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- Meditation has helped me with my body image issues and I finally feel at peace with the way I am
- Meditation is an absolute rest
- Recently I have noticed my mental and physical health have suffered drastically, I believe meditation can help. How do I start?
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| Meditation has helped me with my body image issues and I finally feel at peace with the way I am Posted: 22 Jul 2020 08:08 AM PDT I'm 19, and unfortunately it's completely normal for people my age to hate the way they look these days. Before lockdown I was trying to lose weight by over restricting my eating and working out quite intensely, which would lead me to drinking and bingeing for comfort because I didn't know how to achieve happiness without consuming it. During lockdown my bad habits turned into a full blown body dysmorphia and eating disorder, because as I watched the world spin out of control, I tried to control the only thing I had control over: myself. 4 months in, I was tired of feeling exhausted all the time, I was tired of feeling like an emotionless zombie. I stopped working out, and I stopped looking at the scale. I started meditating instead and paying attention to my mind and actually nurturing it instead of distracting myself from it. I can honestly say it changed my life completely in a matter of days. I feel more relaxed, I'm happier, I enjoy things that I stopped enjoying years ago and I feel as though I'm not constantly trapped in my own head. I haven't had a drink in almost a week and I haven't binged either. Sometimes I find myself panicking about gaining weight, and I just breathe, erase the thought, and replace it with a positive one. I thought I'd only be happy if I was 125lbs and 23% bodyfat but here I am, 145lbs and loving my life and myself more in the past week than I have in the past year. :) I get enough exercise by going out and walking my dog up and down the hills and mountains that surround my beautiful home. I eat healthy foods but I treat myself when I feel like it instead of trying to starve the cravings out of me. I'm happy, and as I find myself finding my happiness from within, I'm slowly finding myself losing interest in the unhealthy, material ways to feel it temporarily. I'm so grateful that I found meditation, because without it I might not have realised that I wasn't a broken person who needed fixing after all. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is an absolute rest Posted: 22 Jul 2020 08:56 PM PDT meditation is a full stop to all the activities. Physical, mental and emotional.A total lockdown. An absolute rest. Being fast asleep yet awake. Being the existence itself. There remains no sense of being separated from the existence. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2020 09:03 PM PDT Lately I began to notice that I let the little things to annoy me and the anger have been built up for no reason. The past few months I have developed bad habits like vaping, smoking, staying up late and play games all day. This let to me lose 20 pounds, getting worked up by shit that should not even happen. I get mad at myself and other for no reason. I am in a really bad mental state right now, I noticed that I act differently than how I really feel. Constantly worried about how people think of me or hating myself for the way I do things but I would still do it. I act confident but deep down I am really anxious and scared of everything. It's like I am hiding behind a mask. I have been waking up earlier and going to the gym before I work trying to be constant so I won't fall apart again. My mental health however have not seen any improvement. I learned about meditation by watching a documentary, really hoping that meditation can help me learn to let go and be myself. [link] [comments] |
| We're HILARIOUSLY interconnected Posted: 22 Jul 2020 07:07 PM PDT The absolute mind fuck of it all will have you all on the floor laughing. Like a universal prank it's so funny. I can't even begin to describe it but once you see it, it's beautiful but extremely funny. Ex. Whatever your biggest trip is that your trying to avoid, it's the purpose for your being. Whatever your hating the most at that moment, is the reason for your birth. Whatever you spent your life trying to achieve, is the cause for your failure. It's some funny shit like that and it doesn't stop there. The layers of interconnectedness is beyond compression. I just kept seeing gears going in one person and out another. Inside one action and outside another. The past, present and future all with interconnected gears or widgets. The universe is has a sense of humor. [link] [comments] |
