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- To the person reading this...stop holding your breath and clenching your jaw.
- Please pray, meditate or just send good energies to me. I feel I am at the end of my rope (27F)
- Is this normal?
- Mindfulness to me feels like a different way of thinking , it's not thinking in images or words but ....feeling. Does anyone else get this ?
- Seeking meditation tips for ADHD & anxiety
- Weird experience after meditation
- Uncomfortable bliss.
- Quick question. Help
- Crying during specific meditation
- Going deeply into the body
- How do I stop being afraid of my thoughts?
- Reverse Negative Effects of Meditation?
- Some insight needed.
- A normal one or a defective one is this feeling ??
- Meditation and nightmares
- Are you focussing on the breath or controlling it?
- Find your Life Purpose in 5 minutes.
- What is the goal of meditations?
- Mind wandering more "useful" than focusing on the breath?
- Subduing the negative mind, opens the door to a better life and compassionate world.
- Realization I had while "meditating"
- Mindfulness and sleep
- Do you guys have any suggestions where to go for a low cost self hosted retreat near nature?
- Has anyone else woken up from a lucid dream /OBE directly following a heavy day of meditation? And what kind of meditation mantras/techniques did you use and what worked for you?������
| To the person reading this...stop holding your breath and clenching your jaw. Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:04 AM PDT |
| Please pray, meditate or just send good energies to me. I feel I am at the end of my rope (27F) Posted: 21 Aug 2020 05:02 PM PDT I was diagnosed with a depressive disorder 11+ years ago and I have tried standard psychotherapy, medication (currently on), angel therapy, meditation, coloring, yoga, breathing exercises, psychoanalysis, energetic healing, psylocibin and this overwhelming anguish always come creeping back like a monster under my bed. I have daily suicidal and self harm thoughts. I have been doing about 45 mins of daily meditation for the last 5 months and I do believe it has given me a certain peace of mind and helped me build compassion for myself. I also believe prayers or meditative energies can travel and that is why I'm here, asking such a large community to pray for me. Although I'm still in therapy, I had my first argument in over a year with my therapist and it has pushed even further into sadness. I was having trouble facing a situation, still conscious enough to understand the depression was making it worse and my therapist said : "Might it be possible that you over reacted because of your mental state?". Yes, it was my mental state talking, but it felt like all hope had been punched out of me when I heard that. It just seemed (and still feels) like a deadly spell coming from her. A couple of days ago, my roommate asked me to move out because her boyfriend is moving in and I am terrified of having to look for a new place again, knowing that I could barely afford this room initially and that I am barely able to go out and be functional in the world. I don't feel I have the energy to move, continue therapy and life in general and want to finally put down this monster that lives inside my head. For most of 2019, I was sincerely convinced I would end my life in January 2020. 2019 was also the year I understood my mother is a narc. It was also the year I remembered I had been molested a a children by the daughter of one of my mother's friends. It was also the year I told her what I had remembered and she just replied "You really need to learn how to forgive". Serendipitously, I got back in contact with an old friend late 2019 and ended up starting 2020 with moving to a new country because I sincerely believed this was my chance to start over. I had some savings, went no contact with my N-Mom and moved. Started looking for jobs, craving for that sense of independence I have been deprived for so long of. Then, COVID-19 starts crushing lives. I get the couple interviews I had cancelled, send about a 100 CVs, don't even get a reply and I can't help but think that maybe I am the helpless, useless, inconvenient person I was told I was growing up. I am so ashamed of not being able to support myself. I went to university, was never hungry and have been mostly healthy other than crippling mental illness and I am so,so ashamed of not being able to push through whatever this situation is. I feel rotten inside and want to claw my insides out to take the poison out of me. The relationship I started has been a lifesaver in many ways, but it breaks my heart that I still don't think there is enough to hold me back in this life. I have close to no savings, 30K student and credit card debt feel like impossible to carry burdens. Although my partner has offered to help, I just feel like I was (and am) already a huge burden to my parents and sister and don't see why anybody else should be weighed done by my ineptitude. I dream of jumping over a cliff and dying and just becoming one with the sea. I can feel myself wanting to get rid of as much as possible, to not leave a mess behind and maybe write a couple goodbye letters. Probably dissociating, I have a strange calmness when thinking about my death, but I still have some will to live and that is why I'm coming here, to this community that has supported me so much, to ask you all to please pray for me. Meditate for me. Send good energies my way, whatever you do. I have been begging whatever superior being there is out there allow me to understand and to see through all this pain, but I feel I'm deaf to its words. Please, please, send your love. Thank you for reading. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:24 PM PDT Ok so I've been meditating for like 4 nights now but now nothing really goes on in my mind like random thoughts, etc. and when I'm at work when I would usually feel bored I don't feel bored. Is this bad? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 02:22 PM PDT So this may sound really confusing but when I practice mindfulness meditation or practice mindfulness in daily life , when I'm connecting with the body or becoming aware of sensations in the body it's like my thoughts are replaced with "feelings" instead. It's like I'm thinking in feelings (tactile not emotions) rather than other concepts such as words or images. Does anyone else experience this ? Is this how mindfulness is supposed to be ? [link] [comments] |
| Seeking meditation tips for ADHD & anxiety Posted: 21 Aug 2020 05:11 PM PDT Hello there! This is my first time on this subreddit, and I'm really interested in learning to meditate! Can anyone give me tips or instructions on how to meditate? I would like to meditate every morning for 10-15 min to manage my anxiety and ADHD. I understand there are many types of meditation; I've read about Loving-Kindness Meditation and find it interesting. What types of meditation should I do? Let me know if I can provide more info for better answers (: Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Weird experience after meditation Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:51 PM PDT So yesterday I had smoked weed and after a while decided to meditate. First I meditated laying more or less on my back, while concentrating on my third eye. After a while I decided to "properly" meditate and sit on the floor while still concentrating on my third eye. Both of these times I felt an intense pressure on my forehead that I've never felt before. After some time passed I continued to watch a movie, but while I watched the movie I saw in the corner of my eye that my door suddenly opened a little bit (my door wasn't completely closed). But it didn't open slowly or smooth but fast and abrupt. I first thought that it must have been the wind (cause in Norway we are currently getting a little bit the storm Ireland had) but all my windows were closed. I then thought that maybe my parents opened it or accidentally touched my door, but both of them said that they weren't even near my bedroom door. Could it have been a ghost that suddenly appeared after I meditated? Cause I have heard that you can see things and that you may experience weird things once your third eye is active. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:48 PM PDT Often times i would write in my journal and meditate, Sometimes i feel like even though i did enough or did what i set out to do but i am still not content with it and i feel i need to do more? Or on the flip side sometimes i would have a completely unproductive day and just be in crapper for not accomplishing enough, i would meditate and feel good about myself . Am i the only one who struggle with this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Aug 2020 02:15 AM PDT So I was doing guided meditation today on youtube and this instructor said to put a smile on your face. Then I thought "wouldn't that make my facial muscles tense up?" Should I deliberately smile during meditation and if so, would it enhance my experience? [link] [comments] |
| Crying during specific meditation Posted: 22 Aug 2020 02:15 AM PDT I've recently gotten into doing guided meditations and I've realized a pattern. Every time a deep/unconditional/warm love is mentioned, I tear up or sometimes bawl. Does this mean anything? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 04:57 PM PDT Hello all! its an excerpt from the power of now by ekhart tolle "Going deeply into the body I can feel the energy inside my body, especially in my arms and legs, but I don't seem to be able to go more deeply, as you suggested earlier. Make it into a meditation. It needn't take long. Ten to fifteen minutes of clock time should be sufficient. Make sure first that there are no external distractions such as telephones or people who are likely to interrupt you. Sit on a chair, but don't lean back. Keep the spine erect. Doing so will help you to stay alert. Alternatively, choose your own favorite position for meditation. Make sure the body is relaxed. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths. Feel yourself breathing into the lower abdomen, as it were. Observe how it expands and contracts slightly with each in and out breath. Then become aware of the entire inner energy field of the body. Don't think about it–feel it. By doing this, you reclaim consciousness from the mind. If you find it helpful, use the "light" visualization I described earlier. When you can feel the inner body clearly as a single field of energy, let go, if possible, of any visual image and focus exclusively on the feeling. If you can, also drop any mental image you may still have of the physical body. All that is left then is an all-encompassing sense of presence or "beingness," and the inner body is felt to be without a boundary. Then take your attention even more deeply into that feeling. Become one with it. Merge with the energy field, so that there is no longer a perceived duality of the observer and the observed, of you and your body. The distinction between inner and outer also dissolves now, so there is no inner body anymore. By going deeply into the body, you have transcended the body. Stay in this realm of pure Being for as long as feels comfortable; then become aware again of the physical body, your breathing and physical senses, and open your eyes. Look at your surroundings for a few minutes in a meditative way - that is, without labeling them mentally -- and continue to feel the inner body as you do so. Having access to that formless realm is truly liberating. It frees you from bondage to form and identification with form. It is life in its undifferentiated state prior to its fragmentation into multiplicity. We may call it the Unmanifested, the invisible Source of all things, the Being within all beings. It is a realm of deep stillness and peace, but also of joy and intense aliveness. Whenever you are present, you become `transparent' to some extent to the light, the pure consciousness that emanates from this Source. You also realize that the light is not separate from who you are but constitutes your very essence. " Hope whomever reads it finds it just as usefull as i have [link] [comments] |
| How do I stop being afraid of my thoughts? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 05:33 PM PDT I'm a 26 year old dude who just graduated university and is looking for a job. I have a beautiful girlfriend and a wonderful family who has its ups and downs. In the last 2 years I suffered from crippling anxiety which left me broken. But this past year I have picked myself up. I don't let anxiety rule me anymore but I'm afraid of my thoughts. I have a thought of "Am I suicidal" for some odd reason, I think I put it in my mind when I had surgery and was afraid that I might die. Nonetheless, it's here with me. I remember when my anxiety was bad I would always repeat it and I guess I formed OCD over it. I've seen my therapist, I have talked to friends and everyone about it. Everyone agrees I am not suicidal, my therapist says it's a dysfunctional thought I put into my mind. But how do I let it go? I'm having such a hard time because I'm fed up with it. I wanna be confident in myself again and believe in myself. When this thought pops up it increased my anxiety and it goes to overthinking and etc. Has anyone ever beaten this loop? [link] [comments] |
| Reverse Negative Effects of Meditation? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:52 PM PDT hey, i tried this pituitary gland meditation technique nearly two weeks ago. maybe it's not necessarily formal meditating but it involves an aspect of it. i've tried it for 3 days but it would seem i would feel out of the world or disconnected from reality. on top of that i've been feeling anxious, as if a panic attack were to happen any minute. my eyes would feel heavy & fuzzy & sometimes i'd get headaches. this has never happened to me until i got to meditating. does anyone have an idea to combat this negative effects? i really miss how care free i felt before doing this but now i just feel hyperactive, paranoid, tired, irritable, etc. please, i am just constantly annoyed & i feel alone since no one i know in person has ever experienced this [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:04 PM PDT I've just had a couple of rough days where I'm not really up to scratch with my internal monologues. the things that I've been experiencing is,
I used to experience this before I got into meditation practice and CBT, but I've been keeping up with my meditation practice and I don't seem to be benefiting from it as the psychological entropy is creeping back. Has anyone else experienced a period that their meditation practice doesn't seem to be effective? I'm feeling kind of lost and a bit useless if I'm honest. [link] [comments] |
| A normal one or a defective one is this feeling ?? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:58 PM PDT During meditation when my eyes are closed and i am just sitting straight in meditation posture , i feel sometime that my body is not straight and the posture is tilted or we can say rotated by some degree. I sit on my bed facing the south wall , and close my eyes and meditate , after some time it feels like I am sitting in a direction like 10-20 degrees right side of the southern wall. . . And sometimes it feels like my body is not straight and it's tilted a few degrees . . 1. Is it normal ?? 2. Does it indicate something on it's due to any mistake during meditation ?? 3. Should I do something to correct this or it is okay? 4. If yes , what should i do to correct this ?? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:54 PM PDT I often fall in and out of meditating, and yesterday, I decided that I would start meditating again and then cut to 6am, I wake up from a nightmare and I realised that everytime I meditate, or rather do a "visualization" meditation, I always get very vivid and scary nightmares. Usually I can recognize that I am dreaming, but when these nightmares occur, they feel real and inescapable. I remember at some point, I meditated for several consecutive days and I had nightmares, for every one of those days. Does any one know what or why this happens? (Sidenote: by visualization meditation, I usually imagine white light moving through my body, and these nightmares only happen if I do that) [link] [comments] |
