Meditation: Weekly Discussion - July 13 2020 |
- Weekly Discussion - July 13 2020
- This pandemic has really shown how few people are comfortable just being alone with themselves
- If you're confused on how to " heal past lifetimes"...
- You should try to meditate every day. You don’t need a rest day. Meditation is the rest.
- I'm sold and truly convinced that meditation is amazing. But how to maintain the feeling?
- The Power of 8
- Hearing/Feeling an ocean noise when meditating
- Experience after a zazen meditation
- Our bodies can heal themselves. Track a papercut over days on your skin. Our minds can do exactly the same. As all religions tell us to, "Look Within" to begin.
- Meditation can break the chains of self-blame and show us how to better live with our ego.
- What do dreams tell us?
- I am not liking meditation. Its making me weak. I think meditation is not for everyone.
- Trying to get comfortable with discomfort/pain
- FOCUS ON THESE SMALL THINGS
- How to meditate?
- An experience I had today
- Best Advice You’ve Received?
- How do y’all sit while meditating?
- i am now scared of the spiritual path
- Update-I don’t want to be me anymore
- I found this neat Discord server. They talk mostly about Stoic philosophy but also all philosophy, current events, and generally just chat. Lots of cool people who love philosophy and meditation. Thought I would share.
- meditate guide on youtube
- I have “white coat syndrome” so my blood pressure tends to go way up at the doctor’s office when they take it. Has anyone had any success with a meditation/visualization specifically to lower blood pressure?
- Difference between meditation and "zoning out"?
- Curiosity of a starting spiritual Journey
| Weekly Discussion - July 13 2020 Posted: 13 Jul 2020 08:09 AM PDT This is a reoccuring thread for questions relating to your practice and discussion around your experiences. Questions Ask questions relating to your practice, the theory of meditation, various traditions and lineages of thought, or practical tips. If you're new, please read our FAQ before posting, as it contains a wealth of information that all of us should come back to occasionally. Discussion Also use this thread for a more free-form discussion of your experiences and other tidbits that might not warrant their own full post. Use this space to connect with the /r/meditation community, it won't be heavily moderated. Also check out the monthly meditation challenge. [link] [comments] |
| This pandemic has really shown how few people are comfortable just being alone with themselves Posted: 13 Jul 2020 02:01 PM PDT Which to me is the essence of meditation, being comfortable with the self. I see so many people choosing not to social distance, as if this were just a bad cold. They'd rather go to parties, not wear a mask, anything just to avoid being with themselves. Of course there are other reasons layered on top, but it's struck me this may be the crux. [link] [comments] |
| If you're confused on how to " heal past lifetimes"... Posted: 13 Jul 2020 07:16 AM PDT If you're like me, you've read countless times before about how on your spiritual journey you will "heal past lifetimes of trauma, pain, etc...". Though everyone's journey is different, I thought I would share what this concept has come to mean for me. I have always interpreted this sentence as meaning that on my journey, I will need to balance and heal karma from past lives as if from a reincarnation standpoint. Literally past lifetimes my soul has taken the form of. While this may still be true in some form, I have discovered that what "healing past lifetimes" really means for me is to break the cycle of negative energy in my life. My parents aren't perfect, but they are very ego-driven due to unresolved childhood issues which were likely caused by their own parents' unresolved trauma, and so on and so on... back through multiple generations. Unresolved pain and trauma snowballing and causing more unto the next generation, ultimately resulting in the dark, egoic cycles I now strive to understand and resolve. So to heal these past lifetimes is to stop that cycle and bring my conditioned responses, shame, pain, etc into the light of my ever-growing consciousness. Do not judge, simply accept. Accept yourself, accept your parents, accept your past... it doesn't mean you advocate for any of those things. You simply accept it as the cumulative energy that it is/was. Doing this stops that cycle of vicimization, blame and egoic indulgence so that you don't pass it on and become another link in the pain-chain. And in its place, we can supplement with love, understanding, peace, empathy and more. I hope this helps any of you wherever you may be in life! [link] [comments] |
| You should try to meditate every day. You don’t need a rest day. Meditation is the rest. Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:11 AM PDT Meditation is the rest from our normal lives of distraction. You should treat yourself to that much needed break. Set aside some time, even just 2 minutes, for that moment of self-care. [link] [comments] |
