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- Intermittent fasting is the perfect mindfulness exercise for people who want to lose weight
- Hell and heaven are a state of the mind.
- Priming the body to feel What the future will feel like ahead of the experience has changed my life.
- Ask questions continuously during meditation.
- Lust is worse than anger
- My first non-guided meditation!
- [Musique Zen Relaxation Meditation Détente Profonde Piano & Ruisseau]
- Had a dream a few days ago and someone told me to “ Meditate every day”.
- Using mindfulness to actually make life changes
- Removing my 'self' from the equation one mindful moment at a time.
- I started doing breathwork through the Wim Hof Method and I talk about my experience
- Are you truly self-aware or are you just ego-aware? Find out the difference
- I have to restart
- Meditation helped with my kidney stone pain
- Intense emotions coming up during & after meditation.
- Anyone know of any "intense" meditation programs?
- Am I wasting my time?
- How do you control your face muscles during meditation?
- Ringing sound inside my head during meditation and during the day also after putting more hours into it daily. What is this?
- Three flashes of Light with eyes open
- I followed my breath in a dream
- 3-min self-made meditation audio. Enjoy!
- Seeking guidance about unusual meditation experience.
- A few months in and seeking advice. Something happened... I don't understand it.
| Intermittent fasting is the perfect mindfulness exercise for people who want to lose weight Posted: 25 Aug 2020 10:25 AM PDT I hope this post is relevant enough, mods please delete if it isn't. Now, I'm aware that fasting has been a meditation tool for centuries/millenia. But this is just my first true experience with it myself. If I've learned anything at all from the last three weeks of intermittent fasting, it's that my body requires much less food than I ever gave it credit for. I assumed that I'd be walking around, lethargic and slow, due to a lack of energy from not eating. But no, that's not it at all. I have plenty of energy throughout my day, and I work a physical job in construction. The hardest part to get over has been the general oral fixation of eating. I see people eating, or I smell food, and the subconscious desire to join in on that activity becomes very strong. And I won't lie, I've let the ego win a few times. Three times in the last three weeks to be exact. And I succumbed to a bit of guilt each and every time. Forgive and forget however is the name of the game. The window I've allowed myself to eat is from 6pm-10pm on weekdays, and 6pm-12am on weekends. So 20 hours fasting/4 hours eating, or 18/6 on weekends. This means I have to go about the majority of my day without touching anything besides water/black coffee/unsweetened tea. The funny part, is that on days that I've broken at say, 10am because of a work snack, I've become more "hungry" by noon than I would have been if I just didn't break. Talk about karma. And the best part? Once my eating window comes around, I'm not hungry for an entire day's worth of food. I can eat for instance, a sandwich, and I'll be totally satisfied. Fasting has actually curbed how big my appetite is. Weight loss can honestly be compared to getting over an addiction. Granted, the chemical changes in the brain from losing weight are radically different than say, not having the dopamine hit of a cigarette. But it's comparable in the sense that it's undoing a habit you've been used to for so long, and there's a constant desire to satisfy the need you're hoping to suppress ("hunger"/a smoke). Friends, if you aspire to lose weight and make mindfulness gains in the process, i highly encourage you to look into intermittent fasting. You'll be glad you did. [link] [comments] |
| Hell and heaven are a state of the mind. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 10:28 PM PDT Hell and heaven are not geographical, it is just a metaphor to explain something psychological. They are a state of mind. Hell is the mind in deep misery. Being conscious and aware is heaven. Man keeps oscillating in both the states everyday. What is your experience? [link] [comments] |
| Priming the body to feel What the future will feel like ahead of the experience has changed my life. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 01:09 PM PDT I'll try to make this short, but I have a lot of anxiety when trying to meditate and focus on the feelings i have when trying to remain calm and actually meditate, I've been making a lot of progress but everything changed when i started listening to Joe dispenza, I'm sure a few of you have heard of him He's a Neuroscientist that explains how through mediation and brains wave you change not only your mentality but also heal your body from just thought alone, And there's so much he explains i could Probably write three books alone with everything he knows but the one thing that has stuck with me so far is that he talks about when mediating tell yourself how you'll feel ahead of the experience you're going through, No matter what it is it'll pass and and priming your mind and body will enhance everything. repeatedly thinking that over and over again and telling myself these thoughts and feelings will past has changed my sessions and has made me so much more calm and happier i feel so much more peaceful when i meditate or get involved in anything i do in my life i am so happy right now. Overall its just a another way to explain the concept of noting and being aware of thoughts without judgement as I've seen a lot of people talk about in this sub but i hope it helps anyone trying to get pass negativity while trying to mediate. Thanks for reading! i hope you all have a wonderful day! Edit:Added more information about my experiences [link] [comments] |
