Meditation: Meditating for 30 minutes every day changed everything. |
- Meditating for 30 minutes every day changed everything.
- Just finished "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle
- Thanks whoever said the tip about focusing on the silence inbetween each breath. First time I've actually felt something during meditation
- This might be useful to anyone struggling not to get lost in the activity in the mind.
- “I’m just happy to be here”
- Was there a moment that you finally "understood" meditation and how powerful it can be? That this practice wasn't just a nice way to relax, but much much more?
- Stoicism
- First meditation experience! Nothing huge but interesting none the less!
- How to Shift to Higher Consciousness
- Bright white light
- When you mediate, does your house get super clean?
- How to do the kuji in?
- I've had an experience that I cannot explain and I would like to hear other peoples take on it.
- Mindfulness in plain English question: concentration vs mindfulness
- When anxiety gets extreme
- 15 Minute Guided Body Scan Meditation for Anxiety and Stress with Calming Background Music
- Loneliness on the spiritual path - tips?
- Realisation of emotions
- A tree is the best symbol of meditation
- Weird strobe lights
- How i know i am doing it right?
- Can meditating more frequently make things worse?
- Recently gotten back into meditation and loved it! Been doing it consistently for like 10 days and really enjoying it...but I’ve suddenly gotten a rush of anxiety from it? Anyone have experience with this? Can meditation CAUSE anxiety?!?
| Meditating for 30 minutes every day changed everything. Posted: 25 Oct 2020 11:41 AM PDT For the first few months when I discovered meditation, I struggled to even do five minutes. Then I struggled to do ten minutes. I felt like was getting benefits, but not nearly as many as I would have liked. About a week ago when I was having panic attacks nearly every day, I decided that I wanted to be consistent with my meditation and do thirty minutes per day. I know it sounds like a big leap and trust me when I say that closing my eyes on the first day knowing that I would be meditating for the next thirty minutes felt like a huge leap of faith, but I did it. Then I did it the next day, and then the day after that. It's completely changed how I view the present moment. All I do when I meditate is focus on my breath, nothing more. It seems so simple and yet so far it's helped me so much with both depression and anxiety. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. For anyone wondering whether or not meditating for longer makes a difference, it does. [link] [comments] |
| Just finished "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle Posted: 25 Oct 2020 07:36 AM PDT Wow! This book really goes into depth on how to be the observer of your thoughts and emotions rather than clinging to them and suffering. I would say that if you have trouble meditating and think you're "doing it wrong" then this book would be of great help to you. My perspectives have changed so much and i have a lot of new tools under my belt to help deal with emotions and thoughts. Just thought i would throw this out there to help anyone who needs it! [link] [comments] |
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| This might be useful to anyone struggling not to get lost in the activity in the mind. Posted: 25 Oct 2020 06:19 AM PDT I learned some years ago that when we are engaged in verbal/discursive thinking the muscles in the jaw and mouth make micro movements as if we are talking. It's become second nature for me now to shift awareness into my jaw and relax these motions which immediately quiets my mind and opens up space to become the witness to the mind. I don't need to be sitting in meditation to do this, it's something I come back to constantly throughout the day. Opening the back of the throat helps too. Building this habit has made a real difference to the shifting of identity into boundless awareness, and loss of identity with the content of awareness. This has had innumerable positive benefits and I'd love everyone to be able to find their way back to their true selves. I hope this is helpful to anyone overwhelmed by a monkey mind. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 08:20 AM PDT -Mike N My old college roommate would say this every time we were at a party that sucked. I or someone else would complain about the party being lame. Mike would say, "I'm just happy to be here" Never would I have thought I could learn so much from such a simple statement in such an opposite of zen environment. Goes to show, all things and people are our teachers. Although where you may be at sucks, and you may be suffering, be happy that u are where U are and get to experience any sensations at all. We are truly lucky to exist and dare I say it, we are lucky to be able to be alive and suffer. For suffering is the basis of existence. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 10:09 PM PDT For me, there was a clear moment or two where I finally realized how deep meditation goes with regards to the human mind and how it really can improve our lives. I think meditation is a real cheat code to life, almost on easy mode if you do it correctly and a lot. It took a while to realize these things (the illusion of self, the transitory nature of thoughts, the manifestation of moods, and more), but I did. For everyone else, was there a defining moment when you realized how deep and powerful meditation truly is? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 11:40 PM PDT I recently discovered stoicism and realized that it has so many connections to meditative states, in my humble opinion. I stumbled upon r/stoicism and wondered why anyone was still interested in repressing their emotions. I read their sidebar and read about it, including the fact that the adjective "stoic" is a complete misrepresentation of the philosophy. I only recently discovered, and got passionate about, it but from what I have read it is all about compassion, and how to train our minds to be kinder and more productive in society. It has many common themes with meditation and Buddhism, including mindfulness. It also takes it a step further in predicting future mishaps in order to prepare ourselves for them. I figured that I would share this with others because I had hardly heard of people being interested in stoicism and hadn't given it any serious thought. It has had a positive impact on me and I hope it does on you too if you decide to look into it. [link] [comments] |
| First meditation experience! Nothing huge but interesting none the less! Posted: 25 Oct 2020 09:59 PM PDT I set a timer for five minutes (it actually went faster than my ADHD brain expected it to, lol!) Just closed my eyes and practiced observing my breath. Had a couple thoughts surface (both related to my ex, go figure). Then something happened that I remember happening last time I meditated a year or so ago— a deep ache in the center of my upper / middle back. But this time, idk, the pain was a bit more bearable? Or maybe I had attempted to go longer last time and that's why the pain seemed more pronounced back then. Also, this time, I had the sensation sort of move to my right front shoulder area (I've been having aches in this area in general). But then something cool happened. I started to get into that really "light headed" space that honestly I wasn't really able to get into previously. Then I kind of heard/ felt in my spirit.. "it's because you didn't overfocus on the pain, you observed it curiously but stayed aware of your entire body." Immediately after I heard this, the timer went off! Super excited for tomorrow's meditation! I'm gonna continue to take it slowly and be super patient with myself, this time around. [link] [comments] |
| How to Shift to Higher Consciousness Posted: 25 Oct 2020 08:22 PM PDT |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2020 02:02 AM PDT So I've been meditating on and off over the last few months and I've been going through a strange.. transformation. I think differently somehow and understand things from a very different perspective; most of this has come from an inner voice, it's a little hard to describe but I think being more present makes me analyse things much more deeply. Earlier today, I was incredibly stressed out and laid down wanting to have a nap. Right before I dozed off I cleared my mind and focused only on breathing. After awhile I noticed an unbelievably bright white light to a point where I wanted to close my eyes, but my eyes were already closed. It lasted for a few minutes and after that I opened my eyes. Just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced something similar and what it might mean? It was almost blinding, but I wasn't panicking, I felt calm and more than anything, curious about where this light was coming from, but at the same time could feel myself lying in bed so I knew I hadn't dozed off and it wasn't a dream. This isn't the first time I've experienced it but this time the light was much brighter somehow than the previous experiences. [link] [comments] |
| When you mediate, does your house get super clean? Posted: 25 Oct 2020 06:59 PM PDT I haven't taken time to intellectualize specifically what it was about starting to meditate that my house started getting cleaner than it's ever been. However, I feel like the connection is there pretty obviously. I honestly didn't think a simple meditation habit would have such a concrete, physical effect in my material life. I think at one point, I realized that people always talk about meditation as some bothersome chore, but I realized that actually meditating is a really cool experience that I enjoy. I guess that bled it's way into my life because cleaning and scrubbing, organizing things, feels intensely satisfying. Has anyone else seen this change in their own life? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 09:05 PM PDT I heard about the Ninjas meditation techniques and i want to learn them for the benefits they bring, How do i do the meditation? [link] [comments] |
| I've had an experience that I cannot explain and I would like to hear other peoples take on it. Posted: 25 Oct 2020 04:32 PM PDT I started meditating seriously only a little bit ago and I noticed something. While I meditate there is a sense of floating that I kind of feel and that feeling reminded me of something that I haven't thought about for a while. Its a memory that seems almost like a dream but it doesn't feel like it was a dream. It was where I was looking at myself being taken care of by my mom as in she was placing me into my crib as a baby. The crazy part is I remember waking up after this when I was maybe 2 or 3 or even younger. I have no idea what that means and I've remembered this up until now. I'm 20 years old almost 21. I also somewhat remember floating around looking at different parts of the same maybe 1 year period but that one part I remember more clearly than others. [link] [comments] |
