Meditation: Thoughts are NOT bad |
- Thoughts are NOT bad
- Just reached 60 days of meditation!
- Does 5 minutes do anything
- Where can I find Transcendental Meditation instructions with a mantra for free?
- Guided meditation
- Sitting, habit-forming, and ADHD
- After 6 months, I have upgraded to meditation without any music or guidance! Thank you for the support ��
- It’s ok to continue to struggle too.
- The trick is to become convinced that being here, now, is better than being lost in thought.
- Anyone have experience in becoming a meditation teacher?
- One or more methods of meditation
- What should I do, when I'm trying to meditate, and a song or melody is stuck in my head?
- A technique to observe your thoughts.
- Long Term Meditation?
- How does one "release tension?"
- Fail to Meditate. Get into mood. Feel. ( Chronic Disease)
- Beginner’s Questions
- Meditation causing me sleep issues
- Swaying plus sleepy sensation during meditation
- I am love itself.
- I couldn't let go of fear because I was afraid of what might happen
- Sleep problems due to meditation?
- Consistent humming noise at night
| Posted: 16 Oct 2020 08:16 AM PDT I meditated for a long while before I heard a meditation teacher announce that -- Thoughts are NOT bad. I think until that time, I understood meditation to be a practice where I was supposed to silence my mind. Now I understand that meditation is not about getting rid of thoughts. The human mind thinks. The idea is to relate with the thoughts in a more sane way. So when thoughts come up--I don't need to get rid of them, chase them, indulge in them, comment on them, etc. I notice myself thinking and then I simply COME BACK to my body breathing. I do this again and again and again. Thinking is not a problem. But--noticing, being gentle about the experience and coming back are very important. [link] [comments] |
| Just reached 60 days of meditation! Posted: 16 Oct 2020 10:20 AM PDT I'm currently on a 100 day journey of meditating after I had a mental breakdown and I must say I've been more calm and focused than I have ever been. Today I had a moment of truly thinking for myself and noticed how much other people's opinions of things affect the way I feel or think about what's going on around me. Once I noticed that I set an intention to make sure I'm always thinking for myself which can be difficult at times. I encourage anyone on a meditation journey to continue to keep pushing and learning about yourself and what your thoughts are telling you and I'm looking forward to reaching my goal. Cheers! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Oct 2020 06:28 PM PDT I'm starting mediation, but I only do it for 5 minutes because at most that's all I can really handle right now ,but I don't if it's doing anything or if I'm supposed to feel something, do I need to increase time as I progress or what? [link] [comments] |
| Where can I find Transcendental Meditation instructions with a mantra for free? Posted: 17 Oct 2020 02:36 AM PDT |
| Posted: 17 Oct 2020 02:38 AM PDT Which is the best guided meditation video for OM chanting or AUM chanting ? [link] [comments] |
| Sitting, habit-forming, and ADHD Posted: 17 Oct 2020 02:33 AM PDT Hi, I thought I would share some thoughts about an issue I've been having that maybe some of you will recognise. I have ADHD, which makes habit-forming very difficult. They say that if you can repeat a habit daily for a set amount of time (1 month, 3 months, I've seen both), it will be come automatic and self sustaining. For me it is the opposite. I can keep a habit as long as it has novelty, as long as I am still actively motivated and mobilising my will to make the effort to keep doing it. When I reach the point when it is supposed to become automatic, it no longer has the novelty or freshness, the initial motivation drive wanes, and the habit slips. There is not force of habit to take over when that happens, the past has no hold on me. This means that the longest stretch of time I have been able to sustain a meditation habit so far is three months. Now I have started again after a long lapse, and am about a week into the practice. I know that no matter how motivated I am now, and how rewarding I find it, I can not trust this interest and motivation to keep me engaged in a month or three. You may tell me to deal with that when I get there, but the issue is that when that happens I may not even notice it, or I won't care. So I can't trust my motivation, and I have no force of habit to fall back on. How can I sustain a consistent practice over time? What I am doing: 1) Make it easy. For me this means that even though I want to (eventually) sit for an hour, some days I may have to say that ten minutes are enough, just to hold on to the practice. It also means practicing in bed, before getting dressed in the morning, because if I get up I may get carried away by other things. It means using a single-function meditation timer, keeping my sitting pillow by the bed, and leaving my phone in a different room at night. 2) Start over. Often if I miss a day I miss another one and another one and then I feel like all is lost, so I will try to think of skipped days as an opportunity to start over instead. 3) Keep it fresh. If I feel like the practice is getting tired and worn-out, I will allow myself to explore a new technique or take a different approach for a while. Even though following the same technique ever deeper would be ideal, trying something new is better than stopping. 4) Let go of goals. I very easily feel demotivated by set-backs, so I will try to always remind myself that the practice is its own goal. I think staying focused on that, and letting go of achievement-oriented thoughts will be essential. 