| Ask questions continuously during meditation. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 08:23 PM PDT Spend your time in meditation, by continuously asking yourself questions that have no answers. This opens your mind and stimulates your brain physically. It leads your thinking and meditation into a branching out of stimulation in mind and body, instead of dead ends. It can be guided questioning or just random questions that merrily pop into your head. "Why am I here? Why do I want to know why I'm here? What will this solve for me? What do I expect to happen? Is this really important? What is important to me?" And so on and so forth. Any method/questions you ask/choose is just fine. Article about asking questions and the role of it in different facets of life. Tl;dr obligatory quote below: "I recently had the pleasure of visiting Dharamsala, India, where I watched Tibetan Buddhist monks debate—a daily practice that involves one monk continually questioning another monk for an hour, often on esoteric points of Buddhist thought. The impressive aspect of this practice is how the monks use this method of questioning/answering to hone their skills in logic and to probe complex questions. The questioning involves great mental concentration and intense exchange, punctuated by episodes of laughter and joy." [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:29 AM PDT "Theophrastus says that offences of lust are graver than those of anger: because it is clearly some sort of pain and involuntary spasm which drives the angry man to abandon reason, whereas the lust-led offender has given in to pleasure and seems somehow more abandoned [...] in his wrongdoing". - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 2 (10) [link] [comments] |
| My first non-guided meditation! Posted: 25 Aug 2020 11:07 PM PDT Hey guys, I've been meditating for about a week now and today I finally tried to meditate without a guide. Up until this point, I have only been doing brief 5-ish minute guided meditations. My meditation today felt amazing and I managed to focus for 10 minutes! After the meditation, I felt like I could do anything and I felt unstoppable. I know it may be a small feat for some of you, but I really feel like this is a big milestone in my journey to come! [link] [comments] |
| [Musique Zen Relaxation Meditation Détente Profonde Piano & Ruisseau] Posted: 26 Aug 2020 01:50 AM PDT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHH92RpzPvo #méditation #chakra #méditation guidée #méditation yoga #méditation du soir #méditation enfant #méditation du matin #méditation reiki #musique méditation #méditation photography #méditation profonde #méditation transcendantale #méditation spirituelle #méditation sommeil #meditation profonde #méditation étude #méditation nature #méditation yoga débutant #meditation wear #meditation music [link] [comments] |
| Had a dream a few days ago and someone told me to “ Meditate every day”. Posted: 26 Aug 2020 01:30 AM PDT |
| Using mindfulness to actually make life changes Posted: 25 Aug 2020 07:26 PM PDT Hey all, I've been practicing consistently for a few months now and am starting to glimpse what it means to be "mindful". I'm looking for some feedback from some more experienced practicers, however. I feel I can worry about small things sometimes that shouldn't bother me like they do. Socially, sometimes I think I can be a bit of a stick in the mud just cause I can let small things bother me. I'm noticing my thought patterns now perhaps because of my practice, but still not naturally looking past these things as I would prefer. Less worried about social implications, more wanting to use my mediation practice to help ease my mind for my health's sake. How can I bridge the gap from thoughts/theory to actually implementing change in myself as a person? [link] [comments] |
| Removing my 'self' from the equation one mindful moment at a time. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 04:23 PM PDT Seeing you all sharing your experience has inspired me to share as well :) I've been meditating daily for 5 years now. This year was especially opening. The 10,000 ft view of humanity at its best and worst has allowed for a vantage point as the observer in a way that until now had been unrevealed to me. Seeing the experience of humanity through covid and systemic racism here in the U.S. Seeing health and lives being blatantly placed second to profit and re-election. Seeing the experience of my conditioned self as a center of experience instead of a self. Seeing it react to the current environment. Seeing the experience of others as also conditioned centers of their experience and reacting to the current environment. Seeing how humanity is all the same thing from 7.6 billion different perspectives. Seeing how wrong speech and wrong view are affecting us all. Seeing my self doing it when I'm not staying conscious and am lost in my mind story. Seeing the difference between what I think is happening and what is happening. Seeing the difference between attachment and love, and feeling real open compassion for everyone and everything humanity has to show us. Seeing everything more clearly than any other time in my life and feeling nice to have a place to share it :) [link] [comments] |