| Mindfulness in plain English question: concentration vs mindfulness Posted: 25 Oct 2020 11:57 PM PDT So, I'm reading Mindfulness in plain English and have started practicing the prescribed meditation (focusing on the breath through the nostrils) daily. In chapter 14 he talks about mindfulness vs concentration: "Too much awareness without calm to balance it will result in a wildly over-sentisized state similar to abusing LSD. Too miuch concentrations without a balancing ratio of awareness with result in the "stone buddha" syndrome, where you will get so tranquilized that you sit there like a rock. Both of these are to be avoided. The initial stages of mental cultivation are especially delicate. Too much emphasis on mindfulness at this point will actually retart the development of concentration. ... Just about the only rule you need to follow at this point is to put your effort on concentration at the beginning until the monkey mind phenomenon has cooled down a bit. If you find yourself getting frantic, emphasize concentration. If you find yourself going into a stupor, emphasize mindfulness". My question(s): Is he talking about actual meditation practice (focusing on the breath) here, or is he talking about mindfulness in everyday life? If the former, then what does it mean to emphasize one or the other? I mean, you sit there and observe your breath, noting (without mentally verbalizing) the sensations in your nostril, and that's it, no? What would be an example of too much concentration or too much mindfulness here? If he's talking not about formal meditation but of mindfulness in everyday life, well then I guess I could understand. For example, you're in a conversation with a friend and there are bids signing around you, so you strike a balance between complete focus on the conversation and also being aware of the bird's singing. However, if this is what he means then it's quite confusing, because at no point does in the whole book does he talk about practicing mindfulness in everyday life. That, instead, seems to be an eventual positive effect of formal meditative practice. Looking forward to you input. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 07:56 PM PDT I'm going through some things right now and trying to spiritual things as opposed to self destructive behaviors. Last night my heart was beating out of my chest and I couldn't get the thoughts to stop or anxiety. I need to be able to do this because anxiety is what I try to numb. Any tips that can really help? Oh but this morning I did meditate for 2 hours, just trying different ones. [link] [comments] |
| 15 Minute Guided Body Scan Meditation for Anxiety and Stress with Calming Background Music Posted: 25 Oct 2020 11:40 PM PDT |
| Loneliness on the spiritual path - tips? Posted: 25 Oct 2020 07:33 AM PDT I've been on the spiritual path for about 2 or 3 years now and have had an interest in this sort of stuff for quite a while. I meditate for at least an hour a day and during the lockdown, I did it more often. I had a non dual experience then when I saw myself as awareness and where my body wasn't really there. Ever since then, I've become more and more disconnected from people and things. Nothing interests me any more and I don't relate to anyone. I feel very lonely sometimes because I literally have nothing to say to people anymore except for talking about spirituality, which they don't get and so I don't really fit in. Even though I have bipolar disorder and have never truly connected with anyone before, this is a whole new level of disconnection. I was wondering if anyone else felt/feels this loneliness/isolation due to not being able to relate to anyone and if they had any suggestions on dealing with it. Thanks in advance :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 07:26 PM PDT Wow! I am only new to meditation, but I started due to getting serious physical symptoms from stress or so I thought. I just did a guided meditation, I don't know what the meditation is called but it was to basically let your emotions that you suppress come to you and to sit with them and feel the emotion. I have never really been someone who can easily feel emotions and often don't even know what the emotion is that I am feeling. No idea why I just usually ignore it and it goes away. However this exercise my first emotion was sadness and I sat with that for a bit and no big issue however the next was anger, this was such a strong emotion and something I didn't realise I was holding, my whole body started to tense, my breathing started to increase, the tears started to run and my body started to heat up, but most noticeable was the pain in my stomach I get when I thought I was stressed, it was intense. I am amazed that I was/am carrying around this level of emotional anger and didn't even realise. I tried not to analyse it and just felt it. I'm only new like I said so I don't know what to even do now but it was just a strong realisation to me that I need to start feeling my emotions rather than hiding them. [link] [comments] |
