Meditation: A fascinating and liberating perspective I found from Eckhart Tolle |
- A fascinating and liberating perspective I found from Eckhart Tolle
- 5 Months of Daily Meditation
- I'm starting to prefer meditation over cannabis for relaxation and spiritual experience
- I had no idea what ego was
- Anxiety relief
- I think many people find the idea of meditation unconsciously threatening.
- What to focus on aside from the breath?
- Being aware of being aware? Why?
- Meditation visual and auditory immersion, euphoria - is this common?
- My constant fatigue makes meditation hard to me
- It's going to take whole lot of forgiveness to get out of this mess.
- Long term Practitioners, do you still simply sit with your breath, or has your practice evolved to include other forms of meditation?
- Baby steps!
- How to deal with intrusive thoughts?
- How to meditate properly if you live in a constant stress?
- Echart Tolle tricks to quiet the mind, it works very well !
- First 10 minutes back into mediation
- Question
- Drop all nonsence and fall into your eternal peace.
- Closed eye visuals while meditating?
- How many times a day can I meditate?
- Seeing images of unknown during meditation
- As you grow up, you form a mental image of who you are, based on your personal and cultural conditioning.
| A fascinating and liberating perspective I found from Eckhart Tolle Posted: 13 Oct 2020 11:28 AM PDT Wanted to share this concept for meditation: "isn't it amazing that your body is just as spacious as the universe? Your physical body, which is form, reveals itself as formless as you go deeper into it. It becomes a doorway to inner space. Although inner space is formless, it is intensely alive. That empty space is life in its fullness, the unmanifested source out of which all manifestation flows. When I no longer confuse who I am with the form of me, then the dimension of the limitless and the eternal, often called God, can express itself through me and guide me. It also frees me from dependency on form." - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2020 07:12 PM PDT Whew. The last 5 months have flown by. I started meditating and just never stopped, it wasn't my intention to continue for this long. I had so many negative changes that happened in my life during the last 5 months. My boyfriend broke up with me, I fell out with my best friend, I was ostracized by my entire friend group and left a job I had been in for 5 years to move back in with my parents. I went from having a killer job, a boyfriend I was hoping to start a family with, a 'ride or die' friend group to... nothing. As a person of color, the entire BLM traumatized me and made me re-evaluate my entire life. I went through a true dark night of the soul and felt that I had lost everything. I was absolutely devastated, all my familiar comforts of my life completely gone. There were many times I sobbed when meditating, or was too angry and upset I would open my eyes to check the timer, absolutely hating the process. But... sometimes the meditations brought peace to me. After time, I began to see my friend group was really toxic (we would spend weekends doing drugs and drinking) and my boyfriend was borderline abusive. My life slowly became more peaceful, but my new vulnerability was really scary. After 2 months of meditating I stopped drinking. I decided to give it a break and just never picked it up again. I had basically been an alcoholic for the last 10 years, although from the outside I looked like an "it" girl who was galivanting around the world and traveling. I could spend $600 a night on drinks for two people. In reality on all my world trips I was inebriated 100% of the time and heavily medicated. I had an incredible amount of anger for 3 months, and I had to intentionally add an additional 5 minutes to my practice to completely let go of my anger. I started incorporating a lot of yoga into my life. Then I started hitting the gym and was able to stick to a routine for the first time in 10 years. I started drinking more water, reading, quit social media completely and started reading and improving my vocabulary. I don't think about drinking at all and I'm not as angry anymore. My 'this feels right' intuition became my most important compass. I learned to stop deviating from it. I was able to come off of anti-depressants for a crippling anxiety disorder that had plagued me for the last 2 years. This is after an 18 year battle with mental health that included suicide attempts, eating disorders, and dropping out of high school 6 times. I truly do not understand how my life had continually been a mess... abusive relationships, being assaulted over and over, drinking myself into oblivion. Before my medication I was suicidal and suffering from panic attacks. I really struggled with my 20's. For me, meditation means truly living. And truly healing. Each day is better than the one before. Each day I know myself a little bit more. From a spiritual side I have felt very connected with my ancestors and trying to build a better life for myself. I'm not the same person I was before, and I am almost in mourning for who I was - for almost 30 years! I have true presence. Not the kind you force yourself to have after reading a spiritual book. Not the kind I'd wake up every day and say, I'm on my way to enlightenment! I can actually feel the world and enjoy seeing, smelling, watching, smiling, and laughing with it. My mind no longer takes me to the depths of hell anymore. edit: I meditated for 20mins a day for the first 4.5 months. The last 2 weeks I've been adding another 20 minutes before bed. It's usually in a sitting position with my back against a tree. Hope this helps :) [link] [comments] |
