Meditation: This being human is a guest-house |
- This being human is a guest-house
- ‘Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don’t serve them tea’
- Don't be attached to anybody.
- Researchers Develop New Metrics for Measuring Mental States During Meditation
- I can't find the motivation to meditate.
- Came across these beautiful lines on Meditation for beginners
- Meditation is not about staying focused all the time, it is about coming back when you lose it.
- What have you taken away from meditating regularly?
- Controlling epilepsy with meditation
- When two good things doesn't make a better thing...
- How to meditate with back pain?
- How much anxiety you overcame by meditation ?
- A new solution to help you meditate every day
- Mahatma Gandhi on mantra meditation: “The mantra becomes one’s staff of life, and carries one through every ordeal.”
- Dissapointed in myself. Recently started practicing meditation to calm myself and not freak out and failed.
- How to Teach my Grandma meditation
- I feel like wanting to know the goal/purpose of the Universe and how I, through my individual efforts, facilitate it?
- Meditation Strategy for Extreme Noise Anxiety
- Guided Mediation or not?
- How can I practice to shut up before speaking and thinking about the things I say?
- Has anyone ever gone through something like this? feeling weird
- How do you know whether you should act on your ego?
- Transcendtel Meditation?
- What does yoga actually mean
| This being human is a guest-house Posted: 24 Nov 2020 10:31 AM PST This being human is a guest-house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. RUMI [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 24 Nov 2020 11:56 PM PST Attachment is natural when we're still infants. A baby has no choice but to be attached to it's mother, but as we grow up we should drop our attachments because only the ego gets attached, and as long as the ego is in control, you can't love. As long as you get attached when you love someone, you're not really mature yet because you're still doing something you were doing when you were still an infant. Its like the saying goes: "When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things". Attachment is one of those childish things. Most people think that you can't love someone without being attached to them, but this actually isn't true. Real love is when you love somebody but are not attached to them. Its when you can say to somebody "I love you, but I don't need you", or when you love someone without needing or expecting them to love you back. [link] [comments] |
| Researchers Develop New Metrics for Measuring Mental States During Meditation Posted: 24 Nov 2020 04:19 PM PST In a recent proof-of-principle study, researchers developed a new framework, based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, to identify mental states during meditation, including the focus-on-breath state and mind wandering, and to estimate how much time meditators spend in each state. The study—partially funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health—was recently published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Link [link] [comments] |
| I can't find the motivation to meditate. Posted: 24 Nov 2020 09:20 PM PST I meditated religiously for the past 5 months. These past few weeks I have just been going through a lot which caused me to lose my motivation to do a lot of things including the desire to meditate. know I should meditate because it would help, but at the end of the day I'm just too mentally exhausted and just crash. [link] [comments] |
| Came across these beautiful lines on Meditation for beginners Posted: 25 Nov 2020 12:36 AM PST If you feel sleepy when you start meditating, It means the mind is not interested in this. Be patient. Sleep is the only way the mind-body knows how to rest. - Guthema Roba [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is not about staying focused all the time, it is about coming back when you lose it. Posted: 24 Nov 2020 04:04 AM PST I read way too much entries complaining they can't focus for 10 mins. etc. [link] [comments] |
| What have you taken away from meditating regularly? Posted: 25 Nov 2020 03:49 AM PST Starting my healing process and integrating daily meditation into my routine and would love to hear what others have learned throughout their journey! [link] [comments] |
| Controlling epilepsy with meditation Posted: 24 Nov 2020 11:36 PM PST I was wondering whether anyone on this thread has experience with controlling epilepsy with meditation? Do you know anyone who has? Or perhaps would recommend/have an idea of where I could find my information? I had a seizure when I was 18, one week after I spoke to my Mum about being sexally abused by my cousin when I was around the age of 5. My mum was the first person I ever told. I don't know whether you would class that as PTSD, however I do beleive the stress from telling my Mum and everything that came with it (I ended up going to court about it a few years later), triggered the epilepsy and potentially I could come off medication and controlling it with meditation and diet. [link] [comments] |
| When two good things doesn't make a better thing... Posted: 24 Nov 2020 08:19 PM PST Since I've started becoming more interested in mindfulness, I've had a strong realization that doing two things I enjoy together leads to less rather than more enjoyment, and that this is counter my entire life habits. For example, I might treat myself to a espresso & snack at a cafe and reading a book I want. What I notice is that my response to either the food and the book are much more superficial than in either case, and furthermore I have an annoying feeling of trying to switch activities and juggle objects. Likewise, listening to music and driving on a country road is less interesting than either one alone. In fact, I realized that I would even rather just wash the dishes alone than wash dishes and listen to music. There is a sense that when one listens to music while doing the dishes that one is detached from reality, and the dishes figure as something like a representation of an obstacle, a burden on the will. The music is also a bit flat, more like a canned experience of pleasantness than an actual living pleasure. Whereas doing the dishes alone feels agreeable as one