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- Why we should try to be more like children
- I meditated for 1hr every day for 60 Days, here are some of my observations and thoughts.
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| Why we should try to be more like children Posted: 29 Jul 2020 11:02 AM PDT Take a look at the kid on swing, or playing with a ball, happily making all kinds of sounds. A child is so carefree... He just plays. No thoughts about the future, about the past, no hurt feelings, no hidden agendas, just sweet being in the present, enjoying the activity and company of other kids. A child's mind is full of thoughts, but... those thoughts are not 'poisoned' like ours and nowhere near as heavy, - they freely come and go. Whereas most adults tend to ruminate on their thoughts. "I got a bad grade, I must be stupid", "My girlfriend/boyfriend left me, I must be a loser", "My friends don't invite me to parties anymore, there must be something wrong with me". And we ruminate on these thoughts, and ruminate and ruminate.... till it spills out in reality. That's why I call them poisoned thoughts, because they poison us from inside. Change us in negative ways. Just like children have their thoughts like lightweight bubbles that pop just by a light touch, let your thoughts flow freely. You're thinking about something and the thought keeps coming back? Note it, forgive yourself and try to move on. Sure, we're not children, we have a lot more responsibilities and the world is not exactly a dream come true... but even so, I invite you (and myself) to try to be a little more like children are. No hidden angry feelings, no revenge, no self harm, just enjoying the ride, being in the moment. That doesn't mean you have to be some pushover; just that you need to be as happy as circumstances allow you to be. [link] [comments] |
| I meditated for 1hr every day for 60 Days, here are some of my observations and thoughts. Posted: 29 Jul 2020 09:39 AM PDT I saw Joe Rogan's podcast with naval. In the podcast, he talks about how to meditate: Link to clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGCc1cUbx90 It's really simple, sit at one place for 1hr for 60days and observe your thoughts. No apps needed, no concentration on breath, nothing. Just sit and observe your thoughts. Why Meditate? Our Mind is like a CPU, it has limited ram. Our thoughts are like programs, each of them takes a chunk of CPU and ram. There are good programs, these are the ones that help us grow. Then there are bad programs, sort of like viruses and malware that hold us back, these include fear, doubts, desires, addictions, etc. There's no way to close all the programs, we've to open them up, go through them and then we can close it. For each bad program that we don't close:
Meditation helps with closing off those bad programs. Our mind is far greater and far more powerful than a CPU, it's like a vast fertile field and it returns us back what we sow. If we sow seeds of positivity, goals, happiness, the same shall be returned. If we sow the seeds of doubt fear anxiety, the same will be returned. The mind doesn't care what we sow, it gives back what we sow. So it's our duty to keep the mind in check and remove add bad seeds before they kill good seeds. Mindfulness and Meditation. I am not an expert in this subject by I think these two are fundamentally different, mindfulness is concentrating on something like breath or heartbeat, meditation is experiencing things as they are, mindfulness might be an outcome of meditation. The aim is not to calm the mind, rather empty the mind. If you want to be mindful like get into a zone for work, a quick 10min mindfulness session with the help of an app will help you get back on track. Meditation takes a lot of time, it's therapy but instead of talking to a therapist, you talk to yourself. Why 1 hr? If you're suffering from stress or any mental health-related problems, meditating for 1hr is the way to go. Going back to farm analogy, if you work on your farm 10mins / day compared to 60mins/day. You'll root out more bad seeds in 30 days compared to 180 days if you work 10mins/ day. My 1hr looks similar to this :
My Experience and observations :
Things that happened to me while meditating : I cried during sessions, some thoughts are too hard to let go and when I realized that they were holding me back, I got a bit emotional. Had one scary experience where I felt as if I was leaving my body. I might be hallucinating but that was a scary experience. There were days when I couldn't even sit for 30mins, some events from past and guilt got better of me. Things that helped me with this journey : Journaling: I kept journaling every day. This helped me pour out my emotions. I used to write down about these 4 things:
Reading: Reading books like daily stoic helped me ingraining some of it teaching in my life. Accountability: I tweeted about my progress every day which helped me keep on meditating every day. The best thing about this is sometimes naval himself will guide you through the process. Some Dont's : Don't do it if you're feeling sleep because it's 100% sure that you'll doze off while meditating. I did this mistake couple of times. Do it empty stomach, you might feel nauseous when done after eating food. Even after 60 days, I am still going through a lot but I am at a much better place. [link] [comments] |
