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- Just learned today through meditation that the simple thought of appreciation can bring you to the present in an instant.
- I finally escaped my crushing, crippling burnout.
- I just realized one of the key ways meditation works. It trims away all that is unnecessary.
- Amazing results from one month of daily meditation!
- Your mental health is more important than you know
- Please don't just 'accept'
- Meditation with a turbulent mind.
- Big decrease in anxiety and irritability.
- The ego is "real"
- Sometimes I see cool sh%& when I meditate
- Day 2 of practising Meditation
- Something wierd is happening when I'm trying to fall asleep 3 months into my practice.. any answers would be appreciated.
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- How do I start meditating(serious)
- I realized most video games are built around chasing something
- What are 5 benefits of meditation?
- Warm sensation in the stomach after meditation
- medidation 3 hours permanenet healing?
- Is there any way to meditate than sitting down? It gives me pre anxiety (idk if it’s even a thing) but it’s really hard to sit down
- I need a meditation technique to stop self introspection 24 hrs a day.
- Does meditation stir your pot?
- If I'm meditating, and almost each time I do I think "come ON are the ten minutes seriously not up yet?" And check to make sure I haven't accidentally cancelled my watch timer, I'm probably not actually meditating right?
- I would consider myself a slightly profound thinker... I guess... but when meditating I feel a strong sense of calm but I have yet to really have the epiphanys I see on here. Does this come with practice or does this come with also reading Buddhist texts and applying both?
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| Posted: 04 Nov 2020 12:26 PM PST Appreciate your surroundings,your life , Your family etc appreciate what is right in front of you. When is the last time you appreciated something or someone in life ? When we ask ourselves in third person "what do you appreciate most in your life right now?" Watch what happens. [link] [comments] |
| I finally escaped my crushing, crippling burnout. Posted: 04 Nov 2020 08:03 PM PST Hey gang. Wanted to share a tip that actually materially helped improve my burnout, and ultimately massively contributed to me being able to (finally) quit my job and take up a much more meaningful gig aligned with my values and passions. Backstory: I spent the last 3 years totally burned out, to the point I had basically become a shell of who I once was. I'm a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. and have basically had non-existent work life balance since I started working here. Not sure if things have been better or worse since COVID hit -- both were terrible in their own ways. I was trapped in a cycle of exhaustion, exploring exit opportunities, and then defaulting back to consulting life as usual. I finally broke the cycle, and wanted to share the tip that actually worked for me, in case it helps anyone else: 1) Each EOD, I wrote how I felt about work that day. 2) I wrote about what I achieved, what I learned, and what sucked. 3) After 1 month, I had a really clear idea about what makes me happy, and solved for nothing short of that. Starting my new job next Monday. Wish me luck! [link] [comments] |
| I just realized one of the key ways meditation works. It trims away all that is unnecessary. Posted: 04 Nov 2020 08:44 PM PST So much of my own internal suffering has been obsessive focus on the ruminations of the mind, or the past, or the future. It didn't even occur to me until I started to heal and gained some distance and perspective through therapy and meditation that there was even an option in this. Of course I worried about all of these things, because they were THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT! lol. It seemed like the most natural thing in the world to worry about the possibility that I might get hurt, or all the possible negative outcomes from a decision. Why wouldn't I think about those things!? Indeed it seemed prudent to think about them. It seemed necessary. It's only with time now that I realize that all of this was very much not necessary it was just habitual and extremely well practiced. My mind instinctively went to do it because I had trained my mind to do so. I had taught my mind that it was an important survival tactic and so it became hard wired at the neuronal level. But as I let go of more and more I see that this, and this, and this, none of this is necessary. Not to my basic happiness or survival. Indeed at that level almost nothing is truly necessary. And it's only once you REALLY quiet the mind and establish a daily routine by which you live from this place of calm that you start to see JUST how much anxiety and angst comes from all that obsessive focus on the noise. And it all is just so much noise. But to truly see what IS and what IS NOT necessary in any one moment requires that quieting of the mind, that space. [link] [comments] |
| Amazing results from one month of daily meditation! Posted: 04 Nov 2020 05:42 AM PST So I've been meditating every day for one month. I had flirted with meditation on and off over the years, but this is the first time I've dedicated myself fully to it. I just want to share the very real differences I've experienced, from 30 days ago to today: Frequent anger in public ---> Gone Frequent conflict online ---> Gone Constant self-criticism --> Gone Constant criticism of others --> Gone Constant regrets about past ---> Gone Irrational fears in public ---> Gone Constant tension in body ---> Gone Walking everywhere at frantic speed ---> I take my time and enjoy life now! For anyone reading this who's new to meditation... you're opening the doors to a very powerful and transformative activity. So don't give up, be committed, and get ready for a brilliant new future! [link] [comments] |
