Meditation: The rise in popularity in mindfulness and meditation is not a coincidence. We live in some of the most unfulfilling and disconnected of times. |
- The rise in popularity in mindfulness and meditation is not a coincidence. We live in some of the most unfulfilling and disconnected of times.
- Let the longing drive you, your heart knows the way. Let your mind rest in silence, it has all your answers. Dont give in to the insanity of sanity!
- The most difficult thing about meditation (and therapy) are the threats to the ego.
- ive been relying on my intellect for happiness and it forces my head to block my heart.
- Full Moon Meditation
- Good types of meditation not relating to the breath?
- Meditation timer and reminder for desktops/laptops
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- How can I fall back into meditating without fear after watching horror movies?
- Breath work
- Been meditating throughout the day since Sunday and whoa.
- Meditation and Trauma- Specific Advice
- I learned how to properly meditate and it "cured" my aphantasia (Blind Mind's eye)
- Why does my ability to concentrate and focus increase after doing deep breathing exercises ?
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- Mantras to accompany meditation ��
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- 10 advices for beginners
- You can’t fuck up
- Why don’t we scratch while meditating?
- How do I perfectly balance my Anahata chakra?
- Interesting patterns I’ve noticed after meditating
- To the new meditators: Your ‘newness’ is a gift. Don’t think you’re way behind experienced meditators. If anything, more often than not, you’re ahead of them.
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| Posted: 29 Oct 2020 03:22 AM PDT And because of this I wanted to share some links to the subscribers on this subreddit so that everyone can learn and practice even more. Jiddu Krishnamurti - The art of meditation Ten mindful movements - Thich Nhat Hanh I want to say that I think that it is beautiful that more and more people are practicing mindfulness and meditation. I hope you enjoy the links And to help people even more, I created the free yourself project which will start with this video . Hopefully it will help you. Out on 21th of November. Hit the notification bell to get notified when the video can be watched. [link] [comments] |
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| The most difficult thing about meditation (and therapy) are the threats to the ego. Posted: 29 Oct 2020 10:57 PM PDT As I have progressed on my journey these past few years I've come to realize some things about myself that have not been easy. Meditation has been part of that journey, as has therapy. I am reminded of a therapist I saw years ago that I hated at the time that I found very "triggering" to go to. To this day I do feel he was a bad fit for me at that place along my journey but I've come to realize with time that the problems were in me so much more than in him. He told me right at the outset that therapy with him would not be easy and that I would not like it. He was not a compassionate and kind sort of person, that is not how he approached his practise. I have found I have made much more progress with someone now who is kind and compassionate. As well as building these qualities in myself. But looking back it is interesting, and rather scary in a way, to see things in me that I don't like. Meditation I think has helped to shine a light on much bad faith that used to exist in my life. And still does. This is where waking up is not a fun process. Where the dark night of the soul may come in. If you don't approach these things with compassion and self love, well you are in for a bumpy ride. I have been a very unhappy person much of my life. There are reasons why and legitimate ones at that. This is where self compassion and love comes into the picture. I won't bore you with the details but the important thing is I felt no compassion and self love for myself for feeling unhappy. This though I think is a dangerous and toxic mix. Some part of the mind knows one is not entirely to blame for ones own unhappiness in life. And yet other parts are also fully aware too of ones own responsibilities in life. But if one is not to allow ones self a modicum of self compassion, well then the weight of those responsibilities will crush you. So your personality kind of splits. You deny the things you actually are responsible for and have control over. And in doing this kind of self deception in order to live with yourself you risk becoming something you hate. You risk building a facade you don't even realize is false. I have spent most of my life feeling like I am a "bad person". I have spent most of my life thinking that most people "hate" me. I have felt like I am a danger to other