| I'm sold and truly convinced that meditation is amazing. But how to maintain the feeling? Posted: 14 Jul 2020 01:56 AM PDT As someone who's been suffering from dissociation due to depression and anxiety, I'm baffled to howdifferent reality feels after a short meditation session. It helped me to realize how dirty my perception has been in the last 3 years. After just 5min of doing it I feel so much more connected to what's actually real. I can smell things again, I'm more aware of the objects surrounding me, I can trully see colours and I just feel contempt. The first time I felt this after meditation, I realized that this is what the world felt when I was a kid and I'm as sure as I am of anything that meditation will be an important tool in my recovery or just in keeping my mental health in control. Anyway, I also feel like this state is quite temporary for me. After a few minutes, the fog of chaotic thoughts slowly creep and I'm once again completely disconnected. So my question is how can I work on maintaing the post meditation clearness? I guess doing it more often and longer should help. Or maybe not just meditating for the sake of feeling good, but actually using it in a smart and critical way, as in actually making an effort to understand why do I feel anxious in the first place. Oh well, I guess I'm answering my own question here. Nevertheless, I'd love to hear about your experiences. Did you feel the same way as me? How has meditation been working for you (or not) until now? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jul 2020 01:51 AM PDT I was reading a thread on /x/ about organising a group meditation and one of the anons was talking about how 8 is the magic number for meditation group. He said that beyond 8 you get diminishing returns. I hadn't heard this before. I hadn't heard this before but I have heard that the amount of people compounds the results, either the effectiveness is the number of people you have squared or the number of people you have to the power of the number of people (x^x). Eight would be cool because that seems like an achievable number. Do you have any info about this? Are there any books that discuss this? [link] [comments] |
| Hearing/Feeling an ocean noise when meditating Posted: 14 Jul 2020 12:53 AM PDT Beginner, just started yesterday. But noticed after a couple of minutes when I get into it my breath and head sounds the same as holding a sea shell up to your ears. It's really relaxing but I've been breathing for 30 years and never experienced that, assuming it's not abnormal what's going on there? [link] [comments] |
| Experience after a zazen meditation Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:48 AM PDT I've been practicing zazen for around 4 months. Beforehand I tried many different meditations. I've been practicing daily 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening, with some mantra mediations afterwards. This morning I felt that I couple go for a longer meditation than usual, therefore I set my timer to 40 minutes. Nothing unusual has happened during the meditation itself that would differ from my previous experiences. However after I finished my mantras and lied down to do some stretching. My whole body started shaking and my teeth started chattering. It took few minutes to calm down. I'm still quite shaky now as I am writing this. Anyone has had similar experience or any idea what could this mean ? Any help is greatly appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2020 08:16 AM PDT I just started meditating a few days ago and holy cow is it incredible. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation can break the chains of self-blame and show us how to better live with our ego. Posted: 13 Jul 2020 05:56 PM PDT Excuse this if it offends or is poorly written, it's my first post here. I have been trying a slightly odd kind of meditation of late, odd at least to me. For over a year now I've been meditating quite "traditionally" at least four, but usually more days a week. Recent events however left me feeling particularly self-abusing and I could not stand the thoughts that would rush me everytime I tried to be still. So I started becoming present in dull moments, focusing my full attention on doing the dishes, having a poo, just sitting outside I'm the summer breeze, driving home from work, a short but true tedium if ever there were one. No phone, no music, no distraction of any kind, just do the bloody dishes and focus on only that. I have put all my thoughts and feelings into these actions, and a strange thing started happening the last 2 days. I began to see and hear my thoughts much differently than before I began meditation, or even now when I meditate. To make a rather long and protracted discussion more favourable to the internet's attention span, my own included, I'll jump to the magic that happened for me mere moments ago. As I scrubbed salt into my cast iron pan after dinner, I was full of self-blame for my relationship ending. I have been for 2 months. It was my fault she went nuts and attacked me because I should have done more to help her stay sane. I should have seen the signs that she was unhappy and done more to perk her up. I should, I should have, I should have done. What I could have or should have done to prevent her from ruining us, and perhaps more importantly, herself has been keeping me awake at night and unfocused and lost during the day. Scrubbing that pan, pushing the thoughts out and just listening to the sound of the salt working its magic against the warm cast iron, a proverbial light bulb went off and I hit my head on it. Of course I blame myself! That's the ego, trying to hold onto a semblance of control over something that I had literally no control over. The self-blame, the I should have or I could have is the ego trying to make it seem like there was something I could have done. In fact, I did plenty to avert that disaster. I did everything I could to make her feel loved and valued, in my mind. I helped her patch broken relationships with her family. I did all I could to help her see herself for the wonderful person she was. But my ego says, "you could have done more." That's because if I release myself from the actions