| Your mental health is more important than you know Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:17 PM PST You are literally a piece of the universe taking into account the Big Bang or any religion. You are part of the bigger picture, and so the bigger picture is within you. You are a piece of the universe so you hold the universe within yourself. This world, this whole universe is a representation of your inner self. Your perspective dictates your reality, your perception dictates what you take in, need it be positive or negative, you're the one perceiving it. If we want change within this reality, it literally starts with changing yourself. If you truly want change you must change. This reality represents you on the inside. If you heal yourself inside you're doing your part to heal the universe as a whole because you are a part of the universe and you literally hold the universe within yourself, even if it is just a part. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2020 04:42 AM PST Don't just accept your thoughts, emotions. Don't just accept life. Accepting comes after understanding, understanding comes after vigorous investigation. Open pandora's box and watch, watch and observe and stand the test of time, just don't accept anything too simply! [link] [comments] |
| Meditation with a turbulent mind. Posted: 04 Nov 2020 09:08 PM PST I've always struggled to meditate when my mind is abnormally busy or stressed out. Today was one of those days where work just about consumed all of my thoughts in a negative way. While I was meditating, I pictured my mind as a stormy sky. I love watching stormy weather from inside a cozy room. At that moment, I realized the present moment is that cozy room. Those violent thoughts can only hurt you if you leave your cozy room, aka the present moment. I love these profound moments that meditation brings. [link] [comments] |
| Big decrease in anxiety and irritability. Posted: 04 Nov 2020 08:20 AM PST Whenever I used to smoke weed a lot, I'd always carry around this irritability that was hard to shake off. If I were somewhere I didn't want to be, no matter how hard I tried to hide it, people would take notice. The irritability came from a lack of dopamine but I would say it mostly came from using my energy to battle negative thoughts all the time. When I would just try to socialize casually it looked like a just went to hell and back. Since meditating, I don't really feel anxious about anything. Coffee used to make me super anxious. Then when the coffee high wore off I'd get this terrible sense of impending doom. Lately I've been drinking coffee and smoking weed at the same time. Usually that combination would nearly give me a panic attack. But now I'm just straight chillin' lol. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Nov 2020 01:26 AM PST Wait, what? So, the ego is an illusion, is the common line. But the thing is, illusions are real. Think about a magic show. A magician uses an illusion, and the audience gasp. The person beside you exclaims, "that's fake! it's not real!" But could you have seen it if it wasn't real? Would the audience have gasped if it wasn't real? "Real" has many applications, but one of them is literally just that it exists, has reality in some way. Not the connotation that it is true, just that it is part of the fabric of reality somehow. And the magician's illusion had to exist as part of the fabric of reality, his hands and the props moving, your eyes seeing it, your brain processing it, in order for you to be able to say "that was an illusion". This thought comes from my esoteric magical practice. If, during meditation, we see a place or an object, and that thing changes form, we might ask, "which was the real form?" But the answer is, all the forms we saw are the real forms. None of them are the "real one". Even if some were illusions, illusions exist, and they can have power and meaning. They might be lessons, tools, things for us to test ourselves against. While one form might be the one we are "looking for", others might be relevant in different ways. Basically, illusions are not necessarily bad, and they certainly aren't "not real". Yeah yeah, you say, maybe ego is "real", but it's still my goal to be free of it. So what's the point here? Well, I do see people who post here who seem a bit distressed that they can't be free of ego. If ego is an illusion and they can't yeet it into the sun on a whim, if it keeps clinging to them and is stuck in their mind, this frustrates them. They are bound to this illusion, this fake thing, operating every day on the whims of something that isn't even real. So, that's why I'm posting this. Wanting to be free of ego is fine. But until you can be, don't worry about it. Illusions are real things, and not necessarily bad things. They can be teachers in our lives. Even if you're just learning from the process of becoming free from ego, this is ego serving a purpose. If you're stuck with ego for now, see it as a blessing. Even illusions are a chance to learn something. [link] [comments] |
| Sometimes I see cool sh%& when I meditate Posted: 04 Nov 2020 09:48 PM PST Greetings all, I'm a super novice to the world of meditation, as I just started the end of May this year. Visual images are something I struggle with, as I have a ton of them swirling around when I begin my initial breathing exercises. I chose a style of standing meditations called Zhan Zhuang, to deal with lower back issues. As I focus on my breathing, the multitude of images slows down and I pick some image to truly focus on. Sometimes the sun, maybe the moon, some clouds, anything I can maintain solidly while I'm dripping sweat in the strangest of poses. But yeah, seeing cool sh%# inside my mind is very freeing & a lot cheaper than Netflix. Carry on brothers & sisters, be strong & meditate on! [link] [comments] |
