Meditation: Weekly Discussion - July 27 2020 |
- Weekly Discussion - July 27 2020
- We can't help others without helping ourselves
- Helpful tip
- Metta, though sometimes it's difficult.
- I was wondering if anyone has any tips on living in the present.
- The Importance Of Meditation In Today's World
- Heart rate falls dramatically when meditating.
- How do you keep track of insightful thoughts during meditation?
- Letting go of meditation apps
- Internal noise as a homebase
- Group invitation. :)
- What does it mean to be enlightened?
- Third eye and meditation question
- Mediation and journaling programs
- What's the best advice you could give to someone who has been meditating for a while but can't keep his mind from wandering off a lot???
- Meditation really helps declutter your mind
- Meditating after break
- Anxiety help - meditation makes it worse?
- uncomfortable present
- Dhamma and Eight fold path
- What is happiness?
- Transcendental Meditation
- My singing bowl doesn't work when I use the stick?
- Severe panic attack following meditation
- Meditation is waking up from deep slumber.
| Weekly Discussion - July 27 2020 Posted: 27 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] |
| We can't help others without helping ourselves Posted: 27 Jul 2020 08:47 PM PDT Today I realized that I can't help others without helping myself. We often have emotions, memories which we have suppressed because we find them painful, or traumatic. The act of meditation is to sit with yourself and breathe, so that all that suppressed "hurt" bubbles up to the surface, that's how healing really happens. We must release whatever we've been holding on to. Meditation is an act of release. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 03:10 PM PDT Imagine a symbol in front of you before you close your eyes, then close your eyes. This symbol can be anything but has to be something that comes natural to you. Imagine that symbol still in front of you as you close your eyes. Don't feel the need to ignore any thoughts that come in. Let them flood in and let them go. DO NOT attempt to clear your mind for meditation. This only pushes your fears and desires deeper into you and makes them harder to deal with in the future. Once all your thoughts are done, silence can follow. For example: A rabbit is my symbol. I like to chase it through my thoughts and see where it takes me. If I focus too much on one thought, I just imagine the rabbit running and I follow. [link] [comments] |
| Metta, though sometimes it's difficult. Posted: 27 Jul 2020 10:24 AM PDT I hope you are all well. Sitting went well, except for the cat. And once she settled on my lap, it went well again. [link] [comments] |
| I was wondering if anyone has any tips on living in the present. Posted: 27 Jul 2020 07:04 PM PDT I have been the type to try to overly think a situation and to try to guess the future, but after I have been mediating, I want to try to be more present and I was hoping if anyone had any tips on that. [link] [comments] |
| The Importance Of Meditation In Today's World Posted: 27 Jul 2020 03:05 PM PDT The technological age we live in today is both a blessing and a curse. We have an endless amount of entertainment in the palm of our hands, which is great because this has caused boredom to go on the decline. But depression and anxiety are on the rise, and it would be foolish to say that all this technology has not played a part in that. By constantly stimulating our brains with all the fun things it provides, technology has prevented a lot of us from having true moments of stillness where we connect deeply with ourselves. Because of this, it is more important than ever to practice meditation. I talk more about this on my youtube channel and give a guide to some forms of meditation that have worked well for me in the past. Don't feel obligated to watch it but if you have some time be sure to check it out. God bless. [link] [comments] |
| Heart rate falls dramatically when meditating. Posted: 27 Jul 2020 11:26 PM PDT Just checked my HR after a meditation session and it fell to below 55. Needless to say this alerted me. Is this good or bad? [link] [comments] |
| How do you keep track of insightful thoughts during meditation? Posted: 27 Jul 2020 05:37 PM PDT Sometimes when I meditate or go out on walks I make key insights about my life. During my walks, I try to keep my thoughts as "acronyms", so if my first thought begins with the letter L, second A, third M, and fourth P. I will remember LAMP, and go home and write them down on a Google Doc. I do not bringing technology with me on my walks. During meditation, this is even harder, because I am forced to keep a "clear" mind. This is an issue I have been going through. Someone please help. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 03:10 PM PDT When I first started meditating back in high school, smartphones weren't a thing, so obviously meditation apps didn't exist. Once I got my first smartphone, one of the first apps I installed was a meditation timer app. Its been a decade-plus, and I feel like I've gamified my practice to a deleterious degree. I've been working on no longer using the timer, except perhaps in the morning when I am on a bit of a time crunch, but it feels kind of like it doesn't "count" without the timer, nor do I get that current streak bump in brain chemistry. I know the answer is basically just "stop using the phone" but it doesn't feel that easy. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 08:19 PM PDT I am about a month into a daily meditation practice. I live it and am already seeing benefits in being more calm and thoughtful. However; I struggle with using the breath as a home base; I just can't seem to get connected to it in a way that attracts me back, if that makes sense. I don't like music or fake rainforest sounds and the room I'm doing it in doesn't have a fridge or anything with a humm. However; I've noticed as I have started to sit quietly, that I actually have tinnitus, a very faint but constant high pitch tone that becomes more apparent when I meditate. Is it OK to use that as my home base? I've heard teachers say to use breath or "an external noise" as a home base so wondered if that's not recommended for some reason. Any thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 09:55 PM PDT Hello everyone, I hope you are doing good. So, we have a WhatsApp group for meditation and self improvement and we discuss about variety of topics. We are thinking to start online session on zoom or any other similar app and we will discuss about different topics, you can also always discuss on the group. So, if anyone wanna join let us know :) by commenting or texting and I will share link with you / add you. Also, we will figure out a common time as we have people from around the world. :) Looking forward to have you with us. Thank you, have a nice day/evening/night. [link] [comments] |
| What does it mean to be enlightened? Posted: 27 Jul 2020 08:48 AM PDT |
| Third eye and meditation question Posted: 27 Jul 2020 11:08 PM PDT Hi so I've have one or two occasions (one happened to be outside in my yard at 6am) where I would meditate and while I'm meditating I feel my eyes rolling up or backwards I guess and extreme pressure in the center of my forehead. I don't wanna just jump the gun and assume I'm opening my third eye but is that exactly what happened? If anyone happens to know what I did can you please tell me? Also, on a somewhat unrelated note, what questions can I ask myself during meditation? Thank you in advance [link] [comments] |
| Mediation and journaling programs Posted: 27 Jul 2020 08:58 AM PDT A little help? Does anyone here know a good program to follow for meditation and also journaling? Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 02:58 PM PDT Do you do anything before actually meditating for you to get on the meditation "mood"?? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation really helps declutter your mind Posted: 27 Jul 2020 02:45 PM PDT TL;DR: The concept of meditation seems very simple, it's practice seems very difficult, but it definitely gives positive results and you got to start at some point. I've been meditating daily for the last 7 days (missed a day in between), with a motive to declutter the mess that I have in my mind i.e. all the memories and associated thoughts related to a particular thought, and hundreds of such thoughts running at once. Here are some of my observations: - It's difficult to straight away sit for even 5 minutes, doing nothing but sitting in a fixed posture and concentrating on your breathing. You will feel as if an eternity has passed within a couple of minutes, because your brain is wired to giving attention to multiple things and thoughts, constantly looking for the next "more interesting" or "more entertaining" distraction. But trust me, stay in there and bring your focus back to the breathing. I've already become comfortable at meditating for 10 minutes straight after just a week, initially struggling to sit even for 5 minutes. - Within 2-3 minutes of the meditation session, I've started feeling more peaceful in the state, slightly disconnecting myself from the surroundings and the bitter part of the real outside world. I'm not saying that within few days you may be able to get to a state totally disconnected to the outside and maybe get into a state of trance and whatnot, but you may be able to mellow down external noises and little things like that. I haven't felt more positive per se yet, but I have definitely felt the absence of negativity around me since I've picked up regular meditation -Your breathing will improve. Yes, if done the correct way, the involuntary action of breathing will improve with regular practising, which in turn would be very beneficial for your health in the long run, maybe add up some more time to your life! So if you have been meditating since long, my respect to you. If you're a beginner or someone thinking to start, let's not stop :)(PS: This is my first reddit post, and I wanted it to be about something that is helping me and others improve life very positively :) ) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 12:49 PM PDT My ex-girlfriend and I broke up three weeks ago. Ever since I have troubles meditating. I can't empty my mind and focus on my breath. My mind starts filling up with thoughts of her immediately. I know this makes total sense since it's only been a few weeks and it will get better eventually but I'd really like to meditate asap again because it will help my healing process. I thought I'd reach out and see if anyone has been in a similar situation. Any ideas/tricks/feedback? (Thank you guys in advance!) [link] [comments] |