| After +50 hours of meditation: an objective experience Posted: 22 Jul 2020 07:29 AM PDT I could talk about how meditation has helped me to be less anxious, less worried, more focused, etc. But all of these are subjective feelings. Instead, I will focus on a powerful objective observation of how meditation has already changed me, during the first 50 hours I have dedicated to the practice. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2020 11:46 PM PDT Hi, I'm not sure if this forum is the right one to post this question but I decided to start here. In several different occasions, I hear this tiny voice in my head that urges me to ask for something, or say something or do something. And every single time I avoid it, because it's too feeble of a thought, and I get consumed with other things. But every single time, I end up wishing that I had paid more attention to it, and done what it asked me to do. I can't think of any examples because it's happened way too many times recently, but the gist is, every time I'd have something going on in my life, the voice would pop up asking me something or suggesting me to do something, I'd be too busy to pay more attention to it, and then I'd end up wishing I had paid more attention to it. A tiny example could be when we were planning to go somewhere and I thought having a hand sanitizer would be a good thing, but then I don't know why I decided to push that thought further back in my mind, and then I needed hand sanitizer and wished I had paid more attention to that thought. Now how do I catch that voice and pay more attention to it? Because it seems impossible to me, as someone who constantly has thoughts going on in their mind? How do I catch this thought, and then act on it? Not sure if I made any sense or if I sounded dumb. Pls help if you could. [link] [comments] |
| I'm starting meditation to be able to feel again. Wish me luck. Posted: 22 Jul 2020 01:10 PM PDT So often, anxiety and depression keeps me from feeling my emotions. I'm in such a bad place right now and I want to be able to love but sometimes all I feel is hate. I hope this works, because nothing else has. I downloaded calm onto my phone. It was the app my 4th/5th grade teacher used for us after recess to calm us down before math lessons. [link] [comments] |
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| How did you overcome loss of interest in your meditation after a few weeks/months? Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:46 AM PDT I'm assuming that most people have similar challenges as I do when they start a meditation routine. If so, then the most difficult challenge is not on the first day, but after 3 weeks or maybe 3 months, depending on the individual. If a survey is done on individuals who do mindfulness meditation, my guess is that the majority would give a very positive feedback after 1 month, after that their practice becomes less frequent till a point where they stop meditating or stay mindful altogether. There's also the dilemma with forcing ourselves to be mindful or to meditate. From personal experience, the more force I apply, the shorter the routine lasts. But without some force, it's difficult to be mindful. It becomes a mindless session. In almost every meditation technique that I tried, the first 1 month is the most productive, satisfying and fun. I can only wish that I could go back to the beginner mode. [link] [comments] |
| When is a good time to increase meditation load? Posted: 22 Jul 2020 10:10 PM PDT I am new to meditation and LOVING it. I read about people meditating for an hour plus. Right now I'm using the Calm app and it's 10 min a day. I've done 15 sections maybe? When should I start to increase my time and what I do during sessions? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Any advice on what kind of meditation I should practice to overcome cravings? Posted: 22 Jul 2020 09:55 PM PDT I've been smoking a pack a day for nearly a decade. Sometimes more sometimes less. I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to quit. Anyway, a friend suggested i try meditation and I've been using headspace for a few weeks. I've not been consistent though. How should i meditate? When intense craving takes over i have no self control. It's like auto pilot. I just focus on my breathing right now. Any craving specific meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Leo Gura (actualized.org) Thoughts? Posted: 23 Jul 2020 01:41 AM PDT Interested to see peoples thoughts on this guy. Is he an idiot, is he enlightened, is he a business man? Some of his videos on YouTube are interesting, but I would recommend a massive grain of salt when watching them. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2020 07:15 PM PDT I have always wanted to go on one after my first no-self experience (will write about it in another post) in my early 20s, I had a 'want' to go but never did. Circumstances (work, income stability, relationships) were in a place that I felt it I could take 10 days off at a silent retreat. I'll try to remember best I can… I usually do a lot of research before I do anything and I did do some before the Vipassana Retreat but it was not as thorough as I usually do. They ask you to read some material before deciding to participate but I just skimmed through it. I got the main bits down though (the rules). I actually didn't know anything about Vipassana and signed up for the retreat with the intention to practice and deepen/stabilize my own 'no self' experience through the only technique