| I started doing breathwork through the Wim Hof Method and I talk about my experience Posted: 25 Aug 2020 08:16 PM PDT Hey guys! I'm new to meditation and breathwork. I created a Youtube video about my experience trying out the Wim Hof Method. I read the rules that said to only post blogs or videos when they are related to meditation. I hope this falls under that rule. If you're interested... here it is!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKduzPIP-xk Please leave your thoughts or any other tips :) [link] [comments] |
| Are you truly self-aware or are you just ego-aware? Find out the difference Posted: 26 Aug 2020 01:00 AM PDT Are you truly self-aware or are you just ego-aware? Find out the difference Most people think self-consciousness means you are "self-conscious" or being critical of yourself. That is not self-consciousness, rather that is self-unconsciousness. If you are self-conscious, you are aware and conscious of the self. Meaning that you are conscious of the fact that you are NOT the thoughts, emotions and sensations, but rather the awareness that is aware of them. Self-consciousness means you are conscious of the self as infinite, vast, silent emptiness. That is self-consciousness/Self-awareness. What most people refer to as self-consciousness/Self-awareness is simply being conscious or aware of the ego. If you are aware of the ego, you are not self-aware, but rather ego-aware. That is the problem of most people. Ask any person and they will tell you "Yes I am very self-aware, I know all my qualities, what I like or not like, etc as a person". But ask a person "what are you that is self-aware" then they will have absolutely nothing to tell you, they will just make some answers up from the mind and the answer won't be correct because the question came from the mind, and the mind can't know what you are, for you are the consciousness in which the mind appears. The ego is associated with thoughts, emotions and sensations, it is pretty much the thinker of the thoughts and the content of the thoughts, same as emotions and sensations. It has to do with monitoring itself as a thought, it is thought monitoring itself and then judging itself to be good/bad, but it is completely false and not what you are. You are the consciousness in which the thinker of the thought appears. You are way beyond all thought. You are the silent awareness which is ever-present. If you stay in the mode of limited ego-awareness then it will force unfavorable decisions in life, and will behave very limitly according to what the thought believes and thinks about itself. Nothing in life will change until you realize that you are beyond what the thought might think and believe. You must completely transcend the mind to step into your true light as consciousness. Until then the mind will keep distracting you, until you suffer enough and stay with awareness only, giving up anything else, not seeking anything from the mind. Let god/awareness be your rock and you will not be disappointed. Ego is the psychological part of the mind, which makes the experience of being a person appear. Because the ego is active and believed in, the consciousness acts, thinks, and sees life through this limited ego-awareness. That ego-awareness barely ever develops and is only there for you to suffer for you to awaken to the true nature of what you are. The problem is most people do not even know that its there to awaken you, and people simply believe it and trust it for they know nothing else. The key is to realize and experience what is beyond the mind, only then will you have the power to be able to stand in the truth of the being instead of mindlessly following around anything the mind says. Ego is simply unconsciousness, these thoughts, emotions and sensations that you currently identify as, make the ego what it is. Having an ego doesn't mean you are boastful and proud, it can also mean you are miserable and anxious. Anything that you believe yourself to be, any thought, any emotion and any sensation is ego. Do not believe yourself to be anything, simply confirm yourself to be the nothingness in which everything appears. Beyond the ego there is the infinite vastness of being, a unity, a harmony, peace, love, joy, compassion, serenity, a higher power and an awareness that can simply will things into existence effortlessly, it is to be treasured, valued, not set aside for mere distractions and thought. It is to be your ultimate beloved for it truly is the only ever-present being in your life, every other thing comes and goes, the personality that you currently believe you are (ego), money, sex, any other distraction. The only thing consistent in your life is consciousness, and truly that is what you are. We were simply conditioned to believe the mind and trust it, instead of believing and trusting life itself, consciousness itself, the only thing that won't ever abandon us, the only thing that won't ever judge us, the one and only life that is truly whole and pure. - Sebastian Key [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2020 