Meditation: Weekly Discussion - September 28 2020 |
- Weekly Discussion - September 28 2020
- Meditation has revealed to me just how... crazy I am
- 8 Uncomfortable lessons that we all need to learn
- Survivors of an International Buddhist Cult Share Their Stories - An investigation into decades of abuse at Shambhala International
- I’d like to start meditating, but I’m scared of my bad thoughts
- Does anyone else find that it takes them 7-10 minutes before your mind calms down and you get into a meditative state?
- feeling like tripping off lsd after meditating
- Someone asked me about 10 day Vipassana retreat in this sub but I didn't answer them properly. Here's an apology and an attempt to reach them.
- Your breath is your spirit, silence is your guide.
- Meditation and buried emotions.
- The key to dissolving negative thoughts, anxieties and complaining.
- ELI5: How do you learn about yourself through meditation?
- meditation through sand mandala art
- Crazy time
- How to stop inner conversations?
- I need to solve my guilt.
- Study Music For Final Exam Study Time 1-Hour
- Meditation and Weed
- Something odd happened during a astral projection guided meditation
- Benefits of sitting instead of lying down
- check this out✌️
- Guided Meditation Copyright?
- Myron Stolaroff on the Trained User: Deepening Meditation Practice with Psychedelics.
- When you know meditation is the best solution for your emotional state but you still can’t get up the nerve to sit
- Should i meditate with intent?
| Weekly Discussion - September 28 2020 Posted: 28 Sep 2020 08:09 AM PDT This is a reoccuring thread for questions relating to your practice and discussion around your experiences. Questions Ask questions relating to your practice, the theory of meditation, various traditions and lineages of thought, or practical tips. If you're new, please read our FAQ before posting, as it contains a wealth of information that all of us should come back to occasionally. Discussion Also use this thread for a more free-form discussion of your experiences and other tidbits that might not warrant their own full post. Use this space to connect with the /r/meditation community, it won't be heavily moderated. Also check out the monthly meditation challenge. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation has revealed to me just how... crazy I am Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:12 PM PDT I am sad that I am alone. Yet, I push people away. I do things that contradict my values, to the point of internally raging at myself, while doing them, seemingly unable to stop myself. I become easily angered - at myself and others - ruminating over the same scenarios again and again in my head. I try but seem unable to heal relationships I care about. And I invest too heavily in unhealthy relationships. I'm constantly belittling myself, guilt tripping, punishing, sabotaging. I feel so many negative emotions, every day, but positive ones seem unattainable. I do not know how to grieve for lost loved ones. Crying feels like a lie; I'm so uncomfortable that I can't engage with even the most natural human emotions without feeling contrived or forced in some way. I know I have a good heart. But my thoughts are so erratic and dark. I can only seldom and very briefly "detach" from them. I identify hard with self-hatred. I know on some level that all of the above must be just a story my subconscious clings to for some reason, but why? Please, I need some encouragement. Can anybody help? I've tried so hard to notice these things non-judgementally. But it is so very very hard. Does this get easier? Is acknowledging all of this some kind of progress, disheartening though it is? Or is it obvious from what I've written here that I'm doing something glaringly wrong? If so, what could I do to steer in a better direction? [link] [comments] |
| 8 Uncomfortable lessons that we all need to learn Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:06 AM PDT
If you're not happy now, there's no amount of followers, positive social media comments, or Instagram likes that will change that. External validation isn't happiness - it's a hamster wheel. Validation is an inside job. The most convincing sign that someone is truly living their "best life", is their lack of desire to show the world that they're living their best life. Your "best life" won't seek external validation, but insecurity continually will.
If you get angry and say "X thing made me angry", you will get angry often. If you get angry and say: "I made myself angry because of X thing" you will get angry less often. All of your emotional responses are your fault and responsibility. Nothing can make you angry. Your thoughts about what happened made you angry. That's on you. If you realize that, you'll have the power to control it. If you don't, you'll spend your life triggered easily and unhappy often.
If you want to feed a problem, keep thinking about it. If you want to starve a problem, take action. Most of the harm starts in your mind, with you and your thoughts. Most of the solutions start with a decision, courage, and action.
