Meditation: 1000 Doors appeared while meditating. |
- 1000 Doors appeared while meditating.
- Headspace
- The search for Meaning is the cause of a lot of unessesary suffering.
- Realise you are the room in which your thoughts appear.
- “Even though sounds may be associated with waves in the atmosphere and colors may be related to photons reflected by surfaces, the phenomena we perceive are not composed of atoms, and they do not exist apart from us”
- is it good to meditate only 10 minutes a day?
- Shape of consciousness?
- How to handle harm OCD?
- Help me solve this paradox of meditation
- Struggling with meditation. Can anyone help. Thx ahead of time.
- Feeling numb
- How do you teach someone with a dissociation disorder to meditate when meditation is a forum of dissociation?
- Aha moments about meditative practices
- I don't understand what happens when I meditate or even wether it is classed as mediation, it is intoxicating though and feels more powerful than any psychedelic drug I've ever dabbled with. It makes me wonder whether my experiences are even beneficial to my life.
- Non contemplative meditation?
- Where to start?
- How do I meditate?
- Can you suggest me a book for meditation ?
- It's like looking at a snow globe.
- Deep meditation
- Meditation that can help me prepare for the worst/lower my expectations?
- Is it a Myth that You should not Think while Meditating ?
- I have a question for those who dabble in psychedelics,
- Can meditation help me overcome and control lust?
| 1000 Doors appeared while meditating. Posted: 29 Aug 2020 02:30 PM PDT I've only been seriously meditating for about 3 weeks now. I've made at least a 60% progress with my anxiety. Almost non existent. I meditate 3-5 times per day.... anyways, this morning's meditation was interesting. I was laying down on a yoga mat going deeper and deeper when suddenly I found myself in a room with 1000's of doors. I opened one door and right behind that door, was another door. And behind that door, another and another and another and so on. I'm pretty sure I found myself in another reality. The reality of my own life. Anxiety started in 2017. Since then I've shut door after door after door after door and the amount of doors I confined myself into since then and the way I feel with anxiety is similar. I feel trapped in a room with no way to get out. I found out today how I can get out of that room. I have to meditate so much. I need to completely fix my brain and go back to the basics. My brain has gone through so many of these doors since 2017 that I need to open them each one by one. Until I get to where I need to be. I know this will be a long journey. I've already seen progress. Defeating my own mind. Challenge accepted. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2020 07:31 PM PDT I know I'm a total newbie and I'm probably exaggerating here but damn headspace is such a helpful and amazing app. From daily lessons to longer courses which tend to any mental needs, it's so good. Can't wait to get started on some courses! [link] [comments] |
| The search for Meaning is the cause of a lot of unessesary suffering. Posted: 29 Aug 2020 10:26 AM PDT As someone who has lived in his own head most of his life and struggled with my emotions, I find meditation to be a real needed paradigm shift. At first blush this phrase may seem just patently wrong. After all even eastern philosophy claims to be a search for truth and elightenment even if it eschews the analytical search for meaning of western modes of thought. And of course all of human knoledge and advancement since the beginning of consciousness has been something of a search for meaning, from cave man to mega cities. We clearly have an inbuilt need to understand the world around us. To make sense of it all. To construct narratives. But the search for meaning is also such a source of pain too. I find myself often struggling with painful emotions and realizing that my "goto" modes of thought are to tie these feelings into the narrative of my life. I feel judged, hurt, rejected, angered, and boom, my mind instantly goes into reasoning mode. My mind looks for reasons and meanings in the feelings, ties them in with past traumas adds a brick to the edifice of my story. Or more probably my mind has likely already made the leap subconsciously before I'm even aware of it, which is then the source of said feelings. So much heavy baggage to carry around. Thre is an alternative form of truth that meditation allows us access to which requires a huge amount of training to solidify. And that is to allow the present moment to be its own meaning. Allow whatever arrises in the moment to be the truth. To drop the need to construct, analyze, search. We often forget that there is meaning and truth in the simple experience of an event, feeling or thought. We are SO quick to add extra layers that we skip over processing the thing in the moment. [link] [comments] |
| Realise you are the room in which your thoughts appear. Posted: 29 Aug 2020 06:00 PM PDT Everything you perceive/feel/think is content. Consciousness is the room in which the content appears. It is no-thing. But at the same time it is everything. Awakening is the realisation that you are the room in which everything you perceive appears. There is no 'me and my consciousness'. That implies duality; that consciousness is something separate from you - an object that 'you' possess. Awakening is the realisation that 'you' are consciousness. It's consciousness becoming conscious of itself through you. It cannot be understood by the mind as a concept. You can't hold a thought and say "Aha! - this is consciousness" - because that very thought is just another piece of content in the room of which it appears. Your mind can never think it's way into understanding it. And if you're anything like me, you'll go around in circles trying to grasp it. Which cannot be done - because you are it! It's by becoming still - the silent awareness that lies beyond thought - that you can sense it as yourself. Which the mind usually resists. Finds it boring. Thinks about all the other things it could be doing/thinking. A breakthrough awaits you on the other side of this mental resistance. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2020 08:15 PM PDT A great quote by Alan Wallace who wrote "The Four Applications of Mindfulness" that many of you may be familiar with, explaining Mindfulness of Body, Feelings, Mind, and Phenomena. For those unfamiliar, it's where body scans come from! [link] [comments] |
