Meditation: Fetch. |
- Fetch.
- What do we mean by observing your thoughts?
- why is there such a stigma behind meditation?
- A mindfulness exercise for your daily life. When you find yourself feeling bad try to deconstruct it with curiosity, turn it into an awareness and mindfulness game.
- Why is my cognition, presence of mind, and emotional clarity so inconsistent despite disciplined meditation and yoga practices, dietary restrictions, and consistent routines?
- We ask the universe, “Will this thing (or any other) connect us, or separate us?” To which some deep, ancient wisdom lovingly responds, “You choose.”
- Chikhai Bardo: The Primordial (Clear Light) and the Awareness-Body, and the 3fold process of dying. THIS IS DAMN INTERESTING
- Meditation and Free Will?
- “You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
- \×Allan watts×/
- 112 ancient techniques of meditating !
- Can someone explain to me the idea of "you are not your thoughts" ? Suffering from intrusive disturbing thoughts.
- Questions about Pratyahara Meditation techniques and resources
- A few moments ago it was my (21M) second time ever meditating, both times i was on the verge of just weeping
- Awareness interfering with flow?
- How to find time?
- I have never been this stressed. Can i get some tips?
- Why does meditation work so well for me?
- Is meditation dulling your sense of humor?
- I forget to breathe and my chest is constantly inflated and it prevents me from breathing deeply during meditations or yoga.
- Fight or flight
- How to stop fearing eventual death
- Is mantra meditation mindfullness?
- I fell off the meditation bandwagon.
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 05:28 PM PDT My 18 mo german shepherd puppy followed me outside when I went to meditate. This is what she taught me. When I sat down and closes my eyes she started to run up and mouth my hands and feet and then run away. At first I tried to pretend she wasn't there, but she kept coming back. Then I tried to yell at her and push her away, but she kept coming back. Then, just when I thought 'why should I let a dog, who has no intention of making me angry, disrupt my mental state?' she brought me a ball. It is only through accepting your current conditions and appreciating it for what it is that we can find true peace and happiness. So we played fetch. [link] [comments] |
| What do we mean by observing your thoughts? Posted: 18 Sep 2020 05:23 AM PDT I can't seem to observe my thoughts going by. They just come by, and then I am able to realise that my mind has wandered. I can't just observe them like a film, but rather can only notice it once i realise. Am i doing something wrong? [link] [comments] |
| why is there such a stigma behind meditation? Posted: 18 Sep 2020 04:48 PM PDT i feel like a lot of people don't take it seriously, it seems to be seen as "hippie mumbo jumbo" for crazy people and monks. in fact, i saw it that way for a while. only after months of regular practice have i come to realise how powerful and freeing it is. i can truly say that through meditation i have learned how to completely love myself and have some form of "control" or acceptance over my emotions and state of being. i was very mentally ill for a very long time, was downing cocktails of medications that numbed me mentally and emotionally, and never addressed any of my core issues. meditation has shown me that meds don't fix mental illness, deep inner work does. and even then it's not "fixed", but accepted, understood and so much easier to deal with. why isn't meditation taught in schools? why aren't we taught from a young age that our emotions do not have to control us? that at the core, we are an amazing state of pure awareness? on top of that, whenever i say to other people who are struggling that practicing mindful meditation and self-compassion has done so much more for me than a handful of meds daily, they seem.... offended. angry almost, like the answer is too easy and too good to be true. where has this stigma and resistance to meditation come from? i wish more people were open to it, because it really has changed my life. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 09:05 PM PDT Say you realize that you are feeling anxious over something during your day. This is a great opportunity to practise some mindfulness. The anxiety isn't going to go away but that isn't the purpose of the exercise, it is instead to change your relationship with the feeling so that you don't really mind it, pun intended lol. So the first thing I think I would do is ask yourself what am I feeling in my body right now. What does this feeling feel like? What does my skin feel like? What does my chest feel like? My hands? My feet? Is my breath quicker? What is my heart rate like? Can I focus on my breath now like I would during a formal meditation practise? Oh right here is my breath while I am anxious during my day at work. I'm aware of my hands right now while I'm anxious. Next I would curiously ask myself what narrative am I playing in my head? Don't try to control it or judge yourself for it. Just watch what your brain wants to do. Oh right this angry customer is causing me to feel anxious. I'm thinking... "I'm going to make a lot of mistakes" I realize that I'm thinking "I am worried about being seen as a fool". Oh right there is a fear of judgment. Oh right there is a fear of ridicule. See if you can see what life narratives your mind tries to tie this in with. Do past and future events come up? Maybe a narrative about being a loser? Or a fool. Or a failure. Fear of job loss or future events? Catastrophe! lol. Do other ancillary feeling bubble up? Anger? Etc? What do these feel like in the body? The key thing is turning it into a game and being the observer instead of partaking in the movie in the head. Don't judge yourself for having the thoughts just approach it with curiosity. Gamify your unpleasant emotions lol. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 03:54 PM PDT All I want is a stable frame of mind in which I'm in touch with my emotions and my brain seems to be running the way it's supposed to without brain fog. Why is it that some days for seemingly no reason this occurs and other days (far more often) it doesn't? I practice transcendental meditation, and even its benefits have become inconsistent and unreliable. What can I do to have stable clarity? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 11:33 AM PDT Being mindful of what I can, and cannot, control right now in my life and relationships. I choose connection. I accept rejection. It's my own little trick, though, since accepting rejection is just an unconventional way of connecting. 😉 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 06:46 PM PDT This is some Chinese Buddhist mystical stuff about death and somewhat relevant meditationy phenomena. Check it out right here [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 11:30 PM PDT I have been meditating off and on for a couple of years now and the thing that always strikes me as unsettling is how utterly out of control I am of my mind when I sit down to meditate. I walk around with this idea that I am in control of my mind, that I can flex some mental muscle to deal with anxiety or stress or any other inconvenient mindstuff, but the more I meditate the more unlikely that seems. In fact, the whole process of trying to control my experience by thinking certain thoughts, or telling myself to "get it together" just seems to make everything much worse. Imagine a depressed person telling themselves to just be happy—it wouldn't work obviously, but culturally this concept of mental control and free will is the rock our culture is built on. What I suspect is actually true is that you probably have little to no control over your thoughts and emotions. And this is where the whole idea of observing your experience comes in. But I have a very hard time accepting this premise because it seems to kick the legs out from under free will. If it's true that I am not responsible for my thoughts and emotions, and my thoughts and emotions influence my actions, then how can I possibly be free? And if me trying to mentally pull myself up by my bootstraps and tell myself to get over being stressed/anxious doesn't actually work, then what recourse is there? To simply let go of the controls and watch? That is what is so hard for me to accept, that consciousness is just a flag blowing in the gale of our experience. That just seems too fatalistic, and my resistance to that makes it extremely hard to meditate. Is it maybe that the awareness of a thing is in and of itself the tool through which we regulate our experience? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 11:38 PM PDT The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is. J. Krishnamurti [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 02:58 PM PDT Anyone heard of allan watts, spiritual entertainer master of the DARK ARTS!?!? Just kidding on that last part but I would love to hear what everyone who heard of him thinks. I personally really enjoy listening to everything he has to say and if you are feeling lost he can give you a perspective on life. Honestly feels like he's projecting all his wisdom he says into my life and helping me be a better person (might be far fetched and cringy but he's an Awesome person from what I've listen to him say) and if anyone wants to get into the spiritual shebang, give this man a shot. Ive been listening to his audio book on audible many times over in this past month and if you want to listen to him there's plenty free ones to listen to on YouTube. Hope you give this man a listen most of the audio recordings where in the mid 1960s but his ideas are bright and havent dimd at all as the times have changed. HMU if there is anyone else like allan watts maybe even wiser I should hear or read. Anyway if you Read this far big ups to you hope you have a good life 🖖💜 [link] [comments] |
| 112 ancient techniques of meditating ! Posted: 18 Sep 2020 09:43 PM PDT |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 11:24 AM PDT Why am I not my thoughts? Are they external? I know I have no control over them but I hate that some thoughts pop up I have issues with intrusive thoughts. There's just a few images I'd love to scrub clean away from my head but they always pop up and disturb me. To be clear, the images presented in that thoughts disturbs me. I don't want to think about it anymore or see it. But it always pops up and it always disturbs me and ruins the moment. I wish my brain never even came up with that image. Any ideas? [link] [comments] |
| Questions about Pratyahara Meditation techniques and resources Posted: 18 Sep 2020 05:56 PM PDT Hi! Super new to meditation. Can anyone share some meditation techniques based around sensory deprivation and increasing willpower? That's my understanding of what Pratyahara is but I can't find many resources on it. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 10:48 PM PDT For that past 5 days I've started working out, trying to better myself, I even picked up Yoga with little sister who got inspired by her big bro lol. Although, in my life I enjoy meditation, it feels very spiritual. I somewhat feel a sense of disconnection and connection to something else. It feels right. I will make this a daily habit going forward [link] [comments] |
| Awareness interfering with flow? Posted: 18 Sep 2020 01:58 PM PDT Hi! Hope you're having a great week/life/meditation streak! I've been thinking about something and was wondering if you have experienced the same thing. Sometimes when I meditate, my awareness and self-awareness rises and I feel more conscious and all the good stuff. The problem is when I feel (too) conscious, things start feeling less spontaneous and like I'm using too much of my mental resources, just so I could be aware. It's like I'm aware of my awareness of the situation. For example, I will be talking to someone and gesturing and suddenly become conscious of it, and then I think "what am I doing? Why am I even doing this exact thing?" It feels like it puts the brakes on certain actions/thoughts. I'm naturally an overthinker, so that could be part of it. Have any of you experienced anything similar? How do you achieve awareness while still being "in the flow"? More meditation, I guess. Thank you all in advance! 💪 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2020 01:40 AM PDT Time as in having a free period of time to meditate isn't too much of an issue. However, finding a place I could do it has become an issue once the university started. I live with my cousin and he likes to play games, often really loudly. That in itself doesn't bother me, but he often likes to small talk and lightly interrupt me in various activities. I don't have any trouble ignoring the outside factors trying to distract me, but if someone asks, I have to answer, as I do not want to come off as rude. So the only time I have to myself is the night, when everyone's sleeping. I have tried, but everytime I start to snooze off, so I feel like I'm not getting any full effects. So my question and a TL:DR is this - how do you find time and place in a busy life, surrounded by people almost all the time? [link] [comments] |
