Meditation: After a couple weeks of meditation, my Fiancé pointed out that my outlook and personality has been more positive and peaceful |
- After a couple weeks of meditation, my Fiancé pointed out that my outlook and personality has been more positive and peaceful
- Life is a tremendous blessing, live it wisely.
- Bad thoughts are like knives falling all around you. They may look scary, but they can’t hurt you until you reach out and grab one.
- You are the Awareness that is completely open and untouched by any experience.
- Being a 'real man': why meditation is less popular with men but a vital part of addressing the mental health crisis
- Learning about meditation and the theory behind it has brought about questions that terrify me
- A neat portrayal of meditation.
- Sometimes I become aware of just how hard I am on myself, how much I still hold onto. I am terrified.
- Mind of negativity
- Shaman(Traditional Healer) Open to Questions.
- We are three students who got excited about deep breathing and it's effects on focus and resilience to stress. We developed an app to find out what kind of breathing works and what does not
- Your opinion on the conspiracy that meditation is satanic?
- You don't have a personality.
- Breath observation linked to free diving and fight or flight neurology?
- Vipassana goes with everything
- Down and discouraged.
- “Meditation, surely, is the understanding of the ways of the mind. If I do not know how my mind operates, functions, works, how can I meditate?” Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Shinzen Young's research
- Book recommendations?
- I see me doing meditation but I just can't in the morning, is it okay to do in the evening after work or before sleeping?
- back pressure while meditating?
- Meditating when anxious?
- Diminishing returns
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 08:12 AM PDT I'm entering my 3rd year of med school and have been ridden with anxiety and stress on astronautical levels for 2 years now. Started meditating seriously 2 weeks ago, and I feel great, but my fiancé says she notices a big difference. Just sharing my positive news. You guys help me. Keep strong 💪🏻 [link] [comments] |
| Life is a tremendous blessing, live it wisely. Posted: 25 Sep 2020 05:06 AM PDT Every moment is a celebration, when you realise your true position. Be in the place in which you can never not be. Conditioned thoughts and ideas want to persuade you that you are an unworrhy ego, but please don't listen to this voice. Literally dont care about it. You are the pure effortless witness of every single "mind atack". Mind cannot touch YOU, only your identity. The moment you stop identifying with thoughts that come and go and stop believing that they are your own, that very moment you are free. It can be right Now. It's very easy. Just be. You are alive, how amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 12:21 PM PDT I'm not insinuating it's easy to let bad thoughts pass you by, hell I'm certainly not an expert. But I like the idea of us having control over which thoughts we interact with, hopefully greater control as our practices deepen. Hope you're all having a wonderful day, peace. [link] [comments] |
| You are the Awareness that is completely open and untouched by any experience. Posted: 26 Sep 2020 01:12 AM PDT Just rest in your effortless natural bliss of your own being- pure awareness. Stay relaxed at ease and allow your expression of body/mind to unfold by itself. You are not a "doer". Just relax and enjoy the "movie". "What about the mind? It's hitting me hard theese days :( " No, the mind can never hit YOU. It may appear to hit you and you may appear to suffer only if you believe and identify with it. If you simply recognise that you are not thoughts, thinker of them, nor have actually any relationship with them, than my dear friend, than you are completely free. Welcome home. Relax and enjoy your own perfect self. Thank you Consciousness <3. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 03:30 PM PDT One thing I've noticed when practicing mindfulness with other people is that on average the group tends to be around two thirds women, one third men. I think part of the reason why men are less keen on mindfulness and meditation is that awareness/focus on what you're feeling. It's something many of us are brought up to be uncomfortable with. Our culture gives us icons that show us what a real man is supposed to be like. But the standards of masculinity (just like the movie characters) are not real. Things are changing - which is great - but this varies from country to country, from region to region and from family to family. With a culture shift there's always a backlash against it, and you see on social media people trying to define what a real man is and does. But to me, a real man - or just a kind person - is someone who is prepared to engage with their feelings, to accept their anger, fear and sadness so that they can transform it into peace. And living in peace they become more aware of the suffering of others and try to help them. [link] [comments] |
| Learning about meditation and the theory behind it has brought about questions that terrify me Posted: 25 Sep 2020 09:36 PM PDT If the self isn't real, and nothing is actually real in itself, and is not inseparable from the rest of existence as taught in Buddhism, then what does it actually mean to be alive? Is the living creature really living in the way it is typically viewed-as a distinct process? If I learn viscerally what selflessness feels like and what lack of free will feels like will I lose pride in my accomplishments because I had no free will about them? Is the loss of ego as scary as it seems, and does anyone else find it slightly terrifying? I would love to know if anyone who asked these types of questions before learning to meditate, found some answers through meditation, and were they what you feared or were they positive? Thank you so much to anyone who has taken the time to read this and if you have no idea what I'm talking about please let me know. [link] [comments] |
