel like I've had writers block forever. I'm into writing lyrics. I just don't know what to write. I don't know how to make my life sound exciting. Probably because it isn't and the last few years I've really just been struggling with getting sober. But whenever I try to write about that it gets me depressed. Maybe that's an overstatement but it's just that I've been writing about that since forever. I want to show off my cockiness (but humbleness) in my lyrics but I feel like I'm so hard on myself. [link] [comments] |
| How can I combine my mindfulness practice with using affirmations from time to time ? Posted: 18 Jul 2020 03:59 PM PDT So I was wondering if practicing mindfulness contradicts using affirmations ? What would be the best approach in regards to combining the two ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2020 09:56 PM PDT I'm finally doing something I wanted to do for a long time. Share my love with the world. I want to create a world of peace and compassion. I know a lot of my friends and family are having a hard time dealing with the uncertainty of life. I made this for them. Hope you guys like it too. [link] [comments] |
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