Meditation: Today I successfully suppressed a panic attack for the first time. |
- Today I successfully suppressed a panic attack for the first time.
- Is there anyone with ADHD here that has gotten good at meditating?
- How to snap out of the identification with thoughts: listen to your thought as you would listen to sounds occurring in your environment
- "When I Loved Myself Enough" Poem by Kim McMillen
- If you have literally any problem with meditation. You are just thinking without realising you're thinking. Just be aware of the thoughts as just thoughts. All of them.
- Does anyone count their breaths or maybe even steps outside of formal meditation to ground themselves in the present ?
- Even your affirmations are just things that spontaneously arrive for you to be aware of. The idea that when an affirmation pops up your back at the seat of awareness is an idea to be aware of.
- Forgetting the basics
- Best app to start with for no cost
- Is guided meditation better or silent meditation?
- IamA meditation teacher with ADHD. I have also written meditation content for apps (including Calm). I recently started a YouTube channel to put out free content helping people to learn to meditation and practice mindfulness. AMA
- Interesting self discovery
- Physical sensation during meditation
- For beginners, an easy breath meditation technique
- Pressure between the eyebrows and crown during meditation - how to fix it?
- I began feeling very dizzy while meditating today and felt a buzzing sensation in my head
- Is there anyone who has overcome constant comparison with someone?
- I’m (slowly) learning something surprising about stress management
- Will meditation allow me to focus more on daily activities ? (Im new)
- How to "accept" a negative pattern, but still intend to change it?
- Mindfulness Meditation Issues
- I need a better insight to being mindful during the 'psychosis' state
- Meditation as an escape: dangerous, or inevitable?
- Am I meditating right?
| Today I successfully suppressed a panic attack for the first time. Posted: 04 Aug 2020 04:35 PM PDT 2 months ago I had a panic attack which happened out of nowhere. I was watching netflix and boom, palpitations, tachycardia, shaking hands and I felt like I was gonna pass out. Went to ER and everything turned out fine. My panic attack was because of an upcoming exam. I had been feeling anxious about it for quite sometime. I tried meditation a few times in the past but never stuck to it. But this I realized that it was time to go back to meditation. I have been doing it for a month now for 15 minutes twice a day. So today I was driving with my parents and felt this surge in my brain. Whats amazing is that I somehow became aware that panic was about to happen. I simply realized what was going on in my brain and observed the feeling. Then, I applied my meditation focus for 40-50 seconds and poof, that panicky feeling was gone and I felt this wave of calm in my mind. My doc wanted me to put on propranolol because my panic attacks were very frequent in June but I didnt wanna be on meds and knew what I had to do. I still have anxiety due to my exam that I need to deal with but now I am more aware of it. I think meditation is making me more aware of it but this awareness also helps in preventing a full on panic attack. I just wanted to share my small victory!! [link] [comments] |
| Is there anyone with ADHD here that has gotten good at meditating? Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:55 AM PDT If so pleaseeeeeee share your tips on how you achieved to do it! Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2020 02:32 PM PDT I fully understand the concept of not being my thoughts from a intellectual standpoint but in daily life I often fail to live this truth. Even in my mediation sessions I tend to get lost in thoughts and even identify and put belief into them. Identifying with your thoughts doesn't seem to be a problem when you have positive and delightful thoughts but identifying with negative thoughts mostly leads to unnecessary suffering. Having (many) thoughts is totally fine. We don't want to get rid of them. Believing everything they tell you becomes the deal breaker. Thoughts are mostly automated conditioned reactions to happenings in the outer world created by our (egoistic) mind. Our mind always tries to solve a problem or conflict. In our modern world it got super effective and is always on the lookout to improve ones life and maximise the personal advantage. But the egoistic mind isn't capable of just being content with what is and can't experience the present moment in its full clarity. If you live identified with egoistic mind and all it's concepts and thoughts then you always will view reality through a filter and never fully arrive as there is always more to come and get. Listening to the sounds of your mind is the first step of dissolving all the beliefs, mind patterns and concepts. You're taking away stuff - you're not adding up new