I knew – self-inquiry (or what I have now learned some people call it direct method or direct inquiry); I actually just wanted to use their quiet grounds/environment/centre. However, when I was there, I ended up doing Vipassana for the 1st time because I followed the instructions given in the starting days (don't mix techniques) and felt wrong if I didn't respect it or at least gave it a try. This was in December of 2018 in Ontario. Before I arrived, I still had some fears about cults and brainwashing. I held on to my phone till the very very last moment (for those who don't know, they strongly recommend that you give away your phone for the duration of the retreat). The connection wasn't the best there (it's better for Bell, but almost non-existent for Rogers) so I had to borrow someone else's phone to let my wife (then fiance) and parents know I arrived okay and would be going offline soon. I had some minor anxiety when I entered the meditation hall for the first time, I was like, shit, I'm actually doing this 'weird' stuff – I didn't have a background in any formal meditation (I read some solid books in the space but no real practice) so it was quite foreign. Anyhow, I also had a bit of a cockiness during the first couple of sits (since I understood I experienced something this practice points to at their end game) but I put that aside and decided I was really going to take this seriously and follow the teachings and instructions for the entirety of the course. I wasn't able to sit cross legged on the cushion/mat (never formally meditated or sat like that) and early on I got up and left the hall leisurely (didn't know that was frowned upon until the 'sit still, no moving stage, strong determination stage – adhittana) so I had to get a mini bench and rested my wrist on my knees, squat style with only my feet touching the floor (this was my position till the last 3-4 days if I remember correctly). After the Day 0 or Day 1 evening sit, there was a discourse by Goenka giving us an overview. He spoke about an analogy about being on the other side of the bridge (late stages), and about riding a black and white horse (diff techniques) and then I was like I think I experienced that (other side of the bridge), I never told anyone really, that I had my no-self experience when I was around 22/23 (who are you supposed to talk to about that?) but I thought to kinda hint it to the Assistant Teacher – obviously he didn't believe me (how could I expect it unless that other person had also experienced it) + I didn't get into it too deeply as I didn't really trust anyone there yet either at all this early on. Next notable experience was either the Day 1 or Day 2 evening sit. I got a good grasp of Anapana (focus on the breath entering and existing nostrils) and concentration, the no-self experience made it very easy to switch focus especially in this type of setting. Anyways, I think my concentration was pretty deep and then I suddenly felt a lighting bolt of energy come down my entire body, it was very powerful. And then I had a very strong sense of everything, my eyes opened and I felt so grounded, so rooted and every time I breathed in it was like another strike of lightening and I felt like Storm in X-Men, like I could control lightning. I suddenly remembered this idea about the void, empty blackness you get to while in meditation and how you could do 'things' from there with Intent (came across a great map/senior dude online – Tom Campbell – My Big T.O.E.). I felt the urge to ground all those in the hall so I put an intent like that and did it energetically. It was a crazy experience and it was tied to my breath. I never experienced anything like it. While still in that high state grounded, very confident, rooted state, I felt a energy or entity, kinda dark, bit ominous on the left side behind me like someone looking over my left shoulder, I immediately threw it (through the mind not my body physically), I imagined it like this: "Judo Throw Over the Shoulder" and the entity rolled towards to front of the hall, at that time I didn't think much of it, I felt so high and loving, and grounded, and grateful. I also sent my Intent during that massive energy flow of gratefulness to Tom Campbell where I learned about Intent and I felt his presence look down from the ceiling – like he was checking out what is all this about. Then, eventually everything chilled out. I was feeling kinda weird after it. I didn't talk to anyone about it since I still had trust issues here. After that the next time I was about to sit, I had a feeling of dread and feelings of stronger anxiety, like heavy paranoia about brainwashing and how we weren't allow to communicate, stringing dots where they may not be any connections – aka I was tripping out, so much so that I already wanted to leave. It was also around this time I had a lot of fear back in my dorm room. I got to my bed earlier than my roommate and I couldn't sleep. I had this fear about sleeping in public, being in a vulnerable state. So I was trying to keep awake, but I guess I was pretty tired and I did fall asleep and I had a very