| A neat portrayal of meditation. Posted: 25 Sep 2020 11:04 PM PDT Picture your thoughts inside of a train and you're in this train, it's taking you places and depending on you, it might be going really fast, maybe slow at the moment, maybe it's making turns and loops making you nauseous or perhaps it might be exciting; when we meditate, the train will make a stop, as it stops, take a deep breathe and step out, then slowly walk to the nearest bench, and sit down, relax and watch as the train of thoughts pass by. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 10:46 PM PDT I have posted often of the progress and struggles I have had over the years of my life. Meditation has helped me a lot in the last year. I feel I have awoken to myself to a degree I never imagined I would. I have been able to see more and more of myself as I truly am. Meditation has slowly allowed me to understand what it means to truly love myself. And perhaps by extension what it means to truly love and care for my fellow human beings. At least it has given me glimpses of these truths. It has also allowed me to sometimes see the little scared child in me that has been crying away in the corner for decades. Crying to be held, to be seen, to be heard. I try to comfort him but the tools I have been handed sometimes seem ill equipped for the job. I slide so readily back into old patterns of thinking. Self hatred, fear, judgment. There is SO SO much I hang onto still all the time. SO much to still let go of. I hold onto so much judgment about myself like some white hot coal that I use to fuel myself, a toxic and poisonous fuel source. I see the need to shed this skin. To disidentify with these labels and a persona that no longer suits me. But decades of living one way is not an easy thing to shift. A whole sale change in how one views themselves is like cutting off an arm or leg, even when doing so means a shift from a cruel to a compassionate mindset. It is alien to love myself I think and so it feels like a threat. Perhaps I should start simply with kindness towards myself for making the progress I have had and for recognizing all of this? Self kindness is still something new for me to practise. Even in my meditative practise the old enemies of perfection and "not enough" are always there trying to get in. Each meditative session I am aware often that I think or feel badly about how I am performing, feeling etc. And this template can be copied and pasted over my entire life a million fold. Not enough. Not enough. Not enough. Not enough. Not enough. Till the little child within me is crushed within an inch of his life. Everything in my life has needed to be perfected, everything has been a strive to fill some infinite void within. Meditation has been a huge challenge in the face of this as the practice itself is often threatened to be swallowed up in the same swamp. But no I have made much progress as I have said. I am happier now, more at peace, and "awake" than ever. It just sometimes brings me to tears to see how hard I still am on myself so often. How far I still have to go. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 10:19 PM PDT Maybe we cannot recognize well but, we human have a variety of negative minds. paranoid, worries, hate, melancholy, loneliness, anxiety etc... and when we do something, we are likely to think of it negatively. for example, 'it is too hard to achieve', 'It is not gonna be good', 'something bad would happen', 'He or She won't like me' etc... in our head, there are too much negative think. So fundamental way to be happy is getting rid of those negative things in our head. By meditating, we can eliminate those things one by one. Jason- Meditação Lisboa [link] [comments] |
| Shaman(Traditional Healer) Open to Questions. Posted: 26 Sep 2020 02:01 AM PDT Shaman - A healer of mind, body and circumstance who believes that everything is alive, aware and responsive. Ask me any questions you'd like. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 05:38 AM PDT We are three software engineering students, who, through meditation, got interested in the scientific background of breathing. We got excited about the Heart Rate Variability & Breathwork training to improve focus and lowering stress and anxiety through this episode of the Tim Ferris Show: https://youtu.be/4r6gr7uytQA?t=793 [link] [comments] |
| Your opinion on the conspiracy that meditation is satanic? Posted: 25 Sep 2020 06:55 PM PDT Me personally I love meditating and I didn't think people would say a bad thing about it other than saying it didn't work for them. Something about opening the door for evil spirits when you clear your mind and not meditating to the word of God. Your opinion? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 12:04 PM PDT Sure you can describe a person as generally funny or generally mean, but they're only really concepts made up by the mind. You are not your habits and you are not your past actions. What "you" are in this moment is the only real "you". [link] [comments] |
| Breath observation linked to free diving and fight or flight neurology? Posted: 25 Sep 2020 06:57 PM PDT I know that observing breath can cause anxiety in newbies to meditating, a bit like vertigo in newbie climbers. I think that breath conciousness also occurs in predator-pray situations, if a mammal prey is hiding it is concious of its chest movements. Perhaps that's why learning to simply observe when we breathe can generate anxiety? It's an unconcious mental pathway? [link] [comments] |
