Meditation: Tonight will be my 61st day meditating! |
- Tonight will be my 61st day meditating!
- Meditated first the first time in a month
- i think its time... please help
- Should I try to visualize my future where I have accomplished my goals while meditating?
- Has anyone solved the issue of their foot falling asleep?
- physical body revolts against meditating
- Meditation showed me how judgmental I am.
- I have been meditating for a while now
- Little hallucinations after a session.
- How has meditating changed your life?
- This ｛playlist｝is PERFECT for lying in bed and just think about everything that's going on in your head. If you're worried or stressed about something, here's some slow, kinda calm songs.
- What are the benefits of meditation?
- Scary thoughts
- Glowing light during meditation
- What to do between breaths to not lose focus?
- Discover Your Life Purpose - (Ashish Roy Interview)
- Been meditating for 4 years, almost every day and I'm having trouble feeling like I'm progressing anymore.
- Am I 2 or 3?
- Speaking to my spirit guide and inner child
- I am broken and I need help
- Escalating meditation techniques
- 15 Minute Guided Zen Meditation for Increased Energy and Alignment_01
- How do you err... watch your thoughts?
- Anyone else have ADHD and is trying to meditate?
| Tonight will be my 61st day meditating! Posted: 07 Jul 2020 07:22 PM PDT I started the day after a concussion two months ago and it has helped tremendously. Just had to share! [link] [comments] |
| Meditated first the first time in a month Posted: 07 Jul 2020 07:56 AM PDT 15 WHOLE MINUTES man it was hard but it did feel good after [link] [comments] |
| i think its time... please help Posted: 08 Jul 2020 12:14 AM PDT i am in a real low low low LOW point in my life in regards to my mental health and general head space. i have anxiety through the roof, ptsd, adhd, ocd (probably more stuff i dont have a diagnosis for) i hear theres alot of benefits from meditation. what are some realistic expectations i could see to get from meditating? im also not entirely sure what meditating is. how do i do it and for how long? look im just trying to turn a new leaf in my life and hoping someone can help set me back on track, what do i need to know to get started? [link] [comments] |
| Should I try to visualize my future where I have accomplished my goals while meditating? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 10:05 PM PDT Personally, I think it would give me a huge burst of motivation everyday. But I am skeptic whether it will be truly meditating or not. Should I visualize during my meditation or should I have a seperate time to do both? [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone solved the issue of their foot falling asleep? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 06:53 PM PDT This happens to me around the 15 - 20 minute mark. My foot begins to fall asleep. It's distracting, and rather unnerving. I've just been shifting my seating position but ideally I'd prefer to sit consistently without much movement. Has anyone successfully imparted any strategies to mitigate this? [link] [comments] |
| physical body revolts against meditating Posted: 08 Jul 2020 01:46 AM PDT When I start meditating I immediately begin to yawn frequently and yawn tears stream down my face. I have to wipe them away because it's uncomfortable. Then my body, like legs and arms start to itch. It's super frustrating and makes me stressed that my meditating won't be beneficial at all. What can I do? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation showed me how judgmental I am. Posted: 08 Jul 2020 12:47 AM PDT So I've been meditating for 10ish minutes each day during the past couple months. I've always seen myself as someone who's accepting and very open minded, but I realize now how much I still judge others around me. It came to me today as I was sitting at a cafe before work. This lady walked in, and her children were acting up. The lady didn't really keep them under control and was in her own world, on the phone and applying makeup while her kids ran around, and I found myself really disliking her. I texted my friend a quick picture of her and asked what we could call a "Karen" in the country we live in. A couple of hours later, I found myself judging another person for acting similarly. Then I realized what I'd been doing and felt immediate regret. I guess I didn't realize how much I silently judge others. It isn't intentional, but it goes on to serve my own ego in the end. In a way, it makes me feel superior to the person at the other end of my judgment. I don't feel great about this, but I know that I can change it. While I may not be able to stop myself from noticing the immediate annoyances around me, I know that I can stop myself from turning this realization into a judgment. I am not better than anybody. Hopefully I can continue to foster awareness and prevent myself from saying unkind things in the future. I'd love to hear any thoughts others have on this. Is there a way to increase my awareness of this behavior or further explore it? [link] [comments] |
| I have been meditating for a while now Posted: 08 Jul 2020 02:50 AM PDT A lot of people say that being aware of your thoughts is really good and that you are not your thoughts. Now that i understand this, what do you do with your thoughts now that youre aware of them? What is the point of being aware of your thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Little hallucinations after a session. Posted: 07 Jul 2020 10:22 PM PDT This is not the first time that this has happened to me. Whenever I have a good session, when I first open my eyes I can see little distortions. It's hard to explain, but if you've ever had LSD, it is a lot like when it just starts to kick in and your senses are sharper and you can see tiny distortions in letters and stuff like that. Has anyone ever experienced this too? Do you know why this happens? [link] [comments] |
