Meditation: Interesting idea to stop identifying with your thoughts: give your mind a name |
- Interesting idea to stop identifying with your thoughts: give your mind a name
- "Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free." Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Why is it so hard to commit to meditation?
- I had an experience while meditating
- Thinking about doing 2 hours daily? I need some help
- Tried my own form of meditation today.
- Something so simple, gives so much joy
- I’m confused about seeing my thoughts
- Intermediate Meditator: Could Use Some Input
- Gateway to meditation
- Ever focused on uncertainty?
- Focusing on your breath V.S. meditating on a thought, idea, or action
- Holding breath
- Meditation doesn't give happiness.
- Anthony de Mello on his struggle with mental health
- Any advice/recommendation helps
- What is your ideal meditation setting?
- An interesting take on meditations capability to help with insomnia
- ISO Advice
- Meditation is to notice the level of effortlessness with which you are experiencing
- falling asleep after meditating
- I just can't meditate with ADHD.
- Is it really just a performance
| Interesting idea to stop identifying with your thoughts: give your mind a name Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:29 AM PDT This is very interesting because as you give your mind a name, suddenly it seems as if you are watching some other creature that is not you. This gives you the space to watch and not identify with your mind. Do you have disturbing thought X? "Well, paul, you're being quite a busy bee aren't you?" This is a good practice from ACT (Acceptance and commitment therapy). I recommend you to try it. We often suffer because we identify a lot with our mind and its disturbing thoughts. We think this is US and that they are true. As a result, we feel bad. But they just occur to us. By giving your mind a name it creates more space and you learn to take your thoughts with a large grain of salt. We are so accustomed to believing our every thought and belief. By giving our mind a name we can watch it more objectively as if we were in a laboratory. Thoughts are nothing personal at all and frankly rarely true. They just happen. Building this awareness is liberating. The mind has its own agenda. :D Get some popcorn and let the watching begin! [link] [comments] |
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| Why is it so hard to commit to meditation? Posted: 28 Aug 2020 12:42 PM PDT I know it's great for my mental health, and every time I mediate, I instantly feel so much better. Still, I find myself rarely ever committing to it for longer than a week. [link] [comments] |
| I had an experience while meditating Posted: 28 Aug 2020 06:16 PM PDT I wanted to share something I felt while I was meditating. it's like an.... experience. it's a long story. TLDR: Had an experience while meditating that felt like I mentally died and then zapped back to reality and then saw a couple seconds of trippy visuals. And now I really want pancakes ...... full story: So I was starting to get paranoid, and anxious about some personal stuff going on in life. And so I laid down on my bed and closed my eyes. I was breathing in and out and I said under my breath, "I'm panicking."(I was.) "I'm panicking okay... just breathe." then I answered in my mind that it's okay to panic. it's okay. just breathe. Shh. and so I did, I started to breathe for a few minutes. after a while my heartbeat and breathing slowed down. and I continued to focus on my breathing. and as I did my inner monologue started to fade out. I heard something outside my window. the sound of a car passing by. But then my inner monologue came back for a fleeting moment, saying: Only listen. just listen to the car, dont acknowledge it as noise from a car. And so I just listened. I heard another car pass but I only heard the audio of a car passing by, I could not picture what a car was visually. It was just blacked out from my knowledge. What was a car? And suddenly after I ask that to myself, the concept of a car ceases to exist. what I understood as a car was not real. the knowledge was erased from my mind. And then, my surroundings do not exist. They drift away from my consciousness. Melting away until they were blacked out too from physical and mental presence. But I stilI hear the surroundings, I hear and feel and smell everything and am aware of its presence but not what it means. Every feeling I am feeling I am hyper aware of, but I know nothing about. I forget their identities. Yet still feel them. The presence. It's hard for me to explain. But conciousness was just lost. I was existing, but I didn't even know I was existing. ...Was I even breathing? What was breathing? Then I sunk so deep into forgetting what everything was that my inner thoughts did not exist at all. Like my brain was powered down, restarting. All thoughts were gone and quiet from my mind. Clear. Nothing. No conciousness. I didn't even remember what I looked like... or who I was. I was just feeling. only feeling. Feeling that I was alive. And then, I saw myself- so in a way metaphorically there was two of me: the first me, which was the entity of me that didnt know my identity but only knew I was alive. I cant quite describe it but I felt like I encompassed all. but also knew nothing. that was the first me. And the second me, which was my, actual form that I know, but smaller. like a mini version of physical and mental me. The idea of which, was my identity. I recognized the identity that was "self." Then suddenly my concious comes back. And my concious asks out loud, to everything and everybody but also nothing and nobody, "am I dead?" and then, boom suddenly back in my room in the present moment. and then I see some crazy visuals for a couple minutes that somehow meant things to me (i can explain to you what the visuals were but this part gets trippy) And then yeah I stop meditating. Wow, it was unbelieveable And now I really want pancakes, like, badly. (irrelevant to the actual meditation.) [link] [comments] |