| The ultimate purpose of meditation is to remember who you truly are. Posted: 29 Jul 2020 10:32 AM PDT Hey everyone! So I imagine the title of the post might stir up some feelings, so let me explain my thinking. If you disagree and want to share a counter-opinion, I acknowledge its validity in advance and won't argue the point. I recognize that many people have many different motivations for meditating: recession of anxiety, cultivating focus, improving sleep, etc. All of these reasons are absolutely 100% valid in and of themselves. I personally have had the incredible good fortune to stumble into a method for regularly invoking sort of a classical "mystical experience" through meditation (something anybody can do), and these moments have taught me a lot about my human experience, most importantly who and what I really am (and what everyone is). I realized that whatever beneficial effects meditation may convey, this insight is what has ultimately been the big payoff for me. The meditative technique itself is ultimately besides the point, it only serves as the reminder. The more practice I put in, the easier it is to re-remember, and the more easily I am able to carry the insight into everyday consciousness and dispense with the habituated illusions I ordinarily find myself tethered to. I'm sure there are plenty of people in this forum that know exactly what I'm talking about. To those that might not: don't worry about it, everybody gets there eventually, it's an inevitability. Good luck everyone. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 08:17 PM PDT So this was wierd. Been practicing meditation, found a post on reddit that really helped me focus correctly. But...after about 30 min I was nearly scared that I was stuck in mediation. A scissors came and cut free every thought that popped up. Again and again for the thirty minutes. I didn't even exist. If the thought, "I think" came up, then that thought was cut and floated off. If "I" came up it was cut. It was nothing. Not even time just nothing. Never had that happen to me before. And there was not any direction to this meditation. Some calming music, and the purpose was just to practice meditating. To make sure I was doing it right. Closest I can come to describing it is actually ego death. I mean for a while there I didn't exist. Just thought it was really wierd. Wanted to mention it somewhere. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 11:37 AM PDT Edit: *Any other beginners, I wrote this post in a rush... Hi, Perhaps I'm not understanding the point of meditating, but up to this point I've been trying to use the breath as sort of a reference point and I've been trying to listen to the "pangs" of thoughts that happen in my head and connect my usual cyclical negative thoughts to the very moment these cycles start to sprout in my mind. Idk if this is one way to go about it, but recently as I practice more I close my eyes and find my mind being so loud that every other passing thought completely overwhelms my focus on the breath, and although I do sort of start to notice how these thoughts affect me and where they come from, I usually find my attention so far away from the breath that it actually becomes impossible to even bring my attention back to it even a single extra time, let alone keeping my attention on the breath. In other words, I feel like I "forget" that I'm actually meditating and what happens is I end up just sitting with my legs crossed and get no benefit out of what I'm doing (although "looking" for benefit from something I've barely started practicing might be a vain effort from the very start). I have to end up quitting after about three minutes and my mind feels much more tired after trying, and even though I understand this is all a part of practice and that daily effort may get me closer to longer sessions, it really starts to feel futile when the one simple act of even just thinking about the breath ONCE during my whole time sitting down becomes a near impossible task. Any seasoned meditators have any experiences like this starting out? How should I overcome this wall in my practice? As stupid as this question may seem, how do I stop "forgetting" about the breath while I'm meditating? If this helps, I think I have ADHD tendencies and I feel like my thoughts are a lot more "sticky" than my friends and peers, and when I get distracted or feel my body being negatively affected by a thought I feel like I'm more irked at the fact I'm thinking about the thought rather than being annoyed by the contents of the thought itself... if that makes any sort of sense. