Meditation: Every time we practice, the world is changed |
- Every time we practice, the world is changed
- Don’t turn your nose up at “masturbation meditation” (A.K.A. tantric masturbation). It helped me (32m) survive emotional abuse and regain self-love.
- I start to daydream in the middle of my meditation. Is it just me or is there somebody with the same problem?
- My first experience with meditation was amazing and I feel the need to share it
- Meditation makes weed extremely enjoyable.
- A technique I taught myself to help with intrusive thoughts.
- A reduction in Anxiety
- Problems 'concentrating' when meditating.
- "What is happening in me today?"
- Allowing myself to be sad by default gave me better focus... (reflections on mindfulness)
- Hoping to understand a couple experiences (jhanic in nature perhaps?)
- Recommend the book “the power of now”
- Shadow work?
- My cat helps my practice
- I know this might seem stupid but how does one meditate?
- To keep Being distracted!
- Does anyone have any tips or guidance for meditating to help with anxiety surrounding women and dating specifically?
- Guided Insight Meditation
- It seems like I'm finally able to 'switch off' my thoughts.
- Energy sensation
- Astrology & spiritual-themed Discord
- Do you ever go to bed an hour before bedtime and meditate?
- I made a Meditation and Affirmation YouTube Channel ☺️
- "Just" The word of weakness.
| Every time we practice, the world is changed Posted: 11 Oct 2020 03:52 PM PDT If you dig into the story of the most horrible acts of evil that people subject each other to (sexual and emotional abuse, violence, neglect, betrayal) the perpetrator was almost always a victim of that sort of abuse themselves. Hurt people hurt people. On the surface, meditation practice can seem shallow and self centered. You're sitting down and practicing so that you can feel better. But none of us is an island. Our actions radiate outward and affect everyone we're in contact with. Every action we take ripples infinitely outward, intersecting billions of other ripples on its way. We tend to analyze our meditation by looking at what is happening. I also think it's useful to look at what is not happening. When we sit (or stand or lay or walk), we allow our minds to rest and find safety, and to process and release trauma and pain that still lives in our bodies. Each time you let some of that go: There are hateful words you won't say, Selfish acts you won't indulge, Hate and resent you won't feel, Pain and violence you won't impart. And, maybe, that healing will clear the way for you to accept and reciprocate the love that every single human being is born desperately needing to give and receive. Of course this process is complex and slow and nuanced to the point that it's sometimes hard to see. But the most primordial and natural state for humans to exist in is one of reciprocal love for one another, and every meditation session, mindful moment or loving intention tips the cosmic scales ever so slightly in the direction of the good, towards returning us to our proper relationship with the world and with one another. You matter, and your practice matters. When you heal a little, your culture heals a little. When you become a bit more attentive and compassionate, humanity becomes a bit more attentive and compassionate. You are sitting in silence, but you're also putting out the fires of inter-generational trauma and cutting off long, winding legacies of pain and refusing to pass them along to those who come after you, because you love them. Looking around the world, it's easy to see the power and prevalence of evil. But meditation, among other things, has shown me the tremendous power and energy that lies in the good; in even the smallest kernel of love and compassion. -metta! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2020 03:56 AM PDT I've always been a meditation practitioner and this is really just an extension of that. There are lots of articles on it (mostly aimed at women but anyone can do it) so do check them out. All you have to do is make your environment as comfortable as possible, close your eyes, and very slowly and sensually explore what self-love means to you - with body and mind. Orgasm is not the primary goal. It can even be done with a partner to increase intimacy. Along with other forms of meditation, this helped me through some very dark times. I hope it helps others too. EDIT Thanks so much for all the support! For those who object to the term "tantric masturbation", it's not my label - google it. And when I said orgasm's not the primary goal, I wasn't advocating semen retention. Semen retention is fine but just be aware that frequent ejaculation improves prostate health. [link] [comments] |
