Meditation: I finally understand what it means to focus on my breath |
- I finally understand what it means to focus on my breath
- From a mental breakdown to a spiritual breakthrough. I’ve finally experienced true inner peace.
- Slowly accepting my mediocrity
- On not being your emotions or thoughts
- I stopped meditating after a break up… Need advice
- Just a thought, but thinking of myself as a small plant when negative thoughts arise, like I just think, "I wouldn't stomp out a little sapling" because I'm just growing! And to be more gentle with myself as I'm growing
- "Intention Creates Tension." -Sadhguru
- Cross legged position gets my feet numb and in pain from the above pressure of my knees and legs. Any advice?
- Issue with “your thoughts are not you”
- Uncomfortable when meditating in presence of other people
- Beginner here:Need a little help!
- I just cannot be mindful throughout the day. How can I get better?
- How do I get a song out of my head when meditating?
- Today I felt my heartbeat and was able to control it
- I thought to myself meditation is like mental masturbation; it's about loosening your grip yet retaining it. Weird but this settled in my mind
- Thinking about nothing (Not thinking)
- How to meditate
- What to do when you can't reach a meditative state and connect with the awareness anymore, thoughts shouting and attention drifting, can't reach the awareness.
- Awareness
- Not progressing in meditation & feeling disappointed about it...
- Counting inhales
- Beginner - Help
- Struggling with divorcing from my thoughts
- Headache and tears
| I finally understand what it means to focus on my breath Posted: 05 Aug 2020 12:39 PM PDT So Ive been meditating and what I usuallu do is focus on my breathing. However, I wasnt fully encompassing all of my attention on it, just some of it. Deciding to no longer pay attention to the world around me scared me but it was for the better. When I focused all my attention on my breath I just kept coming back and focusing intensely on it. It was a wonderful experience that has changed how I meditate forever. [link] [comments] |
| From a mental breakdown to a spiritual breakthrough. I’ve finally experienced true inner peace. Posted: 05 Aug 2020 04:07 PM PDT A week ago I had a complete mental breakdown that was spurred on by the end of a relationship. This forced me to deal with the fact that deep down, I am incredibly terrified of being alone in this world. And of spending my life alone. It has been a gruesome week full of ups and downs - but last night I had a breakthrough meditative moment. As the feeing of lonely despair rised up within me, I habitually reached for my phone to contact my friends so they could help ease the fear and anguish I was experiencing. When no one answered my calls, I was left to confront the intensity of the despair by myself. I closed my eyes, focused on the intense fear and examined it as if it were under a microscope. I began speaking to it; "I lovingly accept this fear and am grateful for experiencing the full range of the human condition. I accept that I cannot know joy without also knowing pain. I accept that to be human is to be in pain. I surrender to where I am and trust that I am exactly where I need to be". As I continued sitting with the pain and deeply, truly began accepting it and surrendered to the fear, I felt the boundaries of my physical body expanding. The spaciousness expanding in my mind and body. The most peace I have ever felt in my entire life. More so than if I had taken a bunch of Valium. I am eternally grateful for the pain and understand how it has been my greatest teacher. Much love to you all. [link] [comments] |
| Slowly accepting my mediocrity Posted: 06 Aug 2020 12:11 AM PDT I'm not prosperous, famous, artistic, charismatic, or knowledgeable, and that's ok. Btw, I wonder if anyone can share insights into how to maintain equanimity for physical pain and severe tension. [link] [comments] |
| On not being your emotions or thoughts Posted: 05 Aug 2020 12:51 PM PDT It occurred to me that when I have a cold, that cold may be enmeshed in me and have an impact on me. Same when I have a fever or nausea from food poisoning or muscle soreness from exercising. But I don't think I'm that cold or fever or fever or soreness. It's in me but it's not me. I've found it helpful to repeat a mantra that goes: "I am not my anger. I am not my anxiety. I am not my sadness." I think of the sensations and thoughts associated with those emotions in the same way that I think of the symptoms of a cold, fever, nausea or soreness. When I had food poisoning, my tendency was to tense up when nausea spiked because I knew my discomfort would increase but that made it worse over time. Once I let it happen, it got really bad but then it permanently got better. Muscle soreness isn't as bad as that once you're used to it and don't complain to yourself about it. Feedback/thoughts welcome and hopefully this can be useful to someone else. [link] [comments] |
| I stopped meditating after a break up… Need advice Posted: 05 Aug 2020 09:58 PM PDT So I was pretty close to a year of meditating for 10 minutes just about every single night before bed. And about two weeks ago my girlfriend dumped me. Like most people when they get dumped, I can't stop thinking about her. I know when I meditate my mind wanders. I'm worried I'll just set there for ten minutes before bed, think about nothing other than her and it'll be impossible for me to fall asleep, which would defeat the entire purpose. Is this the worst time to stop meditating? Should I do it when I wake up instead of going to sleep? Should I give my self a few week break? Really looking for any advice...I don't want to stop meditating, I'm just scared to now. [link] [comments] |
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| "Intention Creates Tension." -Sadhguru Posted: 06 Aug 2020 01:12 AM PDT In all moments you can just be. Let your spirit carry you. We need nothing else but the love that is our being. [link] [comments] |