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 08:49 PM PDT Hi I'm a newbie to all of this but I wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has had an a experience like mine while meditating. I have only been meditating for about 2 weeks and so far it's been a really enjoyable practice for me and has alleviated my anxiety quite a bit. Today I went for an hour cause I read that it is better for helping people with anxiety and while I was meditating I got this feeling in my chest like I was loved completely for exactly who I was (I don't even really know how to explain it I just felt so safe and warm) to the point where it was overwhelming, not in a bad way at all, but it was so strong I almost cried, I just felt so relieved. I don't know how to feel about it and was wondering if anyone else has experienced something like this and if it's normal [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 08:00 PM PDT I've been doing a 45 minute body scan about 3-4x per week for the past 5 weeks. I have questions and reflections that I'm interested in hearing others thoughts on: At first when doing the body scan, I noticed how distracted my mind would be from the guided body scan. I remember thinking "wow, my mind just goes and keeps going." I was okay with this and understood that this is just what the mind does. However, as I do more, I start to wonder about how I'm doing the body scans. Like.. when these distracting thoughts come up, I feel a sense of alertness and quickly return back to the guide. Like I feel like I should be shifting away from those thoughts. One reason I do this is because I feel like what I might be experiencing is drifting off or falling asleep. But I'm wondering am I actually just experiencing thoughts instead of drifting off? Lastly, should I turn to them instead of quickly ripping myself away from them to return to the guide? I wonder if anyone has similar experiences and/or if anyone has thoughts about my experience or questions I have about the practice? [link] [comments] |
| Read before practicing Vipasana and Silent sitting if you don't want to go insane. Posted: 30 Jul 2020 01:18 AM PDT via OSHOTIMES "Modern man is a very new phenomenon. No traditional method can be used exactly as it exists, because modern man never existed before. So in a way, all traditional methods have become irrelevant. Their spirit is not irrelevant, but their form has become irrelevant because this man is new."1 OshoIn the first part of this series, Don't Just Sit There, Osho goes into more detail about why we have changed so much since these traditional methods were created that new approaches are needed. In contrast to Osho's understanding of the particular needs of contemporary people, most of the approaches to meditation that are being taught or written about today are still presenting the traditional methods that were developed eons ago for people whose life experience was totally unlike ours. Just imagine how different our lives are today compared with then.When Patanjali was creating his sutras and Buddha presenting his vision of enlightenment about 2,500 years, the total population of the world was about 60 million, fewer than now live in one country, Italy. Or the same as the combined populations of Tokyo and Shanghai today. Add to that our recent understanding of neuroplasticity. Once we appreciate Marian Diamond's contribution to "a paradigm shift for scientists when she was the first to prove that the brain shrinks with impoverishment and grows in an enriched environment at any age,"2 the point is clear. The human mind that emerges while living in a simple hut in a village over 2000 years ago is going to be totally different from the mind created by life in a modern city with a brain-full of almost continuous distractions. The whole point of meditation is to navigate our way from mind to no-mind. So, obviously, the effectiveness of the strategies that support that journey will depend on the nature of that mind. Can you imagine someone as creative as Gautam Buddha turning up today and looking at us modern people and not immediately realizing that we require a totally different approach to transformation than was appropriate for those people of millennia ago? Not to mention the possibility that he watches one news program and realizes this amazing species on its deathbed and concludes that Vipassana is not exactly touching the spot! Osho explains this in more detail: "In Buddha's time, such dynamic methods were not needed."People were more simple, more authentic. They lived a more real life. Now people are living a very repressed life, very unreal life. When they don't want to smile, they smile. When they want to be angry, they show compassion. People are false, the whole life pattern is false. The whole culture is like a great falsity. People are just acting, not living. So, much hangover, many incomplete experiences go on being collected, piled up, inside their mind. "So just sitting directly in silence won't help. The moment you will sit silently, you will see all sorts of things moving inside you. You will feel it almost impossible to be silent. 3 Osho also explains why this is almost impossible, and how dangerous this can be: "You can sit very easily when you are doing something else but the moment you are just sitting and doing nothing, it becomes a problem. Every fiber of the body begins to move inside; every vein, every muscle, begins to move. You will begin to feel a subtle trembling; you will be aware of many points in the body of which you have never been aware before. And the more you try to just sit, the more movement you will feel inside you. So sitting can be used only if you have done other things first." 