| Anxiety help - meditation makes it worse? Posted: 28 Jul 2020 01:44 AM PDT Hey guys. I really need your advice on this. It's my thought patterns, they begin anything with "let me try", then something makes me feel BAD, then I procrastinate a bunch. And I overthink SO much. Is there anything I can do? I feel like meditation sometimes make my sensations a lot stronger, which make me procrastinate a lot more. I think that's what I need help on :/ thanks in advance [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 11:42 AM PDT Hello everyone, I recently tried to integrate mindfulness into my everyday life and to practice it more. Unfortunately, I only succeed for a very short time, because the more I am in the here and now, the more uncomfortable I feel because my heart is starting to beat and my anxiety is rising. my mind would like to flee again quickly because it feels comfortable there. does anyone have a tip on how to get around this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 07:48 PM PDT I want to start a thread to capture all the helpful quotes from books on Dhamma and Noble Eighfold Path (right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration) to share the knowledge and keep us on the path. 1) Bhikkhu Bodhi- Truthful speech establishes a correspondence between our own inner being and the real nature of phenomena, allowing wisdom to rise up and fathom their real nature. Thus, much more than an ethical principle, devotion to truthful speech is a matter of taking our stand on reality rather than illusion, on the truth grasped by wisdom rather than the fantasies woven by desire. 2) Sayadaw U Tejaniya- Meditation is the recognition of gross and subtle forms of craving, aversion, and delusion, and all their relatives that are present in the mind while it is observing objects. Because we want to learn about the nature of the mind and objects, we don't try to calm the mind down or try to remove objects. We don't interfere or control but observe, because we want to understand the mind and objects in their natural state, as they are happening. That is the right view. 3) Bhikkhu Bodhi- If one frequently thinks sensual, hostile, or harmful thoughts, desires, Ill will, and harmfulness become the inclination of the mind. If one frequently thinks in the opposite way, renunciation, good will, and harmlessness become the inclination of the mind. The direction we take always comes back to ourselves, to the intention we generate moment by moment in the course of our lives. 4) Bhikkhu Bodhi- Whether it be wealth, power, position, or other persons, separation is inevitable, and the pain that accompanies separation is proportional to the force of attachment: strong attachment brings much suffering; little attachment brings little suffering; no attachment brings no suffering [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 09:11 AM PDT What is happiness? Is it a reaction? A choice? a construct that tries to differentiate between good and bad? Or is it all three? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 07:03 PM PDT I am wanting to explore transcendental meditation, but I am struggling to find a good starting point or any clear information on it. I looked through the FAQ and the different kinds listed, but I didn't see it. Perhaps it goes by another name and I just missed it? If anyone has a book, article, website, or just general advice/info, I would be very grateful. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| My singing bowl doesn't work when I use the stick? Posted: 27 Jul 2020 10:46 PM PDT |
| Severe panic attack following meditation Posted: 27 Jul 2020 11:05 AM PDT Hello fellow meditators. I had a pretty wild experience a few evenings ago following a meditation and am looking for some guidance into what may be happening. I have been meditating on and off for the past few years and over the past month I've been making an effort to meditate at least once a day sometimes twice for 30 mins at a time. It's been mostly basic meditation. About a week ago I started practicing more mantra meditation and have been following along the lines of and researching the transcendental meditation technique. Twice a day for 20 minutes morning and night repeating a random sound/mantra. It really has helped me in dealing with looming anxiety and depression. Two nights ago after I finished I was feeling really calm and decent and about an hour later, my heart started beating ranging 160-180 with palpitations, I got very very hot with Red skin and shortness of breath ensued. This lasted for 5 hours. It was probably the scariest moments of my life as I was convinced that I was having a heart attack and was dying. I decided against going to the hospital just with everything going on right now I didn't want to die alone in a room not even being able to see anyone's face. Something positive came of it and I feel that because I believed I was dying I accepted my death in those hours. Fast forward, I feel a lot of trauma from that night and it's created a fear over sitting to meditate again. It's not something I want to manifest again by putting it out there but I haven't been able to find much online about meditation triggering severe panic attacks so I figured I would reach out here. I understand that through meditation things do come to the surface and I'll be the first to say that being highly sensitive with underlying anxiety about my own life and the state of the world this may have nothing to do with the meditation and was just a ticking time bomb waiting to happen. Any guidance would be much appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is waking up from deep slumber. Posted: 27 Jul 2020 09:49 PM PDT meditation is waking up from deep slumber.One laughs at the things done while fast asleep. There is no karma-book for the deeds done in dreams. A dream is a dream. Meditation destroys the dreams; some call it illusion too. [link] [comments] |
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