| Day 2 of practising Meditation Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:25 PM PST In response to my question as to whether mediation music supplements my meditation practice, I put on my headphones, with meditation music pouring nectar in my ears. I meditated for almost 5 minutes. It was yesterday night. Today when I woke up, I felt like my posture has straightened up. I hope to practice it more sincerely in the upcoming time. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:44 AM PST I have developed a problem since 3 nights ago after an anxiety attack. When I now lay in bed instead of my mind wandering then falling asleep I experience a powerful 'snap back' to the present moment. Now whilst it may appear I've reached some buddhist monk level of being able to bring the attention back to the room this only happens when trying to sleep. I still ruminate during the day which leads to me believe my body is somewhat fighting being able to relax. I have been meditating bringing the focus back to the present moment but now it feels like my mind is doing is aggressively and to my disadvantage. I know that being more present is usually a good result of meditation but for some reason I think my OCD has wrapped around my meditation somehow. I'm now experiencing a strong present moment pull whenever my mind wants to sleep. This 'pull' is quite aggressive and the act stops me from being able to sleep. Anyone have any experiences ? [link] [comments] |
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| How do I start meditating(serious) Posted: 04 Nov 2020 09:42 PM PST I can never really get into it. When I do it i feels like when you finish a long math exercise, but dont have the answers, so even though you think you understand and that you've taken all the correct steps, you dont know if your doing it right. I read you can have weird mind opening experiences and id really like to try and get to that point. [link] [comments] |
| I realized most video games are built around chasing something Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:24 AM PST This is what came to my mind when playing Elder Scrolls Online. The games (especially MMO and multiplayer video games) are almost always built around some sort of 'progress'. You are never satisfied with your current state, let's say level 60, you need to be max level. When you are max level, you need to get more, better, stronger gear. You always have that thought in the back of your head, you always rush somewhere, you always need something to be upgraded, your sword, your car, your character. I've been playing video games (especially MMOs) for years and I started to see how it gradually switched from good story to getting more items and being 'better' than everyone else. It's just my quick rant about this topic. What games aren't like this? I assume RPGs, adventure games, maybe something like Portal? [link] [comments] |
| What are 5 benefits of meditation? Posted: 05 Nov 2020 01:17 AM PST 1.Reduces Stress and Anxiety. Stress and anxiety reduction are two of the best-known benefits of meditation practice 2.Controls Pain. Research shows 11% of the U.S. adult population suffers from chronic pain every year 3.May Lower Chances of Memory Loss 4.Increases Attention Span 5.Improves Sleep Watch This Meditation Video https://youtu.be/UtquROFl8ng [link] [comments] |
| Warm sensation in the stomach after meditation Posted: 05 Nov 2020 01:15 AM PST Last night after finishing my meditation session (I meditated on nothingness) and went to bed, I started noticing a warm feeling in my stomach area...as if a fire was burning there. It wasn't painful, but I do wonder what is was. I didn't concentrate on manipura chakra. Is there anybody who had a similar experience? [link] [comments] |
| medidation 3 hours permanenet healing? Posted: 05 Nov 2020 12:28 AM PST medidation 3 hours permanenet healing? is this what it caused long term medidation? [link] [comments] |
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| I need a meditation technique to stop self introspection 24 hrs a day. Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:57 PM PST It sucks. Introspection once a month is great, but doing it daily and worrying over regrets, is not OK. So I need some mediation techniques to control my mind. [link] [comments] |
| Does meditation stir your pot? Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:25 AM PST I've been meditating now, daily, for about three months and I'm up to 30 mins per day. There have been a lot of growing pains along the way but...for some reason I have become incredible self-hating, depressed, and sad about something I did 20 years ago. Obviously I regret what I did because it ruined my best friendship - but why is this bothering me SO MUCH now? I have begun to cry part way through meditation over this, again and again. Is it normal for meditation to stir up your inner pot? Do things you thought were settled and long past come back to haunt you, just because of meditation? [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:06 PM PST I have clear, concise, mind altering thoughts that come to mind from time to time. But never well meditating. Am I missing something? I have probably only meditated a total of 20-30 hours total but when I do the focus is on breath and not the rampant thoughts... I really hope this makes sense and I hope I did not come off cocky, im just trying to say that I have deep thoughts... but none of them hit me during meditation. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:59 AM PST Hey there! I never tried meditation before, so I installed the app Insight Timer and tried one lesson from the basic kit (Learning to Meditate). Now, this might sound stupid but since each lesson is supposed to be listen in different days, can't I just listen to them all in a row? I'm saying this because I enjoyed it and would really like to proceed learning. And can I also listen to different courses at once or should I finish one before moving to the next. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
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