Just like social media has algorithms to give you more of what you're interested in, life has an algorithm that gives you more of what you're thinking about and focusing on. You can train your algorithm to make you more anxious, worried, or insecure by focusing on negative things. You can train your algorithm for happiness, success, and growth by focusing on positive things. Your thoughts become your decisions and then your actions your focus becomes your future.
If you ever feel nervous telling a friend or partner your good news, don't. Get new friends or a new partner. You can't afford to have people in close proximity that don't want to see you succeed, grow, and progress. They'll subtly hold you back with snide comments, negative feedback, and casual pessimism. In the short term, they'll have a small effect, but in the long term, they'll lead you away from your potential and towards the same negativity that has consumed their lives.
To get from a miserable place to a happy place, you have to be brave enough to travel through a scary, vulnerable, lonely place called uncertainty. Choosing uncertainty over the certain misery of your current situation is a decision you'll have to make many times if you want success and happiness in work, love, and life. You'll be defined by your ability to handle uncertainty. Avoidance all risk is the biggest risk. Don't fear the unknown.
"Finding yourself" is a pop culture lie. "Finding your passion" is a pop culture lie. "Finding your soulmate" is a pop culture lie. These pop culture lies, and the perfection they promise us, if we would only keep searching, stop us from working through the natural challenges within our careers, relationships, and within ourselves. There is no perfection, only room for improvement.
Comfort eating on negativity will make you unhealthy, and mental weight is the hardest to lose. Like fast food, negativity often tastes good in the short term, but will make you unhealthy in the long term. Your mental diet consists of what you watch, what you read, who you follow, who you spend time with, what you say, and what you think. If your goal is to have a healthier mind this year, start by removing all the junk food in your diet. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:24 PM PDT https://thewalrus.ca/survivors-of-an-international-buddhist-cult-share-their-stories/ Having lost years and a couple thousand dollars to Shambhala International, I hope this researched journalistic investigative article will warn others curious about meditation away and out of the mistakes I made. They advertised themselves as safe for secular practice, they definitely are not. Their "learn to meditate" programs are the beginning of a long grooming play. [link] [comments] |
| I’d like to start meditating, but I’m scared of my bad thoughts Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:02 PM PDT I'm 24, and since I was a kid I have fear of failure. I've been bullied since middle school (cause I was a very introverted kid) and in high school my depression started. Everything was awful until I started drums, and since then my dream and my passion gave me the strength to go on. In the last years my family and I had heavy quarrels because they think I'm a failure (being a musician = being lazy) and my depression got worse. I constantly live with VERY bad thought and while studying Hinduism I felt interested in meditation as a "medicine for my mind", but I'm scared this "deep dive" inside myself could make my situation worse. Any tip on how to start? Maybe someone with a similar experience could give me some advice? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
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| feeling like tripping off lsd after meditating Posted: 28 Sep 2020 05:17 PM PDT hi, i was wondering if any of you guys have experienced this. so i started getting into spirituality and meditation quite recently, and something i've noticed is that after i've been in a deep meditative state and i open my eyes, shit will start moving around, it literally feels like i'm tripping. does anyone know why this happens? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2020 08:49 PM PDT I'm sorry about the snarky reply on the other post. Here is the information you asked for. Vipassana centres are built all over the US. New students are required to attend a 10 day meditation retreat where the rules are very strict and a lay person basically lives the life of a monk. They have to agree to follow 5 precepts (pretty easy to follow) if they are serious about meditating there. It is free of cost but they accept donations if you feel you have gained something of value. You have to stay there for the entire duration of the course which is 11 days. Food and the rooms are generally pretty nice. You follow a time table and meditate for majority of the time. Meditation sessions are guided and taught by Mr S.N. Goenka. After my dad completed this course, he was a changed man. My brothers, mother and myself completed the course as well. I recommended it to my friends and cousins they were pretty happy with the results. We highly recommend it. There are youtube videos of before and after the 10 day vipassana retreat with people visually looking blissful and happy after the camp. Google 'vipassana camp near me'. [link] [comments] |