| How has meditating changed your life? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 08:48 PM PDT I know meditation is a huge thing and it helps a lot of people. I want to get back into it but i don't have much motivation anymore. So I want to know, how has it changed your life? How often do you do it? And how has it benefited you? [link] [comments] |
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| What are the benefits of meditation? Posted: 08 Jul 2020 12:01 AM PDT The title. I've been meditating for a while, and as mentioned in other posts I haven't felt any benefits. I'm wondering what I can expect to see and maybe things that have happened to me that I didn't realize until someone mentions it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2020 06:44 AM PDT So I've notice when I'm trying to meditate my mind like to show me scary images, like zombies or creepy dolls and the 1st time I meditated I saw a dragon Is this normal. I can see its fear holding me back but I'm not to sure what to do about it. Any ideas? [link] [comments] |
| Glowing light during meditation Posted: 07 Jul 2020 08:48 PM PDT Sorry this is a kind of a long post For a little bit of backstory, I used to meditate almost daily a few years ago. I went through some major life changes and had stopped for a long time, my mental health had plummeted due to some events I won't go into detail about but overall, I hadn't been in a good place for over a year. Today I finally decided it was time; I was recently encouraged by my SO to start making small goals for myself to help my mental health and overall wellbeing so I sat down to meditate. I only set a timer for 5 minutes as I havent done it in years and wanted to start slowly. I drifted into it much quicker than I expected and after a little while I started seeing a pulsing light in front of me. It was pulsing with my breaths and gradually got larger and larger until I could only see pure light. I felt it enter through the top of my head and slowly go through my body, it felt like a small electric charge slowly making its way from my head to my toes! It sounds crazy but I've never had something like this happen while meditating before! I instantly felt clear headed and calmer. I realized afterwards that the alarm had already gone off, and I'm not actually sure how long I was meditating for. This ever happened to anyone else? It was amazing! [link] [comments] |
| What to do between breaths to not lose focus? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 07:32 AM PDT I find, that the most critical moments in my meditation practice lie between the expiration and the inspiration when everything stops. It can last a couple of seconds and I find that I lose my "anchor" and my mind tends to wander off during that time. Have you noticed this and what is your strategy to overcome those couple of seconds between breaths? [link] [comments] |
| Discover Your Life Purpose - (Ashish Roy Interview) Posted: 08 Jul 2020 02:07 AM PDT Discover Your Life Purpose - (Ashish Roy Interview) Ashish had over 19 years of experience in the IT industry but he always thought something was missing in his life - the life's calling, his life's purpose. With this seeking in his mind, he entered into the world of spirituality and practised the law of attraction. In just two years, the law of attraction had changed his life. One after the other, things started to fall into place like a jigsaw puzzle, and his life purpose was now crystal clear. Ashish now helps people with the knowledge he has gained by mentoring people to know (their) life purpose and how they achieve it. Please enjoy… #ashishroy #thelawofattraction #lifepurpose [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2020 01:57 AM PDT It's also been getting harder to 'get in the zone' (anyone else get a 'flow like state'?) I still see benefits from the practice, and i can tell when i've skipped a day anything from working out to focusing feels like more of a chore, but i definitely feel like I've reached diminishing returns. I'm wondering if I should stop for a bit and restart, if i should do a retreat, take a new course, try a new type of meditation... Any tips? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2020 01:13 AM PDT If I am going to describe sitting meditation (zazen) to someone, one of the ways would be the following: "you know how when the tailor or the doctor tells you to stand still so as not to physically move? Meditation is not only about not physically moving, it's also about not mentally moving". In the above description, "not mentally moving" is not thinking or is being aware-full of the moment. When I sit to meditate, my mind will obviously drift away repetitively. When I notice that, I bring myself to the present moment and focus on my breath. This is where the question came up: am I 2 or 3? Am I 2, just body and mind? Or am I 3, body, mind, and soul? When I notice that my mind drifted away and I bring myself back to the present moment, who in me is doing that? Am I my mind and I noticed that myself (the mind) drifted away? Or is there something in me other than the mind that noticed that mind drifting away and chose to come back to the present moment? I don't mean for this to be a religious/spiritual discussion, but I would like to share that even before thinking of the question above, I haven't made my mind up yet about spirit/soul (don't know whether it exists or not). [link] [comments] |