| Thinking about doing 2 hours daily? I need some help Posted: 28 Aug 2020 11:39 PM PDT Tbh i want to start this by saying meditation is very powerful to thicken the prefronal cortex in the brain, and i really want to dive deeper and give my brain better chances to increase the thickness in this specific area. because i have extreme mental illness and addictions tendency. I became good at doing longer meditations now, but i was thinking about starting to put the 2 hours for my daily routine? Any tips or insights or words are highly appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Tried my own form of meditation today. Posted: 29 Aug 2020 01:27 AM PDT I kept a goal of 4 hours. I can do what i want. I should just be observant - of myself and things around me only. I can write down future tasks but cant plan them. I can only listen to healing music. No tech/gadgets. First 2.5 hours of my meditation were fantastic. I went through cycles of various emotions yet with pauses i came back from the negative ones. I noticed many small details in things around me. The last 30 mins of these 2.5 hours, I was lying on floor. Never felt that light. But suddenly my mind wavered around incidents that made me angry. I stormed out of my room not knowing what to do. I colored mindful books. Even though those 4 hours have passed, I am not knowing how to release the energy that crept up into me towards the end. Please advise on how to handle this and if i might have done any mistakes in giving opportunity for negative emotions to creep in. [link] [comments] |
| Something so simple, gives so much joy Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:53 PM PDT My favorite aspect in leading a simple, meditative life. Not necessarily a dry life, a joyful life of observing and love, without a drop of rejection to what life offers in that moment. What gives so much joy, uncalled for, is when you witness a subtle movement in your body or mind, or heart, in a daily day living situation. Just a quick report of your body, state of mind, whatever emotion is passing through. And the noticing of it is so simple, yet fresh. The pure observance in itself is so joyful it's unreal. Not forced, it can't be a forced observation. On the flow, it comes. Ungrabbable. A movement of life. [link] [comments] |
| I’m confused about seeing my thoughts Posted: 28 Aug 2020 06:26 PM PDT So I am identifying myself with my mind and this is the cause of my anxiety. But I have come to a realization that I wanna get back my power and stop letting my thoughts control me in fear. But every time I close my eyes to meditate and go deeper into my meditation, thoughts pop up. I've tried visualizing clouds, leaves and bubbles but it hasn't helped. I can't seem to notice the separation between me and my thoughts. But I can sense something I can't explain. I have been meditating more frequently and the past 5 days it has been 30 mins. But I'm just confused as to how I can be the witnesser of my thoughts without telling my mind I'm going to become the witnesser. [link] [comments] |
| Intermediate Meditator: Could Use Some Input Posted: 28 Aug 2020 09:22 PM PDT Greetings r/Meditation, First, a quick summary of my meditation experience. I've been practicing meditation for about 15 years now. At various times to greater or lesser degrees. At two points I had a consistent practice of an hour every morning. They were the most productive and coherent parts of my life. Before the lockdown, I decided to get into meditation more seriously than I have before. I wanted it to become a touchstone, a landmark, a foundation upon which I begin to build the many other aspects of my life I wish to cultivate to excellence. (Music, Writing, Tai Chi) So I purchased The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa as a reference book, and I started in earnest. I've had a few stumbles. But generally, I have maintained a strong habit of meditating an hour a day since May. The type, as described in TMU is a simple breathing meditation focusing upon the feeling of the breath as it passes through my nostril. Here is where I am having trouble. Both times that I have maintained the hour-a-day milestone. In general, my meditations were mostly focused on the breath continuously without interruption. It would take a variable amount of time for my mind to calm down, and my breath to deepen. But even if it took 45 minutes or so, I would get to a place of serenity and stillness. There would be better days and worse days to be sure, but in general, the meditations themselves were something I enjoyed and looked forward to. Referring to the stages described in TMU I would have put myself between Stage Four and Five. Fast forward to now. I've now held my meditation habit for months. And it seems like my mind has gotten so much louder and insistent. These days I am lucky if it ever quiets down. In addition, I can feel thoughts arising from one part of my brain while music is simultaneously present in another part of my inner awareness. (Continuous music playing in my head one of the obstacles I overcame in my previous dedicated periods. This is the first time I've had both incessant thoughts and continuous music at once.) After the first couple of months, I figured, "There's no bad meditation. This is just a plateau. If I keep my practice steady, the way will come up to meet me." I'm now at five months, and it seems as if nothing has changed. I've tried doing energy meditations, guided meditations, meditations without timers, breaking up the meditation into smaller chunks throughout the day, extending the meditation out to two hours. (All of these in addition to my normal hour meditation that is a part of my wake up routine) As I've said before. I've progressed through this phase of things **twice** before in my life. And neither time took nearly this long. I'm hoping that someone has experienced something similar, and might be able to provide me with some insight. If not, no worries. I will continue my practice regardless. I just don't understand why it seems like "taming" my mind, as it were, is so much more difficult this go 'round. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2020 10:04 PM PDT Anyone tried Sudarshan kriya by Art of living? It's a great breathing exercise to enter meditative state! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2020 01:36 AM PDT I had a sleepless night and used it to meditate. Next morning i woke up in new mind space. I am being absolutely in moment, but only as long as I am focusing on uncertainty. Have you experienced something similar? [link] [comments] |