people. That my existence brings pain to others. I have always had almost no room for judgment, rejection or criticism for I would immediately be triggered into feeling like I was worth less than nothing. But in truth too this hid anger and other false emotions and feelings. The real truth of myself was both so much more kind, beautiful, sad, and also ugly. Almost no one has ever hated me except myself. Indeed it would seem almost everyone likes me lol. But of course I had some deep childhood wounds that I can not even remember. Perhaps I long felt like I was a "bad person" because some part of me understood this ugly game I played. I was a "victim", sad, lonely, pathetic me. And however much I tried to hide that side it likely seeped out everywhere and people saw this side of me. I was insecure, childish, defensive, aloof. I kept people at arms length out of my own terror of intimacy then drowned in my own self created pit of loneliness. Now of course I WAS desperately unhappy, and fucking terrified of the world, of people, of rejection, of intimacy. I was a little child lost in the wilderness. And I never gave that child a hug. Never told him it was going to be ok. The stripping away of all of those layers of falseness to get at the real me. It has not been easy. I have not liked what I have seen. But also what there is to see is much more beautiful than I realized too. Even now it remains a daily struggle. The ego fights hard to maintain this image of myself as a "good person", period end of sentence. No, I am not a good person. I am flawed and broken and ugly, I have hurt others and been hurt. But I am also beautiful, and kind, compassionate, thoughtful, deep, wounded and growing. [link] [comments] |
| ive been relying on my intellect for happiness and it forces my head to block my heart. Posted: 29 Oct 2020 08:04 PM PDT talk about the wrong tool for the job. my basic part of my brain is in desperate need of exercise and air. reason and the rules it leads to have forced me into a very limited perspective. funny enough, one of my many rules is to attain lots and lots of perspective. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2020 02:03 AM PDT Does anyone here know how to do full-moon meditation? Any good suggestions or tips would be helpful. [link] [comments] |
| Good types of meditation not relating to the breath? Posted: 29 Oct 2020 11:56 PM PDT Can anyone recommend me a type of mediation thag doesn't heavily rely on the breath like most other meditations thanks :) [link] [comments] |
| Meditation timer and reminder for desktops/laptops Posted: 29 Oct 2020 11:47 PM PDT Dear meditators, For those of you who mute mobile phones (or don't use reminder apps on desktops/laptops) during (long) work hours, please find below two pages for interval reminder and timer for your frequent short meditation throughout the day. https://dailyhappy.life/reminder/ https://dailyhappy.life/timer/ Hope you find them useful. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| 528 Hz Music| Positive Energy, Full Body Healing, Anti Anxiety, Deepest ... Posted: 29 Oct 2020 11:46 PM PDT |
| How can I fall back into meditating without fear after watching horror movies? Posted: 29 Oct 2020 08:22 PM PDT My roommates made me watch a few horror movies with them this month, and since then, I've been unable to sleep without the lights on and I haven't been able to meditate without paranoia or anxiety. How can I overcome this? Meditation usually brings me a lot of peace but recently I've been more afraid to meditate than anything because of the horror movies [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2020 01:56 AM PDT Hi everyone! I've started meditation practises for around two months now. It's working great! But I've recently tried to do breath work, I have the app calm and do the breath work sessions on there and set it for two minutes, but it seems to make me really dizzy and my heart starts thumping, am I doing something wrong? Is this normal at the start? Any advice would be great :) thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Been meditating throughout the day since Sunday and whoa. Posted: 29 Oct 2020 01:46 PM PDT I feel like a kid. I can't stop smiling and laughing at the dumbest things. It kinda feels like smoking weed for the first time. Everything just seems so exciting. When I'm not meditating I feel like I'm always waiting to feel better mentally. I'd tell myself "well it's okay if I feel like shit today, tomorrow or the day after that I'll feel better." I would tell myself that because I'm sorta in the process of quitting a few vices that no longer serve me. So I'd tell myself that I'm going to be feeling like shit for awhile until I'm no longer a habitual user of those vices. It was always a waiting game. Since began meditating like a mad man I'm no longer waiting. I am already where I need to be. I feel more positive and the world seems brighter. I always felt like I was carrying around this negative aura with me everywhere I went. Like I couldn't detach myself from past experiences. Now that I'm meditating I'm realizing that I don't need to stay attached to my past or negative thinking habits. You can literally walk away from it all and all you have to do is meditate and stay present always. Much love<3 [link] [comments] |