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| My first experience with meditation was amazing and I feel the need to share it Posted: 12 Oct 2020 02:41 AM PDT A few months back I (22M) was dumped by the love of my life. I've been battling with depression over the split since, and I've felt in general that my life is not going the way I want it to go. I've been unemployed most of this year after losing my job and unable to find another, I had to move across town to stay with family, and I can't seem to land on my feet. Every day has been stressful and riddled with depressive episodes, and I've just been generally miserable going through the day to day rituals. Today, though, I decided to try meditation for the first time just for shits and giggles, and it was alarmingly wonderful. I've always believed meditation was a sham and it was all placebo, but I can't help but feel I was wrong. I only started with 5 minutes, but in those 5 minutes of just trying to focus my constantly running mind on my breathing, I felt peaceful. Dragging my mind back to center, imagining a small ball in an empty space, and just trying to think about only my breathing - I felt a calm that I don't remember feeling for years. It was so overwhelming I genuinely thought I was going to tear up once I finished. I just want to say that I really hope I can keep the motivation to pursue doing this every day and make it through the dark times I'm dragging on through. I also hope that I can experience that same feeling every time I try it in the future. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation makes weed extremely enjoyable. Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:39 PM PDT I have smoked for a while and used it to quit drinking completely. Went from 9 beers nightly to nada. Problem is I got anxiety after abusing weed for a while pretty bad, well with use of meditation for 40 minutes of breathing through nostrills out through mouth in good posture thinking of fire intensely and repeating to myself to every breath I am not the body on inhale and I am not the mind on exhale to start until simply allowing the mind to freely enjoy the senses. Every once in a while I will pinch one side of my nose to close off the nostril and imagine my lungs as ice water, my right side of the head as a pure white empty space and the left side a raging fire while breathing as intensely as I can through one nostril holding for 6 seconds with a six seconds exhale and I must say all my anxiety is completely gone. My stutter is gone, my problems are gone. There just is, which is usually an extremely peaceful stoner. No person in the background saying anything. Thanks for all the advice to all the gurus out there. I appreciate the wisdom. [link] [comments] |
| A technique I taught myself to help with intrusive thoughts. Posted: 11 Oct 2020 11:24 PM PDT Hey everyone, I tried meditating the day I turned 20 years old and id like to say it really helped me see a clearer way of life and my thinking patterns. I did however stop making an effort to meditate every day which I now regret. I have intrusive thoughts which gives me anxiety so it was a life-saver to find meditation. I haven't really learned to meditate on my own so the other day when my thoughts were getting the better of me I came up with my own distraction/coping mechanism and Id like to share it in hopes it might help someone else. I'm sure this has been a tip and advised before but here it is: Wherever I looked I would start to label the thing and color of what I was looking at. For example if I was in my room I would turn to look at something random, like right now I turn my head and see the first item, my laundry basket. Perfect, step 1 complete. Now I mentally say the color of it which is white. Now I see a shirt hanging out of the basket so I think "there's a grey shirt in a white laundry basket", etc. I started doing this very quickly, constantly focusing my sight on something new after completing the task of naming the item and it's color. If I get too distracted, for example on the laundry basket, I will tend to not only name the thing and color but also the amount of metal lines holding it together, the amount of squares that the lines make that I can visually count, etc. If there is already a name for this technique please let me know! I'm going to get back into meditation as soon as possible. If you are in a place where you don't feel comfortable/safe meditating please try this method! It definitely helped me when I couldn't sit down and meditate myself. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2020 08:35 PM PDT Well I have read a lot about meditation, which induces me to practice it. On the serious note I started practicing it seriously and maintained a 70 days streak till now and when I look back to the person 70 days I have changed a lot. Excess of study pressure along with assignment and project and fear of getting a good job is major constant problem/pressure but these things doesn't feel more burden on my shoulder. The best thing I learn that how much good I look when I smile. The real litmus test was when I looked at the stories of my ex and then I didn't feel enough anxiety ( though I felt little bad and thought about our past) however I am definitely sure the other me( 70 days ago) would felt bad and bad. I am happy that I am growing a little by little everyday. I started with 3 min meditation and done almost 20 min today. I feel happy for my this achievement. [link] [comments] |