| Speaking to my spirit guide and inner child Posted: 07 Jul 2020 09:23 PM PDT I just had my longest mediation (and most difficult yet) I'm fairly new to meditating, but have been making it a consistent. This morning when I went to meditate it felt as though my body was restless, I couldn't let myself go, it was super difficult for the most part, I hadn't felt like that before! Each time I felt I was letting go, my body would get painful tingles, vibrating, my third eye was very sensitive for the whole meditation and although I wasn't scared my body would react like it was, Soon enough I was able to let go and fully let myself into the mediation, I was laying in a big flower field, with trees all around, I saw my spirit guide, it had very masculine male energies but was also very very comforting. All the sudden I heard a little kids voice say "that spirit guide is a meanie poo" it almost made me laugh, I didn't know what it was and thought it was a funny thing to hear, my spirit guide stopped me before I even had a chance and tells me "she doesn't trust anyone because you don't", it made everything feel overwhelming and within what felt like a split second I was out of my mediation and crying, I still feel really overwhelmed, and now want nothing more than to heal my inner child, and I know I have to do that to heal myself! Just sharing my experience! Feel free to give any tips of healing your inner child etc etc :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2020 01:04 AM PDT Hello. I started meditating long ago and in the last months I started again. I do mindfulness and metta and in the last two weeks I have done a lot of it. In my life I have a recurring self-descructive and self-sabotaging behaviour from time to time. When my mother gives me love I usually refuse it because it has always been too much to the point that was suffucating. My mother had to abort a child before me, so probably she has put all the need to love a child, in a hurt way, to me. My father was always busy working and absent after my early childhood. I have had some important relationships that lasted more than 1 year, one in particular lasted 4 years and I have been cheated on twice. The recurring pattern is that either I choose broken girls, like the one that lasted long has cheated on me because she has her own issues. As I do self-sabotaging things sometimes incounsciosly, so she does cheats for her own broken things. I have talked for months and then fall in love with a girl even though I knew she was unaccessible because she alread had a bf and I never asked her if she had one even if i knew/suspected. It was so easy to have that information and act accordingly and become friends since we share a lot. In the past I have fallen in love with a very toxic girl and I self sabotage even that (actually in this situation i have been lucky looking forward), but she was abusive and killing all my self esteem. All the other girls were emotionally unavailable girls or if they showed me signs of caring either i was doing something to sabotage that or refusing it. I have said to the girl I knew would have refused me that i like her 2 days before an important commitment at work, i could have choosen any day but i did that in the worst moment. I am so tired, being mindful of thoughts can help me yes, i can cope with suffering and be resiliant. But all these things are destroying myself slowly. I don't really know what self-love means, I don't really know how to find out what's in my past that is making me take these decisions that are ruining my life. What do i have to do? Go to therapy? [link] [comments] |
| Escalating meditation techniques Posted: 07 Jul 2020 04:59 PM PDT I've been meditating(mindfulness meditation) for a few weeks now, so I'm still relatively new to it. I meditate 5 mins in the morning and 5 mins in the evening. It was definitely hard to begin with, random thoughts in my brain flew around really fast and it was extremely hard to concentrate. I tried suppressing them at first but obviously that didn't work and all it did was make me feel stressed and make my brows furrow while I tried to concentrate. Now I just focus on my breathing or a particular part of my body like one of my fingers. Anyways, I was wondering how to sort of "escalate" from here? I feel like I can do more, and I want to do more. Will doubling the time to 10 min twice a day work, are there any other good methods to try? I'm starting my junior yr of high school this fall and I know it's gonna be more stressful and sleep-depriving than anything so far so I hope meditation can, at the very least, help a little bit with that. [link] [comments] |
| 15 Minute Guided Zen Meditation for Increased Energy and Alignment_01 Posted: 08 Jul 2020 12:18 AM PDT |
| How do you err... watch your thoughts? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 11:59 PM PDT Many people say watch your thoughts but don't get involved with them. They give analogies of traffic, river etc. I get it. I mean I know what you are supposed to do. But I don't know HOW to do it. For me, it is an endless repetition of the following:
How do you progress from there to actually watching the thoughts and not getting caught up with them? [link] [comments] |
| Anyone else have ADHD and is trying to meditate? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 11:50 PM PDT Whats your experience with ADHD and meditation like? ADHD brains classically loath long periods of no stimulation, are we at a severe disadvantage here? [link] [comments] |
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