| Meditation and Trauma- Specific Advice Posted: 29 Oct 2020 08:59 PM PDT Hi everyone, In 2017-2018, I had a vipassana practice I was fairly consistent with. I was building towards incorporating things like metta and christian contemplative practices as well. At the beginning of 2019, I suffered a major trauma. I witnessed my Dad's suicide. He shot himself in front of me. Needless to say, I stopped my practice- the agony of traumatic grief was too intense. I was later diagnosed with PTSD, and I'm working on it with a trauma specialist currently. It's almost been two years and my mental health has been in shambles. I tried to start practicing again in July, but I ended up experiencing such intense anxiety, that I began feeling suicidal after a week. That was a big no go for me, so I stopped. I have a ball of tension that sits in my abdomen that causes mild discomfort all the time at its best, and severe agony at its worst. I find I'm unable to meditate through it because the tension robs my ability to attend to my breathing or other sensations. When I turn my focus to the tension itself, it increases to a point that becomes so unbearable I have to stop. Does anyone have specific advice for slowly working my way back into the practice? I'm looking for tips on practices I can do. It's important to me in a spiritual sense, and if it works, it might help me heal. I also wonder if I'm trying too soon to get back into it and should give myself permission not to practice as well, something my therapist has suggested before. Thank you all for the support! [link] [comments] |
| I learned how to properly meditate and it "cured" my aphantasia (Blind Mind's eye) Posted: 29 Oct 2020 03:18 PM PDT Hypothesis: Aphants have trouble finding true relaxation and therefore cannot visualize.Edit: I would like to point out that I am NOT saying visualization is required for meditation. But by properly learning to keep my mind and body still, I stumbled on the ability to visualize which also requires a certain level of mental stillness. If you can visualize when you close your eyes, I ask that you look at this from a perspective of someone who has never been able to properly relax. I ask that you please keep your mind open, it all sounds a bit crazy but I promise it will make sense in its own way. First try to transition from remembering, to relaxation, to how you would solve a math problem (2+2), to focusing, and finally to zoning out. You might be able to feel your mind shifting and transitioning from "mind states". Now, I will ask that you look away from your screen and with your eyes open and remember a fond old memory... perhaps of your favorite toy and what it looked like (please do this right this moment). You may notice that your eyes move to a specific spot and if you manually move your eyes to that same spot and hold it, you will feel a sensation. That sensation is what I would define as how it "feels" to remember. So how does it "feel" to visualize? And before you dismiss me, I challenge you to find someone who is an exceptional visualizer preferably someone who sleepwalks or used to (this is an important piece which I will explain later - sleepwalkers are some of the best visualizers) and ask them if they feel everything I describe below while they are visualizing. Visualization is a state of mind where you are relaxing, focusing, and using your imagination at the same time. To visualize, it feels like you are doing a zoned out type of focus, you feel energy/tingles/mist all over your body, you also feel a thin film of energy around your body, and you also feel a much less intense version of your arms or legs falling asleep (it's very bearable and doesn't hurt at all). You may notice your eyes slowly roll back (it may feel like a gear turning) and "lock" and that is when you can visualize. For visualizers this stuff happens pretty instantly and you may have to describe some of these feelings to them. Now when you ask a visualizer this question, they are going to think you are a psycho (and not for the same reason an aphant would think). The reason they are going to look at you crazy is because THAT IS WHAT THEY FEEL WHEN THEY RELAX. That's right, when they visualize, their bodies feel tingly relaxation. These people can see things when they close their eyes, is the fact that they also feel magical and tingly