| is it good to meditate only 10 minutes a day? Posted: 29 Aug 2020 03:55 PM PDT so i'm pretty sure i have adhd and i'm trying to keep my thoughts in control with meditation. it's hard doing it daily because i do it only once a week if i force myself even though i paid a headspace subscription that could end any day. i checked this sub and i saw people meditating for over 2 hours. how can people do that?? is it good if i only do it 10 minutes? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2020 11:23 PM PDT Hi all. I consider myself a meditation beginner (as in, never had a teacher), though I have a daily practice established for about a year now. I've had an experience I wanted to share. I do anchored meditation with the focus on the breath. This one time I had an evening session with particularly good "flow" if you may call it that. Not many thoughts came, it was easy to just be and sense whatever's going on. It seemed like I can observe "beyond" the usual raising and falling sensation of the breath. Like there was a shape to the breath in my belly. It was floating and in a fluid-like motion. I noticed that the more I pay attention to it, the more I can sense it everywhere. So I began shifting focus and was able to isolate this sensation in my hand or head. When I focused on the head though, the strangest thing happened. I perceived the "flowing mass" just beyond the head itself. Like it kept spilling from the body, outside. The more I focused, the further the sensation expanded, like it was actually beyond my body. It's super difficult to describe it but it was kind of like being on a boat, think waves or so on. When I was a child I had experienced some lucid dream inductions and in a way it was similar (whirling sensation of being pulled onto the scene of a dream). Any thoughts, guys? Just to let you know this was a 100% sober experience, though this sounds a bit psychedelic. When the session finished, I realised it was the longest I ever sat for (about 1.5h), I felt so extremely relaxed and at peace. Now that I try to assign some meaning to the experience, I keep thinking about the shape of consciousness? Maybe it was a perception of perception itself? Idk. I don't necessarily need to assign meaning to this, but it was just so bizarre and weird, I like to know if anyone else has experienced something similar. Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 01:09 AM PDT I have been strugglig with intrusive thoughts about harming my wife for the last 4 months. I am on SSRI and I also go to therapist but I cant make any progress with this problem. How do I meditate to get rid of it? PLEASE help me [link] [comments] |
| Help me solve this paradox of meditation Posted: 30 Aug 2020 12:50 AM PDT Hi all, I'm fairly new to meditation and am curious to learn more about its fundamentals. Based on what I've read and heard, I find a paradox: I've heard from a lot of people that meditation enhances your self-awareness and gives you answers to a lot of the recurring problems that might be plaguing you. For example, someone who overeats might not be doing so because he / she is a glutton but it might be a case of emotional eating, stress eating, etc. Thus meditation can actually give answers to such a person with regard to what the root cause of the emotional eating might be i.e. the true genesis of his / her emotional eating might be very different from what it may seem like on the surface. Having said that, isn't this only possible if you are with your thoughts / feelings / emotions and are trying to analyze them in a non-judgmental manner? If so, why should I be bringing my attention back to my breath or my stomach if my mind drifts or wanders? Shouldn't I actually be observing those thoughts from a distance and trying to understand their genesis and what they're telling me about me? Bringing my focus back to my breath would terminate the analysis, wouldn't it? Edit: grammar [link] [comments] |
| Struggling with meditation. Can anyone help. Thx ahead of time. Posted: 30 Aug 2020 12:34 AM PDT I'm not sure what to post. I've been meditating about two years now. I don't do it everyday, but at least more than %50 days. I do it sometimes in the morning, sometimes at nights, sometimes throughout the day. I've even paid for TM technique course & am a current subscriber to the waking up app. There was a time where my the practice was daily. But I have been somewhat discouraged since. I have yet to have any experiences since trying meditation and my many attempts of it. Prior to all this I accidentally fell into an infinite void just prior of my 30th birthday when I was like always reflecting on my hellish childhood & life thinking about suicide. I didn't have a father growing up due to his very violent abuse (kidnapping, almost killing my mother) and had to run away as an toddler immigrant/refugee. I never knew my family/homeland while growing up in another country besides my mom & when I did finally meet my only older brother, he raped