| Problems 'concentrating' when meditating. Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:09 AM PDT So I have been doing transcendential meditation for around a month. - I do not have an instructor, as knowledge was passed on to me by a family member. I tried the transcendential sub, but they all refered me to my non existant instructor ! It has been very very difficult for me. I have been addicted to smart phones and the like for a long time, which certainly does not help. Also, I have quite a severe case of ADHD and visual snow, which certainly doesn't make it better. I seem to get disturbed by erratic thoughts quite often when performing the meditation, forget to say the mantra and end up distracted for a while, try and pull it back.. rinse repeat. Any advice for a beginner? [link] [comments] |
| "What is happening in me today?" Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:21 PM PDT This is something very simple that I discovered today in my meditation session. I used to start meditation hoping that it will be one of the "good" sessions (you know what I talk about). But today, instead I asked the simple question "What is happening in me today?", which led me to better observe my emotions and thoughts. If I don't feel like meditating, I observe this feeling too. Am I too nervous and I can't concentrate? I observe this process too. Am I thinking it is a bad session? I observe this thought too. No matter what it is, it is okay. [link] [comments] |
| Allowing myself to be sad by default gave me better focus... (reflections on mindfulness) Posted: 11 Oct 2020 08:24 PM PDT You know you're in a meditative state when you just let the pain and heaviness be. You don't try to run away from it. You're not frantic or rushing to solve it. You can still take steps to improve the situation, but you will not be doing so out of desperation. I don't know if it's accurate for me to say I'm "sad by default." But that's just how it seems to me right now. Of course, it is just another label. I have been seeing lots of palindromes lately. I'm not just talking about the fact when the battery is 11% and time is 11:11. No, I'm talking about something rarer, like when the battery is 50% and the time is 11:05. Or when the battery is 31% and the time is 2:13. Okay, maybe it's the wrong subreddit for me to mention the numbers. Whatever, I just wanted to mention it for extra details. I personally do not put too much weight on things like that. It's just that it rarely happens to me but that has been happening more often. And I've had a severe procrastination habit for several weeks now, but I seemed to have calmed down in recent days. In recent days, I've just surrendered to this "heavy" feeling that I seem to be sad about almost everything all the time. When I look deeper, and sit with it for a while, I realize it is not just sadness. It's a lot of things. It's the sensation of being a dense physical body that has to deal with toxicity on a daily basis. It's the realization that we live in a chaotic world by default, but that it's perfectly possible to remain still within ourselves. It's being reminded that the more I go with the flow, the more things just fall into place with less effort on my part. When I let myself be sad by default, I simply stop struggling so much. I simply do what I have to do, get on with the day's tasks without complaints. I embrace the mundane patterns that are happening in my life. Maybe I'm not really sad. Maybe I just called it sadness because I used to avoid it. It's just another part of my being human that I refused to acknowledge. Things always seemed difficult, but in reality, things just are as they are. And I'm getting more and more used to that fact, the more I continue my mindfulness practice. [link] [comments] |
| Hoping to understand a couple experiences (jhanic in nature perhaps?) Posted: 11 Oct 2020 08:00 PM PDT Looking to understand a couple (jhanic?) experiences during and after meditation Hello all! I joined so I could enquir about what I might be experiencing with my meditations, which tend to be right after work for about an hour. Ive been meditating for several years, completely self taught with no guidance. Basically I'm pretty sure I'm experiencing one of the first couple jhanas, but my experiences don't quite track with the descriptions I've seen about the general path one takes. Perhaps the best way I can describe the difference is that I use very little in the way of any concentration. They say "focus on the breath, then focus on a pleasant feeling and keep your attention there". For me, immediately when I start meditating my mind goes blank, same feeling like when one tries to go to sleep. That blankness is found in a minute or less. At that point I locate the pleasant feeling and just enjoy it. It usually spreads quickly through my body. But I'm not concentrating on it or trying to knead it into the rest of my body per se as the practice calls for. It tends to spread throughout my body of its own volition without interference from me. I experience euphoria quite often during meditation. It pulsates, often starts in my head as a throb, like a brain aneurysm bursting. In my practice this euphoria comes and goes, and I feel like I'm skirting consciousness. I let it be, I don't chase it, and dont encourage it, but it's persistent and never permanently goes away for the duration of the session. It's a constant ebbing and flowing companion. So my question is: can you identify what jhana I might be experiencing? It's hard for me to tell because i never have this sense of trying to concentrating/focus, and "letting go". It all just happens. I'm not focusing on anything during any of this. Again, almost sleep-induction-like blank mind. My other question: what do I make of the enduring euphoria AFTER meditation? I know euphoria during meditation is quite common and to be ignored, but nobody talks about it AFTER meditation. I'm often a walking bliss ninny for hours after meditation, and I never hear anyone talk about this happening to them. Just curious what I'm to make of the fact that I'm often euphoric after meditation for so long? Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Recommend the book “the power of now” Posted: 11 Oct 2020 10:43 PM PDT It helps me to get rid of sound in my mind and focus on my work [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2020 08:26 PM PDT What does shadow work entail? Can someone please explain how to get that ball rolling? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2020 10:12 AM PDT Since my daily practice began, my cat has been nearby while I am in meditation. She first would meow and rub affectionately on my upturned hands. I did not react, and allowed her to be part of what I was experiencing. Now she sits extremely quietly near me, as I feel she has figured out what's going on, or maybe more appropriately, what is not going on. Her presence is not disturbing, and I believe her open-hearted nature is a good energy to have nearby. This morning when I opened my eyes, she was sitting directly in front of me, under my mediation table. She is a blessing. I am a bit disappointed that there are no longer photos on this sub. I was able to take a photo of her a few moments after my practice ended. [link] [comments] |
| I know this might seem stupid but how does one meditate? Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:29 AM PDT |
| Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:18 AM PDT sometimes, we have felt distracted when we are in the job or do something we need to concentrate and sometimes that causes anxiety. What is the factor of being distracted? I would say we have too much thoughts and minds in our mind. so solution is empty out those thoughts or worries and minds. Meditation is the perfect way to get rid of those distracting thoughts. Let's do meditate together and live only now! Jason- Meditação Lisboa [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2020 09:32 PM PDT At the moment I inconsistently meditate 10-20mins per day and try to practise mindfulness when I can. Anyone else had experience with this that can share anything? Thanks ! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:07 AM PDT Here's a great new guided meditation by Paul Harris of the House of Inner Tranquillity. It includes how to approach thoughts and distractions in the meditation. [link] [comments] |
| It seems like I'm finally able to 'switch off' my thoughts. Posted: 11 Oct 2020 06:40 AM PDT I know it's not the primary goal. You should learn to observe your thoughts as part of the present moment. But I do find that focusing on the present moment, such as my surroundings, makes it seem as though my thoughts vanish, as if I don't have a use for them. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Oct 2020 12:08 AM PDT So for the past few nights when i lay down to start meditating after awhile my arms and legs began to feel like i have energy or something rushing through them and it starts becoming hard for me to lay still because i have the urge to move, so i was curious if anyone knew anything about why or what it means? [link] [comments] |
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| Do you ever go to bed an hour before bedtime and meditate? Posted: 11 Oct 2020 05:39 PM PDT I was wondering if it would be a good idea to go lie down in bed one hour before my normal bedtime and attempt to meditate while lying down. The theory here is that you won't go to bed immediately since your body is used to going to sleep one hour later, but you will get to lie down and meditate instead of sitting in a chair. Has anyone done this? Will this work or will you just end up going to bed one hour before normal? [link] [comments] |
| I made a Meditation and Affirmation YouTube Channel ☺️ Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:56 PM PDT Hey, i made a YouTube Channel were i post meditation and affirmation Videos. Can you tell me youre opinion about the videos? I would really appreciate that ☺️♥️ My Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31TgygHEiQA9QvNsFfClIQ [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2020 11:22 AM PDT Today while meditating on my defensiveness, I looked at the word "just" and how it can influence feeling lesser than and indicate defensiveness. Take for instance the sentence "I want to go to the park" now add "just" after I and see how the sentence now implies that you're not getting what you want. The only time I found you should use the word "just" is in a sentence like "The verdict was just". Do yourself a favor and remove "just" from your vocabulary. [link] [comments] |
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