| A tree is the best symbol of meditation Posted: 25 Oct 2020 11:12 AM PDT I strongly feel that there is a relation between meditation and trees. Just like the mountains, whenever I see a tree, I see it as a symbol or icon of meditation. Standing silently, observing and always giving - not only clean air for breathing, but trees also providing shade, fruits, a home for birds, and more. However we, human beings have been able to erase over 48% of the forest so far. Apart from Buddhism, trees are considered sacred in many countries. I am trying to write an article on this topic - meditation and trees. It would be a great help if you share your thoughts or any relevant information with me. Peace, love, and happiness! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 10:47 PM PDT Does anyone know what those weird flashing lights you see while meditating? If I focus on them, I get a really floaty feeling and it's really nice. The way they move is also strange because in some ways it feels like my body is "falling" so I accidentally lean forward or backward, and only notice until I get uncomfortable. It feels like my brain is trying to make them into different colors but just quite isn't changing colors, sure feels like they still are even though they are weird orbs of this white light. Any feedback would be awesome. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| How i know i am doing it right? Posted: 25 Oct 2020 10:33 PM PDT so. here's the thing, I had never tried to meditate or something like that before, I always found it something interesting since in my work it is easy to get stressed and tired a lot, apart from the fact that I am a person who gets very frustrated at it. So reading I realized that meditation could help me relax, apart from having benefits in other things such as concentration, which I also need! But it wasn't until recently that I decided to give it a try. after reading some of the recommendations on this subreddit I decided to try meditating 30 minutes once a day, in fact I just finished my first ever meditation and here are some of my doubts. 30 minutes is okay to start? How can i get rid of intrusive toughts? There come and go but never left! How does it feel to meditate correctly? I cant say i felt relaxed, it was more like a just existing feeling, some itches over here and there Is it normal for time to rush by? It was 30 minutes and each one felt as if there were still another 29 left, but suddenly the alarm went off. How should I feel when I finish? I don't know if it's because of my lack of experience or because I did something wrong, but at the end I felt very strange, not bad or good, just like stunned. It was a very interesting experience I must say! and if anyone has any advice or answer or even a question! I'd really appreciate it. And sorry if I made a mistake in my English, it is not my first language : / [link] [comments] |
| Can meditating more frequently make things worse? Posted: 25 Oct 2020 12:42 PM PDT My experience is probably not uncommon, but I started meditating about 3 years ago, a guided vipassana course. It started off as daily for the first two months then went down to a few times a week in the interim years. In that time, my pure ocd got worse so I didn't really espouse the awareness from my meditation sessions in my daily life. Instead thoughts had a bigger weight than they did before as I tried to "get rid" of my ocd. Now I'm back to meditating daily for a month or so. Overall, I feel more calm but there are a few points in time I'm way more reactionary than before, especially when I'm feeling annoyed. I've had one or two outbursts, which is not usual for me, and I'm not sure why. And in the latest week of my current daily practice, I feel like my mind is getting lost in thought more, during and after meditation compared to the last few weeks after the beginning daily meditation again. I find this weird since I never gave up my practice in between, just did it less frequently so I'm wondering why I'm having the beginners slump again now. Given the trajectory of my practice, are these two things normal? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 06:08 PM PDT So I've been doing meditation and a whole lot of inner work (ex. Setting boundaries, prioritizing my joy etc) and I've been feeling great!! I'm loving meditation (using headspace) and have been doing it every day. I felt such bliss and calm. I'm usually not an overly anxious person though I'll get anxious and think worst case scenarios on things (meditating has helped a lot with this!) Anyways I've been meditating off and on for a while but nothing consistent. I've decided to commit myself to doing it every day. It's now been just over a week and I love the positive impacts already :) In fact on Friday I felt such joy and peace in my heart I kept expressing my gratitude for a great day! Last night I meditated like 30 minutes then went to sleep. Had nightmare after nightmare! Woke up this morning feeling fine :) then 15 min later felt anxious. And my heart rate was high. My resting heart rate is like 70-75. It was at 100. Weird. I have nothing to be anxious about. I figured maybe it's stomach issues? Took some meds. Nope. Maybe I'm hungry? Ate food. Nope. Maybe I need exercise and nature. Went on a long walk and played With my niece :) had so much fun! Still didn't fix it. I feel ANXIOUS. About what I don't know. Nothing triggering me. My heart is racing. I started to google and apparently this can happen when you start meditating?! Why??? Has this happened to anyone else before? Did you overcome it quickly? Any tips? I don't understand WHY this would happen? :( https://www.headspace.com/blog/2017/04/13/anxious-meditation/ [link] [comments] |
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