Meditation: You know you’re getting better at meditation when u can ignore the itch on your face. |
- You know you’re getting better at meditation when u can ignore the itch on your face.
- Just read "The Power of Now"
- Should we meditate daily or when we feel like meditating
- Yesterday, i decided to do something crazy.
- When I was in a deep mediation state I visualized me looking at my grave to humble myself, is this too extreme? I was crying
- Why do we desire distraction?
- My Experiences
- Trouble breathing when meditating?
- Please don't test me anymore. / My message to the Universe.
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- Always crying when meditating
- I normally don't see anything when I meditate, but today, the backs of my eyelids filled with bright purple! Does this mean anything?
- I do not control reality, but I do control my relationship to it
- Meditation helped my sinuses
- How could I know if I´m doing it right?
- beginner to meditation
- Looking for specific teacher
- Beautiful Mysterious Music For Reading
- Meditation Book Recommendations ?
- Letting go of jealousy. How did you pull this one off and how long did it take?
- The right meds make meditation so much easier!
- is it possible for someone with adhd to at some point be able to truly silence their mind the way a non adhd person can with meditation, i don't mean as in constant silence, but just being at peace in our minds
- Is it possible for one to be consciously aware of their breath throughout the day? If so, what happens once you've mastered it?
- Low back pain
| You know you’re getting better at meditation when u can ignore the itch on your face. Posted: 11 Sep 2020 06:54 PM PDT Pretty much what the title says. Been meditating for 5 months consistently now. At the beginning, I couldn't resist an itch on my arm or face but now I can ignore it like nothing. Ooohhh yeahhhhhhh it's real guys. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2020 07:38 AM PDT So this is one of my first posts ever on Reddit. I'm more of the type to just stalk the subs I find interesting. I don't spend too much time on my phone and while a reddit forum can feel like a pretty jumbled place to look for spiritual growth I do enjoy hearing about other people's realizations on places like this and the sharing can sometimes benefit my own practice. I just finished a 3 week long backpacking trip with one of my roommates in California (before all these horrible fires). Firstly, I would highly recommend backpacking. Second, aside from all the normal "meditative" effects of hiking in nature for 8+ hours a day, we took shrooms twice on the trip from a state of feeling completely de-stressed and in very isolated and beautiful places. After the backpacking trip as a whole I felt opened up to many new ideas about how I want to live my life, nature, and purpose. I felt the immense power of the universe but was still confused about my experience. Then in the weeks since I've been home I picked up "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. I understand this book has been pretty popular in the past, but if you haven't given it a shot I would recommend trying it. For me I felt in inner agreement with much of Tolle's ideas and it felt like a excellent synthesis of the ideas I had been thinking about for years but couldn't quite put together. I felt like the book was telling me things I already knew but was just slightly unsure of or confused about. I had heard about Eckhart Tolle before and definitely brushed him off because of his popularity. I'm in no way affiliated with him or this book and just wanted to share with this sub my experience and urge you to at least check it out if you haven't already. Cheers! [link] [comments] |
| Should we meditate daily or when we feel like meditating Posted: 12 Sep 2020 12:32 AM PDT I've was meditating daily for over 18 months and the prospective change it brought in to my life was surreal. It's like reading your favourite book and it hits you at all levels. Somehow how I wanted to experiment with it and check if I don't force myself to meditate eveyday and just meditate when i feel like what would happen so from last two months I've meditated only when I feel like meditating not forcing meditation upon myself. In last few session i realised that my old tendencies of anxiety were coming back to me. For few days I felt great about having those 20 mins back daily for myself which i would spend on meditation but after that i felt something is missing. So I've decided to sit for meditation daily no matter what and realise in first few sessions how deeply and intensely we could feel present moment in those 10/20 mins in every day meditation. I hope I continue to watch myself soke in the daily lights of meditation it's like when you suddenly get that itchy feeling in middle of your meditation but realised that it might be trick that mind is playing... just go with flow and observe mind daily no matter what every moment is new and every session of meditation is different then what we have previously observed. Keep developing and oberserving new consciousness unfolds everyday. [link] [comments] |
| Yesterday, i decided to do something crazy. Posted: 11 Sep 2020 10:14 PM PDT Id practiced meditation for a long time and had been doing it without consistency. I felt like a total failure when it comes to meditation and i desperately wanted to experience all the good things that long time meditators reported they experienced. So yesterday, i decided to to practice isha kriya meditation for 8 hours, that is, for 24 sits every 40 minutes and observe a strict fasting regiment throughout the day. I decided to do all this crazy ass stuff because i wanted to know, once and for all, if meditation is actually a real thing or if all you guys are lying to your teeths. -Within six Isha Kriya sittings my breathing felt completly light with any resistance.