| Focusing on your breath V.S. meditating on a thought, idea, or action Posted: 28 Aug 2020 06:17 PM PDT So, I hear that during meditation you're supposed to focus on your breath and essentially "block out" any random thoughts or sensations, but then I hear about people meditating "on things". I would assume for a beginner it would be easier to meditate on a thought rather than push thoughts away, if that is the case, does anyone have any suggestions of something I could meditate on whether it's a little piece of wisdom or a quote from someone? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2020 07:28 PM PDT Why nobody use a technique where you have to hold breath for meditation in this sub ? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation doesn't give happiness. Posted: 28 Aug 2020 10:23 PM PDT Meditation is an outcome of transcendence of mind. There is nothing but just the being. It is a state where only consciousness and awareness remains. Once the lamp is lighted, it removes the darkness. Happiness is transient by nature. [link] [comments] |
| Anthony de Mello on his struggle with mental health Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:49 AM PDT I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change … I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed! [link] [comments] |
| Any advice/recommendation helps Posted: 28 Aug 2020 05:32 PM PDT Hello, lately I've been really into energies and frequencies going around and I finally got myself to put my pride aside and try to meditate to see how it will affect me. I've been listening to different types of melodies and music to help me but I feel like there's still a deeper consciousness to reach (similar to psychedelics). Please give me any advice that can help me relax or free my mind. [link] [comments] |
| What is your ideal meditation setting? Posted: 28 Aug 2020 12:23 PM PDT One of the beautiful things I find about meditation is that I already have everything I need; it doesn't matter where I am because the journey is within. However, if you were able to meditate in any location/setting/etc. without any restriction, where would that be? What would the setting be like? What would you see? What sounds would you hear? What would be there? [link] [comments] |
| An interesting take on meditations capability to help with insomnia Posted: 28 Aug 2020 09:04 PM PDT |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:33 PM PDT What advice would you offer to a 21 yo man that has meditated a lot and it's only led him to losing faith in humanity every time. I don't feel like dying, I'm not suicidal. It just pains my heart to see humanity in its current state and I fear greatly for where it's headed. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is to notice the level of effortlessness with which you are experiencing Posted: 28 Aug 2020 12:42 PM PDT Whatever the experience, it doesn't matter. Meditation is noticing the ease with which you are able to experience (what you experience , doesn't matter) [link] [comments] |
| falling asleep after meditating Posted: 28 Aug 2020 03:40 PM PDT does anyone else just pass the hell out after meditating? like i can't help it and it's almost every time [link] [comments] |
| I just can't meditate with ADHD. Posted: 28 Aug 2020 05:58 AM PDT I've tried everything. I've tried focusing on my breath, body, sounds, but I just can't do this. I can't sit more than 2 minutes without wanting to stop. And it sucks, because I have a lot of mental problems (Problem with speech, and brain processing speed) and when I meditate for a few days consistently, those thing improve a LOT. But I just can't do it. I've also tried walking meditation, but that just doesn't work for me. Like I researched it, and tried it, but I just can't see the difference. And on some day, i can meditate for like 30+ minutes, and on other days I can't even sit down at all without any reason. Sometimes I have a really productive (mostly) dopamine-free day, and I still can't sit down, but there are days when I play video games and eat junk food all day all day, and then have a succesful meditation session after that. I excersise a lot, drink a lot of water and eat healthy stuff on a daily basis. I just don't know what to do. Edit: Thank you all for the great suggestions, I won't be replying a lot, but I've read all of them! You guys are the best! [link] [comments] |
| Is it really just a performance Posted: 28 Aug 2020 06:54 PM PDT I have social anxiety and sadness issues and I started meditating recently to see if it works for me. I feel a little better around people, more calm, more collected, a little happier. But I've noticed when I'm around a "safe" friend I feel really tired and empty, like I had been putting up a performance for an audience. Its significant to the point where I let out a long sigh when ever I go meet said friend. I read somewhere that true peace is only achieved when your inside is in sync with your outside. If you're happy on the inside it just shows on the outside, no performance needed. What can I do bring to fix this [link] [comments] |
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