4 Osho continues: "So I never tell people to begin with just sitting."Begin from where beginning is easy, otherwise you will begin to feel many things unnecessarily – things that are not there. "If you begin with sitting, you will feel much disturbance inside. The more you try to just sit, the more disturbance will be felt; you will become aware only of your insane mind and nothing else. It will create depression, you will feel frustrated. You will not feel blissful; rather, you will begin to feel that you are insane. And sometimes you may really go insane. "If you make a sincere effort to 'just sit,' you may really go insane. Only because people do not really try sincerely does insanity not happen more often."With a sitting posture you begin to know so much madness inside you that if you are sincere and continue it, you may really go insane. It has happened before, so many times; so I never suggest anything that can create frustration, depression, sadness – anything that will allow you to be too aware of your insanity. You may not be ready to be aware of all the insanity that is inside you; you must be allowed to get to know certain things gradually. Knowledge is not always good; it must unfold itself slowly as your capacity to absorb it grows." 4 Most current presentations of meditation rely on this ancient approach of starting with silent sitting. It may be Vipassana or Zazen or some combination of these. It is not surprising to find many contemporary accounts of people having problems with meditation. Jack Kornfield who was "one of the first Americans to bring mindfulness to the West" and "remains one of the best-known mindfulness teachers, while also practicing as a psychologist." 5 He makes the following points which confirm Osho's understanding that people trying to meditate using the traditional approaches, will find it "almost impossible to be silent." 2 "First, there were major areas of difficulty in my life, such as loneliness, intimate relationships, work, childhood wounds, and patterns of fear, that even very deep meditation didn't touch. "Second, among the several dozen Western monks (and lots of Asian meditators) I met during my time in Asia, with a few notable exceptions, most were not helped by meditation in big areas of their lives. "Meditation and spiritual practice can easily be used to suppress and avoid feeling or to escape from difficult areas of our lives."Many were deeply wounded, neurotic, frightened, grieving, and often used spiritual practice to hide and avoid problematic parts of themselves. "When I returned to the West to study clinical psychology and then began to teach meditation, I observed a similar phenomenon. At least half the students who came to three-month retreats couldn't do the simple "bare attention" practices because they were holding a great deal of unresolved grief, fear, woundedness, and unfinished business from the past." 5 And he describes similar issues with other long-term meditators using the traditional methods: "I also had an opportunity to observe the most successful group of meditators – including experienced students of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism – who had developed strong samadhi and deep insight into impermanence and selflessness. Even after many intensive retreats, most of the meditators continued to experience great difficulties and significant areas of attachment and unconsciousness in their lives, including fear, difficulty with work, relationships wounds, and closed hearts. They kept asking how to live the Dharma and kept returning to meditation retreats looking for help and healing. "But the sitting practice itself, with its emphasis on concentration and detachment, often provided a way to hide, a way to actually separate the mind from difficult areas of heart and body." 5So, not only are there significant doubts about the efficacy of silent sitting as Osho makes clear, there is also a growing literature describing the kind of serious psychological reactions Osho is also warning about. Dr. Miguel Farias, in an article in the London Independent,6 gives many examples: "Willoughby Britton,7 a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at Brown University, is now trying to map what she calls 'the dark side of Dharma' an interest that arose from witnessing two people being hospitalised after intense meditation practice, together with her own experience after a retreat in which she felt an unimaginable terror." Another case Farias describes was of a woman who had taught Yoga for 20 years. He describes what happened to her during one meditation retreat. "The last day of the retreat was excruciating: her body shook, she cried and panicked." She was referred to a psychiatrist and "spent the next 15 years being treated for psychotic depression." Looking further into the literature Farias finds more: "In 1992, David Shapiro, a professor at UCLA Irvine, published an article about the effects of meditation retreats. After examining 27 people with different levels of meditation experience, he found 63 percent of them had suffered at least one negative effect and 7 percent profoundly adverse effects. "The negative effects included anxiety, panic, depression, pain, confusion and disorientation." Did this only affect the least experienced meditators? The answer was no. "When Shapiro divided the larger group into those with lesser and greater experience, there were no differences: all had an equal number of adverse experiences. "And an earlier study had arrived at a similar, but even more surprising conclusion: those with more experience also had considerably more adverse effects than the beginners." 