me. I had to hide my identity from letting others know my legal status for over 20+ years in fear that a racist society would further punish me. I grew up very isolated. Many many times I've thought about suicide. My mother who did the best she could, didn't know about my sufferings, And I carried the burden for most of my life till I no longer could. I'm a mess. I say all this only so that someone out there could possibly understand where I'm coming from. I had no prior knowledge that anything of the sort could occur, and while it did. During the one time experience I even took a sort of leap of faith to this blinding sun/source so so very far away that wanted me to "wake up". But I was afraid of dying, and I woke back up in a tremendous amount of fear causing a heart attack I eventually recover from. It is the only time In my life that I ever felt any type of true peace from my thoughts/life. Sometimes I wonder if it was best for me to have woke back up. I love this community because reading your experiences make me cry about the one time I had mine. I need help to deal with my demons and I'm obviously not doing something right when I meditate. I'm willing to try anything. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 12:28 AM PDT I don't know if it's the right place to post this but maybe meditation might b the only way to help. For a few years I feel numb .. I acheive everything I want, I get to experience everything that I wanted but I don't feel anything. I won to gold medals I felt nothing. I went to my dream vacation, it was fun adventuous but still I didn't feel the excitement and aww that I was expecting to feel like I used to before. I had my first kiss and a really good make out session I still felt nothing. My kitten died I felt nothing. A little background my father had gone through a very severe illness where I was at the verge of losing him. Bring the eldest I had to mange everything from bill to morally supporting my family, I think during that I programmed myself to not feel anything and just focus on the tasks, thank God he is fine now but I'm still numb .. I do feel anger, I get excited when I am on Adventuous for a little while only if they are very thrilling or dangerous. I am at serene state I don't have anxiety .. it's just a constant felling of numbness like your on a drug that always there. I want to feel fear, excitment, happiness ,pain. I need help through MEDITATION this is my last option. I consulted a few physcologist but they didn't help at all :( I was always a motivated, eager go getter but now I feel like doing nothing, nuthing excites me anymore. HOW DO I UNNUMB Myself with meditation. [link] [comments] |
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| Aha moments about meditative practices Posted: 29 Aug 2020 09:53 PM PDT I had so many aha moments reading this book: "Widen the Window" by Elizabeth Stanley. Highly recommend it if you are experiencing any discomfort or frustration during meditation. It will help you learn about the pitfalls of meditation that you'll need to work around along the way. It includes a research-based explanation of what happens when reach a plateau in meditation. Basically, the most important skill to learn first is to ground yourself. Feel your feet planted on the ground, and feel the energy of the Earth going up your feet, up your spine, and let the current of energy ground you. Just doing this exercise alone will help you break out of the habit of negative self-talk, intrusive thoughts, etc. My favorite type of meditation is embodiment meditation, The Realization Process. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2020 06:30 AM PDT This experience seems to happen most times I meditate, I don't understand why or what it means, or even if it is beneficial but I know that it feels very good. It's hard for me to put into words and describe so I'll do my best. I meditate sensually deprived with noise cancelling headphones on and an eye mask on. My technique is slow consistent breathing with a focus on the inflation and deflation of my lungs. I have a kind of reference point just above my diaphragm that I find easy to focus on. I usually find it relatively easy to focus on the task of mediation and quietening down the thoughtstream. I have been doing this for around 6 months now. When I do this though something strange happens after around 5 minutes of focus. With the inhaling and exhaling I start to enter this sort of trip where I begin to inflate and enlarge as a person/consciousness. It's hard to explain but Its like my whole body and awareness feels absolutely gigantic. I feel like my body is like the size of king Kong and I can stand to the heights of skyscrapers. I lose awareness of the room that I am in and feel like the room I was originally in could no longer hold me. I have this weird overwhelming feeling of interconnectedness, love and gratitude sort of washes over my body and it does feel really rather good. My arms and legs feel warm and fuzzy and all in all I feel kind of invincible. This is why I worry. The practice feels incredibly good both for my mind and body but this feeling of invincibility troubles me as I worry it is stoking the ego. I don't know if what I have attempted to describe is even mediation as when these feelings start to run through my head I feel like it is defeating the very point of meditation (to shut down the endless stream of thoughts). I find it hard not to indulge in this feeling every day as it feels really good. Is this even good for me ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 01:46 AM PDT Has anyone heard or tried this form of meditation? I'm a recovering alcoholic and I stumbled across it while googling. You basically become aware of the back of your eyelids while being directing your consciousness toward each tip of your fingers. I cannot find much about it other than this site [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2020 04:25 PM PDT So, I'm assuming a lot of y'all are going to refer me to the wiki, but I already tried to look at that and it says it was deleted, so I did try it! Basically, I've never actually meditated before. I tried once with a friend who meditates, but I felt so extremely awkward because at the time I was a Christian and my parents taught me that meditation was evil. Now it is something I genuinely really want to do, but I have no idea where to start. I was hoping that some of y'all might have some tips for me? TIA!!! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 12:53 AM PDT I've been hearing lots about meditation but I am willing to admit I don't know anything about it. So I guess I'm trying to figure out how to do it and what benefits will I extract out of it? [link] [comments] |
| Can you suggest me a book for meditation ? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 12:01 AM PDT Well I know the basics of meditation and practise it regularly and I want to learn more about it for example the Meditative natures , some experiences with it , hand poses etc and maybe even some yoga related stuff . (I don't mean to be rude but at first I thought of getting answers by this subreddit about the more detailed stuff but unfortunately couldn't get any help ) [link] [comments] |
| It's like looking at a snow globe. Posted: 29 Aug 2020 05:28 PM PDT Still definitely a beginner when it comes to mindfulness, but I'm starting to glimpse the bigger picture behind the practice. I feel like my mind is a snow globe, chaos and disorder flying around inside when agitated. We are training ourselves to observe the snow globe from the outside, neutrally noticing the flurry going on inside without feeling overwhelmed by the dizzying precipitation that represents many of our thoughts, emotions, etc. I found a lot of peace in that analogy and wanted to share. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2020 10:54 PM PDT Anyone get so deep in meditation that any pain in their body goes away? Basically my body will get tingly at first then it's like I don't even feel like I have a body. Also, yesterday I got so deep that I began seeing flashes of colors and different types of animals. I know it sounds weird, but when I would go to look at them, they'd disappear. It was like they were coming up in my peripheral vision. Anyone else experience this? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation that can help me prepare for the worst/lower my expectations? Posted: 29 Aug 2020 06:57 PM PDT Sorry if this is a strange question, as I'm pretty inexperienced with meditation. I mainly meditate before homework sessions to help me stay focused. I'm wondering if there's some sort of meditation I can do to help me mentally prepare for the worst or lower my expectations. I find that even when I do expect the worst to happen in certain situations, I still end up feeling disappointed or upset by it. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Is it a Myth that You should not Think while Meditating ? Posted: 29 Aug 2020 12:44 PM PDT I've read two different things that seem to be a bit contradictory. Would you please help straighten them out for me? On the one side, it's commonly said that you should be focusing on breathing, and if you notice your mind drifting to some thought, the goal is to dismiss the thought and return focus back to breathing. This makes total sense to me. On the other side, I've read it's a myth that you aren't supposed to think while you meditate. For example, here is a common argument I cannot understand which states:
I don't get it. The author says that the goal is to not push the thoughts away, but rather return focus to breathing. Aren't these exactly the same things? By returning focus to breathing, you push the thought away. Focusing on breathing is the mechanism by which you dismiss the thought. It seems to me that the primary objective of meditation is of course to stop thoughts and empty the mind, and the way we do this is by returning our focus to breathing every time we have a thought. Of course, these thoughts that pop up are to be expected and nothing to be upset over. Can anyone help clarify this? If you google "meditation myths" or "how to meditate" you will see this line of argument in almost every article. [link] [comments] |
| I have a question for those who dabble in psychedelics, Posted: 29 Aug 2020 10:14 PM PDT I ask this because everyone I know irl sees this when tripping and I want to know how many people see it. When me and my friends take it and go outside at night and look at the stars we all see a honey comb, does anyone else see this? We feel like it means something but we don't know [link] [comments] |
| Can meditation help me overcome and control lust? Posted: 29 Aug 2020 09:30 PM PDT We often hear of mediation being used to overcome emotions like anger and anxiety. Can it be used to control something more primal like lust? Lust, especially for men who are visually stimulated, seems to activate quicker along a lower level part of our brain. It's not like anger where you can slowly feel a situation starting to make you frustrated, then annoyed, then angry. If you visually see an attractive women in a tight dress, boom, you're instantly aroused by her. And to really stop being aroused her, you have to stop thinking and visualizing her, you can't just "observe the lust". I have an extremely high sex drive and I've often wished there was a way to decrease it or slow it down. [link] [comments] |
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