Meditation: After meditating daily for the last 1.5 years. It Blows my mind how different I have become than my small town conservative family |
- After meditating daily for the last 1.5 years. It Blows my mind how different I have become than my small town conservative family
- We suffer more in our mind than in reality
- Examples and reminders of shadow thoughts/behaviors.
- Has anyone watched the Ted Talk "A Stroke Of Insight"? It's a neuroanatomist (person who studies the brain) who has a stroke and is able to study the way that her brain behaved during it.
- Got diagnosed with covid yesterday. Need help regarding meditation.
- Meditation beautifully summarised by a cartoon
- Ironically, the coworker that I had recent qualms and issues with is a person who I see a lot of myself in. In fact, I believe I mimic the same behaviors.
- I meditated right before running
- What goes on in your head while meditating? Is it just the void?
- Extremely anxious, should I meditate?
- Is it really true that once you start going deeper in meditation you can see spirits?
- What's the deal with run streaks?
- MEDITATION: DEFINITION, HISTORY, BENEFITS, AND TIPS FOR BEGINNERS
- Feeling grateful for this sub
- Be Your Mind's Observer, Not your Mind's First Responder
- Something meditating has taught me
- Poker as a way to practice watching emotions
- Having difficulties meditating
- I [23M] want to turn my life around and need help on my mental makeup
- How do you meditate
- What's your definition of meditation?
- Meditated and began talking uncontrollably all nonsensical Why?
- I joined this sub a few weeks ago, with the intention of starting
- How to keep good posture during meditation?
| Posted: 10 Sep 2020 06:19 AM PDT After meditating daily for the last 1.5 years. It Blows my mind how different I have become than my small town conservative family. Meditation has truly changed my life so drastically I feel like I'm a completely different person and I feel so authentic to who I truly am. I think meditation clicked so well for me because of how bad my mental health was prior to meditating and it has allowed me to understand that I had issues related to my father because of the issues he never over came growing up. My friends were complete assholes growing up and caused me to have borderline paranoia when I got to college. Now I'm so so confident with who I am because I know my intentions are good and my discipline is very strong for a 22 year old male. I've gained and amazing girlfriend recently. This is all good things but it scares me to think about how unrelatable my family and former friends because a majority of their beliefs are based on fear and they are completely unaware of it. I know I'm going to continue to grow in the right direction but it's going to be hard to in a sense, let them go. 2020 has showed me the true colors of many people. [link] [comments] |
| We suffer more in our mind than in reality Posted: 11 Sep 2020 01:35 AM PDT Hey, you Stop for a moment with what you are doing Take yourself back to the present moment and stop thinking (I know that this can be hard to do) And see that most of your problems are just in your mind Enjoy the present moment [link] [comments] |
| Examples and reminders of shadow thoughts/behaviors. Posted: 10 Sep 2020 09:44 PM PDT
I posted this, to help you with a guided meditation. Something to say to yourself and help ease any low self esteem or stress, that might hinder any meditation block or anxiety anyone might be having. I believe acceptance helps ease the flow of thoughts going through you, rather than against you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2020 11:26 AM PDT She talks about how her left hemisphere where the mind chatter occurs went silent and she felt a sense of peace and euphoria and she believes that if people can learn to purposely shut off their left hemisphere then they could have more peace in their lives. I think this has some interesting connections with meditation and what we seek to experience with it. Here's the link if anyone is interested, it's a really fascinating talk and I'm curious if there's already been discussions or studies using her experience and knowledge in connection with meditation and mindfulness. https://youtu.be/UyyjU8fzEYU [link] [comments] |
| Got diagnosed with covid yesterday. Need help regarding meditation. Posted: 10 Sep 2020 09:31 PM PDT My meditation practice of choice has been breath observation. Unfortunately, my covid symptom is shortness of breath. It feels like I'm breathing through a pillow. I know I can still pay attention to the breath but everytime I try to do it anyway, my mind starts judging the quality of breathing and I end up not being able to pay attention at all. I'm also exposed to Goenka's vipassana method having done the course twice. Do I move on to that? Should I stick to breath no matter how uncomfortable? In case any of you have had covid in the past, it would be very, very helpful if you could guide me. Thank you so much. Metta to you all. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation beautifully summarised by a cartoon Posted: 10 Sep 2020 07:23 PM PDT Take a moment to think of just: flexibility, love and trust. I saw this about two years ago and it gave me the chills because of how beautiful it describes our thoughts. I started watching the show and it has quite a few gems (pun intended)! Enjoy, friends! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2020 07:39 PM PDT I know it isn't directly translated to meditation, but this community is always so helpful and kind and helps me incorporate things into my practice. I hope you can give it a read. I had issues with a coworker recently. We initially became friends and hit it off fine, but he began to become very clingy and I felt we no longer jived. On my last day at work, shit hit the fan and generally speaking it just feels like he stepped on a lot of boundaries and his focus around me hit maximum uncomfortable level. Well, I met a guy at a new place I work. He approached me, got to know me, and turns out he's bisexual. I felt I really connected with him and there's a mutual attraction, so I've been looking forward to him coming to work and he's been on my mind quite often. Without even trying, I feel like I'm generally in his orbit, maybe search for reasons to come up and chat. And it hits me that this is literally some of the behaviors I didn't like in my previous coworker. I felt sort of suffocated by him, like he didn't have a life outside of me. And I feel myself tunnel-visioning on this guy and also wondering if it is personal if he doesn't want to chat as much as I do, which is something my coworker did. However, unlike the previous coworker, I feel meditation and therapy allows me to chill out a bit and not take any action on these feelings. Ain't that some shit? I remember someone on here telling me it's often the behaviors we really don't like in others that we inadvertently do ourselves. I'm definitely gonna dedicate some time to this and meditate on it. There's a lot of shame and worry bubbling up that I'm holding space for and breathing through. [link] [comments] |
| I meditated right before running Posted: 10 Sep 2020 01:07 PM PDT And holy crap I felt so good and I totally crushed my time record! Gonna start meditating 2 times a day from now on. Wish me the best of luck! [link] [comments] |
| What goes on in your head while meditating? Is it just the void? Posted: 10 Sep 2020 08:35 PM PDT I use to meditate occasionally a few years ago but never made a deep habit of it. My life then turned for the more wild and crazy and I stopped. Now I want to start again and it's so much harder than I remember. I thought I use to just empty my mind and focus on something small, like the feeling of contact between my hands, or the sound of my breath. But I can barely go 5 seconds without an intrusive thought anymore. Do I just need practice, or am I doing something wrong? [link] [comments] |
| Extremely anxious, should I meditate? Posted: 11 Sep 2020 02:02 AM PDT Hey all, I can use some advice. I have been meditating for several years by now. It's the only thing that keeps me sane and years ago rescued me from intense anxiety. I also did 4-5 week-long, silent meditation retreats. My personal practice goes on and off but when I'm on top of it I meditate for around an hour a day. It completely changes my life when I do it. I didn't really meditate at all since covid started in March though. Life has been a bit difficult since then and my anxiety is through the roof. It feels like 9.5 on a scale of 1-10. Like I physically find it difficult to just go through my day. I know meditation has helped me before but every once in a while if I'm in a panicked state than trying to meditate makes it much worse. I can't "hold it" and I'm spiraling with my crazy making thoughts instead. I'm hoping someone here has been through this and has any tips for starting to meditate again while I'm in this highly panicked mind state or if It might be better to just leave it alone for now. Thanks 🙏🏽 [link] [comments] |
| Is it really true that once you start going deeper in meditation you can see spirits? Posted: 11 Sep 2020 01:33 AM PDT Sure, once you start going deep in meditation, you can see the blue light, the purple light and then you can see the spirits and then you can see God and then you can see so many things, but this is not real meditation, it is just a meditation of the mind. The mind is playing tricks with us. True meditation is being able to observe the mind in stillness where you see nothing. You see nothing in meditation - you cannot see things that don't exist. What are spirits? There is nothing like a spirit - we are all Divine energy; we are all the Divine spirit, but the spirit is not visible. What makes the spirit visible is the monkey mind that makes us ignorant of the truth. [link] [comments] |