5) Make it joyful. I think I will benefit from paying attention to the aspects of the practice that feel good, because I don't have large reserves of motivation or will-power to sustain me through something that feels bad day after day. 6) Keep feeding it. Right now this means reading something meditation-related in bed before sitting, and reading meditation-related reddits instead of social media throughout the day. But I tend to crave variation, so this may slip when I'm out of the initial habit-forming effort. 7) Make it visible. I have a beautiful single-function meditation-tracking calendar in on very visible place on my wall. Some things I could do: Anything else I can do to help myself sustain my practice beyond the initial phase? Any ADHD-people here who have been able to sustain a long-term (year+) meditation practice? How did you do it? tl;dr: I have ADHD, habit-forming doesn't work. How to sustain a practice when I have to actively choose it every time, and motivation is inconsistent? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Oct 2020 01:11 PM PDT I'd always keep reading posts here to push myself to keep up to the habit of meditation. I started using the brainfm app for music, then slowly tried to transition to unguided meditation. Now I can do 30 minutes of stillness without any music or guided practice. Honestly, it's just so hard to just observe to all that is going on in the head , more so if you have adhd - check r/adhdr/adhd Still far from making it a daily routine but on my way 🙂 [link] [comments] |
| It’s ok to continue to struggle too. Posted: 16 Oct 2020 05:11 PM PDT For those who have struggled through life and continue to do so. Part of being kind with ourselves is also accepting where we are on our journey. Working toward better mental health yes, putting in place a practise that moves us in that direction yes. But insisting on being made of steel and iron is as much self abuse as hating ones self for other reasons. You will have bad days, for some perhaps many. But they will with time be fewer and farther between. Don't fight them. Today seems to be a particularly difficult day for me. Perhaps because I am somewhat physically ill as well. Many unhelpful thought patterns seem to return to me on such low days. It seems much more difficult not to identify with the old narrative some days than others. Not even sure what I'm saying here but I do think it's ok to have bad days. In fact thinking back to my old ways of acting and thinking... it was the fact that I would allow bad days to stop me in my tracks that was the issue in the past. I would take them as "proof" that I could not continue. As with meditation where you return back to the object of meditation. Perhaps we should also practise a broader sense of refocusing where bad days in which we identify and mull and wallow are allowed and then the next we make sure to return to the solid practise. It is the non flexible way of thinking that does us in isn't it? [link] [comments] |
| The trick is to become convinced that being here, now, is better than being lost in thought. Posted: 16 Oct 2020 07:53 AM PDT It's really not hard to be present... but the pull and allure of thoughts as being something more exciting than boring old reality, is intense. You have to become convinced that the present moment is more worth your while that the "thought worlds" constantly bubbling up in awareness. [link] [comments] |
| Anyone have experience in becoming a meditation teacher? Posted: 16 Oct 2020 09:53 PM PDT This would be a few years down the road. I'm really starting to immerse myself in meditation. I was wondering after I had a few solid years of meditation under my belt I could become a teacher? I don't know if you need to go through some course or what not. I just feel passionate about teaching others what is really starting to change my life. Thanks [link] [comments] |
| One or more methods of meditation Posted: 17 Oct 2020 02:59 AM PDT Dear meditation colleagues, Do you meditate using one method or multiple methods? Let me know your thoughts. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| What should I do, when I'm trying to meditate, and a song or melody is stuck in my head? Posted: 17 Oct 2020 02:42 AM PDT |
| A technique to observe your thoughts. Posted: 16 Oct 2020 03:28 PM PDT Sometimes when I'm meditating, I visualize myself sitting there from the third person. In other words, I visualize I'm watching myself meditate. For some reason, this helps me observe the thoughts I am having, and helps me notice how they're making me feel, rather than letting them consume me. In a way I guess I'm "watching" how I react to my thoughts.. It also really gets one in the present moment to try to visualize oneself breathing quietly. It is not like I'm astral projecting or anything. It's just a visualization technique. It's kinda cool though! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Oct 2020 01:08 AM PDT Hi I am ready to start a long-term (years) meditation residence at a centre somewhere. I am Canadian but also hold American citizenship so that might be easiest though I am open to other places provided there is a way to get some sort of visa for this arrangement. Any tips at all would be greatly appreciated - thanks! [link] [comments] |
| How does one "release tension?" Posted: 17 Oct 2020 12:37 AM PDT I mean this in a specific sense that I saw in a video that I can no longer find. Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about. It was a Buddhist monk, old white dude, addressing pupils and he was saying if you get distracted from your meditation object, simply return your focus to the meditation object and release tension, or maybe it was the other way around. How do you release tension? [link] [comments] |