05:52 PM PDT when quarantine began, I approached meditation for finding peace, I followed it for two complete months every morning at least for 20 minutes. And due to academic pressure,Last month I lost complete hold of meditation and self improvement journey. My exams will get over tomorrow. (yes!! Im writing exams amid this pandemic, special thanx to govt for being harsh on student community!) I want to start the journey again!! Any suggestions for a restart would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation helped with my kidney stone pain Posted: 25 Aug 2020 05:51 PM PDT I dont know how long exactly I had my kidney stone but it was least 45 days. I swear it was at least 3 months but who knows. Yesterday, I started urinating blood. I went to the hospital and found out I passed a kidney stone. Im a young adult but I was relieved the pain and discomfort I felt for that period of time was gone. I meditate even with the kidney stone (it was in my left abdomen). Somehow, it came out and I was completely unaware it was. But the point is, I had pain and discomfort but I meditated through it anyway. Without meditation it wouldve drove me crazy. Now that it is out Im genuinely curious if meditation helped it pass or if it was the Ibuprofen. I feel much better now! [link] [comments] |
| Intense emotions coming up during & after meditation. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 05:21 PM PDT I'm very new to the meditation process and I've been doing it about once a day, for about 10-15 minutes. It's really been an eye opener as to just how deep my emotions run. Afterward, I'm usually more ready to go, even on a bad day. However, I've been noticing that emotions and trauma trapped under the surface are beginning to emerge. I'm becoming a more emotional person as a result, and not less. I've learned to stifle myself and my feelings as a survival mechanism throughout various traumatic events, especially within the past year. However, those intense emotions have been causing some conflict with others. I am trying to see a therapist again, and I am working on issues that run deeper than meditation. However, I'm not used to feeling emotions quite at this intensity. How does one become more mindful during this time? What do you do when you become aware of more uncomfortable emotions during and after a meditation session? [link] [comments] |
| Anyone know of any "intense" meditation programs? Posted: 25 Aug 2020 10:15 PM PDT I've practiced my own meditations for a long time now, I'm very capable of following through with easy programs, but I'm still lacking in focus and internal happiness so I was wondering if there were any "intense" programs to break these thresholds for me? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2020 12:05 PM PDT I've been following this subreddit for some time. I tried getting into the routine of meditating but I was in a moment in my life that things just continued to spiral downhill. I just wanted to hear from other members who have been positively affected by meditating. Where you guys skeptical at first? How did you not let that affect you from getting the most out of meditation. [link] [comments] |
| How do you control your face muscles during meditation? Posted: 25 Aug 2020 05:00 PM PDT Sort of strange, but this seems to be a persistent challenge for me during meditation. It's like I can't focus on the breath without squinting or making another sort of face. If I focus on my face or rather the feeling of those muscles tensing up, and eventually I can sort of dissipate them and my face can relax. But again it is a big challenge for me and after my face relaxes it always comes back and frequently. Any tips on this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2020 08:37 AM PDT So I started to meditate more seriously around 2 weeks ago, by seriously I mean, more hours. I put on hang all my entertainment after work and basically all I do is meditation until I feel like my legs have been stopped for too long. Then I do walking meditation. Then back to sitting. This had been my life for the last two weeks. With a few moments of exception when I am reading books on Biddhism or hearing dhamma talks. Also when I am not meditating I am constantly going back to the breath. A few days ago I started to be able to focus really well in a way that I can actually stay with my breath for almost the entirety of the session or occasionally doing body scans also with the breath. But I have been having this sensation of waves going through my head, they are kind of pleasant in a way, especially meditating, sometimes it feels that something is about to happen, sound starts to get lower and my breath becomes more shallow, and a feeling that I can't explain very well, like more waves, faster ones start to build up, at this point I tend to get a little to much focused on it and end up regressing in concentration and the sensation ends and I am out of it, this is usually very fast. With this then comes a ringing, and a feeling on my forehead of tension that goes away and comes back, a point but not exactly at the center of my forehead, slightly to the side. I focus on it and I can feel some sensation like energy dispersing to my eyes, I can perfectly follow this waves until some point then either they fade or it's I that doesn't have the skill to sense them. The ringing that accompanies this sensations then stays with me all day. In and out. Not disturbing, but it's there all the time. Anyone feels this? I don't yet have a teacher to ask this questions, will be visiting a monastery in a few months from now and stay there for a week but right now I don't know who to ask so I ask here. Any pointers on what is this? And what should I do about it? Should I follow this sensations or let them be and just focus on the breath? And the ringing is it common, what could cause it? Last note, I sometimes also hear or feel a vibration that does like a "rom", also inside my head. This is vary fast don't know also if I move my attention to it or because it's fast on its own. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Three flashes of Light with eyes open Posted: 25 Aug 2020 06:48 PM PDT A few months ago after I had finished doing chakra meditation as i was doing a tarot reading (a habit of mine) for my self I saw three flashes of Light coming out of nowhere with my eyes open. They didn't seem like something Special more like camera flash but there is no way that it was a camera flash because I had the curtain of my Window closed. Does anyone know what that means? [link] [comments] |
| I followed my breath in a dream Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:59 AM PDT I don't think this means much but it was interesting. Occasionally I can realize that I'm dreaming and control some aspects of my dream worlds. Usually I end up doing flips or jumping super high, or if there's a women near by having sex with them lol. But this time I just followed my breath, just like I would while I was meditating. I just followed my breath and took in my surroundings of my dream and how I felt in my body. It was extremely interesting and I've never had anything like it happen. I was so well aware of my dream at the time. Probably doesn't mean much but it was a best experience I thought I'd share. [link] [comments] |
| 3-min self-made meditation audio. Enjoy! Posted: 25 Aug 2020 11:41 PM PDT I was reading a book on hypnosis this evening and came across a meditation technique called the Middle of Nowhere. We are always hurried nowhere. Our conscious mind is strictly designed to make us go to a specific place or do a specific thing. But from time to time, we need to close our eyes and realize that we are in the middle of nowhere. We have always been. I made an audio version of the technique. Hope it'll make someone's day! Here is the link: https://soundgasm.net/u/SummerRoll/Middle-of-Nowhere-Meditation [link] [comments] |
| Seeking guidance about unusual meditation experience. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 11:41 PM PDT About 5 minutes into my meditation my whole body felt like it was 100 times as tall, like I was a small mountain. I opened my eyes but the feeling persisted. Towards the end of the session it went away. Does this mean anything or is it just something that happens from time to time in meditation? Thanks [link] [comments] |
| A few months in and seeking advice. Something happened... I don't understand it. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 11:45 AM PDT I tried meditation. I'm not a spiritual person, but I have since been able to reconcile my secular life with a splash of 'spirituality.' At first, I struggled to sit still and focus, but it got easier. It wasn't until a few months in that I really hit a new level. I do not know how to explain it, nor do I understand it. I was able to completely clear my mind. Time stopped, and all my feelings, senses, and emotions became one moment. I don't know how else to describe it. There were no thoughts to acknowledge, and senses became just inputs without additional meaning attached. I 'felt' like I was in a different dimension separated from the physical. I honestly wouldn't have had any idea how long I was in that state if it wasn't for checking the clock afterwards. I was there for 30 minutes, but it could have been either 30 seconds or 30 hours. My life changed in an instant after that meditation session. Everything is different now, and this new feeling hasn't waned in weeks. The world is NOT the same as it was. I don't know what to call that experience. Was it a glimpse of enlightenment, of oneness? Or was that just the normal meditative state that people try and reach? How far does it go? I am seeking some advice at this point. I have only seen that perspective a few times, and it is not easy for me to get back there. I've had a taste of something that I want to further explore, but I'm finding it difficult to return. I can stay focused and practice mindfulness quite easily, but reaching that unknown 'state' seems to be a matter of chance. Sometimes I feel like I can fade in and out of it for a few seconds at a time, but I have yet been able to truly return. I'd be lying if I didn't say I have been frustrated. Should I change course and explore this differently? Or is it a matter of sticking with it? Do those who've practiced meditation for years enter that state every time, or is it a chance occurrence. I know less now than I did when I started. The more I know, the less I know. I'm confused. Side question: I have reached that state through both self meditation and guided meditation. Is it okay to use guided meditation, or is it a crutch? Thank you. [link] [comments] |
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