she chose to take and allow self-forgiveness to wash over me, then the control the ego so desperately wants, wanes somewhat. Don't get me wrong the ego is an important part of the human experience. I truly believe it allows us to feel the things we do, love, hate, happiness, envy etc, because it enables us to process those emotions into something our higher self can comprehend. But, when unchecked, it can also bog us down in the mire of self-doubt, self-blame, self-pity and so on. I have allowed this be my reality for almost my whole life. Blaming myself when something goes wrong that I had no control over. It is why I have so much trouble with self-love, self-gratitude and "true" self-awareness. I have been constantly thinking about the things I should have, or could have done instead of listening to my higher self saying it's okay, you did the best you could. Meditation is a wonderful practice because it is so many different and amazing things to each of us individually, and to all of us collectively. I think that is what I have loved most about meditation, the way it has morphed over the last year for me in so many different ways. It started as a way to combat anxiety after my heart attack. Then it was a means to better understand my lifelong depression. Now it reveals itself in the simple act of washing a pan to be infinite in its possibilities, by helping to guide me to a better grasp of what has been a rather cantankerous lifelong relationship with my ego. I have by no means solved all of my life's issues, but I am certainly more ready and willing to tackle the next ones ahead, and to process and let go of those left behind. I ramble tonight for two reasons. One, because I believe by sharing my experience I will be more able to fully absorb and comprehend the epiphany I've had. Putting these words to phone has made the feelings and thoughts that have arisen more concrete in my ego now, and I need that to remain connected to my higher self. The second is simple, to share my "discovery" that meditation is a far more nuanced and pliable practice than I thought previous. For so long I thought I had to do it a certain way, with a specific intention, in a proper pose. In the last week I have proven, if only to myself, that this is simply not the case. Meditation may be the most powerful tool in our self-help arsenal, if we allow ourselves to let it be what it needs to be, when it needs to be that thing for us. I "should have" figured this out sooner my ego says. All I think now is it would've made doing the dishes a lot more enjoyable for many a year. I think this moment of awakening that my "odd" mediation has provided, has finally severed the chains of self-blame that left me shackled to things beyond my control. Things my ego wanted to use to hold me back from connecting and experiencing my higher self. I feel less weighted now, more at peace than I have in months, maybe years. If there is a presumptive conclusion to be made it is this, let your meditation guide you, it knows where you need to go, and don't let doing a chore be a bore. Any moment can have a profound lesson, or a simple joy in it if we are present for it. Peace, love and lollipops! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2020 06:57 PM PDT I had some nightmares today after meditating for almost an hour and a half yesterday. It was a lot of my fears (fear of bring murdered, eaten, family killed, unsafe, weak physically, etc). My theory is meditation is bringing these fears to the surface. What do you think? [link] [comments] |
| I am not liking meditation. Its making me weak. I think meditation is not for everyone. Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:37 PM PDT Been meditating everyday after the covid pandemic started in March. At first, it helped me stay calm in stressful situations. But now a days it's making me very emotional. I fell people's pain easily. Even for people I disliked and wished something bad could happen to them. Jealous has always been a great motivator for me. I dont fell jealous anymore and I dont feel the motivation to get better than the other person. The meditation I do is called chakra meditation. I just put on a 20-30 minute video on youtube and just listen to it. I belived it would make me more confident and people would like me. [link] [comments] |
| Trying to get comfortable with discomfort/pain Posted: 13 Jul 2020 04:18 PM PDT I'm a 19 year old with chronic headaches and chroniv back pain. I started meditating 2 months ago. My goal is to get comfortable with the pain and reach a point i don't worry about it anymore. Because this is what scares me the most : uncertainty of future. Will it get better? Will it not? Sitting while meditating feels uncomfortable,but do-able while laying down makes me sleepy af. Any tips or meditations you've found useful? Thanks in advance. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:41 AM PDT It may be a small thing but it is very efficient and very helpful. I started doing meditation at the same place and same time everyday for 30 days and it helped me in so many ways. I can concentrate so well now and i can sit for hours without moving. What do you think? Have you ever tried this before? If yes share your experiences. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 13 Jul 2020 07:04 PM PDT make this post a place where you write the best piece of advice you've received, but also to read others! [link] [comments] |