intense nightmare, the most intense I ever had since I was young, I don't even remember when I had such an intense nightmare. It was like I was going to be murdered or something along those lines and then I woke when my roommate asked if I was alright, cause I think I was making frightful comments/noises? I told him I was all good and thanked him for asking. Anyways, that was pretty trippy. So like I mentioned earlier, either during day 3 or 4 I was like, shit I can't deal with this paranoia, are they brainwashing me in the meditation hall, shit like that. But I eventually decided I was tripping (the ability to go watch the thoughts arising and seeing the reality outside without a story helped). If I didn't have the no-self experience and that distance from my thoughts I might have gone nuts so I can relate to those who have written such breakdowns at retreats. Okay, back on track. It was either day 4 or 5 (sorry, I really don't remember), but I'm pretty sure we started Vipassana officially and I know for certain it was before a discourse about the 4 elements (earth, wind, water, fire) that I had my next interesting experience. So I was still squat sitting on the mini bench in stillness and getting good concentration. I think during one of the sits, Goenka did a guided thing vs it being all silent. Well as I was body scanning, and feeling some discomfort sensations, my entire body vanished into something like particles going back and forth, side to side at a very very rapid pace. This was very disorienting and tripping me out, I stayed in for a bit but I got tripped out and had to open my eyes. Okay the body is still here normal. At the end of that day, Goenka spoke about the elements and when he described the air element, I was like, shit, that's what just happened to me. (now I think it may have been Bhanga, after I have read some more texts sometime after) Well, after this I had another crazy nightmare, very intense again. Really out of the ordinary for me – I guess a lot of things were surfacing due to the practice. Luckily, again, I didn't think much of it, I credit me getting past any terror and unpleasant shit during this to having my previous no-self experience. Then it was a bit more peaceful, in that, no real highs and lows for a day. Goenka talked about how we shouldn't be attached or crave any pleasant sensations nor should we be averse to unpleasant sensations, what we ought to do is simply observe. Everything he said resonated with me very well since it was like re affirming everything I experienced after my no-self; observation naturally happens. But hearing it in structured way was refreshing. I made a mental note to not be averse or crave the next 'extra-ordinary' sensation. Onwards… The next day, I still sat the same way, and I think we were in strong determination days now. Doing the body scan, and again starting to feel some unpleasant gross sensations but bam all of sudden all gone again and I felt like a big ROCK or Stone or something really really heavy. I didn't experience the body anymore as piece by piece but as one monolithic thing. This time I didn't trip out and open my eyes and just observed it. I was scanning this different experience. It felt very heavy but all the gross pain sensations were gone. As I was scanning, I felt very soft and mushy on the inside but some hard metal elements running through it too. I kept on scanning and observing and just remained equanimous It was good, then it came to an end and it was back to regular human body scanning. Crazy thing again was that at the end of this day, it was Goenka's discourse on earth element and his description of it, and I knew it was that I experienced. I felt like Dhamma was telling me I was good to be on this path, like finally I'm doing a meditation practice to go deepen my initial No-Self experience. So feeling good. After that, nothing crazy happened anymore, no more nightmares, less sleep needed though and no more crazy highs either. After the 2nd day of strong sitting I think, I decided to remove my mini bench and sit cross legged. I was determined and but it was tough! I pushed through it for the rest of the course in cross legged, happy about that. Rest of the course was 'typical', observe and scan, unknot sankharas…etc, usual…I had a craving for bhanga during the tail end, not knowing I may have experienced it earlier (thought it might have been air element), but nothing happened then caught myself craving then went back to observing. Anyhow, the course allowed me to understand that I still needed to clear/burn sankharas to be fully liberated. Likely burned some off. Very grateful for this. And it gave me a meditation practice and really deepened my path. I feel like Vipassana sets the person up for a very clean liberation once they experience the No-Self after all this burning of sanhkaras but my experience since I experience no-self first then I came into this is that I'm cleaning up after the fact. (I'll write another post on this topic or Vipassana and other techniques). Oh, I forgot. One funny thing, in the shared shower area I saw a really weird insect one time, never saw it before. Also, at the end when Goenka talks about metta. I had tons of metta and love for all those that cannot do Vipassana, those beings that cannot, so please value your experience as a human, you get to do Vipassana or any meditation to free yourself vs a cow or something. I remember feeling how lucky human beings are and how we shouldn't waste a human life – we get distracted by small things until shit hits the fan or we are about to die then we start looking into the 'spiritual' world. In between sits, I would go walk in nature and I had this urge to plant trees and create some kind of organization that does that. The urge is not as strong anymore but I still want to start a Dhamma non-profit in the future. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation stops cyclic tendencies Posted: 22 Jul 2020 09:11 PM PDT meditation means rise in awareness that in turn stops all the activities beIng done mechanically and the cyclic tendencies.One becomes relaxed, restful, peaceful, joyful and sad. Yes, a delightful sadness also descends [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2020 06:03 PM PDT If you don´t know how start you won´t know how to continue because the key is looking inside. How do I look inside? Sit on a very confortable chair and close your eyes for 5 minutes. Try to relax your muscles and breathe. You must let happen whatever happens inside or outside you. Felings, thougts, everything. If you do this for two weeks I´ll help you for free. [link] [comments] |
| are there benefits from meditation? Posted: 22 Jul 2020 08:05 PM PDT Hello, I've started to meditate since one of my friends was all like, "It opens your mind" so I'm like, "okay" and I start doing this meditation thing, but then I realized, why exactly am I meditating, and why should I do it? Everybody does something for there own benefit, so, I'm here to ask: is there benefits to meditation, and if so, what are they? [link] [comments] |
| Just started giggling uncontrollably while meditating Posted: 22 Jul 2020 10:12 AM PDT I just listened to this guided meditation and about halfway in I just felt so relieved of my anxiety and stress that I just started laughing out loud. It was an amazing feeling, I felt like all my worries were so ridiculous... I can highly recommend this meditation to everyone, the guy who voices it seems so chill and kind and just made my day a lot better, also he drops a lot of profound wisdom. Peace ✌🏻 [link] [comments] |
| How should I breathe while meditating? Posted: 22 Jul 2020 06:13 AM PDT Hi everyone, I was asked to breathe naturally while I am practising meditation and observe the breath but sometimes I feel like I am controlling my breath. Read more about it came across an article which clarifies many things for me. Has anyone else felt the same way? Here is a link to the article I mentioned on breathing [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2020 10:28 PM PDT This meditation is very important. It is simple and the more you do this, the more powerful the protective aura becomes.
This will program the energy and also program your aura. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2020 06:17 PM PDT I just thought I'd share something I heard in a guided meditation this morning which I thought was quite profound. "Just realise everything is in its own place, and everything is all there is, in each moment. Isn't everything enough?" "Depending on what time you practice, just consider this transition. It's very normal to think that there's a formal period of practice, and then, the rest of your life. But the practice is really to undermine that boundary. There's nothing available in a formal session of practice that isn't available when you get off the cushion or begin acting in the world. There's always just consciousness and its contents, as a matter of experience. See if you can recognise that. See if you can become less and less precious with respect to the formal sessions of practice, and less and less cavalier about the rest of your life." From "Waking Up with Sam Harris", Daily Meditation (23rd July 2020) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:55 PM PDT https://youtu.be/OQ4RJjhcq28 letting go is never easy. Whether it's a relationship, a friend, your ego, or even a job, it can be hard to let go of attachments when we don't really want to. But it's necessary if we want to move on and live a happy and fulfilling life. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2020 05:29 PM PDT Lately when I meditate, after observing emerging thoughts bounce around for a while, it seems that my mind goes relatively silent, but I can still sense thinking going on in the background. I noticed the activity does stir very subtle emotions which might otherwise be easily overlooked, yet the thoughts seem like voices without language. Once I placed my awareness on those stirrings, I realized that it's awareness that provides the language. It's the awareness that draws out meaning from the logos; else it would all just be white noise. [link] [comments] |
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