stuff. The perspective of perceiving thoughts the same way as sounds offers a whole new variety of interacting with them as you don't have to inspect any thought in its full totally. You wouldn't investigate every car sound that you hear and wonder which car it is in daily life. You wouldn't go after every background noise and get miserable about it why some people are talking about nonsense 10 meters away. You simply accept sounds as part of your sensory experiences - why don't we do the same with thoughts? Sure there are some pretty loud, annoying or even painful sounds but even they will fade after some time. The same goes for thoughts but we make a personality and image of ourselves out of something we have little to no control over. That's actually pretty dumb if you ask me, but the habit of doing that for your whole lifetime until now gives those thoughts so much energy that I likely will fall back into behaviour I described as dumb today. Nevertheless I wanted to share with you this insight and put it down as a reminder for myself. All the best. [link] [comments] |
| "When I Loved Myself Enough" Poem by Kim McMillen Posted: 04 Aug 2020 04:30 PM PDT A great poem: "As I began to love myself As I began to love myself As I began to love myself As I began to love myself As I began to love myself As I began to love myself As I began to love myself As I began to love myself As I began to love myself We no longer need to fear arguments, ~Kim McMillen Cheers! [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 04 Aug 2020 11:09 AM PDT So for a while I tried avoiding counting of the breaths for whatever reason but I started doing it recently during my meditation practices and it's really helpful. I wanted to take this ability to count the breaths in daily life and wanted to see if there's others who do this already ? [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 05 Aug 2020 01:00 AM PDT I've been doing a lot of guided meditations, and meditating on things like chakras, future visions, healing the body etc that I've not spent enough time just doing straight up meditation. Tried to do a single point meditation today with a candle and it was super hard! As much as you can do many profound things with meditation it's definitely important to remember to practice it in its purest form! [link] [comments] |
| Best app to start with for no cost Posted: 05 Aug 2020 12:39 AM PDT Trying to get my mum to start meditating, i feel like an app would be the right way to go for her (rural living, and her compliance with other life changes is low) [link] [comments] |
| Is guided meditation better or silent meditation? Posted: 04 Aug 2020 10:26 PM PDT feel that I enter my thoughts more in absolute silence, but I find it easier with guided meditation. Are there pros and cons for each other? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2020 01:53 PM PDT Hey all. My name is Jude and I got into meditation quite young. My parents are Buddhist so I didn't have to look far. I've also been studying psychotherapy and love the integration of therapy and meditation (they have a lot in common actually). I teach at the Consciousness Explorers Club in Toronto, founded by Jeff Warren. A year ago I couldn't imagine starting a YouTube channel, but given the pandemic and the need for this content and the lack of being able to work in person with people, YouTube became an obvious choice for putting content out there. YouTube channel here, including beginners courses on how to practice mindfulness/vipassana/insight meditation and how to practice mindfulness in everyday life (also recently did a video on how to cultivate self-love). Website here. Go ahead and ask whatever you'd like to know! edit: proof [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2020 09:13 PM PDT I realised from an lsd trip that I am in constant habit of listening to my own thoughts more than i listen to noises that actually exist externally from my mind. I'm addicted to translating LIFE through this filter, which is essentially a defence mechanism that my ego has created for the purpose of keeping everything away from my emotions. When i simply listened during this trip, i could physically see what was happening. Patterns that were there in my depth of vision, started to fade away and i could see clearly again; like i did before i became completely induced in an inner reality (4,5,6 years old). When these patterns went away, i felt so calm and like my absolute true self, at this point was the very moment i realised that I am the creator of the horrible perception that attracts all the shit events in my life. I also realised that LOVE IS THE ONLY TRUTH AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS ILLUSION. What i have learned and now understand is that the only thing that exists, is what objectively exists HOWEVER, we can hallucinate what we perceive to also exist through the power of habitual thinking patterns- this creates DEPTH to your vision and becomes a literal illusion - in my case, my habitual thinking patterns were in the topic of fear as I went through parent abandonment. (technically i'll always be going through it) I now understand that if i affirm how i would rather perceive life (any way id like) all day long, in every given situation, i will start to perceive and believe in conjunction with these affirmative thoughts. The devil hates me for this. I now know that by just listening to the environment that i'm in, notice when i stop doing so and repeat, over and over a million times, it will become a habit and therefore I will eventually become detached from the reality that my fearful young, 6 year old mind had created. [link] [comments] |