| How do y’all sit while meditating? Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:54 PM PDT I am a novice practicing yogi and I have been trying to get into lotus position, but I am far from actually being able to accomplish that fully and in a healthy way. I've experienced with easy pose as well as a host of other ways to sit. Until I can accomplish full lotus I have been sitting in half lotus for my meditation. This has serviced me well so far but it still is not completely comfortable in a way I feel like I can fully focus on my meditation. How do y'all sit? I tried searching this before posting but I only found a really old post with like three responses to it. [link] [comments] |
| i am now scared of the spiritual path Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:36 PM PDT Hello I (25M) have been going through a bit of spiritual transformation, I have been meditating and reading some spiritual text to back it up, recently I have been doing a a lot of shadow work and whenever I healed a part of me I noticed it allowed me access elevated emotions like joy and peace easily whenever i practice gratitude but I think it exposed me to a part of me that's been lurking in my shadow, Anxiety, few days back I started experiencing certain symptoms. Whenever I try to meditate, I feel pressure on my forehead, I have tried grounding myself by walking barefoot and taking a shower still nothing helped, I saw online that if you meditate without proper guidance, you can forcefully awaken kundalini which can lead to psychosis and it freaked me out now I am scared to meditate or even look at any spiritual text, whenever I see synchronicity I start having little anxiety attacks which i can ease by pressing an ice block at the roof of my mouth, I don't know what to do at this point because I am now aware but at the same time afraid, is this a normal part of the spiritual process or did I just hurt my psychologically? It's pretty hard to find proper guidance in a 3rd world country that's why I am here. i have a strong mind to withstand the anxiety i just wanna know what to do to overcome this phase thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Update-I don’t want to be me anymore Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:54 AM PDT Firstly,thank you to everybody that has taken time out of their day to comment on my last post. It was heartening to hear others experiences & what has helped you in similar situations. I really appreciate all the advice & suggestions,especially for meditations & I'll be looking into them. I woke up this morning feeling lighter & more positive,simply from the act of voicing it. Secondly,not long after I posted I contacted a counsellor whom I have spoken with today & arranged a consultation. I can 100% understand why people would say I'm depressed but as a person who suffered with it for almost 12 years,I feel that at the moment I'm not(I know this will sound like denial but I promise it isn't) I don't feel sad all the time,i still find joy in lots of things. I think yesterday I was just feeling immensely overwhelmed & wished I could calm my mind down. I struggle with bouts of anxiety which leads to horrific overthinking that leaves me feeling very negative & with a deep fear of change & failure. This in turn massively holds me back in life & prevents me from doing things I would love to do,like changing careers. I have long periods of feeling positive,motivated & capable then out of nowhere the anxiety hits & im right back to square one. It's is exhausting & this is what I long to change. I crave some level of consistency & the ability to overcome this fear so I can live a fulfilling life. Over the years I have had lots of different therapy (psychiatric,psychologists,CBT) attended stress control classes,taken lots of forms of medication but nothing has really helped for any length of time. I took up mediation to try to quiet my mind & to learn how to let go of the thoughts instead of letting them take over. I realise that this alone won't help break the cycle & I definitely need professional help to work through this. Maybe in time I'll I'll be back with a positive update,until then,thank you all again. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 13 Jul 2020 05:34 PM PDT Is there any good meditation guides on youtube that you know? I really want meditate myself every morning. Pls drop a link! :) [link] [comments] |
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| Difference between meditation and "zoning out"? Posted: 13 Jul 2020 08:23 PM PDT What's the difference? I'm asking because in my experience, "zoning out" gives me all the benefits that are supposed to arise from meditation - ie relaxation, less stress, less attached to thoughts and negative emotion etc. Whereas concebtration meditation (I practice bringing my attention to the sou d of a droning fan instead pf the breath) just makes me feel more uptight, more stressed, and much more likely to give in to bad habits and emotional outbursts in daily life. It's almost as if doing things the "wrong" way gets results, while following instructions closely only causes more problems. It's like following a healthy diet, abstaining from fried food sugar etc causes you to get fat fast, while going out and binging on Macdonalds thrice a week causes you to get in the best shape 9f ypur life and the doctor says you have the healthiest body hes ever seen. What gives? [link] [comments] |
| Curiosity of a starting spiritual Journey Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:55 AM PDT I don´t know anything about spirituality or meditation more than just practicing mindfulness, so I hope you guys could help me out with some tips or expliaining me how this Works cuz I´m pretty interested. Thanks, blessings for all. [link] [comments] |
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