at the same time really that far out of reach? They are so used to it - so desensitized to it, that they don't even notice it anymore! But this is the key to solving visualization! Hypothesis: An aphant and a visualizer have different definitions of "relaxation". Relaxation has a direct correlation to visualization. Aphants deep on the spectrum (like me) do not feel any of the above sensations while visualizers feel all of it.That is what I am calling my proof - I can accurately describe the sensations involved with visualization and sleepwalkers who are exceptional visualizers agree with my description. My goal is to guide you through the process and have you feel sensations as checkpoints and at the end, you should be able to visualize. The sensations I describe are what it feels like to be "relaxed" as defined by sleepwalkers. Hypothesis: Visualization is a "state of mind" (SoM for short) that is more like a spectrum of relaxation. One one end you have Focused SoM, this is where aphants live (this relates with math or problem solving skills) and on the other end you have Relaxed SoM (this relates to visualization and imagination). The mind's eye varies from "nothing" to "black and white" to "crazy vivid detail" and everything in between. So if we learn how to access this state of mind, we can visualize. Many of us can dream, so the ability to visualize is there, it was just a matter of figuring out HOW... which is what I have been working on for the past year and a half.(for reference I define as a state of mind as remembering, imagining, doing math in your head, etc. any in-your-head type function) I have learned that Visualization is a combination of SoMs and there are different ways to visualize. You can learn how to visualize and you can improve on it as well. I only focused on one variation which is probably the most difficult and that is the way sleepwalkers visualize (I'll explain later it's a long story). Because it is more like a spectrum, some of you will be able to visualize quicker than others. Some of you may already have some of the pieces to the relaxation puzzle and that is why you can visualize more. *Do not even try and visualize until the end - it probably won't work and you'll have to start at the beginning. Make sure you relax more and more at every stage and every stage is a prerequisite to the next stage. 1) Relax - Make sure to really let go and give in to the feeling. 2) Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth - Just focus on deep relaxing breaths from the belly. 3) Zone out and focus - It's that feeling you get when you are watching a movie and suspend all belief, (where you can feel emotion off a movie). It also feels like when you drive a familiar path and you are on auto-pilot mode and just arrive at your destination. It's a blanked out focus, and it is NOT the same SoM you use for math. 4) Feel energy (like tingles or mist) from your head to toes - As a child you might have tried to create an energy ball or magic in real life, you swore you could feel it. You might have dismissed it as pretending or playing, but I can assure you it is essential in visualization and relaxation. This is a SoM, you just forgot about it or never used it because you can't visualize (There was a purpose for it, you just never knew what to apply it to). You need to relax your body to the point where you can feel your pulse. From this point, you can begin feeling the energy/tingles all over your body and especially on your face and eyes. Think of this energy as equivalent to relaxation. Any piece of your body that isn't relaxed, won't feel the tingles. The more you feel it, the more relaxed you become… and the more relaxed you become, the more you feel it. 5) The Nothing State - This is the final and most important step. You feel like time is slowing and... you just go blank. Your mind and body are completely still, you don't need to try and do anything. It's like shutting off your brain while you are still awake. Hold on to the blankness while still feeling stage 3 & 4 and you will get this feeling of your eyes slowly slowly rolling back. It feels weird, kind of like a slow turning gearin your head, stay blank and relaxed. Your eyes keep rolling slowly and then they will "lock", and you WILL know when this happens. The moment it happens, that is when you will feel the thin film of energy surrounding your body, you will feel this mind/body connection you never felt before. Your whole body will feel like it is asleep (you know that feeling where your arm or leg falls asleep and the tingles are so intense? It's like that but not overwhelming and not painful in any way). On a side note - now you know why people use the words "fell asleep" when referring to their limbs feeling like that. You're almost there, "hold onto" all of these feelings. If you "release" this stage, you will not be able to visualize. You may hear crackles in the room like someone is squeezing a bottle of water. It feels like your brain and body are vibrating. 