| What's the deal with run streaks? Posted: 10 Sep 2020 04:47 PM PDT I hope my experiences and takeaway can be relatable to some people here. I have been using Headspace for over a year. It has been a fantastic tool for practicing mindfulness and creating distance between myself and my thoughts. It has paralleled wonderfully with therapy and my overall inner growth. I've since convinced several friends to get subscriptions because of the success I've had with it bringing understanding to my life. When I began using Headspace, I was addicted to keeping the "Run Streak" going. To me, it showed that I was committing to the practice and showing up every day for myself. In a lot of ways, it was very helpful in solidifying a great base of knowledge and experience. But this was completely wrong. (or at least, not really that important) At one point, I had reached over 40 days in a row, and then I had a Saturday that was busy, and I blew the streak. I spiraled into feelings of shame and guilt. I couldn't even begin to start over at "1 day streak". It was embarrassing! Thankfully, my lovely therapist reminded me that it's just an app. It's just a tool. Mindfulness is a skill that brings enlightenment, joy, and deep understanding to life and self. And here I am being mortified because of an app's run streak. I had a moment of clarity and realized how toxic a streak counter like that can be. I forgave myself. Since the quarantine, I'd completely lost my routine practice with the app. Instead, I was taking many several-mile-long walks per week, without music or distractions. I was just walking and practicing integrating mindfulness into my life. I would notice my breathing several times a day. I would sense changes in my posture, my mood, and my surroundings. My streak counter was at 0, and I was still making progress. I felt great. A couple weeks ago, I started a new job and began using the app again as a tool to practice mindfulness each day. Typically, I meditate first thing in the morning and after the first week, the weekend rolled around. I decided to stay in bed with my wife and snuggle together rather than make that 5 day streak into 6 or 7 days. I was practicing being present with my wife. The streak broke, yet the practice and progress continued. We can practice mindfulness in many different ways. The greatest zen masters never kept a run streak (maybe that's wrong, but you get my point). The goal is to practice, and to integrate mindfulness into our lives. At some point, if the app is successful, you might not even need it anymore! Being successful can look like so many different things. Your progress is completely unrelated to those numbers. [link] [comments] |
| MEDITATION: DEFINITION, HISTORY, BENEFITS, AND TIPS FOR BEGINNERS Posted: 11 Sep 2020 01:20 AM PDT Meditation is a mental exercise or a mental training practice that has a correlation with relaxation, focus, and consciousness. It is an ancient practice and it purifies the mind. you can meditate anywhere at any time. You can take guidance from a person to meditate but can't take support from anyone because meditation is an individual practice. [link] [comments] |
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| Be Your Mind's Observer, Not your Mind's First Responder Posted: 10 Sep 2020 08:12 AM PDT I consider myself a beginner in Meditation, so feel free to verify or correct me and my ideals on Meditation. What are we actively doing when we Meditate? Well, we recognize that our thoughts are not really our own. We're going to have a lot of negative thoughts, but that doesn't mean we have to identify with these thoughts. Everything that happens in our minds is a mental construct. When we identify and entertain with negative thoughts, we start to construct a rewinded play on the stage that is in our heads that make us feel the pain or agitation again. If we think about a painful memory of a breakup, we use our five senses such as vision to reconstruct our ex and where it happened, and hearing to replay the painful words exchanged. I've realized, however, that we don't owe our mind to do the mental labor required for the construction of these negative thoughts. We are not construction workers that bend to every whim of the corrupt building company that is our mind. If we have the necessary self-awareness, we can choose to not participate in building up negative thoughts while we meditate. We take away the automatic power our mind has, and instead, we become observers. I've realized that the answer to these negative thoughts aren't to completely block their flow into our minds. That would just be running away from the problem, and not accepting who you are, because at the end of the day, we have to accept the good and bad of ourselves. But that doesn't mean we have to entertain these negative thoughts to the point of self destruction. Instead, we can observe when our negative thoughts arise, but that's it. Don't become a part of the construction process. Recognize it's there, that it has a place in your heart still, but don't go through the motions of self-inflicting pain or feeling the agitation of the future again. Pick and choose yourself, and place the power in your own hands with how you react to thoughts. Observe everything, and refuse the attempt of your mind going full automatic. The most important part about this discovery, is to make sure you carry this throughout the day. When we meditate, we are practicing to become an observer in the most peaceful environment possible for us: in the safety of our meditation stations away from society. However, many of us enter society during the day, where co-workers, deadlines, and triggers for memories and future anxieties surface. We have to remember this sort of observer mindset. Brush off the need to go through all the mental hurdles to entertain negative thoughts, and instead, focus on positive ones. You'll see how clearer your mind gets, and you can go on in your days without feeling mentally taxed. We have the power to see both sides of the coin, why not flip it to your favoring? [link] [comments] |