| Vipassana goes with everything Posted: 25 Sep 2020 11:13 AM PDT And by everything I mean all states-of-consciousness. High, low, agitated, sedate, stoned, horny - everything. Whatever trip you are presently on, Vipassana goes with it like chocolate and peanutbutter. Because Vipassana is the quintessence of working with what you've got. Which distinguishes it sharply from classical effortly endeavors, which typically demand a carefully cultivated right-circumstance. Which presents something rare : It's always a good time to do Vipassana. -- And for those not familiar, this is what I mean by Vipassana. How to Grow Like a BalloonSit down in your meditation spot. Back straight. Breathe from your belly. Eyes half-closed. Relax. Watch the river of experience. That is, watch all the sights, sounds, thoughts, feelings etc that you are experiencing right now. Watch that whole thing. Watch experience-stuff come and go. Watch, peaceful like when you're concentrating, but without concentrating on anything. Watch your Light (aka awareness, attention, sati...) too. Watch how you sometimes move your Light in reaction to the thoughts, sounds etc. To direct it here or there, at this or that. To think a thought or whatever. When you feel like you are about to react like that, don't do it. Don't react. Just keep on watching. Keep your Light relaxed and spread out wide. That's the whole technique. NOTES
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| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 02:26 PM PDT I've had a shit day. Its just one after another after another. I can't identify my thoughts clearly in my bed. It's been 3 months of meditating and I haven't made any progress. It's literally pathetic. I'm going to look into cbt/mindfulness self therapy books. Any advice is welcome. I'm at the point today where I literally just don't want to be alive any more. I don't enjoy life I dread it. I wish I could give my life to someone who actually wants it. Life is unfair and I hate it. I hate the never ending negative emotions. Im ready to give up. I can't see hope right now. Every time I try to meditate today I just end up crying and feeling more stressed out. My emotions are so wound up right now. My brother just got home to visit, and I'm currently laying in bed, dreading being around everyone right now. Im sorry if this is the wrong sub, I'm just down and I don't know where or how to get adequate help. Meds don't work. My moods are up and down all the time. I never know how ill feel when I wake up, but 6/7 days are miserable. I'm a loser and a failure. I could write pages with reasonable explanations why. I hate myself. I hate my body. I hate my face. When people call me beautiful it feels good for a moment. Then I remember I'm ugly. If not to others, myself. I'm obsessed with my appearance. I have no positives. My cats. If not for them I'd be shooting up heroin right now. I've been clean for a year but I think about drugs every day. If not for Vivitrol I wouldn't be clean. I am blessed but I hate my life and myself. I can't communicate my feelings well. I don't like telling my dad I'm sad. He does so much for me and just wants me back in school. I'm going to be 30 next year and I've wasted my 20s on addiction and mental illness. I've put myself in this hole. That's probably the most painful realization of all. I took a left turn when I meant to take a right. My life is shit [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 03:52 PM PDT Is it possible to meditate without first understanding the ways of the mind? Anyone know? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 11:14 AM PDT Hey people! Dalai Lama once said that if there was a way to get all the benefits of meditation without having to meditate for 20 years, that would be an incredibly impactful thing for the world. I usually don't write this kind of posts, but I really want you to know that a prominent meditation teacher Shinzen Young is doing research into non-invasive technology that can boost your meditation and significantly improve your progress. They're crowdfunding it, and you can contribute to it, if you so wish, so here's the link. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 02:24 PM PDT Good evening, Have been meditating on and off for the past few weeks, and just saw Alex Greys post about Charkras and it made me think I don't really know any of the theory of all this shit I'm experiencing. Only books I can think of to give me direction are religious texts but they are so outdated and translated so many times the message is very cryptic. Just wondering if you guys have any recommendations Love [link] [comments] |
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| back pressure while meditating? Posted: 25 Sep 2020 04:01 PM PDT hi, so i've been meditating more frequently lately and I've noticed around the 15/20 minute mark i get a weird pressure on the right hand side of my lower back, around my spine. does anyone else get this? it's not necessarily painful, just kind of uncomfortable. does anyone know what it is? i tried searching online but couldn't find anything. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 12:08 PM PDT Hello 👋 my anxiety has been kinda intense recently especially around my heart. When I'm meditating right now I can hear/feel it and it seems to amplify more and more. I know I shouldn't attach yadda yadda but I find it difficult to do in the moment. So should I persist in meditating even though I come out of it feeling worse or like I've only focused on my anxiety? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 02:31 PM PDT At what point with meditation does diminishing returns set in, in terms of the amount of time spend meditating per day? For example, is 20 mins twice as beneficial as 10 mins? And is 40 mins therefore twice as good as 20 mins? Or is there diminishing returns at some point? i.e. 20 mins is twice as beneficial as 10 mins but that 40 mins is only 1.5x as beneficial as 20 mins? And what do you find to be the sweet spot in terms of length of time meditating per day? I know this is obviously hard to quantify so I'm more looking for anecdotal evidence based on your experiences. [link] [comments] |
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