Meditation: Weekly Discussion - July 20 2020 |
- Weekly Discussion - July 20 2020
- “Get out of your head, and into your body.”
- Has anyone else found that their compassion has increased greatly with daily meditation?
- Meditation feels like ctrl-alt-del and close all the unnecesary apps in brain
- I've meditated for two weeks: These are my benefits
- Interesting experience
- The Bliss of self-death
- Useful information for meditation
- Is it natural to have rushing thoughts
- 10 minutes goes by quick?
- how do you breath while u meditate
- High Intensity Running Meditation (for advanced Runners and advanced Meditators)
- Observing your thoughts.
- Meditation leads to blissfulness
- The Now is that momentary lapse between breathing and breathing out.
- Avaita Vedanta self enquiry practice for entering into and enhancing meditation
- How to get rid of the self?
- Staying up too late is undoing all the benefits of my daily meditation
- Where to look for Guided Mediations
- Is your Higher Self non-human?
- Lovers or Potential Lovers in Meditation
- Meditation causing me to wake at night...?
- Am I doing this right? Need some critique
- Should I pay and ...
| Weekly Discussion - July 20 2020 Posted: 20 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] |
| “Get out of your head, and into your body.” Posted: 20 Jul 2020 06:35 PM PDT This is a mantra I often repeat to myself when meditating (especially when I'm struggling to), that I find helps. For me I visualize life as an experience we're constantly having in our own heads. Like a consciousness peering out of a looking glass through our brains (which, in many ways, is what sensory perception is). When meditating though, I try to leave that space inside my brain. Obviously that's not physically possible, but figuratively, allowing my consciousness/attention to take a break from the room inside my head and to pay attention to my body - the breath as it syncs with the rhythm of the world, the sensation of my body on the grass, so on. I live in my head and thoughts too much every day, and reminding myself to get out sometimes, is very helpful. [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone else found that their compassion has increased greatly with daily meditation? Posted: 20 Jul 2020 03:46 AM PDT So far I have meditated 114 days in a row, and I have started to notice that I am much more compassionate. I tend to empathise a lot more with people, especially those that would have previously enraged me. I see everyday things like a father playing with his kids or a dog being really happy to see their owner and it touches me so much more, I can well up in public over some trival happiness I've seen. I had a period of daily meditation a few years ago and the same thing occurred. Had anyone else experienced this? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation feels like ctrl-alt-del and close all the unnecesary apps in brain Posted: 21 Jul 2020 01:34 AM PDT |
| I've meditated for two weeks: These are my benefits Posted: 20 Jul 2020 02:57 PM PDT I got into meditation randomly a day or two after I quit nicotine/vaping, I'm 22. wanted to replace a bad habit with a good habit so that in my head if I went back to smoking it would be justified as me giving up on my good habit I had just acquired. Anyhoo, these are the 5 biggest benefits I've seen so far from two weeks daily of 5+ more minutes of meditation a day.
Anyways these are just 2 weeks of it, can anyone here with more experience tell me what to expect on my meditation journey ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2020 01:48 AM PDT Hi all, So I've been meditating almost daily since December. I had break of about 2 months recently as me and my girlfriend got a puppy and I just didn't make the time really. However I am back at it now. I moved from the headspace app to Sam Harris' waking up app which I am enjoying. I am a fan of Sam's work, I have read Waking Up and also on Sam's recommendation I have read On having no head by Douglas Harding. There were concepts I struggled with but I now feel I have a better understanding of them. What happened leading up to the experience: Something rather unsavoury happened at work and ended up with me feeling slightly anxious/annoyed/uneasy. I wouldn't say I'm an anxious person but I had this not so nice feeling in the pit of my stomach. So I went home, told my girlfriend all about it and then sat for my daily ten minute guided meditation. It was ok, I felt slightly better after it. It was all still there but it wasn't REALLY bothering me. Like I said I'm fairly easy going. About an hour later I was going to take a nap on the sofa. I was lying on my back and my girlfriend was at the table typing away on her laptop. I thought I would have a go at a wee impromptu lying down meditation because I was lying there anyway. The Experience: I started by focusing on the breath as usual. Then I was observing the noise of the traffic outside and the click clack of my girlfriends keyboard and anything else I could notice. I then focused on this feeling I'd had in the pit of my stomach since the incident at work. I really tried to just let it be, and become interested in it. The physical feeling remained exactly the same but for a brief moment it wasn't framed by "oh no, that thing at work wasn't good." In fact it wasn't framed by anything. And it felt amazing. I was entirely aware of this exact same bodily feeling that just a moment ago was surrounded in worry. And now it was almost euphoric. The thing is I wasn't really able to articulate