| Something meditating has taught me Posted: 10 Sep 2020 06:07 PM PDT There is only the now. If you wait for a future moment, in that future it will considered the now for you. So you may as well just do it....now! [link] [comments] |
| Poker as a way to practice watching emotions Posted: 10 Sep 2020 04:07 PM PDT I have played poker casually for years and have been meditating consistently for about 2 years. Poker is the area in my life where I've seen the most obvious benefits from meditation. Over the course of an hour of playing, I'll feel greed and excitement when I get a run of good hands, boredom when I'm not getting cards worth playing, and despair / anger when I lose to someone who played the hand "worse" than me but got lucky. Since I've begun meditating, I've found it much easier to separate myself from these emotions, to watch them and let them subside. It's the area of my life where I experience the most rapid emotional swings and so I view it as a training ground of sorts for applying my meditation practice. I would love to hear if anyone else has experienced this with poker or has other activities that they view as a training ground for watching their thoughts and emotions. I've experienced it a bit playing tennis too but not to the extent of poker. [link] [comments] |
| Having difficulties meditating Posted: 10 Sep 2020 11:17 PM PDT I know that meditation gets me into a deep state of relaxation where I just feel good. However I have issues with starting to meditate.. I always feel like I want to do other things than meditate. How do you take the time to meditate and do you have any advice to get started? Also my mouth and my throat always get so dry because of the breathing. Is there any way to prevent it or am I doing something wrong? [link] [comments] |
| I [23M] want to turn my life around and need help on my mental makeup Posted: 10 Sep 2020 05:03 PM PDT I don't like where I am in life. I have figured out that this has very little to do with willpower and a lot to do with a "weak mental makeup". Anytime anything very small and insignificant hits my self esteem, I can easily spiral from a good 6 week stretch of productivity and healthiness to a 5 week stretch of laziness and eating crap. I want to start meditating to strengthen my mind, help me grow my self esteem and not allow the smallest things to throw me off. I'm going to start looking at resources on my own, but where are places I can start?[link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2020 10:56 PM PDT I was wondering on what you should focus while meditating. 1.) Keeping the attention on your body/breath while having no thoughts. Meaning that you stay in a constant awake state. 2.) Trying to loose the sense of ones body and maybe feeling the flow of the energies/ones soul inside while thinking about nothing. Meaning that you fall in a somewhat sleep state. [link] [comments] |
| What's your definition of meditation? Posted: 10 Sep 2020 06:51 PM PDT |
| Meditated and began talking uncontrollably all nonsensical Why? Posted: 10 Sep 2020 10:15 PM PDT |
| I joined this sub a few weeks ago, with the intention of starting Posted: 10 Sep 2020 12:19 PM PDT I haven't. I find it getting away from me everyday as I juggle three little kids and housework. I feel like I need I need to start now so I can learn how to meditate so that once I'm at work and juggling kids and housework meditation is already underway by being a part of my routine. How did you start? What part of the day is best? Did you use any apps or YouTube videos? What are your best tips please and thanking you in advance [link] [comments] |
| How to keep good posture during meditation? Posted: 10 Sep 2020 09:58 PM PDT I have attempted to meditate a few times in my life, but I find it so uncomfortable/hard to keep my back straight and good posture. Firstly, when I'm sitting straight, I feel like I can't breathe properly. Like it kind of gets trapped on the way up and I can't take really deep breaths like I can when lying down. Secondly, I find that as the minutes go on, my posture slowly gets worse and worse until I open my eyes and I'm completely hunched over. I can mediate lying down, but it's more convenient being able to sit up. Does anyone have any tips? [link] [comments] |
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