6) Visualization - if you do everything properly, while you are holding stage 5 you will begin to see some pulsating lights, colors, textures, maybe some hypnagogic hallucinations. I think this stage is person specific, and your experience will be unique to you. Basically hold stage 5 and imagine/pretend you see things… and you will and it gets easier with practice. For me personally, at this stage a white pulsating/vibrating fog opens up into a scene where I am then able to lucid dream or at least see images. Sometimes it takes me an hour to get to this stage, it takes practice. This tutorial is pretty much how to properly relax. I am sure as time goes on there will be better descriptions, hopefully by non-aphants. Tips + Tricks:
Hypothesis: The basic components of visualization are: Relaxation (mental blankness, the tingles), an External Focus (focusing on your whole body), and Imagination (actually feeling the tingles, and imagery like image streaming).Everything I explained to you is nothing new - it's ancient, I've just put it in a very interesting perspective. I chose to mimic how sleepwalkers visualize/relax because in the hypno world they are known as somnambulists (I am a hypnotist - its a long story I'll explain it later). They enter a deep state of relaxation naturally and they are the ones you see on stage being turned into dogs and tripping balls. This is not fake and this is not mind control, they enter a state similar to lucid dreaming and their mind is so strong that it can visually hallucinate (their mind can photoshop/overlay visualizations over real life vision in real-time). That is why when hypnotized, it is possible for them to see a random person as a celebrity. I figured if I wanted to visualize, I was going to shoot for the peak. Once you master stage 3 & 4 you will be hypnotizable. The deeper you go down the stages, the more susceptible you will become to hypnosis. This is exactly how it has worked for me. To be hypnotized you simply "hold" your SoM and have an external focus on the hypnotist's voice. If it doesn't work, you are not relaxed enough. You don't have to try to do anything, you just have to relax and focus. Hypnosis can be used as a way to learn how to relax more deeply, and it can be used as a test to see if you were truly relaxed. Hypothesis: Some of you may think, "this kind of sounds like meditation". That is 100% correct. My idea is that Image Streaming, Hypnosis, Meditation, Spiritualism, Lucid Dreaming, Astral Projection etc. are all very similar, their end goal is the same state of mind - hyper visualization. Everyone has the same finishing point and a bunch of groups are trying to get to the same spot in their own ways. What I have noticed is that they all have a lot of similarities, the only difference I see is that they use different modes of External Focus (EF). Image Streaming - EF = talking to an outside source, Hypnosis - EF = hypnotists voice, Meditation - EF = your body, Spiritualism - EF = chakra points, Lucid Dreaming FILD - EF = your finger. There are lessons in relaxation that you can learn from all of these methods, even if you don't share their beliefs. A wise man once told me, "Look for truths in the world. If you go from people to people you will find that 'god' is vastly different for everyone, but a 'tree' will always be a tree and a 'rock' will always be a rock". That is what I went out and did, and that is how I came up with the relaxation process and feelings associated. I looked for similarities and truths between the groups and figured some shit out as best I could.***More tips and tricks - By relaxing you are putting your mind in a state where it is more susceptible to suggestions, be careful of what you are listening to. The following videos have been vetted by me and I have used each one many different times. Confusion Inductions - These inductions are made for people like us, it uses confusion to place you into the right mindset. Remember to be at least at stage 3 & 4 to be able to experience hypnosis and make sure you hold those SoMs. Overload Inductions - These are Inductions that rely on overloading your mind with sensations and then dropping you into a very relaxed state. I suggest the "7 plus of minus two" induction. This was the first induction that really got me. Breathing Techniques - Things like "square breathing" are really helpful. I notice that I feel more relaxed when holding my breath. The video below is purely for the breathing technique (which is excellent). I personally do not believe any spiritual aspects of the video below, as I said above - I think this is simply lucid dreaming. If you