Meditation: This is the most important moment of your life, because it's the moment you're living in right now |
- This is the most important moment of your life, because it's the moment you're living in right now
- To instantly calm yourself when you are nervous or anxious ,Take a deep breath, expanding your belly. Pause. Exhale slowly to the count of five. Repeat four times.
- You are already aware, just notice it
- I just experienced a very immediate understanding of the phrase “you are not your thoughts”.
- Insight timer recommendations
- Recommendations for emotionally agnostic story/metaphor-based guided meditations
- Impermanence needs to be emphasized more here...
- Life in XXI century is one big overstimulation
- Grieving the Loss of the Highs
- You don't need to silence the mind, you only need to notice the already silent awareness that is ever-presently here now - Sebastian Key
- Can you help me find an app I was using a year ago? It was free, had a nice body scan session, and I think the image was of someone sleeping in back of a pick up truck?
- Poem that helps demonstrate everyday actions can be mindful
- Sleep Hypnosis
- Meditation is not the act of clearing your mind. And if you want a clear mind...
- Need advice with a scary experience during meditation
- Importance of meditation length?
- Spiritual people are easily affected by the emotions of the other people.
- Weird buzzing noise when meditating
- Deep Focus Music•Guided Morning Meditation for Positive Energy and Gratitude
- Pls teach me how to meditate I dunno how
- Tips for expanding my minds' eye
- Birthday meditation?
- Breathe as a means and not an end?
- Beginner who needs advice
| This is the most important moment of your life, because it's the moment you're living in right now Posted: 12 Aug 2020 04:17 PM PDT |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:18 PM PDT This has helped me immensely ,even though I practice daily meditation for past 7-9 months or so but still there comes times of anxiety or like over excitement which doesn't let me focus on the present and calm my nerves .You can find the details in this NYtimes articleThe benefit of controlled breathing [link] [comments] |
| You are already aware, just notice it Posted: 13 Aug 2020 12:19 AM PDT You are already aware [link] [comments] |
| I just experienced a very immediate understanding of the phrase “you are not your thoughts”. Posted: 13 Aug 2020 12:08 AM PDT Just finished a meditation session and for a brief second I had a very immediate and visceral realization of not being my thoughts. I began to notice that it was very easy for me to focus my conscious awareness on the inputs coming in from my senses. Sounds around me, the feeling of air on my skin, the ground beneath me, my breath. But it was much harder for me to focus my conscious attention on my thoughts. Indeed I only seemed to become aware of a thought AFTER I had had it. I tried exploring this a little and I realized it didn't seem possible to "catch" a thought in the process. My conscious mind only snapped into focus after the fact. No mater what it was I was thinking about it only seemed to be the case that I became fully conscious of it after the thinking was done. Hence the need to "return" to the object of meditation. This seems a little more fuzzy to me for thoughts I choose to have. If I decide to think about a red ball for example my conscious awareness does seem to be there. But a lot of the thoughts in ones mind aren't of this type they simply arise. And actually one has to question if even the thoughts we choose to have are really choices? At any rate, a lightbulb suddenly went off in that I suddenly became aware, much more viscerally, that I wasn't consciously there during the "thinking" process. A thought arose and the "me" disappeared. "I" only came back onto the scene when I became aware of the fact that I had had the thought some seconds later. This is a much starker separation of myself from my thoughts than I was even aware of before. I have always interpreted the concept of not being your thoughts as more that I was the empty vessel in which my thought arose. But I still thought of this in terms of identification with said thoughts. More so than I realized. This had the feeling more of... the thoughts I had not even being my own. As if they were really very separate from myself. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 11:16 PM PDT I love insight timer but it can be overwhelming finding good mediations as there are so many! I love sonic yogi and Andy's mountain meditation Any recommendations? Thanks, Mel [link] [comments] |
| Recommendations for emotionally agnostic story/metaphor-based guided meditations Posted: 12 Aug 2020 11:38 PM PDT I'm getting started on my meditation journey and slowly figuring out what works for me. One thing I've noticed is that with guided meditations, I respond really well to metaphors. Like: you travel in an elevator into the library in your mind, you travel to a lake and hand all your anxieties to a man in a boat, that kind of thing. The problem is, they almost all keep telling me exactly how I'm supposed to be feeling at any given moment, and I'm just... not? Like, maybe I still feel an anxiety stomach knot even though I'm imagining myself on a lake, and that's okay? Maybe you don't have to keep telling me in great detail how amazing I feel? It's just super distracting for me. So I'm just wondering if anyone here has some recommendations for metaphor-based guided meditations (whether specific ones or a guide name or an app that specializes in it) that focus more on the metaphor and just let my emotions be what they are. [link] [comments] |