| I'm starting to prefer meditation over cannabis for relaxation and spiritual experience Posted: 13 Oct 2020 11:50 PM PDT |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2020 07:48 PM PDT I'm 26 years old and I'm just now discovering what ego is and how crazy it affects most of the population. I never thought I had a big ego but when I take a look at many situations and things I have said or my reactions to certain things, I noticed that those things were my ego speaking. I always just thought ego was a narcissist or something, but it's much simpler than that. And this is starting to change my perspectives quite a lot on how I live my every day life and interact with people.... Starting to ask myself: is this me or is this my ego speaking? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:00 AM PDT I was feeling very tense yesterday. My life is going extremely well at the moment yet I couldn't shake the feeling of dread off of my mind, I felt like nothing is right and everything is bound to spiral to shit sooner or later. Typical anxiety I guess I've been meditating actively for a while now and it's been doing wonders for me but yesterday I got caught up in a thought loop and it was like I forgot everything meditation has taught me. Anyway, I decided to lie down and set the timer for 50 minutes. Pretty much as soon as I started meditating I decided to look straight into my fears, not to try and solve them, because all that ended up doing was make me get caught up in them some more, no, I just wanted to see what they are. A pretty interesting thing happened. I started dying of laughter. It was all so funny, absolutely ridiculous. I had a very strange sensation where it was as if the fear was an object that I could see in my mind and it was floating in front of me and I couldn't stop laughing at how ridiculous it was of me to have such strong anxiety when my life is going so damn well. It was a feeling of great relief, just looking at the fear was enough to kill it, because more often than not it is fully irrational and absurd, but when you're caught up in it that's hard to see. I'd recommend taking a step back and taking a closer look at it, you may be able to see how funny it really is. P.S. My fears yesterday weren't grounded in reality, but some are. I don't want to be insensitive to those of you that have real reason to worry, but I think you'll benefit from taking a step back too. [link] [comments] |
| I think many people find the idea of meditation unconsciously threatening. Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:34 AM PDT I was just thinking on why my mother doesn't meditate but I do despite the fact that she is Buddhist and I am not and even vocalizes the wish to meditate often. Indeed knowing her personality she could possibly benefit most of all of the people I know. Or, it could also be somewhat devastating to her. There are aspects of my mother's life that are the classic life lived in "quiet desperation". I must say mine as well, but in my case there is far less denial and I have worked hard in recent years to shed a lot and accept a lot. When I asked my mother a while back why she didn't meditate despite wanting to she gave me one of the classic excuses "I don't have the time" This I laughed at as both me and her work similar full time retail jobs that ask about the same of our lives and both of us have few other commitments outside of this. Yet I find 40 mins every day to meditate but she says she can't find 10 mins. I am not judging her one bit in saying this, I just find it humorous, and a bit sad. I think the subconscious answer she didn't want to give was more along the lines of: "If I admitted to having the time required for that, then the entire edifice of my life might come crashing down" I know here are things my mother regrets. Not becoming an artist for one. Not spending her life in any other fulfilling way either. She perhaps has come to something of an acceptance of these things. But it seems to me more an acceptance born of dismissal. And that is the thing with meditation. Our lives can be lived in a state of almost complete non acceptance, pain, conflict, denial, dissonance. So long as we are always distracted, always "busy". Meditation threatens this facade of false happiness. For to sit down and truly quiet the mind for even 10 mins a day means that all that you have been busily keeping at bay will of necessity come rushing back in. And that is a terrifying prospect for many. Sad though for the monsters out in the darkness we have been trying to keep at bay can also be some of our best friends in time. [link] [comments] |