this experience or even really be aware of it until the moment had passed. Did I glimpse selflessness for a brief moment? Or "lose my head" so to speak. Thanks for reading and any analysis or tips would be appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2020 02:01 PM PDT A little more than 20 years ago, I was in a hospital room with my sleeping daughter, who had just given birth to her first child. The only place to sit was a rocking chair, so I sat and lightly rocked. A nurse came in carrying a baby, saw that her new mom was sleeping, and handed the little girl to me. She whispered, "She hasn't opened her eyes yet," smiled and left. I sat and rocked my little grandchild, who looked like she was asleep. Then all of a sudden(!) she opened her eyes and looked up at me. Such beautiful, gorgeous eyes! I have yet to experience ego- or self-death, but it has to be something like that. My only regret is that the very first thing my granddaughter saw was my ugly face! 😊 [link] [comments] |
| Useful information for meditation Posted: 21 Jul 2020 02:20 AM PDT Hello everyone I'm sharing blog posts to help people with their meditation Hopefully you like it, and feel free to ask questions [link] [comments] |
| Is it natural to have rushing thoughts Posted: 20 Jul 2020 11:33 PM PDT I did 15 minutes solo meditations and my brain just wouldn't stop thinking. I was trying to focus on my breath and stay in my body but thoughts just kept popping up! Any advice? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2020 06:47 PM PDT Today is the third day I've been meditating 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening. I can definitely feel my overall mood changing for the better and more relaxed. I've been reading a lot of posts and articles that suggest when meditating time becomes so much slower but when I meditate the 10 minutes feels too fast. I've been thinking of bumping up to 15 minutes but want to know if this is normal? Mostly everyone suggests time slows down when meditating but for me the 10 minutes feels like 2 or 3 minutes is that normal? I use my phone as the timer and its set to 10 minutes. I've compared my phone timer to a google timer and they're pretty much the same so can't say my phone is the issue. As a matter of fact when I tested my phone those 10 minutes much slower then when meditating. [link] [comments] |
| how do you breath while u meditate Posted: 21 Jul 2020 12:28 AM PDT when I meditate I found my self breathing non stop just to be able to focus on my breath do you guys do the same? [link] [comments] |
| High Intensity Running Meditation (for advanced Runners and advanced Meditators) Posted: 20 Jul 2020 12:40 PM PDT Let me start by a note of caution. Don't try this stuff if you don't feel up to it physically and psychologically. You should have both meditation and running experience before getting into this. Around halve a year ago I invented my own add-on to meditation practice which I would like to share here. Note that this is neither a stand alone meditation practice, nor would I recommend it to beginners. However, if you have daily meditation routine, judging from my own experience, this can really boost your meditation practice. Also, I will assume that you already have decent running experience. You will be surprised how a little meditative focus can increase your running skill, and especially how running can bring you meditative progress. The main instruction is this: Find the longest uphill slope you can find, and run up there. When you are doing this your body should already be warmed up. So ideally you start the uphill stuff when you are around 15 minutes into your run. The intensity should be such, that you are basically running at maximum for around 10 to 15 minutes. If you cannot find a huge enough slope, try sprinting for around the same time. If you find that you cannot hold you pace try it a little slower next time. Now, the meditation side of things. While running, try focusing on the breath. Just as in regular meditation, whenever distracting thoughts come up, refocus on the breath. Try not to think about the future or that you wont make it and you have to stop. Be in the here and now and you will be surprised how fast and how long you can run. Now the most important part. If you notice your body feeling contracted anywhere, shift your focus to this region and, while breathing in deeply, try relaxing the contraction. The intense physical strain will make your body and your running movements very tense. Resolving this tension is the goal of the entire exercise. Feel the tension and watch is resolve while running. When the tension is resolved you may discover that you are not running as fast as you could. In this case run faster. After a running session, run slowly and calm down while remaining focused. When you feel ready you may repeat the whole thing. I do between one and three of these cycles per run. After the workout, if you feel like it, you may find a place to lie down flatly on the floor. Let your attention wander through your body and relax every tension you may find. Then breathe deeply and enjoy the stillness of mind for as long as you like. Again, this technique is very intense physically and psychologically! Don't do it if you don't feel up to it! If you think you might hurt yourself, just stop. There is no shame in that. I will purposefully not relate details of my experience, because I intend this as kind of experiment. I would love to hear from people who tried this a few times. I am super interested in how this may impact other people. Enjoy the run! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2020 10:08 PM PDT So I've recently started reading this book called- users guide to the human mind. I was recommended to read this book by a therapist that I had been talking to and one of the exercises in the book is about observing your thoughts. The instructions say... Exercise: Tiny Soldiers on Parade For this exercise, begin by getting comfortable in a quiet space and closing your eyes. With practice, you will probably be able to do this exercise during your daily activities. Once you are comfortable, visualize a parade of tiny soldiers marching in front of you. Each soldier is carrying a sign, and each sign has one of your thoughts written on it. Each new thought goes on a sign in this never-ending parade of tiny soldiers. The signs can carry words, images, even sounds and voices. Whatever your mind produces can go on a sign. If you prefer, your thoughts can float by on leaves flowing in a stream, as clouds in the sky, as credits on a movie screen, or as widgets on a conveyer belt. What matters is that you imagine watching your mind's activities from a distance as the thought parade goes by. When you notice that you've forgotten what you're doing and you become attached to a particular thought, simply climb back into the bleachers and let the parade resume (adapted from Hayes, Strosahl, and Wilson 1999). That's the easy part. The hard part is in simply observing your thoughts without trying to change them or make them go away. It may help to remind yourself that none of the thoughts are facts, even if they seem compelling or if it seems that you must do something with them (like make the parade go faster so a particular thought will disappear). You may also notice that you're experiencing judgments about the thoughts. I shouldn't be thinking that or Only a crazy person would have that thought. Take those thoughts, put them on a sign, and add them to the parade. They are not facts, and you need not respond to them As I try to do this I find it really hard to imagine soldiers or anything for that matter but I've started to kinda imagine words of my thoughts I guess? But basically I don't think I'm doing it correctly. Right now what I'm doing is I'll close my eyes and be like "ok what am I thinking about" and that would be something that I'd imagine in my head in letters, but then like idk I feel that I actively have to THINK about something and force my mind to imagine that in letters... I feel like I'm just thinking more and more instead of being in a third person view and listening to my mind. From what I understand the purpose of this exercise is to disassociate and watch yourself think and I feel that instead I'm forcing myself To think. I have similar issues when I'm meditating as well... anyone got any tips or tricks that would help me out? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Meditation leads to blissfulness Posted: 20 Jul 2020 10:04 PM PDT Experimenting with #meditation leads to trust which eventually leads to godliness. Godliness means ultimate level of awareness and bliss. Life lived without the experience of meditation is life wasted. [link] [comments] |
| The Now is that momentary lapse between breathing and breathing out. Posted: 20 Jul 2020 09:53 PM PDT If you're having trouble focusing on the present, try catching yourself in-between your in-breath and your out-breath. That specific moment is undefined. Exactly like the present. [link] [comments] |
| Avaita Vedanta self enquiry practice for entering into and enhancing meditation Posted: 20 Jul 2020 09:40 PM PDT Hey All :) I recently started working with a teacher who offers a sort of deep self enquiry practice that aims to have you identify with your presence, and to tune into that on a daily basis. I always thought that I was doing this in meditation, but working with him showed me a whole other level. I found that this deeper self awareness really helped me in all areas of life, including other styles of meditation. I wanted to share his teaching methods with more people (his usual weekly sessions are at 3am for me (in Australia, he is in Sweden) so we put together a regular session on a Saturday afternoon (Australia)/Saturday morning (Europe). I don't know if this counts as spamming or recruiting, but I would respectfully like to offer the invitation to anyone interested in coming along.. first session is free, subsequent sessions are 5 euros (for an hour session). Navid is really into not commercialising meditation which is pretty rare. Anyway, I don't want to violate the rules of the sub, if anyone is interested in coming along, you can find Navid's page, "Simran Meditation" on facebook and find the details in the page's events. [link] [comments] |
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| Staying up too late is undoing all the benefits of my daily meditation Posted: 20 Jul 2020 01:36 PM PDT I make the effort to meditate every day but I have a terrible habit of staying up till 1:30 or 2am and getting up at 7. I feel awful the next day! And I know that not getting enough sleep can lead to memory loss and even early death, so I'm going to make an effort to get at least 8 hours sleep. [link] [comments] |