6In May 2016, the BBC broadcast a program, "Is Mindfulness Meditation Dangerous?"8Joylon Jenkins, the program investigator, describes: "A French woman in her 20s" who "decided to go on a silent meditation retreat in Manchester. As meditation goes, it was pretty hardcore. 10 days straight. No talking or eye contact were allowed, even when the daily sessions were finished. Everything was OK until the seventh day. But then she had a panic attack. 'It just felt like my brain literally exploded,' she told me: 'Then I felt like I was completely separated from my own body.' She talked to the teachers, but they told her to carry on meditating. "At the end of the course, she made her way, with difficulty, back to France, where she effectively collapsed in her mother's house. 'I tried to go on with my life but it was impossible. I could not get out of bed anymore, I could not eat. I was having symptoms of terror and panic. I had a lot of fear and I had "depersonalization" – that's basically when you look at yourself in the mirror and you're unable to recognize yourself – and "derealization," which is when you look at the world around you and it seems unreal.' She was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and given anti-psychotic medication. A year later, she is still on the drugs. She is much better but, she says, 'I still have a long road ahead of me.'" They also cited another expert in this field who confirmed the problems were not confined to those doing intense meditation. "Tim Lomas, a London psychologist, recently published an academic paper about men who had been doing part-time meditation for non-clinical reasons. While most of them benefited from it, a quarter of them had encountered what Lomas calls 'substantial difficulties,' including 'challenging experiences of the self' and a 'frightening dissolution of identity.' "For some, mindfulness 'made them aware of their distress but unable to deal with it, so that they found that meditation was 'not only unhelpful but counterproductive.'"They also quote a US doctor: "Another fan of meditation is Daniel Ingram, an emergency doctor in Alabama also runs an online meditation forum with 5,000 members. From Daniel's point of view, strong experiences from meditation are exactly what you should expect, if you follow the theory of Theravada Buddhism. In that tradition, there's a phase of meditation called the 'arising and passing away,' after which you get the 'dark night' – and for some, the dark night is very dark. "For an unfortunate few, it can be pretty extreme depression, micro-psychotic episodes, and psychotic depression, and can make people suicidal, and occasionally even kill themselves. It's really amazing that somehow western science has largely missed this. Which is unfortunate, considering the large number of people who are now meditating in sufficient doses to cross the 'arising and passing away.'" "Which is not necessarily that large a dose. 'I mean, you should see the emails I get,' says Daniel. 'There's a lot of this out there. And, it's not just people who are going on long intense meditation retreats. I know plenty of people who have crossed into this territory spontaneously, including a number of family members, I know someone who ran into it on the way home from a yoga class and wrecked their car. They drove it straight into a telephone pole. I get all kinds of calls from people who said, 'I just did a mindfulness-based stress reduction course. And all of a sudden, I'm having these crazy experiences.' "'Is this likely to increase as mindfulness and meditation become more fashionable?' the investigator asked him. 'Oh, yes. I would say it's nearly guaranteed.'"The online magazine, Quartz, published a May 29, 2017 article by Lila MacLellan, "There's a dark side of meditation that no one talks about," which covers the same territory. 9 Describing how "We've all heard about the benefits of meditation ad nauseam," they warn their readers that: "What contemporary and ancient meditators have always known, however, is that while the hype may be warranted, the practice is not all peace, love, and blissful glimpses of unreality. Sitting zazen, gazing at their third eye, a person can encounter extremely unpleasant emotions and physical or mental disturbances." The author quotes Jared Lindahl, a visiting professor of religious studies at Brown University. He explains, "This demanding and sometimes intensely distressing side of meditation is rarely mentioned in the scientific literature." Along with Brown's Willoughby Britton, Lindahl investigated this themselves. The authors note that their study, published in Plus One, investigates meditation-related experiences that are typically underreported, particularly experiences that are described as challenging, difficult, distressing, functionally impairing, and/or requiring additional support. 