| Impermanence needs to be emphasized more here... Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:41 PM PDT It's very easy to meditate when the body is well fed, or you're out sitting in the sun, or there's some happy sensation in the mind. It's much more difficult to meditate when the mind is full of anger, or when the body is tense, or when there is no mindfulness and you get lost in thought, or in a sense ''become'' that thought. How the body feels and what emotions you have at the moment shapes the way you experience things. Reading this text with a calm or pleasant sensation feels great. In most of us, there's a subtle belief that this calm sensation will last much longer than it actually does. That also applies to unpleasant sensations. It's not even a concious thought, it's a kind of sense that yes, now I have found some technique that will keep this permanent peaceful and happy feeling. But you wake up the next morning and you feel entirely different. Suppose you have a sudden sensation of anxiety. How you experience is going to be radically different. Things and situations are generally going to look more scary, restless. Even reading this text with a feeling of anxiety or restlessness will make you uneasy. When you slowly begin to realize that there is no permanent happiness... Everything is impermanent. I slowly realize that my whole approach to meditation is wrong. I wanted this permanent ''calm'' or ''peace'' the guru's talk about. There's no such thing. Peaceful and calm feelings are themselves impermament. The only thing you can do is accept that. It's easy to meditate when you're feeling calm. You may even think you're becoming close to enlightened, whatever that means. But it simply was a transient feeling, like everything else. This was a personal note from me, but decided to share it. It was inspired by a video of UG Krishnamurti I found, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTTOGz8nrpM [link] [comments] |
| Life in XXI century is one big overstimulation Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:17 PM PDT I just realized that after coming back to "normal" life after 45 mins of meditation. All the noise that surround you is so overwhelming that you barely can focus on your thoughts, you just act like a robot, accepting everything that your mind shows you as a truth. I used to know people who couldn't sit in quiet room for more than 5 minutes and they HAD to turn on the radio to "hear something". I always thought it was so weird, but now I realize that they are just afraid of their minds. Most of our entertainment today is also fast paced and overstimulating on purpose, to keep us in the "flow". Try playing a video game after meditating, it's like sprinting after a slow stroll. [link] [comments] |
| Grieving the Loss of the Highs Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:48 PM PDT As I continue to find more peace and spaciousness, in general, I find that it's harder to not notice the downward turns or heaviness caused by activities or consumption that used to bring me joy. When I'm really present all day, the awareness of the crash from something as simple as coffee is really difficult to ignore. At the end of the day, it's great that I don't feel like I NEED the highs of cannabis, coffee, or even rich foods to get me through the day, but I still feel the loss of the familiar presence in my life. I would love to hear if anyone else also feels like they've gone through the process of grieving the highs that no longer serve their practice, and how they processed it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2020 01:44 AM PDT You don't need to silence the mind, you only need to notice the already silent awareness that is ever-presently here now - Sebastian Key [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 09:40 PM PDT I really liked this meditation but I got a new phone. The applications I've downloaded cost money or are annoying. I'm hoping someone was using the same application and will remember the picture [link] [comments] |
| Poem that helps demonstrate everyday actions can be mindful Posted: 12 Aug 2020 04:32 PM PDT ODE TO BUTTONING AND UNBUTTONING MY SHIRT by Ross Gay No one knew or at least I didn't know they knew what the thin disks threaded here on my shirt might give me in terms of joy this is not something to be taken lightly the gift of buttoning one's shirt slowly top to bottom or bottom to top or sometimes the buttons will be on the other side and I am a woman that morning slipping the glass through its slot I tread differently that day or some of it anyway my conversations are different and the car bomb slicing the air and the people in it for a quarter mile and the honeybee's legs furred with pollen mean another thing to me than on the other days which too have been drizzled in this simplest of joys in this world of spaceships and subatomic this and that two maybe three times a day some days I have the distinct pleasure of slowly untethering the one side from the other which is like unbuckling a stack of vertebrae with delicacy for I must only use the tips of my fingers with which I will one day close my mother's eyes this is as delicate as we can be in this life practicing like this giving the raft of our hands to the clumsy spider and blowing soft until she lifts her damp heft and crawls off we practice like this pushing the seed into the earth like this first in the morning then at night we practice sliding the bones home. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:30 PM PDT Hey guys! A couple of years ago I had a lot of trouble with insomnia and getting genuine rest & my sister recommended I try out listening to delta wave audio. Within a week, I felt like an entirely different person. My energy was back to levels I hadn't felt in ages, I felt much happier, and seemed to be mentally sharper. My experience with sleep audio eventually carried over to meditation practices & continued to prove equally beneficial. After realizing how much these videos had helped me over the short to long term, I recently decided to try to begin making some of my own! If anyone is interested in sleep/meditation/generally relaxing videos of calming visuals mixed with delta wave audio, rain sounds, ocean sounds, and peaceful instruments, I'd really appreciate if you checked out my youtube channel & videos! I've put a lot of work into a collection of videos & just uploaded the first one. Let me know what you guys think & if you enjoy them, it'd mean the world to me if you liked them & subscribed to the channel for more 😁 Thank you guys! [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is not the act of clearing your mind. And if you want a clear mind... Posted: 12 Aug 2020 11:12 PM PDT ... listen to what your mind has to say during your meditation. Then the actual work towards clearing your mind happens when you're going about your day, in your choices of action. It's a cycle of Action and Listening. Meditation is the listening. [link] [comments] |