I would also like to mention, i didnt feel hungry nor did i feel sleepy the entire day. My intention for writing this post is to encourage you all, who have been struggling with meditation to go all-in and experience meditation to its fullest. Refuse to believe that you might someday experience the benefits after years and years of consistent practice. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 11 Sep 2020 04:20 PM PDT I seem to find most of my free time is spent seeking distraction. I'm sure many other people are the same way. I'm just curious to hear ideas from others for why we behave this way. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2020 07:50 PM PDT Hey guys, I have massive respect for meditators and I hope that I don't disobey any rules, I just want to write about my experience but I do admit there isn't any new knowledge to it. I just want to tell you guys about how much gratitude has changed my life. I was always a pretty anxious kid, and that meant I was very insecure and not confident. So by the time I finished my second year of university I had been severely emotionally abused by two people I was very close with. My lack of confidence or understanding of boundaries meant I would tolerate whatever, call it the ups and down of a relationship, and do everything I can to make it work without respecting myself at all. This was a few years ago, but looking back on it now, I am really grateful for that experience. I admit it was terrible but I genuinely do not wish it was any different (although I do wish I mined like 1000 BTC back in the day). Just a joke, but I am actually really grateful because I believe those terrible experiences really helped me grow as a person. They helped me to develop true self-confidence, and to understand my own boundaries and I am eternally grateful. I would not be the person I am today without those experiences, and I love myself. So, all I really did was spend about 5 mintues each day writing a list of all the things I was grateful for. Without any judgment, just writing it all down and I genuinely believe it gave me a great outlook on what had happened in my past. I do want to mention, if you did suffer through trauma or abuse, people go get help from a therapist first off. I didn't and I really regret it, but this gratitude practice has helped me eventually get over it (although it took years). My point is if you're feeling a bit down, then I do recommend a gratitude practice. I know it isn't directly related to the experience of meditation, but I do believe being in a naturally happy state does help you in all aspects, and I feel I have nicer meditation sessions if I do that. Anyway, take my advice with a grain of salt. It worked for me and I'm very appreciative, and I hope it helps you too. Small little note, I did write a book that I'm incredibly proud of and I do believe it provides immense value. I know the mods look down on self-promotion, but being unemployed I'm kinda desperate haha. Nonetheless, if mods want me to take it down I will do so happily, and if any of you are at all interested, feel free to message me. Hope you have an amazing day! PS. This whole post was in no way a sales pitch, I promise this genuinely happened and I do truly love practicing gratitude. Bye! [link] [comments] |
| Trouble breathing when meditating? Posted: 11 Sep 2020 08:18 PM PDT Maybe it's because I'm a singer and used to getting a full "singers breath", but I find I can never get a full breath when I'm sitting criss cross applesauce. It's like my stomach is restricted. There's this feeling at the top of my chest/bottom of my neck that's like stopping me from breathing any more when I /know/ I'm capable of breathing way deeper. My posture is good. I'm not slouching or anything. Is this normal? P.S. no, I don't have rona [link] [comments] |
| Please don't test me anymore. / My message to the Universe. Posted: 11 Sep 2020 12:14 PM PDT Please. I have understood the point. I have seen the darkness. And I now know the importance of light. So please, do not test me anymore. It's not how things should be. It's not how life should be. Everyone has forgotten the importance of faith, so I do understand why you rarely listen to majority of us. I understand why you doubt our requests. I understand that people can abuse you. But please look into our hearts. See if they're pure. And do not treat those who truly believe as those who pretend to believe. I do not know if I am losing my mind. I am just going with the flow. I disregard the logic, which formed in Earth, and trust my feeling, which cannot be influenced by any force. I have done the exact opposite in the past. Trusted the logic instead of the feeling. I recognise my mistakes. Please let me fix them. I have learned from it. I will not repeat them ever again. Give me a chance. This will be the greatest test. Stop testing me with the help of the darkness. And test me in the light. Now I know who I am, what I am. I am part of you. And you are a part of me. So let me show you, that I deserve to be a part of you. But not in the darkness. In light. Give me light and I will not disappoint you. Trust me in this like I trust you. And I will not stop believing in you until my last breath. Believe in me and I'll believe in you. We are one. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 12 Sep 2020 02:44 AM PDT Hello I'm 13 and have been meditating every day for a week or so and always cry in the mediation [link] [comments] |
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| I do not control reality, but I do control my relationship to it Posted: 11 Sep 2020 04:38 AM PDT This has been a big change in my life, and I'd like to share because maybe it will resonate with someone. None of us have any control over what the present moment gives us, but we all have control over what we're going to do with it. Something like this easily makes sense when we look at the weather. We can look out the window and see that it's raining and choose what we're going to do. Maybe there's a downpour and I choose to bring an umbrella with me. Maybe I choose to stay inside. Maybe it's just a light rain and I choose to wear a raincoat, or maybe I choose to simply go out in the rain and get a little wet. Two things remain fundamental:
This is not big news to anyone, of course. But what is such a fascinating thing to me is that it's exactly the same process when it comes to our emotions and thoughts. I do not control the emotion or thought arising in me, but I do get a choice in how I'm going to work with it. But the first and most important step is to see it. We need to see our emotions or thoughts clearly before choosing what to do with it, just as we need to see that it's raining before we make a choice. So are we going to let the rain ruin our day, or are we going to go out and dance in it? The choice is ours. I'm going to go dance now. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2020 10:30 PM PDT After a couple of months of meditation (paying attention to breath, breathing only through my nose), I've noticed my sinuses have cleared up a bit. Used to be all sneezy and sniffly in the mornings, but now I might only sneeze once. Maybe I've stopped snoring too, though since I'd be asleep, I really can't tell. So whatever else meditation is doing, the benefits to my sinuses are undeniable and makes it worth continuing. 🤓 [link] [comments] |
| How could I know if I´m doing it right? Posted: 12 Sep 2020 01:16 AM PDT I´ve started to meditate a week ago (yep, I´m a begginner) and only when I wake up, I deal with depression and anxiety and sometimes it´s hard for me to focus, so, as I´m just starting with meditation, I do it for 10 min. I don´t know if I should feel something, but how do I know if I´m doing it correctly? What do you feel or think when you meditate? Sorry if this has been asked before or if it´s a silly question, I really want to improve my focus and concentration. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2020 12:21 AM PDT i've been into spirituality for a while now and meditated like 2-3 times and i'm chilling and feel okay without meditation but i actually want to start to see if i could see a difference and i don't think i genuinely know how to properly meditate. any tips ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2020 11:49 PM PDT I saw a youtube video a while back, a man talking about a certain teacher in some type of small lecture hall. I dont know the teachers name (lets call him the dude) but i remember he was a disciple of yogananda and was very interested in his kriya yoga. Apparently he had a special connection with yogananda, i remember a story where the dude could tell yogananda was in a particularly deep state of meditation when all of the other students around could not tell. The dude asked yogananda about this state and idk exactly what he said but it basically reflected an important part of the dudes teaching, that at the bottom of the depths there was still a self. Apparently the dude was pretty closed off from the world save for a few students at a time, living somewhere in the woods with his wife i think? Might have been an electrician... idk anyone know who this dude might be? [link] [comments] |
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| Meditation Book Recommendations ? Posted: 11 Sep 2020 01:02 PM PDT Do you have any favorite books you would recommend to beginner/intermediate practitioners of meditation? The link in the side bar of this subreddit is five years old. [link] [comments] |
| Letting go of jealousy. How did you pull this one off and how long did it take? Posted: 11 Sep 2020 12:09 PM PDT I've been meditating long for this but it keeps coming back every once in a while. How do you deal with it? Please share your stories! [link] [comments] |
| The right meds make meditation so much easier! Posted: 11 Sep 2020 12:09 PM PDT As a longtime sufferer of ADHD mindful meditation has been something people have often recommended to me but in the past I either brushed off or found far too frustrating to do with any consistency. As a kid my head was always elsewhere, always preoccupied with something other than what was present. As I got older my attention issues became all the more apparent and my mental health declined. Over time I was better able to recognize, diagnose, and see the solutions to my problems. Implementing those solutions has been another story but at least I had some roadmap to recovery unlike in the past. I recently began a new medication and it's been the best for me so far. The gains I feel on vyvanse are significant when compared to adderall so I just gave meditation another shot and holy shit, those 15 minutes just flew by when compared to trying to meditate before meds. The whole process is just so much easier and more relaxing. You know in those guided meditation apps they'll tell you to count your breaths? I'd get so distracted I'd lose count almost immediately but today it was totally different. Excited to keep this up! [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 11 Sep 2020 07:59 AM PDT You know how we breathe in and out more deeply during meditation and we're consciously aware of it. Is it possible to do it throughout the day? I got the idea from this anime called Demon Slayer where the protagonist learns that to be a really good demon slayer he needs to breathe using his breathing technique 24/7. Which got me curious. If it is possible, what happens then? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2020 05:39 PM PDT I am new to meditation but my low back starts hurting after sitting for a period of time and it distracts me of my concentration. Even w/ a pillow underneath me. I workout and stretch regularly but I've just always had low back issues. Any recommendations on what I should do? Does anyone else experience this issue? [link] [comments] |
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