| Physical sensation during meditation Posted: 04 Aug 2020 02:37 PM PDT I am still fairly new to meditating. I found a app I use that helped me as a beginner and use the guided meditations as it helps me quiet my racing thoughts. The last few times but not everytime I get this sensation that will start in my back and flow through my whole body. I can't really explain it, the best I can say is it feels like a wave of almost euphoria? It is an amazing feeling but is this normal? [link] [comments] |
| For beginners, an easy breath meditation technique Posted: 04 Aug 2020 05:55 PM PDT Hey all, for clarification, I myself have been exposed to/tried meditation for a few years. I have tried a number of different techniques and styles, such as (in roughly chronological order)
Recently I was researching the four foundations of mindfulness as I felt that my understanding of them was lacking (and it was, in a profound way XD), and I came across a technique I don't recall having heard about before that I put into practice instead of my highly flawed attempt at the four foundations of mindfulness. I have found it to be the single most useful meditation technique I have ever tried, and it is very simple and geared towards beginners. I have found that it greatly reduces the obstacles to meditation that I have become familiar with over time, such as belligerent mind wandering, numbed dullness, and obsession with what I'm supposed to be doing and not doing while meditating. Here is the statement of the technique:
I wanted to present this because, in the few years that I have dabbled with meditation, I don't recall having encountered this technique before, and I have found it highly effective in practice. I have a very analytical thought process and I find it difficult to work with things that are not concretely visible in my mind, and this technique helps make mindfulness of my breath much more concrete and keeps my meditation very consistent throughout my whole sit. Here is the article I got the technique from, about the four foundations of mindfulness. I hope others find this technique valuable as I have. [link] [comments] |
| Pressure between the eyebrows and crown during meditation - how to fix it? Posted: 05 Aug 2020 01:52 AM PDT I have been doing mantra meditation following methods outlined by Sivananda in his books. This involves repeating the deity's mantra mentally while focusing between the eye-brows, all the while counting with a japa mAla. Unfortunately, this has resulted in feeling a sense of pressure in the regions between the eye-brows and the crown. In fact, I feel as if a line has been drawn connecting the regions between the eyebrows and the top of my forehead, like a vertical tilak. Psychologically, however, I feel great! My mind is incredibly settled, clear, and peaceful. I pretty much have no unnecessary thoughts. I would like to keep these states but get rid of the pressure. Any ideas how to do it? [link] [comments] |
| I began feeling very dizzy while meditating today and felt a buzzing sensation in my head Posted: 04 Aug 2020 09:48 PM PDT Does anyone know why I felt like this? This is the first time I have gotten this feeling while meditating. I was perfectly hydrated and sitting in my room so I was not in the sun. It was a very similar feeling to what I have felt when fainting before. I actually started feeling scared and unsafe when this happened during meditation and a car beeping in the distance caused me to open my eyes and I stopped. [link] [comments] |
| Is there anyone who has overcome constant comparison with someone? Posted: 05 Aug 2020 01:33 AM PDT I've experienced an inescapable thinking pattern of comparing myself with someone who is actually close to me, which I think is on account of the low self-esteem. I do meditate usually but I haven't yet found any consolation. So I wonder if any of you went through my experience and overcame it by meditation. I want to feel just okay with myself the way I am. [link] [comments] |