| Fail to Meditate. Get into mood. Feel. ( Chronic Disease) Posted: 17 Oct 2020 12:13 AM PDT Hello beautiful people, I need help. Can you please guide me on how can I meditate at home to help me fight with my disease? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Oct 2020 11:28 PM PDT Hello, all. I'm super new to meditating. I'm just kind of winging it right now (any advice appreciated), but I will say I have had some modest success with achieving brief moments of stillness; moments where it feels like my mind is genuinely empty. Unfortunately. it never lasts more than a few seconds before the inevitable deluge of thoughts comes crashing back in. What I've become acutely aware of in those moments is the "I" filter through which my thoughts percolate, if that makes any sense. I'm not sure if I should even pursue this endeavor, but I'd like to know if it's possible to get rid of "I" (or ego, I don't know what I should call it) during mediation. If so, does anyone have any tips to help achieve this state? Or is this something so subjective I just have to figure it out by myself? Also, anyone have any advice on how to extend those moments of quiet, or is this just something I will get better at with practice? Oh and one more thing: I'm not sure the state I've gotten to can really be called stillness. I do have a tendency to visualize images involuntarily, like forks of lightning and fractal patterns. Is this normal? Should or could I stop this as well? I feel a little self-conscious right now lol. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation causing me sleep issues Posted: 16 Oct 2020 11:20 PM PDT I'm aware that meditation can bring about trapped traumas and emotions that are hidden in the subconscious but wtf do I do? I've had this happen before where I begin meditating and anxiety surfaces and I can't sleep so then I stop doing it but should I keep doing it ? Do I keep going or stop? [link] [comments] |
| Swaying plus sleepy sensation during meditation Posted: 16 Oct 2020 05:16 PM PDT Is this normal? I'm a beginner to meditation, and I feel sleepy as in to say in depth and start swaying as if trying to sleep... I felt like I was asleep but I could perfectly hear whats around me.. is this a good thing? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Oct 2020 05:01 AM PDT I am love itself, therefore I can't do anything but love. I even love people who hate me because i know that they're only projecting the hate they have for themselves onto me. I love you, and here's an expression of my love. [link] [comments] |
| I couldn't let go of fear because I was afraid of what might happen Posted: 16 Oct 2020 04:34 PM PDT I have come to learn that everything is a mirror of the relationship to myself. When I scream at someone "you need to let go", it means I am screaming at myself to let go. I was convinced my perspective was right and others were wrong, but when I meditate I found out it was me who was wrong all along. I let myself cry while saying to myself "I let go of all my fears". I thought why not. I have not felt this comfortable in a very long time. I still have some fear to let go of. But I noticed thats my issue. I always wondered why there is so much hate and anger in the world and now I know why. It's fear. Are you able to let go of your fears by facing them in the moment? It's scary as hell but the ego latches onto itself. [link] [comments] |
| Sleep problems due to meditation? Posted: 16 Oct 2020 01:29 PM PDT Today is day 38 since I started sitting everyday with a 10 minute guided breath meditation from the Insight mediation app. My normal sleep pattern is to be in bed around 10-10:30, and wake up at 7. For the past 3 weeks, I have been waking up between 3-5am, and tossing and turning until 7. To be honest, under sleeping is getting to me. For additional context, my job has been noticeably more stressful in the past few weeks in the same time frame. I know that stress can cause these sorts of sleep problems, but at the same time I'm wondering if this could also be a change resulting from my sitting practice. I dont want to stop meditating, and I have no control over work-related stress, so I'm not sure this is just something to wait out and continue meditating (and continue being utterly exhausted all the time) or if I should stop my practice and see if my sleep normalizes again. Any advice/insight? [link] [comments] |
| Consistent humming noise at night Posted: 16 Oct 2020 06:25 PM PDT Context: I've been meditating everyday just before I sleep and have almost always resulted in feeling pressure/tingling sensations on my third eye. I recently (about a week ago) bought some crystals and placed some under my pillow and the rest placed on my nightstand. For 2 days straight, I've woken up in the middle of my sleep, 3-5am and have trouble falling back to sleep as I become more alert. Moments after I hear this humming noise. The first day it was through my right ear and I got frightened and it disappeared. On the second day, the noise was in the middle of my head. In both days, my head and crystals were in the same place/configuration. The 2nd day was rough because the noise was constant and occasionally it would stop or cut out like beeeeep beep beep bee. When it would cut off, I'll be in peace and hear the regular white noise I usually hear. Do you know those hz meditation youtube videos where there is a tune and a specific hz tone played underneath? The noise I was hearing was very similar to the hz tone but I'm not sure what hz it was. Is anyone able to explain what's going on, or link me to an appropriate subreddit? Thanks [link] [comments] |
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