9 "Just because something is positive and beneficial doesn't mean we shouldn't be aware of the broader range of possible effects it might have," Lindahl says. 9Quartz reports on the study: "To conduct their research, the pair interviewed 60 Western Buddhist meditation practitioners who had all experienced challenging issues during their practice. They included both rookies and meditation teachers, many of whom had accumulated more than 10,000 hours of meditation experience in their lifetime. All belonged to either Theravāda, Zen, or Tibetan traditions. "The researchers identified 59 kinds of unexpected or unwanted experiences, which they classified into seven domains: cognitive, perceptual, affective (related to moods), somatic, conative (related to motivation), sense of self, and social. Among the experiences described to them were feelings of anxiety and fear, involuntary twitching, insomnia, a sense of complete detachment from one's emotions, hypersensitivity to light or sound, distortion in time and space, nausea, hallucinations, irritability, and the re-experiencing of past traumas. The associated levels of distress and impairment ranged from 'mild and transient to severe and lasting,' according to the study. Most would not imagine that these side-effects could be hiding behind the lotus-print curtains of your local meditation center." The New York Times carried an article, "More Mindfulness, Less Meditation" by Tony Schwartz who "first learned to meditate 25 years ago, built a daily practice in mindfulness and spent hundreds of hours with my eyes closed and my legs crossed." About this effort, he concludes, "But the more time I spent meditating, the less value I derived from it."He also quotes Jack Kornfield's comments above, as well as Catherine Ingram, author of Passionate Presence, Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness. She writes, "Mindfulness practice has its benefits but in my case, after 17 years of practice, there came a point when mentally noting my breath, thoughts and sensations became wearisome, a sense of always having homework and of constantly chopping reality into little bits." 10 In "The Active Meditation Revolution" Osho explains, "Nobody can try to be passive. Then what to do?" In "Cathartic Release Goes Hand-In-Hand with Meditation" Osho explains the critical importance of catharsis in releasing all those pent-up emotions that is causing all the pain outlined above. In the second part of this series, Out Of Chaos Stars Are Born, Osho goes into more detail about why we have changed so much since these traditional methods were created that new approaches are needed. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 09:26 PM PDT Hi im new and im 13 also i was wondering how could I make meditation a habit and I wanna also be able to meditate for 24 hours because I wanna do a dopamine detox and because I saw in a movie that meditation kinda stimulates being um high 😅I kinda wanna figure what that feels like [link] [comments] |
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| Are there any meditation programs that don't ask me to think about why I'm stressed? Posted: 29 Jul 2020 04:23 PM PDT I don't think I'm an anxious person, but my body says otherwise. I'm constantly getting physical ailments that doctors tell me are "caused by stress" and sometimes they go away, sometimes they don't, sometimes they change into something else. Right now, I'm dealing with a host of random symptoms after having a long spell of being pretty happy and healthy, and it's been stressing me out a lot, so I started trying to meditate to cope with the day to day stress while I deal with doctor appointments, tests, etc. But a bunch of the meditations I've listened to so far ask me to engage with the "source" of stress in my life, and I don't like it. I'll be doing the breathing exercises and doing fine, then suddenly the voice is like, "What is the most stressful thing in your life right now? What stories are you telling yourself about it? Now exhale and push those stories away," or something like that. This doesn't help me. The most stressful thing in my life right now is I've had a sudden outbreak of oral thrush and seborrheic dermatitis despite no history with either, which are usually both signs of HIV, so now I have to go get an HIV test this weekend, WHILE also dealing with a possible pinched nerve in my spine that's been causing my whole back and shoulder and right arm to go numb randomly for the last two months despite going to physical therapy once a week. I'm not "telling myself stories" about these things. I can't just "push it away." Being reminded of it during the one moment in my day that is supposed to bring me peace of mind just makes my stress about it worse. It completely pulls me out of the meditation. It's hard enough even entering a calm state when my whole back is pins and needles and my scalp is full of bleeding scabs and I'm just in so much pain and discomfort. I can manage to slip away for a moment sometimes, but I don't need someone in my head implying my anxieties are caused by frivolous reasons and that it's possible to just shrug them off. I don't dwell on things or stress about things I can't control when I'm healthy. It's only when I'm bombarded with illness like I have been for the past 5 months that I start to stress. So it really bothers me when I'm trying to find some momentary relief from a day full of physical ailments that my doctors can't explain and I have to hear someone in a guided meditation act like my distress is "all in my head." What can I do to find a meditation program that's right for me? One that doesn't ask me to engage with or deal with "sources of stress" in my life and just helps me target the way the stress feels in my body and cope with it? Is this a stupid complaint? I'm new to meditation and I want to keep doing it, but I feel hurt and let down so far. (Also, anyone with chronic pain have tips on how to meditate through or despite discomfort?) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 06:15 PM PDT I'm wondering if anyone can give me insight into this experience I just had (and am having). I haven't smoked weed in months. I was just about to watch a show on Netflix when I noticed this relaxation behind my eyes, I had felt it for some 15-20 minutes but I started to really tune into it and realized that I felt stoned but still mentally sharp at the same time. I didn't start the show, instead I sat down to meditate and catch this wave of calm that was sweeping over me. It was like a different kind of energy, though not totally dissimilar from being high. I instantly felt jolts of healing energy in spots where I have injuries. Could this be my endocannabinoid system functioning properly? Is it something to do with astronomy on this day or perhaps the time of night (around 8:45 pm), or something I ate; I would love to know more about what is happening to me. I hope I feel this way every night! I'm gonna go watch that show now. I hope everyone gets to experience this. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 06:13 PM PDT Hello! I want to start meditate but i dont know how.. Is there any serius and good vídeo or YouTube channel so i can start with that? Thanks!! [link] [comments] |
| Breathing techniques after wearing a mask for prolongued periods Posted: 29 Jul 2020 09:49 PM PDT If there are methods for maintaining breathing w/a mask on 4+ hrs I'm down to hearing that out . Years ago in an episode of the 2k3 'Ninja turtles' series while the Turtles were w/those triceratops aliens I think, they exposed them to some kind of poison gas attack. When one was puzzled as to how ineffective it was, one of them replied how they were taught ~'the ninja art of internal breathing'.. 'Inspired by that', I ask, what would a irl analogue to that be, if any? : / [link] [comments] |
| Guys I need your help and advice! Posted: 29 Jul 2020 09:19 PM PDT About a year ago I did a meditation just to see what it was like and if I'm honest I had a little phase where I started doing meditation often. Since then I haven't been doing it but today I was scrolling on YouTube and I just realised that one of the guided meditations I did was an Ego Death meditation 😬. Does this mean I've lost my ego? I think I might have only done the meditation once or twice I'm kinda worried can I get my ego back? I don't really know too much about spirituality at the moment. Your advice would be really helpful thanks 🙏🏽. What is Ego Death? I've got a rough idea. [link] [comments] |
| Resistance to the flow if thoughts. Posted: 29 Jul 2020 01:10 PM PDT Anyone else here with familiarity with anxiety, depression, an or trauma? It occured to me just now that another good definition of these mental states is a huge amount of resistance to the flow of thoughts. [link] [comments] |
| How to take the initiative to even meditate? Posted: 29 Jul 2020 04:46 PM PDT I have severe ADD and can't even take the iniative to just sit down and spend a few minutes with myself. i don't even like to call it ADD, but rather A Dynamic Disposition. However it's a gift and a curse. i find that now i can only meditate when i've reached a mental/emotional breaking point and the stress becomes too much. then reaching a meditative state is easy for me. i've only reached a state of meditativeness a handful of times. PLEASE HELP [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 12:59 PM PDT Good morning. I am already feeling a bit calmer, despite the ways of the world. Khanti [link] [comments] |
| Need help on "letting go" off my breath Posted: 29 Jul 2020 10:26 AM PDT I find it quite hard to let go of my breathing after I notice it, and I can't focus on any part of my body without noticing my breath taking control of it. How do you go back to "automatic mode" and how do you still manage to notice your breath without controling it? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 07:47 PM PDT I want to see meditation change me, but I feel like its not working. I want to stop anxiousness [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2020 03:46 PM PDT So, I recently started meditating and my main goal is to let my mind wander and discover itself and let it become whole. In a way, I want to connect with myself or get to know myself. Now, if I understand correctly what I'm supposed to do is take on a pose and focus on my breath and then when my mind starts to wander and gets distracted by a thought, realize that and after try to grasp that thought for a moment then go back to focusing on my breath. So far I feel like I'm doing it right but want to get some advice from those more experienced. Any tips? Any tips for my specific goal (breathing or something to focus on)? [link] [comments] |
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