| What to focus on aside from the breath? Posted: 13 Oct 2020 11:47 PM PDT I've recently picked up meditation and have thus far have had a mixed experience. I'm using the "10 Percent Happier" app and the one thing that gets me messed up is that I'm currently having terrible allergies that make it difficult or laborious to breathe. Not always, but sometimes when I attempt to draw my attention to my breath, these difficulties will just trouble me and introduce anxiety, which makes breathing harder yet. What can I draw my attention to instead? [link] [comments] |
| Being aware of being aware? Why? Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:51 AM PDT I was on the old non-dual corners of reddit and an interesting question was put forth regarding the reasoning or even purpose in being aware of being aware. This idea of self-awareness plays a huge role in meditation practice as well so I thought I'd share those thoughts with you and get your point of view on it. This sense of awareness is so universal in most spiritual teachings that sometimes a lot of us on this path take it for granted for the simplicity of it. For me personally, being aware of being aware is like discovering truth; it's an insight into reality as it really is instead of the story we see of it. Our lives are merely a unique story that we have built for ourselves from the day we are born. The rose you see from the point of view of a newborn is vastly different from the 3-year-old who hears the word "rose" in his/her head on seeing it because he/she just learned it. And evidently so, the 'reality' of the rose for older folks like ourselves are further morphed with interpretations and concepts. (notice how language fails me in such a stereotypically non-dualistic way lmao) As we grow with time, our idea of what is 'really real' gets modulated with mind concepts, thoughts, and ideas. Though it serves us a grea t deal in achieving things in life and as a species, it has created this pattern of 'clinging' and identification with thoughts and emotions. When we feel angry sometimes, it almost feels like we are the anger. That's why we tend to get lost in the story of it and scramble in trying to 'make things right'. But if you clearly notice, there's something else that's watching your anger. When you feel a physical sensation, you clearly notice that you are NOT the sensation but that which is watching it. When you think of something, the true reality of that thought is the awareness watching the thought. This understanding or being able to see this 'angle' of reality helps bring a great liberation from the suffering that may come your way. A strange man carried a huge diamond in his palm for many many years. He would protect it with his life and never let go. But when the monk asked him to look clearly and see that it's just a piece of rock beyond the story given, the diamond fell out of his hand on its own. So the next time you sit for a meditation session, I urge you to divert your attention from 'the breath' to 'what is aware of my breath'. If a thought arises, ask yourself what is the reality of it; "who is here right now watching it" and feel that who in the moment. Be that who. Hopefully that allows you to go deeper into your practice. Sending love. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation visual and auditory immersion, euphoria - is this common? Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:34 AM PDT Hi all first post on this site. I got into meditation initially through an addiction recovery group with acupuncture and have been trying it (without acupuncture) lately again on my own for relaxation and to get away for a while to relax. Initially when at the group my meditating session saw me get drawn to and immensely focused on a visualisation of being within a huge internally glazed bone china ornament of my body and I was working (on a ladder maybe) inside it cleaning it with large cotton tips to reach all the inside surfaces and as I done this I seemed to be able to feel the effects of it in my body as a physical euphoria as it looked very clean and glossy from within, I had pretty much gone around the inside of most of my upper torso neck and limbs when an acupuncture needle popped out of my ear snapping me out of it sharply with a little fright! I felt a bit nauseous for the rest of the evening but still in awe by the experience. I spoke to my therapist later about it and she said she was surprised at how easily I was able to get into that state of mind and that she thought I did not ground myself properly afterwards and that might have been why I felt nauseous. That was a few years ago but I've been trying to meditate again lately on my own and after focusing on my breath I also focus on what I can see with my eyes closed and also what I can hear and feel too and I seem to still be able to get to another place after about 5 mins. I've never tried to go beyond 10-15 mins. For example last night before sleep I managed to get into a kind of state where I was somewhere else and I could see a person walking through my field of view and could hear a kind of humming buzzing going on in the background. There were other fleeting images and sounds. Again pretty detached from my surroundings in a kind of trance which I could enter and leave when I felt like it. It's been positive so far. I'm curious as to where I can take this. Can I ask these questions please... Grounding - how do I do that effectively to avoid nausea? Is it normal to be able to see and hear this stuff while meditating? Can anyone recommend a technique I can follow up to get more out of meditating? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| My constant fatigue makes meditation hard to me Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:06 AM PDT hello beautiful people not sure what I wanna express with this post, but lately I have been feeling a bit frustrated. I started meditating at the beginning of the year because of a mild insomnia problem. I had difficulties falling asleep and found an app that used meditation to guide me. It helped and ever since Ive never had any problems falling asleep anymore. So I became curious to try meditation with the purpose of meditating, not just to help me cope with something else. I loved it, and I still do. I know that it makes me calm, help me control the constant flow of thoughts in my brain and helps me be more aware. But on the other hand its so hard. Ive had this problem where I am constantly tired for over a year now and I tried everything. Blood tests, vitamins, iron, vitamin D, they checked my O2 and breathing while sleeping, thyroid gland. Everything works well. Its always present, no matter how much I sleep. Having a chill week with less work and a lot of spare time for myself and uninterrupted sleep? still feeling tired right after waking up. From time to time, maybe like 2-3 times a week, I practice a bit, mostly after waking up to set the mindset for the day. But its frustrating that after a few minutes I cant really let myself just be and focus on my breath or body or whatever sensations I decide on, because I will feel even more tired and kinda weak. And its not like I meditate for 1 hour, no. Even after 3-5 minutes I already feel the tiredness overrun me. so yea, I think I just needed to vent a little and express my frustration here. I hardly know any people that meditate, so I have no one to talk to that can somehow relate to the same topic. But I will stay positive and keep practicing because even these few minutes that I manage to focus, they still help. Its better than nothing. Things will hopefully get better. I am looking forward to a future where I solve my problem and can fully dive in into meditation because Ive seen the benefits and I want to have it back. thanks for listening [link] [comments] |
| It's going to take whole lot of forgiveness to get out of this mess. Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:00 PM PDT I'm doing A Course in Miracles as my practice these days. One of the core concepts it drives home is forgiveness. Forgive everything all the time. Unconditionally. But thankfully perfect acceptance of any moment is the result of perfect forgiveness. For myself, I need to forgive the entire world for being the way it is. We have all the resources for world peace and a society built around having a meaningful existence at our fingertips. We have nothing to fear; we subdued our environment. If people didn't attack other people we would have no need for the fight or flight reflex anymore. But folks have one damn fear that they can't shake. That they might run out of the abundance and starve. Deep in the lizard brain, it makes the struggle impossible for the marginalized. The 99% are just as deserving of the finer things in life. It comes down to a kindergarten lesson, sharing means caring and caring is good. But that endless need to BE more by HAVING more is killing all of us. See? Anger any time I think about it. That's why I have to forgive the world for being the way it is. Doing that brings forgiveness to everyone involved, to all the unnecessary suffering, and most importantly, to myself for attacking the very people who need me the most. I believe in the Light inside each person. I believe in God. This is why I want my enemy to be blessed with Life, so he can see his own Light and be satisfied. Then cease being my enemy. What a year to be practicing forgiveness. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2020 10:36 AM PDT I've recently watched a few documentaries on meditation because I'm just starting to maintain a steady practice. I deeply enjoy the simplicity of sitting and becoming aware of my thoughts and senses. I ask this question in hopes of discussing how the practice of long term practitioners of meditation has evolved over time. Do you still simply listen to your breath? Are you much better at getting to a state of awareness and maintaining it? Do you contemplate your thoughts purposefully? It is interesting to me that there are so many forms of meditation and yet most everyone starts by sitting and observing their breath. I wonder what leads someone to change this practice of simple awareness to something different. Thanks for any input! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2020 03:54 PM PDT I'm a week into mediation everyday! I try to aim for anywhere from 3-10 minutes. I'm very new at this and have horrible ADD/ADHD (and other mental illness and disorders), so it may not seem like a lot, but for me it time moves differently and really slows down. So far, I notice I cry a lot during the beginning, but it doesn't bother me. I feel like I'm releasing something and each time, it's already feeling a little lighter. Today I pushed myself for a complete ten minutes with a 20 minute slow stretch after. I felt a moment of calm that I can't really describe, but I want to feel it again. I am really grateful for everyone's vulnerability in sharing their own journey and process. It's helping me take my time and ease into this more and more. I feel like I am learning to hold myself again and through that I can be more present for everyone/everything in my life. Thanks y'all, this group was literally what inspired me to give it a shot when I was feeling really desperate and depressed. [link] [comments] |