follow along you will definitely have a nice meditation session. Nothing in this video will be bad for you, but some of his other videos are a stretch. I only recommend this one. https://youtu.be/uwe3rLWScw0 Binaural Beats - as with hypnosis you need to be at stage 3 or 4 at the minimum. Binaural beats plays a different tone in each ear, to properly use this method you need to kind of fuse both tones in your head and create a third tone (that is in the middle). You can also use this as some background meditation noise. The potential implications of this are insane. This could prove that there is a correlation between SoMs and math / problem solving. Meaning there is an ideal SoM to do certain tasks… It doesn't guarantee you will be good, but it helps. If this is true then we can optimize human learning. These SoMs could also be related to mental illnesses in extreme cases. Writing this took a lot of energy, if this takes off I promise I will do a follow up with my story and journey on how I figured all of this out. For now, thanks for following along and keeping an open mind. I hope you reach your goal of visualization. If you are in a position to give, please donate. I've spent a year and a half and countless nights of awful sleep trying to solve this mystery and to phrase it in a way that is digestible to other people. I humbly think I deserve it for solving this. [Donate Here](www.gofundme.com/project-visualization) [link] [comments] |
| Why does my ability to concentrate and focus increase after doing deep breathing exercises ? Posted: 29 Oct 2020 08:08 PM PDT Shortly after doing deep breathing exercises I feel like my concentration and ability to focus and stay present increases dramatically. I was wondering what the cause for this may be ? Is it just placebo or is there science behind this increase in concentration ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2020 03:06 AM PDT Hello, I am very new to meditation. I started just 10 days ago. Literally from the first or second day I could feel different. It was a very good feeling. Lowered anxiety, lowered emotional responses to daily troubles, generally more patient. All great things. I started off 10 minutes in the morning and then 10 minutes before bed. I'm the "some is good, so more is better" type so within days I was doing an hour to an hour and half of meditation per day. The beneficial effects mentioned about remain and I am thankful, but I have found that my breathing has become very slow and heavy and sometimes I am out of breath from just speaking. Do I need to lower my time spent meditating or will this eventually pass? Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Mantras to accompany meditation �� Posted: 29 Oct 2020 06:21 PM PDT ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥ oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ "We meditate on the glory of that Being who has produced this universe; ------------------------ ॐ त्र्य॑म्बकं यजामहे सु॒गन्धिं॑ पुष्टि॒वर्ध॑नम् oṃ tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam "We worship the three-eyed One, who is fragrant and who nourishes all. ------------------------ असतो मा सद्गमय । तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय । मृत्योर् मामृतं गमय । asato mā sadgamaya, tamaso mā jyotirgamaya, mṛtyor mā'mṛtaṃ gamaya, "From falsehood lead me to truth, ------------------------ Ganesha Mantra ॐ गं गणपतये नमः Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha "Salutations to Lord Ganesha" ------------------------ गते गते पारगते पारसंगते बोधि स्वाहा gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā "Gone, gone, beyond to the other shore, awakening, svaha." [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2020 01:36 AM PDT My sangha is doing an online parami challenge together, encouraging us to focus on one parami per week and see what we learn. So far we have covered generosity and ethical behaviour and it has been a great way to develop the parami in daily life. It occurred to me that some of you might be interested in joining in. So here's the info and a link to the page. Maybe see some of you there! Livestream 1st November 5pm GMT [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2020 05:54 PM PDT Remember: 1) Buddha was NOT a buddhist. 2) Buddha learnt meditation from his teachers. 3) There is nothing spiritual in meditation. 4) If you want to study so called sacred buddhist texts, don't. If you decide to study them, study anthropology first. 5) %99.9 of monks are liars. 6) Meditation was discovered around 2500 BC. It is a mental exercise. 7) The weakest point in Buddha's philosophy is rebirth. Other than that, Buddha tried to explain things with psychology. He had no chance but use the idea of rebirth to reach indian's mind. Because people in India can't even listen to anybody who doesn't believe in rebirth. It is axiomatic. 