Meditation: The new age “woke” missing the point of meditation. |
- The new age “woke” missing the point of meditation.
- Psychedelics and Meditation
- Has anyone experienced a dark and empty place?
- How to avoid meditation-induced psychosis?
- Look at the flower, not the thorns.
- Mind orgasm
- Acceptance is difficult
- Mindlessness has its benefits
- Mindfulness and reaction time
- Do you feel mediation may have a "negative" influence on your career?
- Strangest meditation I've experienced so far
- Why cant somebody just tell me what they learned in their TM course?
- How to open up our chakras ?
- Identification intensifies pain and clenches muscles. Non-identification relaxes muscles and dulls pain.
- "When you come to see that you can do nothing, that the play of thought or feeling just goes on by itself as a happening, then you are in a state which we will call mediation. And slowly without being pushed, your thoughts will come to silence." - Alan Watts
- 10 minute mindfulness meditation
- I heard in a documentary that yoga can do the same as some psychedelic drugs. So is? and how I do it?
- The Art of Living vs. Vipassana
- My mediation time has become day dreaming time.
- Where can I get good daily guided meditations?
- This is how I solve my tendency of falling asleep during meditation. Any critique? Thank you
- People who want to commit suicide are very peaceful and happy once they've made up their mind about doing it. Because they've completely surrendered, if only we could live like this without the suicide.
- Concentrate on brain regions instead of breath?
- I just had the weirdest experience while meditating...
| The new age “woke” missing the point of meditation. Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:38 AM PDT Is it just me, or do a lot of posts here seem to miss the point? I see a lot of posts about "Raising your vibrational energy", "Aligning Chakras", "Law of Attraction" and even "Magic Crystals" Isn't the whole point to realise even these are just thoughts, and to let them go? Such a simple practise seems to get muddied with ego driven fantasy story's, and I'm sure it puts a lot of people off even considering meditation. EDIT: Thank you to the kind stranger who gifted the gold. I'm happy to see a decent discussion take place. I've seen a few points I had not considered that make a lot of sense as to why people do these things. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2020 04:00 PM PDT I will be taking a low dose of acid tonight, and I am curious if any of you guys have meditated while tripping? I would so love to try it. I am just not sure if I would be able to quiet the voice in my head. I am not sure if I could concentrate. Any tips? [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone experienced a dark and empty place? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 10:59 PM PDT For as long as I can remember I've always been terrified of not existing. Not death, just the not existing part. When I was little I would lay in bed and completely clear my mind and thoughts. I wouldn't move. I'd just lay there. It started off as me imaging what death would feel like. I would enter this part of my mind that was scary, dark, empty and lonely almost like I didn't exist anymore. It scared me so much every time that I would pull myself out of it. I can still do it if I try. I don't meditate. Unless that's meditation? I was hoping I could find answers here or someone who has experienced this? [link] [comments] |
| How to avoid meditation-induced psychosis? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 10:09 PM PDT Just trying to understand the preventative measures that need to be taken into account. [link] [comments] |
| Look at the flower, not the thorns. Posted: 12 Aug 2020 06:17 AM PDT I've noticed that whenever something happens to me, the mind tends to immediately focus on the "negative" and mostly ignores the positive. Just like how if somebody complements you 50 times and insults you just once, the mind will remember that one insult and forget the complements. So I'm now making a conscious effort to remember the beautiful things that happen to me, not the ugly or unpleasant ones because when I actually think about it, remembering the unpleasant things does me no good. By remembering the beautiful memories and forgetting the ugly ones, you'll become surrounded by beautiful memories, which will attract more beautiful things to happen. However, at the end of the day it's more important to be present, instead of living through memories. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 06:04 AM PDT I had smoked some weed the other day and found myself meditating. Everything was intentional- as if I knew what I needed to be doing without actually knowing what the goal was but I knew how to get there. I got pulled into a deeper and deeper state, my lips started pulling back, I started sobbing deep and slow, and then a burst of ecstasy! It was only for a second but it was just like an orgasm- only in my mind, not my body. And then I was very slowly able to wake up. I immediately wrote down what I experienced because I felt it was that important. Completely transcendental and honestly life changing. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2020 07:05 PM PDT I find that when meditating, I have a hard time accepting my 'monkey mind's with loving kindness. Instead, I have the compulsion to try and control it. I do this a lot through out my day as well, if I feel anxiety, I try to get rid of it or think positive thoughts. It feels so weird to just accept these things that feel inherently negative. Does anyone have any advice or insight as to how they were able to shift from 'resistance =persistence' to acceptance? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2020 08:44 AM PDT Today I went for swimming after a long time. As I was free styling back-and-forth, I was very aware of all of my movements, but that also made me become super conscious of my muscle fatigue, breathing difficulties, water inside my goggles, etc. I had to stop after 2 laps and catch some breath. For the next few laps, my mind just wandered instead. I thought of family-dramas, college-issues, what I wanted to cook later, etc. As you would've guessed, I forgot about all of the swimming problems and just kept stroking lap after lap. The time between one lap to another felt so short because I was so absorbed in my thoughts. I think humans evolved to have mind chatter because it helps when we have to do repetitive tasks for a long period of time. My ancestors in Asia had to do labor-intensive farming for generations, and I can see how mindlessness helps them. Without it, work becomes a lot more difficult. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 06:51 AM PDT So I've read 2 studies that say transcendental and dhammakaya meditation improves reaction time. Anyone has same experience but with simple mindfulness meditation? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003193849190543W?via%3Dihub https://www.miu.edu/assets/collected_papers/shaw1971r1coll1-45.pdf [link] [comments] |
| Do you feel mediation may have a "negative" influence on your career? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 08:39 PM PDT Now hear me out. For a long time I was plagued with noises in my head whilst my brain was active and always thinking. By following the advice of one of my good friends, I started practicing meditation and found it to alleviate much of my thoughts which would constantly linger in my head during the day. Yes - you could say I was somewhat anxiety ridden, but managed to be 'functional'. Funny enough... sometimes when my life wasn't all to great - I'd be content with the fact I was good at my work. Good at my job. Recently, I've been practicing meditation (roughly 3 times a day - 25 minute sessions) more frequently due to the whole virus situation which resorts me to working from home. This is where the dilemma comes in. I work within a "sales environment" which is very aggressive. The people in this line of work are very much determined, egotistical and possess an 'animal like' hunger to make money. This is what ultimately drives them. It's not glamorous. I feel like I used to be like this. Let's just say that I've lost that aggression and drive to be 'cut throat'. Instead I listen more, actually think before I speak and its resonated very well with my family. I'm very calm - it hurts to say that I'm possibly not as productive as I once was. Ultimately I still wish to provide my family with a good life. I used to love this job and in some aspects still do - but no longer have that viciousness. Are there some others who feel the same? What are your thoughts? Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| Strangest meditation I've experienced so far Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:50 AM PDT Before I start, I have taken psychedelics before and have experienced weird things while meditating before but this was by far the strangest. I was meditating like normal, sitting on the floor. Early in the session I started to feel a strong energy start to come up and then I started to feel like I was slipping into ego death which I've experienced before. However, I started to feel like I getting put off center, like my head started to move but it didn't actually move. Then I started to feel like my energy was being bent. Like literally someone grabbed it and bent it in a zig zag. I just kept my focus on my breath and eventually I centered myself and ended the session which was 17 minutes but it felt like 2 minutes. Now I feel better than ever, my focus feels better and I'm way calmer than usually. Thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Why cant somebody just tell me what they learned in their TM course? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 11:31 PM PDT Just being honest, unless it becomes cheaper, I am never going to go. Period. I have done a complete 180 in my life within the last two years just doing normal mantra based meditation. It works so well for me, and continues to get better, that I promise you, I will never pay that crazy amount of money for a TM course. That being said, I am incredibly curious about TM. Normal mantra meditation has gotten rather easy for me and is not a struggle really at all, but I always hear about how much easier TM is. What is so different about it that cannot be taught over a video or text? Why not? Why cant somebody just tell me what they teach you and let me see if it works? Why is that so taboo? The only reason I can think of would be that TM instructors are actually trained hypnotists and it takes being there in person for them to hypnotize you. Not saying that in a bad way. I have always felt that meditation is basically a form of me mildly hypnotizing myself. It definitely makes sense to me that being with the instructor for the initial hypnotism, would allow you to fall deeper from then on out. By just repeating certain key steps, that would trigger your brain to go into hypnosis. So, if I'm completely wrong and it has nothing to do with hypnotism, just tell me what you were taught. Nobody will get hurt and if it works, great. If not, oh well. PS - Even better, if there is a youtube video that any of you have found, that accurately and thoroughly goes through the steps, please, leave a link. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 05:09 AM PDT We got 7 chakras right ? I decided to work on one chakra per day. What advice can y'all give me ? I think most of my chakras is blocked right now but I already doing semen retention, musculation, cold showers, sungazing and meditation. I wanna know what chakras this activities open and if I need to put others habits for open up the rest of them. Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:21 AM PDT I was hurt the other day (physically) and this is what I noticed. Previous experiments have indicated to me that identification adds energy to the area being identified with. If you've done similar experiments and observations, I'm interested in what you have found. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2020 12:07 PM PDT All feelings are non-self. You have no control over them. So if you're depressed, lonely, anxious, worried... the only option is to be aware of them and watch them cease by themselves. There's nothing you can do. As long as you're alive, feelings of unhappiness will continue to arise by itself from time to time. There's no permanent happiness. Becouse happiness is just a feeling that comes and goes. And no feeling is permanent. Sit back and watch the feelings, good or bad. Just experience the feelings. Don't observe them so you can get rid of them, not becouse you shouldn't try to get rid of them, it's becouse you can't! The only two options is to distract yourself and suppress or to watch them come and go by themselves. [link] [comments] |
| 10 minute mindfulness meditation Posted: 11 Aug 2020 04:56 PM PDT I felt at peace forgot about everything around me and just enjoyed the peace the total relaxation of my body I observed my thoughts from a distance. Gonna go for 20 tonight to go to sleep💪🏾💆🏽♂️🧘🏽 [link] [comments] |
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| The Art of Living vs. Vipassana Posted: 11 Aug 2020 08:12 PM PDT Obviously they are very different. I'm curious for someone who has done both, what your thoughts are. I've done one Vipassana course, and just recently learned about The Art of Living. [link] [comments] |
| My mediation time has become day dreaming time. Posted: 11 Aug 2020 08:09 PM PDT I have been meditating regularly for around 20 to 30 minutes everyday. However, I don't think I do it the right way. My meditation session ends up being me talking to myself quietly or a time for me to plan my day or think of past things and worse day dream. Any suggestions would be helpful. [link] [comments] |
| Where can I get good daily guided meditations? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 02:32 AM PDT I'm a beginner just starting out with daily meditation and so far I'm loving it. Currently, I'm just looking for some guided meditation tutorials that I can listen to and help me through my journey as I start to get more in touch with meditating and dealing with daily anxiety and stress. Ironically, it's been pretty stressful just trying to find an app, podcast or YouTuber that really connects with me for this. I started out listening to YouTubers but annoyingly mid-way through their tutorials, an ad will play that really takes you out of the moment. I've also downloaded all the major apps, from Headspace to Insight Timer to Calm, and they seem good but most of their features are locked unless you get a premium version. I've seen some people on here say that Insight Timer offers many free tutorials but whenever I try to watch any it says that require the premium service. I'm happy to pay for an app if anyone can recommend me one which they think will be best but I find it absurd that it is this hard to find tutorials on something that has been around for millennia. Thanks for any help guys, I appreciate you. Much love x [link] [comments] |
| This is how I solve my tendency of falling asleep during meditation. Any critique? Thank you Posted: 12 Aug 2020 06:05 AM PDT I'm relatively a new to meditation. From the start I struggled with keep falling asleep. I kept drifting off to sleep state within 20 seconds. I realized that the generally recommended meditation environment was too much like sleep routine especially with keeping body still and eyes closed. In the last couple weeks I do the following and it helps keep me awake the whole time. 1) Turn the light on bright and max out sun light 2) Meditate with my eyes open, keep looking at the same direction, forward & slightly down, no focus 3) With a timer app, I have a bell sound each minute. Each minute I change my focus about my breath's attribute: (duration, depth, temperature breathing in vs out, count, etc). I'm very excited about the solution but I would appreciate critiques, in case I'm not meditating correctly or optimally. [link] [comments] |
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| Concentrate on brain regions instead of breath? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:12 PM PDT Hello everyone, During meditation I like to focus on different regions of the brain und basically "activate" those regions - part by part. It gives me a positive feeling in those parts, though it takes some mental effort. Does this form of meditation/ method have a name or is there any literature about it? Could not find anything. Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| I just had the weirdest experience while meditating... Posted: 11 Aug 2020 11:47 PM PDT So back when I meditated about a year ago I was able to get myself into these really deep states where I wasn't conscious until I randomly "realized" I wasn't conscious and it would go away. I remember really liking this because it felt refreshing like a power-nap without the nap part. Well, I've recently gotten back into meditating and I'm trying to get deeper and deeper to get to that point again, and while meditating I felt like I was pretty deep and then suddenly like I was sucked underwater. It freaked me out and I jolted out of it and opened my eyes. I saw very mild hallucinations (little shapes that quickly disappeared, almost like when you get up to fast). What the hell just happened? EDIT: I forgot to mention: the weirdest part of all this is I feel really relaxed despite freaking out. It feels like my muscle tension completely dissolved. [link] [comments] |
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