| How to deal with intrusive thoughts? Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:23 AM PDT Even when I'm not meditating , I sometimes get intrusive thoughts and sometimes it gets very overwelming, how do u cope with it? [link] [comments] |
| How to meditate properly if you live in a constant stress? Posted: 14 Oct 2020 03:01 AM PDT I like in a constant stress with my in laws and meditation is helping a bit but not that much. How do i know if i am doing it properly or maybe there is a different way to meditate to calm down? [link] [comments] |
| Echart Tolle tricks to quiet the mind, it works very well ! Posted: 13 Oct 2020 06:47 PM PDT Just ask yourself : "I wonder what my next thought will be" watch what happen. [link] [comments] |
| First 10 minutes back into mediation Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:29 PM PDT I've always considered myself a mindful person and would meditate on occasion. Normally it wouldn't take long before my thoughts began to slow and my mind became still. Today, however, close to a year since I've started my first full time job as well as practice mediation, I decided to sit down focus on my breath and meditate. The first 3 minutes were mindblowing. My thoughts would race from work, to my phone, to lunch and every which direction. It felt as if my mind was at war with itself and the only way out was to open my eyes and do something. But I continued and slowly my mind became more at ease. I've come to the realization that in this hectic society that a majority of us live in, meditation is almost a necessity for life. [link] [comments] |
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| Drop all nonsence and fall into your eternal peace. Posted: 13 Oct 2020 01:37 PM PDT Leave all concepts by not believing them. They are nonsence. They only cause suffering. Don't waste this beautiful life on suffering. See that you are not a concept. See the source of all ideas. You are the source of all ideas, but you are not limited by them. They are just appearances in You, just like clouds are appearances in the INFINITE Sky. You are this Sky. Don't believe in your mind. Don't believe in any idea that you were conditioned to believe. You don't have to. You can wake up from this dream. You and the Source of life are not sepperate. Don't believe even in theese ideas, just see your own experience without concepts. Just be effortlesly in your natural state of Being. Thank you for reading. You have all the support from the Universe in discovering your true nature. Love you. Love you. Love you. ❤️ [link] [comments] |
| Closed eye visuals while meditating? Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:56 PM PDT Today, for the first time while sober and conscious, I had closed eye visuals. Somewhat-vivid images appearing in my mind. I was wondering if this was a common phenomena. A little background about me: first post here. I try to meditate daily, but often forget or get "too busy." At least i'm more consistent with this than working out! lol. I'm a drug user, not of horrible proportions, but it affects me. Currently, I'm drying myself out, and the withdrawals have me somewhat irritable and asocial, along with physical symptoms. Meditating for about 25 minutes, i started to see images over the course of the time after, i'd say 5 minutes in. i looked at each 'apparition,' thinking about what it could mean to me. If theres any interest in what I saw, I'm willing to share that, I took notes right after it happened. Anyways, mainly wondering if this is a regular occurrence for anyone. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| How many times a day can I meditate? Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:35 AM PDT I'm new to the LOA as I'm trying to manifest a SP. I do that manifestation meditation at night before going to sleep, but during the day I still feel I could use some relaxing meditation, just to relax. Is it a good idea? [link] [comments] |
| Seeing images of unknown during meditation Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:08 AM PDT For last couple of days am seeing unknown human images(Whom i have not met at all) can someone please help me in understanding as what it might be Thankyou [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2020 11:26 PM PDT It's from Eckhart Tolle's book "The Power of Now." His simple explanation of the ego. [link] [comments] |
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