| Your breath is your spirit, silence is your guide. Posted: 29 Sep 2020 01:43 AM PDT Just finished my morning meditation with these words, whispered by my inner voice or another benevolent being more encompassing than that, and wanted to share. Everything is so simple and clear to my normally analytical, paranoid brain thanks to this gem of a practice. Blessings to you, lovely people of this sub. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation and buried emotions. Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:29 PM PDT So I've been meditating for the past two weeks.I deleted all my social media and really have the means to focus on myself, work and college. I figured practicing mindfulness will benefit me greatly in those aspects. I woke up Sunday morning (I mediate before bed) and I just had this huge feeling of resent towards my mother. Growing up she was physically and verbally abusive. And recently I've been really trying to seek why I am the way I am with certain things in my life. Granted I feel like I'm doing better than most in my life but there's certain things that I deal with such as emotional attachment, intimacy, love, constantly self-isolating myself from friends and family... etc. and it really ties back to my parents. But my mom in particular. That morning it was just a flood of memories in the back of my head which I BARELY think about come to the surface. I was hysterical for most of the day. I felt like I lowkey hated my mother. Granted I love her, she taught me some good things and did good things for me but I feel like it doesn't cover up for the bad things she has done and said to me as a child through adulthood. I don't live with her, I moved away when I was 19. I'm 21 now. We don't talk much because I am busy. I don't hate her but I feel like meditating is really bringing a lot feelings, emotions and self-realization to the surface. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal? What are your experiences? [link] [comments] |
| The key to dissolving negative thoughts, anxieties and complaining. Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:29 AM PDT If a bully sees that you´re upset and offended by his actions, this will especially encourage him to bully you harder. However, when you take his insults as a compliment and even like him for his actions, he will be the one who is repelled and frustrated and will eventually leave you alone. Its the same with negative thoughts and emotions. When you have a worry, set a reminder and regularly you imagine that negative thought with your full INTENTION and awareness. After a while your rational brain kicks in: This is so useless and ridiculous, why have I been wasting energy on that. It also makes you more grateful for what you have in the moment. Over time, when sthg negative pops up, you don´t even bother to intentionally go after it and just let it come and go. Practicing this gives me so much peace, clarity and joy. [link] [comments] |
| ELI5: How do you learn about yourself through meditation? Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:41 PM PDT I see posts like: "meditation taught me...," "meditation made me realize..." But how? How do people receive this insight? Are they thoughts that pop up while you're meditating? If so, do you keep thinking about these thoughts or do you bring yourself back to the moment? How do you know they aren't intrusive thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| meditation through sand mandala art Posted: 29 Sep 2020 01:31 AM PDT |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:21 PM PDT I just meditated for the first time in a while and it was absolutely insane. In a perfect way. I was feeling really anxious so I decided to meditate. At first I was sitting and focusing on my breathing like I normally do and nothing was really happening. Normally I would start to feel a little different like my body was moving. This time I didn't feel that way. After a bit of just sitting there nothing was happening. Then I felt like an itch on my face. I decided to focus all I could in that itch because of a method my dad told me about. Eventually it disappeared and I was still really focusing on it but I forgot it was there. Then in my closed eye vision I started to see what looked like an energy vortex to me. Just pulsating. I just sat there intrigued about it and then it expanded into like the energy pulsing all in my vision. It then started slowly dissolving and I was seeing the room I was in around me. It wasn't perfect it still had a bit of the energy pulsing on it I just sat there and was like ok I have to see if I can open my eyes. I opened them and stopped meditating. I had only meditated for 9 minutes and that happened. I then stared at the mandala tapestry on my wall for a little bit and it started like filling the room up. When I looked away, just for a brief second my room was completely different. It had like a tv static look to everything. Crazy what meditation can do. [link] [comments] |