8) If Buddha saw buddhist monks chanting gibberish, he would be upset. Majority of buddhists don't even meditate. 9) Buddha didn't bring any kind of religion. He didn't answer any metaphysical questions.(apart rebirth-reasons explained). He is more like a philosopher or scientist of some sort. 10) Buddha only cared about nowness. He used the term ''sati'' which involves memory. Westerners translated it as awareness. It is true but not enough. Sati means "recording the moment", which only can be achieved by noticing the moment. It is more like recording or being able to record the moment. Sati is RAM in brain that works with data through senses. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2020 07:23 AM PDT Pardon my French, but I had quite the realization sitting the other day. You actually cannot fuck it up! No matter what you think or feel, you can always be aware of that thought or feeling, and return to the object of focus, or simply rest in open awareness, again. Cant explain it beyond that, but once I realized this, I felt a sense of freedom which was new for me on the cushion. [link] [comments] |
| Why don’t we scratch while meditating? Posted: 29 Oct 2020 12:46 PM PDT Like, wouldn't it be more along the lines of mindfulness to notice the itch, make it go away, and not think about it anymore than it would be to continue feeling it and take your focus away from your breathing and place it on some sort of "pride" in your ability to perfectly stay still? Yet ever where I look, it's like extremely taboo to scratch an itch or adjust. Why is that? [link] [comments] |
| How do I perfectly balance my Anahata chakra? Posted: 30 Oct 2020 02:48 AM PDT |
| Interesting patterns I’ve noticed after meditating Posted: 29 Oct 2020 02:09 PM PDT Hi guys, I was curious if anyone else has experienced this before. Ever since I started meditating I've noticed the tendencies of my mind. One specific pattern I've noticed is that when I realize I'm happy or in a good mood, it goes away. I can feel change in my state of mind as it happens. It's quite strange honestly. This same instance would happen when I noticed that I didn't feel anxiety and then I started to feel anxiety in my body. Is there something I can do to change this? What could be causing this? Thanks to anyone to takes the time to read! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2020 08:46 PM PDT I've been meditating for over a decade now. Time and time again I see new meditators say things like "that person has been meditating for so long, it'll take me time to get to the same level." And such things.. as if the experienced meditators (like myself) have some kind of an advantage. I believe it's almost never the case. (I'll come to exceptions later) Here's the thing: When you're coming in fresh and not knowing what to expect, you have a better chance to go deeper than someone who's been doing it for decades. The rules of the normal world are flipped here. You don't get better with experience, you get worse (more routinely, rigid, knowing what to expect). So, when you're starting out, know that you can achieve depths in awareness that someone with 20 years of meditation experience can't. Because you're coming in like a child, and the experience person has to make an effort to come in that childlike state... ans that's the exception I was talking about... Some experienced meditators CAN come to that childlike freshness each time they meditate. With no expectations and no idea what's going to happen. And then it's a different thing. But even in that case you're at the same level, at best. So newbies, cherish and enjoy your newness to meditation. And veterans, try to bring that same newness that you had on DAY 1, every day. Have a great night :) [link] [comments] |
| How to let it be when we have a brain fog ? Posted: 29 Oct 2020 11:36 AM PDT Hi. Lately, after reading a book, I have understood what is "let it go". I understood that emotion exists and must be allowed to exist, it's already there. That sadness is only sadness, just as fear is only fear, and the negativity around it is only a thought. Someone said here "to see thoughts as passers-by in the streets, they are there and only pass by". I found peace. The peace of living with your emotions and not being manipulated by them. And then tonight. France begins a new lockdown tonight. I feel a feeling of suffocation. I lose awareness of reality. I have difficult breathing, the urge to cry or scream, I can't think or see that I am thinking. I can't find any distance from this feeling. I become this sensation, I become unreasonable. Do you have any advice to help me? I don't want to go through a second lockdown as the first one. How to remain in reality? [link] [comments] |
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