| Are you focussing on the breath or controlling it? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:56 AM PDT For meditation, it is advised to just focus on breath and not try to control it. How can I be sure that I am just standing on the bay and looking over my breath and not actually controlling it? I usually feel that I end up changing my normal breath pattern in order to focus on it. [link] [comments] |
| Find your Life Purpose in 5 minutes. Posted: 21 Aug 2020 08:30 PM PDT |
| What is the goal of meditations? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:51 PM PDT what do you think about the quotes below? Yes, No, maybe so :)
From the Spiritual practices and meditations by Anastasia Novykh that is free to download: https://books.allatra.org/en/kniga-duhovnye-praktiki [link] [comments] |
| Mind wandering more "useful" than focusing on the breath? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:09 AM PDT So, I'm not new to meditation but I haven't meditated for a long time and have just now started again, following the method outlined in the book "The mind illuminated". The advice there (and everywhere really) is that when you catch your mind wandering, you should redirect your focus to the breath (or other object of meditation). However, lately I'm finding that mind wandering seems more "useful" than focusing in a certain way, in that it makes me think about certain aspects of my life,e.g. I get ideas on what I should discuss in therapy and I feel the need to elaborate on them, or recently I've had a revelation of sorts about what my problem with relating to other people is really about, things like this. These kind of thoughts seem more useful to me at the moment than achieving a state of no-monkeymind. Any thoughts on this? [link] [comments] |
| Subduing the negative mind, opens the door to a better life and compassionate world. Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:27 AM PDT It's our feelings of suspicion, fear and anger that we really need to subdue. Our world has become smaller and we can easily exchange information with each other. That's a context in which we can try to develop more compassionate attitudes among our 7 billion fellow human beings. One thing we need to understand is that the real source of trouble for us all is not something outside us but something here within. It's our feelings of suspicion, fear and anger that we really need to subdue. - HH the Dalai Lama [link] [comments] |
| Realization I had while "meditating" Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:14 PM PDT I try my darndest to focus on a point with my eyes. Anyways, I realized that I had been lying to myself if I were ever to encounter a dangerous person that I would be able to fight them. But Ive never been in a real fight and I hope I never have to. Seeing all the evil in the world makes my stomach turn. But if we are all one then I guess I am both "good" and "evil" (or just is). How do I come to the point to love everyone even if they are murderous serial killers? Even if they kill and torture everyone who opposes them? Even if they lie and cover up the truth. Im not that strong, and I lie to myself that I can do something about it. But I most likely would just freeze in place and die. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:02 PM PDT I started reading "the mind illuminated" a few weeks ago and it's an amazing book! For the first time I feel like I really understand the process. I'm working on stage 3 goals. After 3 weeks of daily meditation my focus has really improved as has my sleep. However the last couple nights I've noticed that my usual pattern of focusing on the breath at nighttime and trying to quiet my mind has turned into me just watching my breath and never falling asleep. Is this normal for new practitioners? I'm happy about the improvement in my sleep because I badly need it and I don't want that to slip away again. The goals in stage 4 are to overcome dullness and subtle distraction I think but that poses a question in my mind. If I overcome dullness ( sleepiness ) will my ability to fall asleep at night be ruined again? Curious what everyones thoughts are. [link] [comments] |
| Do you guys have any suggestions where to go for a low cost self hosted retreat near nature? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:00 PM PDT i know i can go to hotels, i'm wondering if you have any suggestions or ideas on where i can find a simple empty hut to sit in and meditate for a couple of days. :D [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 06:55 PM PDT I'm not going to get into the deets, but let's just say I haven't even began to want to TRULY meditation (as a means to OBE /lucid/ intuitive practice until COVID. Now I'm addicted. Words of guidance would be appreciated (and I know, some may say keep the woo woo stuff out of it but I feel they are all interrelated.🙏🏻🧠💭 [link] [comments] |
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