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| Issue with “your thoughts are not you” Posted: 05 Aug 2020 02:41 PM PDT Do you think it could be argued that thoughts are in fact a fundamental part of consciousness? I think either way the end goal of noticing thoughts clearly and dampening how automatically taken we are with them is valid. But do you think there needs to be a more evolved view/way of framing this that doesn't discount thoughts in this way? [link] [comments] |
| Uncomfortable when meditating in presence of other people Posted: 05 Aug 2020 11:34 PM PDT I've been meditating for almost a month straight by the date, but I still feel uncomfortable when my parents notice I'm meditating. I had some struggles with meditation since the beginning, but I've managed through the time to mitigate them. For example, when I sit to meditate my shoulders used to strain along all the session; now they still do, but they often relax roughly at the middle of the session. However, when there is presence of people — but mostly when I feel that my parents will open the door because I try to meditate alone when I know they won't trend to pass by the room — my strains along the body intensifies, and can't find a way to get rid of them. Often when my parents open the door of the room where I'm meditating I suddenly stop the activity.Today I meditated in presence of my mom, in purpose to get used to this but I still found it very uncomfortable, and tho I could relax most of my body maybe for a second these strains kept for almost all the session. I also found this fact useful to understand my behavior towards doing things — or even talking — in front of people, when I constantly think about what they might think about me but not to just focus o me — my breath — and keep going. Hope to master this fear — and also most of my social anxiety — in a near future and I think meditation and focusing on my breath can add to let me accomplish it. [link] [comments] |
| Beginner here:Need a little help! Posted: 05 Aug 2020 04:42 PM PDT Hey People,I just started meditating and I'm not sure if I should feel this or not.I like the deserts and I always did and long rides.So whenever I'm meditating I'm imagining myself driving thru the endless desert on a motorbike and I really enjoy it.My question is,Is it good thinking about something like that or not?Should i try to not think about anything or what?I'd really appreciate your help! [link] [comments] |
| I just cannot be mindful throughout the day. How can I get better? Posted: 06 Aug 2020 01:57 AM PDT I have my formal meditation 20 minutes per day. I have tried to be mindful all throughout the day, but I just can't do it. My brain is always so active thinking of all the things I need to do. How can I get better? [link] [comments] |
| How do I get a song out of my head when meditating? Posted: 05 Aug 2020 11:08 AM PDT I've been meditating for a few weeks and managed to get to 30 minutes per session. Lately I started getting songs stuck in my head and whatever I do I cant seem to get them out. I tried to touch and go them, but saying in my mind ,,Yes, I have a song stuck in my head" or ,,This is a good song" doesn't really help. Anyone had a similar issue and/or has any tips on what I can do about it? [link] [comments] |
| Today I felt my heartbeat and was able to control it Posted: 05 Aug 2020 05:19 AM PDT Today while meditating my heart was beating violently and I was anxious because of it then then halfway through my meditation I was able to control it slowly and by the end my heartbeat was stable, I felt peaceful in the end of my meditation. This reminded me that I have to be calm in order to have things under control. [link] [comments] |
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| Thinking about nothing (Not thinking) Posted: 06 Aug 2020 12:33 AM PDT Hey, so ever since I started meditating I found out that I can completely stop thinking at will for indefinite, and apparently this isn't that common because a lot of people have laughed and/or made fun of this, some say it's impossible or they say that maybe I think in blankness, but when I say nothing I mean nothing, it's like the part that your eyes can't see, it's what's behind you, "nothing". Anyway is it really impossible and I'm just insane? Or is it just not talked about that much? Btw, have a great day/night/afternoon :))) Edit: By the way, I have a theory that people that think in "images/feelings/sensations" are better at this than people who think in "words", so if you can do this, how do you think?? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2020 08:02 PM PDT Pretty self explanatory title. I've tried just sitting down and meditating but I don't think Ik how lol. Is there an app to guide you that's free? Or something I'm supposed to think about? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2020 05:41 PM PDT
You are that awareness, if anything you "genuinely believe that you are separate from the awareness" but that is only a belief.
That is not true. That is only a thought. Thoughts can should and demand attention but you must not believe them and identify as them. Let them be as they are and you gently shift your attention towards the awareness which is experienced in the present moment. You must shift your attention towards the awareness of the present moment otherwise you'll keep identifying as a thought and a thought can't recognize awareness because it is only a thought. You must snap out of identification and simply be aware in the present moment of the awareness that is present. Rest your attention on that. The psychological-mind will shout and tell you "come outside with me and play" but let him shout, don't buy into it, don't be bothered by it, don't distract yourself with it. Do not entertain it, simply remain true to your own self. You can do this easily and naturally. The awareness can't go anywhere, the awareness is that in which everything appears. Itself is not coming and going and it can't "move" because it is that in which all "movement" appears. What 'goes' is the attention. The attention is drifting and lured by the mind towards the identification and thoughts, emotion and sensations but you must simply shift your attention back towards the awareness which is ever-present and the truth of your being in which there is peace, love, joy and compassion.