| Need advice with a scary experience during meditation Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:54 PM PDT Hello all, I have just recently (within the last two months) began meditating regularly. I am doing Sam Harris' Waking Up app and I really enjoy it. But I am having an experience during some of the meditations that I do not enjoy. It is very strange and I am finding it nearly impossible to describe. This happened the few times I tried meditation farther back in my past (1-4 years ago) and was the reason why I stayed away from meditation for so long. The experience is similar to a nightmare I had when I was very young, probably between 4 and 8. This happens most often when I am meditating with my eyes closed, but can happen with my eyes open. The best way I can describe this experience is a feeling of immense size and a loss of perspective of my body and the room around me. It either feels like my living room (where I meditate) has become some colossal room with nothing in it (think gigantic convention center completely empty) or it feels like my body has just become huge, like too big to fit in my house. This is also accompanied with a feeling of dizziness, as if I am flipping backwards through space. Generally speaking, if it becomes too intense or the meditation ends I can just open my eyes and regain my bearings and I'm fine, but sometimes the experience continues in weird ways. For example this evening I had that gigantic feeling, and after I opened my eyes my hands at teeth still felt big and spongy. I could use my hands no problem but it just felt strange. Everything goes back to normal after a few minutes. These experiences are very scary for me. They don't feel good and I wish it wouldn't happen. That being said, I am trying to learn into them during my meditation, relinquish my fear, remind myself that I can open my eyes at any time, and just go along for the ride. But I'd rather not. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this supposed to happen? Any ideas what is happening, or why? Thank you for your help! [link] [comments] |
| Importance of meditation length? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 01:39 PM PDT I've been meditating almost daily for about 6 months now. I feel like my quality of life has gone up immensely since I started and I can't imagine ever stopping. With that being said, I've noticed my sessions over the last few months usually only last 10 minutes on average. When I first started I used guided meditations from headspace, and I still use the app but just mute it and meditate for as long as feels right. My question is: am I missing out on some benefits by not going "deeper" (that's what she said) into meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Spiritual people are easily affected by the emotions of the other people. Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:22 PM PDT Spiritual kind of people are more vulnerable and emotional,they are easily affected by the emotions of other people. True? [link] [comments] |
| Weird buzzing noise when meditating Posted: 12 Aug 2020 01:56 PM PDT I was meditating earlier today and about 8 minutes in I heard a weird buzzing noise in my ears and felt a rush in my head. I opened my eyes when it happened and it went away. Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know what this is? [link] [comments] |
| Deep Focus Music•Guided Morning Meditation for Positive Energy and Gratitude Posted: 12 Aug 2020 05:19 PM PDT |
| Pls teach me how to meditate I dunno how Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:13 PM PDT |
| Tips for expanding my minds' eye Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:09 PM PDT Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well and staying safe. Whenever I meditate, I like to imagine myself in certain areas or situations and explore, such as a sunny forest grove or a wide open corn field. I have great visualization skills and can see, feel, taste, smell and hear everything going on around me during these sessions. So, my question is a bit of an odd one. How can I expand on my minds' eye? The best way I can describe the way I experience these visions is whenever you're watching a youtube video and then exit the video to browse other videos, there's a tiny window in the bottom of your screen where the video is still playing. It's like I'm watching everything happen on a minimized window, and I was curious if there are any exercises I can try to maximize that window. If that makes any sense, lol. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:04 PM PDT Tomorrow is my birthday and i wanted to do something special for me to celebrate myself and connect with me. So, I was just wondering if y'all do anything especially for your birthday? [link] [comments] |
| Breathe as a means and not an end? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:03 PM PDT Hey guys, relative noobie here with a question about breath meditation: When I meditate on the breath, there sometimes comes a point where I'll be deeply absorbed, and my mind just goes blank (I'm still aware of sounds around me of course but it's just a serene quiet). Am I supposed to shift my attention over to this state and just rest in it, or continue to insist on the breath during this time? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 01:32 PM PDT Good morning, good evening everyone! I will try to make it short as to why I need advice! Basically I am a young adult who has always suffered from anxiety, with some sorts of OCD. I tend to easily feel overwhelmed by the things I have to do, even when those things are not urgent at all (and in fact, mostly need to be done just at a specific time, and there's no need for me to rush). I am very new to yoga and meditation and was wondering if anyone in this community has, or had, the same kind of mental health issues, and if you had any advice, recommendations, tips on what could help me understand and control these feelings that harm me, so that I could change it all to at least something healthier and more beneficial to me. Let me know your thoughts! I wish you the very best. Good day, good night everyone! [link] [comments] |
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