| Where to look for Guided Mediations Posted: 20 Jul 2020 11:01 AM PDT Hello all, I started meditating earlier this year. I never planned for this nor I forced it...but since Jan20 that yoga, meditation, journaling and a few other practices that now I see are seen as Spiritual...started to become natural to me. Plus turning vegetarian. Anyway, my question is: who do you recommend I follow for guided meditations? Do you have names or recommendations that I could look into? Anything on Spotify? - is this a stupid question? I have been doing some from Dr. Joe Dispenza and Yoga With Adriene on YouTube, but Im curious to know what else is out there. If you would like to share some names, that would be awesome! :) EDIT: thank you SO much for your suggestions/comments! I have a lot to explore. Really helpful :))) [link] [comments] |
| Is your Higher Self non-human? Posted: 20 Jul 2020 09:59 PM PDT This morning, I did a guided meditation titled "Connecting with your Higher Self". Some context, I am still very early on in my spiritual journey, about two months into it. I am not yet very well versed in some of the terms, therefor I did not realise that your Higher Self was an actual entity, the unlimited and eternal You. During this guided meditation I was visualising myself in a garden, when the teacher guided me to see a loving presense entering my garden. They guided me to make out what the gender of the presense is, what clothes it had on, and feel how much warmth and love radiated from it. The thing is I could only see a dog, specifically a large golden retriever. Imagine my surprise when the teacher explained that this is my Higher Self, essentially the undying Me. I went with it and it worked for me, but now my question is this: Is it normal for a Higher Self to manifest as an animal, or is it more likely that the guided meditation may have simply lead me to that vision by accident when discribing the entity as full of love and acceptance? Does anyone else see their Higher Self as an animal, or other non-human entity? Thanks if you made it this far! [link] [comments] |
| Lovers or Potential Lovers in Meditation Posted: 20 Jul 2020 09:51 PM PDT I don't know why I'm writing this, but I meditate and feel all sorts of feelings. I feel the bad memories or what I don't want and I observe them and let it go. It eventually leaves. But there are great memories of women I've loved and movies of potential women I could be in love with... also come and leave. I want to keep this feeling of the love, through meditation. These thoughts make me feel warm but when it goes away I'm wanting it back. Anyone have these experiences? I long for one particular girl that we love each other but can't be with each other... I still feel the love even though we don't really communicate much with each other. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation causing me to wake at night...? Posted: 20 Jul 2020 01:30 PM PDT I just started meditating a few days ago. I really enjoy it but ever since I started doing, I've woken up every night randomly at around 3am and have been unable to fall back asleep. Could this be connected to my meditation? It's really frustrating as it means I'm only getting a few hours of sleep since I go to bed at around 11 and take awhile to fall asleep. Last night I meditated for an hour before bed and later went to bed, woke up at around 3 and now it's 5:30am and I still can't sleep... Is there anything I can do about this..? Should I stop meditating...? [link] [comments] |
| Am I doing this right? Need some critique Posted: 20 Jul 2020 04:50 PM PDT So I just began mindfulness meditation. I'm reading the book "Mindfulness in plain English" to help me get the practice down. The book emphasizes keeping your concentration on the rim of your nostrils as you inhale and exhale your breath, however I can hold a better concentration when I follow the breath all the way inside my lungs and feeling my lungs expand, and following the breath out of my lungs and feeling my lungs contract. I do put my concentration on the rim of my nostrils like the book says initially, but I follow the breath inside my body and out. Is this bad? Am I doing the practice wrong by technically breaking concentration from rim of nostrils to following the breath inside the body? Also I find it much more comfortable to breathe slower, so what I do is inhale and wait about 5-8 seconds before I exhale and wait about another 5-8 seconds before inhaling a new breath of air. Obviously these 5-8 seconds of pause before taking a new breath in, I'm not concentrating on anything except keeping my mind blank. Is this the wrong way to do this? Will greatly appreciate any help from the more experienced ones. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2020 08:26 PM PDT Hey friends, I am a little confused and can take help from some experienced meditators. I started practicing meditation 4 months ago using some apps and watching a LOT of YouTube videos. I took free course from Mingyur Riponche, Headspace App, reading lots of Reddit posts here, 1 Giant app that taught a TM like practice. After meditating twice a day for 40 minutes, I have come to a stage that I feel I am in touch with my awareness quite a lot daily and feel at peace mostly WITHOUT any personal teacher that I met in person. Recently I received an email from TM Center ( tm.org ) asking that they have few spots available for learning at for $1400 dollars. They do a session a week and claim it's life time follow up. I asked them for discount but nothing. Would you recommend this program or is it just a money grab and I should continue on my own journey exploring videos and online courses from teachers like Mingyur? I would love to try but that's a lot of money for few sessions of training. Thoughts ? [link] [comments] |
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