| How to stop inner conversations? Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:30 AM PDT Hi Reddit! The last year or so I have a kind of struggling relationship with my father, as I have decided to not join his company and follow my own path. There are a lot of personal differences, as he is quite impulsive, loud, and similar. While I am glad that I have spoken up to him and put the matters to talk, I still face having inner conversations about him. In there me and my „inner voice" discussing several things we disagree about. I recently (1 month ago) set up a meeting where I brought all the things I disagree & dislike up to him, so that we can speak about the issues and solve them or decide that it wont work (last thing was the result). I hoped that by telling him these things, my inner conversations would stop. However, we only spoke about 1/4 of all things i have previously written, although i gave him this sheet. In the first days, I was definitely more relaxed, but after that the inner voices came back. I meditate 1-2 times a time, sometimes more, sometimes less, since about 6 years. Whenever these voices come up I try to label them as „inner conversation" to get aware of them, but I still feel bad and stressed when they come up. Do you have any ideas or suggestions how I can ease living with them or ideally „come to peace"? Hope you all are ding fine with Covid! :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:45 AM PDT What do you guys recommend as a forgiveness practice? I can't seem to find a clear specific practice and I know I need one right now. To implement everyday. How can I go about forgiving myself? [link] [comments] |
| Study Music For Final Exam Study Time 1-Hour Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:50 PM PDT |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:23 PM PDT I have a question concerning weed and meditation. I love smoking pot sometimes and I'm a daily meditator that takes meditation really serious and wants to reach the edge of the mind. I've not really found information about if when you're high getting into really deep jhanas/ consciousness states is hindered or even made easier. Does somebody have personal experience or knowledge? :) [link] [comments] |
| Something odd happened during a astral projection guided meditation Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:48 PM PDT Ok what just happened? When the meditation was at the end where I was just coming out of the meditative world, I heard a voice telling me to sit up and before my body could actually wake up, I felt my body pretty much start to sit up on its own and then my body started to spin uncontrollably faster and faster and I'm still kinda in a meditative state so I'm scared as fuck and have no idea what's going on but my spirit guides kept saying I was fine and to calm down and as the spinning slowed I felt something almost shoot out of my back out my head (I know it sounds kinda stupid but I have no other way to explain it) and it felt really good??? And I think I had an orgasm?? I got out of this meditative state a few minutes ago and now I'm sitting in bed and now I feel hot as fuck and I wanna break my 16 hour fast for no reason??? Wtf????? Anyone else?? Help??? I'm scared and have no idea what happened. Someone said it might be third eye but I like to have other opinions on this. Plz don't judge me [link] [comments] |
| Benefits of sitting instead of lying down Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:11 PM PDT Hi I use the calm app for meditation and I was wondering if there is any benefits in doing meditation on a chair instead of the bed? I'm using my bed to medicate on because I find it more comfortable but the instructors tell me to either sit on a chair or on a cushion. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:43 PM PDT This seems like a bit of a murky area, but I'm starting to break ground on an artistic endeavor and I was hoping to use some recordings of guided meditations, but I want to make sure I'm not doing anything illegal or immoral if I use recordings of other people's guided meditations in my own project. Does anyone have thoughts on this? If I give credit would it be fair use, or should I be especially careful to stick to public domain and creative commons stuff? Alternatively, do any of you have recordings of yourself that you would be willing to allow me to use in a recording project, with credit given? [link] [comments] |
| Myron Stolaroff on the Trained User: Deepening Meditation Practice with Psychedelics. Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:36 PM PDT https://youtu.be/7dQyWWshWsk?t=131 Hey Guys, I've been meditating for a couple years, and I'm also interested in psychedelics. Myron Stolaroff is long time meditator who conduected legal research with psychedelics in the early 1960s. In this video he presents the topic of meditation and psychedelics in the most comprehensive way I've found. If you watch the video, please let me know your opinion, Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:32 PM PDT Anyone ever feel like this? I have been having a tough few weeks and sometimes my emotions are so heavy and overwhelmingly sad/negative that I just can't get up the nerve to sit on my mat. And the problem continues and my reluctance to sit gets worse. It's hard for me to maintain the consistency that I know I need! [link] [comments] |
| Should i meditate with intent? Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:51 PM PDT Should I meditate with intent? If so what intents should i set and how should set them? [link] [comments] |
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