| I’m (slowly) learning something surprising about stress management Posted: 04 Aug 2020 07:06 PM PDT Im a lifelong anxiety sufferer, same as my father and my two adult children. I think I'm learning that my addiction to ego-driven highs is the cause of much of my stress. For far too much of my life, I've practiced escapism from reality in the form of thrills, experiences, so called 'success' in the eyes of others, and attention-seeking behaviors, all in order to realize more highs and fewer lows. My surprising learning is that I need to give up on the highs rather than simply trying to avoid the lows if I want a good life. I need to simply be good with whatever comes about. This is as much about saying no to the emotional 'up' (which is hard to resist when you feel it coming your way), as it is about not being overly consumed when feeling a 'low' experience come on. This is easier to say than it is to do, and I hope I'm communicating it in a way that makes sense to others. [link] [comments] |
| Will meditation allow me to focus more on daily activities ? (Im new) Posted: 05 Aug 2020 12:36 AM PDT It seems like the last few years I haven't been able to really focus on things. There used to be A few activities I used to love doing such as playing video games and watching movies, but nowadays I can't focus on them anymore. The whole time while I'm watching a movie I just get on my phone and scroll through instagram and think about what I'm gonna do later or just completely random things and can't stay focused, the same goes with video games.. Will meditation help me focus on things such as that ? I am new and appreciate any answers ! [link] [comments] |
| How to "accept" a negative pattern, but still intend to change it? Posted: 04 Aug 2020 03:44 PM PDT Summary: What does it actually feel like to "accept" a pattern, without becoming complacent about changing it? (Acceptance without losing ambitious behavior change.) My meditations have led to "awareness" of many negative patterns and physical tensions. But the awareness does not translate to changing or dissolving the patterns, just a list of personal "bugs"! When these parts/patterns arise (e.g. "laziness" or "deceit"), my internal dialogue says: "I see and acknowledge this pattern is occurring now, but I'm not OK with it continuing in the future. I want to replace this pattern with another more helpful pattern (e.g. "cultivate energy", or "authenticity")." How can I have the experience of acceptance that leads to the pattern dissolving? What are the motions in the heart, gut, body? Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2020 12:16 AM PDT So I've been meditating since March 2020, and since I began, meditation helped me fall asleep since I did it laying down. Eventually after a month, I would sometimes fall into a meditative state where I was just self aware of myself. I even once had a brain orgasm from meditation. However, recently I've been having issues with meditation to make me fall asleep or fall into a meditative state. When I start I tend to get butterfly's in my stomach now and pain in my neck. Idk what it is but it's like I can't meditate anymore. [link] [comments] |
| I need a better insight to being mindful during the 'psychosis' state Posted: 04 Aug 2020 08:21 PM PDT I bracket the word psychosis because the word is an invention of modern Western psychology. I am rather well versed in the religious and mythological, so you don't need to hit me with kid gloves on this. During sensation meditation, when you go deeply, one ends up entering this psychosis-like state and the goal, I presume, is to simply be aware of this and to simply observe the fear that arises during and to see what is occurring within the mind and how it affects the non-local realm. Now, this state of psychosis seems to me to be a primal state of awareness... Is there a state beyond this? Or have I reached some kind of plateau? I can't believe there isn't anything beyond this state of being, but, perhaps, that's where the acceptance of where 'nirvana' leads - which is the void or death. I have no guru, but I am also very, idk, skeptical - So I await your responses. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation as an escape: dangerous, or inevitable? Posted: 04 Aug 2020 11:21 AM PDT Initially I took up meditation to sit in silence and face my mind, accepting it. These days I seem to wish to escape from the suffering my mind causes me, and apart from sleep, meditation is the closest way to experience this separation from self. Is this a normal avenue of meditation or am I deceiving myself [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2020 07:07 PM PDT Hey guys so , I wanted to know that if I am meditating right or not because when I lay down ony bed with my legs and hands away from my body ( the yogic sleep position) and I use a guided meditation , so whenever I meditate and I try to relax and concentrate on the guided meditation and then I lose track of time and after that I wake up exactly when the guided meditation get over. So here I'm confused that if I'm doing it right , do I go to sleep? or do I go to a meditative state? , can someone help me out. Thank you [link] [comments] |
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