Awareness is not good, it is what you are. Currently you identify as a thought saying "I understand intellectually" but this is only a thought perceived in the vast consciousness that you are. You are that in which this thought is perceived and is appearing. You are not in the same dimension of it. You are that which is aware of it. Do not identify as it. You say "it doesn't help me reach it" but who are "you" to "reach it"? It makes no sense for you to reach it because you are already it. You are trying to "reach something" but that something that you are trying to reach is perceiving the movement of "reaching something". You are that in which the thought "I need to reach it" appears, you are already it, you can't reach it. What wants to reach it is a thought perceived in it, it believes that it is separate and you identify yourself as that thought making it appear as if you are separate from all that is and from your own source. It is simply not true, you can't reach anything because you are already that in which all this delusion of reaching something even appears. These are all merely thoughts perceived in consciousness, it is made to be a big and serious deal only because they are believed in and identified with by the consciousness. You are that consciousness. Drop your beliefs from the identification with the mind "I am not the awareness, I need to reach it" and you will see by shifting the attention towards the awareness which is aware in the present moment that you already are the awareness and you don't need to do anything to realize it, it is before "doing". [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2020 07:02 AM PDT You are awareness. Not thought. Not emotions. Not sensation. You are the space in which this elaborate dance is all taking place The very idea that you are separate from everything else is yet another thought. You may have some thoughts pop into your head whilst reading this. If you're unaware of them you'll just assume they are you. You may be aware of them and believe yourself to be the one who sees them. Or perhaps you're just the nothing in which they're arising. The no mind and the empty space into which all things are coming and going. If your thinking tries to understand what it has just read, simply observe this thinking. Simply be the space in which this thought arises, in this moment. In the same way when you meditate your the space in which sound arises, or your breath, or your mantra. When you look into the mirror whos head is that? Is it the head you've never directly seen? Is it a head that lives only in the mirror? Are you the surface of the mirror to which all things appear? When you focus on your breath. The idea that there's some 'you' that's doing the focusing is just an illusion. It's a bundle of thoughts telling a believable story about your experience. You can just observe these thoughts as clearly as you would your breath. Just watch them clearly appear and disappear from this open space. This space you will never see or find because you are it. [link] [comments] |
| Not progressing in meditation & feeling disappointed about it... Posted: 05 Aug 2020 01:25 PM PDT So I've been meditating for about 2 months now using the Headspace app. It was on my 24th day that I saw results and it was pure bliss. After that? Nothing. I'm back to being distracted by my thoughts during and after my sessions. My mind keeps wandering off so much that it's super hard to focus on my breath when it tells me to. This is becoming a big problem for me as I want to stay in the present and become relaxed after my thoughts have always distracted me for so many years. I thought this would be the perfect solution for me. I'm becoming very angry and super disappointed in myself that I'm not making any progress. I see myself as a gigantic failure. I've been using the 30 day basics course, the navigating change course, and the navigating change x nba course and I feel like I wasted all 3 courses. Today I feel super angry and disappointed in myself because instead of meditating first thing in the morning, I spent about 5 hours being lost in thought so while I started my session, I couldn't focus at all. I have what's called maladaptive daydreaming, which is like daydreaming x100. I just want this quiet mind and relaxed body to show up but it's the exact opposite and I hate myself for it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2020 11:00 PM PDT Can I count 1,2, as I inhale, does that count as meditation practice since I dont strictly focus on breath but counting numbers? Is that better or worse than just silent meditation? Thanks in advance [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2020 10:46 PM PDT Hi, I started worked on single pointed focus for my anxiety, but I am new to all this. I've been setting a timer for a few minutes this week to focus on and object or word. Is it normal if this is difficult at first? I know the point is to bring your attention back to the object or word, and I think I've done a good job of that. I just find it hard to keep that image locked in my head for minutes at a time. I notice with words, I tend to want to spell them out in my head if that makes sense. It seems easier for me that way. I really want to practice mindfulness for my general anxiety, so I just wanted some insight. [link] [comments] |
| Struggling with divorcing from my thoughts Posted: 05 Aug 2020 04:18 PM PDT Just like the title says. I intellectually understand but I'm struggling with separating from my thoughts. Sometimes I get in a spiral of thoughts and desire and suffering and forget to pay attention. Any tips or advice? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2020 05:49 PM PDT So, I've been meditating for a while now but I had 2+ weeks without meditating because I've been having panic attacks. Today I did a good meditation but after a couple minutes I got a headache, my forehead hurt a lot but the pain faded away after a while. Then, every time I meditate I shed tears. I don't cry, tears just get out of my eyes while they're closed... Why is it? TL;DR: when I meditate I get headaches and my eyes let tears out. [link] [comments] |
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