| I have never been this stressed. Can i get some tips? Posted: 18 Sep 2020 03:19 PM PDT I dont want to state my reasons for the stress, because the internet doesent need it. When i get stressed, i meditate, and it always helps, but not today. I really just need some reassurement from other people that im going to be ok. Im begging. Really. Tall me your secrets to meditation. [link] [comments] |
| Why does meditation work so well for me? Posted: 18 Sep 2020 08:43 PM PDT I am struggling with depression and alcohol abuse and it has really been brought to the surface with covid restrictions. Especially not being able to see friends/family, as I am very extroverted. I started seeing a therapist and she's helping me develop habits and approaches for managing the symptoms: exercise, journaling, socializing (safely), etc. I've been attending these outdoor yoga classes and one day they did a meditation session instead. I have a fair amount of experience meditating, from a mindful breathing approach. I know the fundamentals and the practice quite well). It was a longish session, maybe 40 minutes. After that, I wasn't keeping up with exercising or any of my other positive habits, yet my mood was fantastic- for DAYS. Then, just two days ago, I meditated for 5 minutes. Now I'm experiencing prolonged mindfulness. I'm able to observe shifts in moods, and passing thoughts, without prompting through any mindful breathing exercises or anything like that. (These are the only two meditation sessions I've done in recent history). I'm curious why the effects are so profound. Most people tend to talk about meditation "not working" (although those are often the inexperienced) or it having positive effects in regular practice. I haven't been practicing regularly and I'm really feeling the effects. I wonder if this speaks to a "type" of person, or maybe I'm just very sensitive given I've been depressed and have experienced an extended low period? Curious what you think, especially if you have a mental health or neuroscience background! TLDR; I don't practice meditation regularly, but have enough experience that I know the fundamentals. Meditation has profound positive effects on me, even in small doses. I'm curious what that says about me as a person, especially since I hear a lot of people talk about meditation not working or only if used on a regular basis. [link] [comments] |
| Is meditation dulling your sense of humor? Posted: 18 Sep 2020 08:35 PM PDT I used to get people's jokes instantly, but the more I meditate in a given day, the more I take people's comments literally. Possibly as if I'm so focused on the immediate phrase that my mind ignores all other related ideas? Presence gone wrong? Hmm I don't know. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 04:18 PM PDT I don't know what it is but a lot of times I find myself not breathing. It's not painful or uncomfortable, I just realise that and then right afterwards I grasp for air. Another thing is that my chest looks puffed all the time similar to how it looks when you breathe in with your chest. It's like I'm in a constant state of inhaling. I think it's just improper really shallow breathing and not a sign of a disease. Maybe you have techniques or videos of something that helped you with breathing properly? Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2020 08:02 PM PDT I'm curious if anyone here is familiar with the fight/flight/freeze response, and if so, do you know if there's any way to work with it using meditation? The long story short is, I used to have an over active fight or flight response, and then moved into a freeze response - meaning my nervous system kind of "shut off" so I wasn't connected to feeling and was numb to the world. I'm coming out of that freeze state, and the fight or flight response is coming back in as it's been hiding behind the freeze response. I'd like to work with this to be able to connect with what's coming up and start healing the response to be able to dial back the response in my day to day life, and be able to engage with experiences with normalcy. I am not a new meditator, I just stopped some time ago because I didn't feel like I was getting a lot out of it - probably due to the freeze response. I'm hoping to use it as a tool right now to attenuate things and reduce the pattern I was trapped in when I was younger. If anyone has any resources, would love to see. [link] [comments] |
| How to stop fearing eventual death Posted: 18 Sep 2020 11:32 PM PDT I'm horrified by the eventual death I'm going to face, some people just say they don't fear because it's unavoidable but that's why I fear it because it's unavoidable that I will die and there's probably nothing. The thought terrifies me, is there anyway to stop these feelings? It mainly and only gets bad when I'm alone and not actively on something, awake when everyone else in my house is asleep or just being up too late or sometimes just during the night. Please any advice is greatfully accepted [link] [comments] |
| Is mantra meditation mindfullness? Posted: 18 Sep 2020 11:30 PM PDT Say you just focus on a repeated word in your mind and when the attention strays you gently being it back to the word. Is the mantra just replacing focusing on the breath? Also are their different schools of thought about the mantra. Do some meditators prefer nonsense words and others prefer a phrase such as "I am at peace". Has anyone done this and noticed a difference between the two? [link] [comments] |
| I fell off the meditation bandwagon. Posted: 18 Sep 2020 07:05 PM PDT For the past week or so I've been too down to even want to meditate, which I feel is actually counterproductive because it's probably the one time I should be meditating. Does anyone have suggestions on what meditation style would be most beneficial to me in my current state? [link] [comments] |
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