feels oneself to be present in a reality and as a living being with a living experience. Overall, I have a strange sense that this is part of a general tendency to want to "treat oneself" to things that are actually not a treat at all, to indulge in unreality / a representation of pleasure and desirability, when actually it would be far more pleasurable to be present in reality and experience life. For example, it is more appealing for me to "make my best effort" at generating income, or finding relationships, or being on what I see as the right side societally, and so on and so forth, in a way that is basically futile and a mixture of routine and rumination, than to actually feel those passions for improvement and act based on reality. I would say that it is ultimately the ego, that overgrowth of spinning mentation, "the story of me", that is obsessed with representation, and with getting what it represents as good, such as everything at once, and avoiding what it represents as bad, such as experiencing pratfalls and stubbed toes through putting myself forward. In mindfulness, we can escape the obsession of representation, the ego's belief that every item it lists out as "necessary" is, as we can experience for ourself that only one thing is happening and that at this moment, that is sufficient. [link] [comments] |
| How to meditate with back pain? Posted: 25 Nov 2020 02:26 AM PST I have a bulging disc and a disc protrusion which makes sitting quite painful. I stopped meditation a while ago but I wanted to start again. How do you meditate if sitting is painful? [link] [comments] |
| How much anxiety you overcame by meditation ? Posted: 24 Nov 2020 09:27 PM PST Say me how much your anxiety symptoms you reduced by meditation .for me it is like 50%..what about you?? [link] [comments] |
| A new solution to help you meditate every day Posted: 24 Nov 2020 08:12 AM PST (This is a free thing - mods, I hope it doesn't count as "self-promotion" under the rules.) For me, the toughest thing about meditation has always been daily consistency. A few months ago, a couple of friends and I decided to solve this problem by committing to sit together on video chat at the same time every weekday. We don't talk - we just hop on video with mics muted, wave hello, and get to it. This has been a game-changer. Except for a few days where I was ill, I haven't missed a day in months. There's a healthy sense of accountability that makes a big difference, and also a nice feeling of solidarity. Inspired by how well this has gone, I set up Sitting Circles: a way to get matched into a small accountability group like this, based on your scheduling preferences. It's technically part of Sit-Heads, the meditation group I organize, but it's a standalone feature - you don't need to go to our meetups or anything. It's free, like everything we do at Sit-Heads. I know some people have no trouble sitting every day, but, for people like me who struggle with it despite sincere efforts, I hope this will help. Feedback absolutely welcome. Thanks! TL;DR: Try this new thing I put together that uses healthy social accountability to help you sit every day (or weekday)! [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 24 Nov 2020 06:47 PM PST I was so exhausted. Worked all day and then ran errands all evening. It was dark and storming the whole time and i didnt feel great. Went to buy some beer and my card was lost and i knew i would have to backtrack everywhere in the rain, figure out how cancel my card, amd hope my life savings would not be stolen. I tried to stay calm for a bit but it didnt work. I was pissed and exhausted. I coudnt stop cussing in the parking lot. It felt good at the time. Finally found it under my backseat somehow [link] [comments] |
| How to Teach my Grandma meditation Posted: 24 Nov 2020 07:45 PM PST My grandma lives in a nursing home and she's been in a lot of pain, and i'd love to teach her Meditation but im not sure where to start. Anyone have any suggestions on how to convince/ teach her to Meditate? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Nov 2020 09:08 PM PST I feel like this thought is somehow clouding my meditation. Am I falling victim to the human sense of purpose? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation Strategy for Extreme Noise Anxiety Posted: 24 Nov 2020 06:18 PM PST Howdy, y'all. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read my post. I'm a recent meditator (although I have been reading more and more on the benefits of meditation and Buddhist philosophy for years now) who suffers from C-PTSD (mostly in remission) and occasionally severe anxiety. A very, very frequent target of my anxiety is sound - specifically, sound that I can't escape in my home. I have done a lot of reading and a lot of work around this, with mixed success. For example, a sound trigger that regularly sent me into fight-or-flight mode, a moderately loud train horn going by outside, was transformed into a neutral and occasionally even a comforting noise using ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy). Other noises are harder to subdue in this manner. Three days ago, my husband and I moved house to a much busier part of our city to escape some loud, screaming children who would play outside my apartment every day (after four months of EMDR I undertook specifically to deal with my extreme reaction to this noise). We moved to a much nicer and larger apartment, since I can now afford it. The first night I noticed that the nearby highway (0.45 miles away), which had not really caused any problems during our two viewings of the apartment, was LOUD. I had forgotten about rush hour. Everything in this apartment is gorgeous and perfect and beautiful aside from the fact that you can tell in pretty much every room of the apartment that there's a highway. We're in Texas, so whenever the general ambient highway noise is lower, there are enough douches with loud engines to basically NEVER let me forget the highway's presence. I am absolutely losing my sh*t. My anxiety is off the charts. I work from home and can't play white noise 24/7. The weird part is, it's actually not really loud - it's the fact that I can hear it and I know it exists. Currently, sitting at my dining room table, it's measuring 38 decibels, and that's with the whoosh of the A/C going. It's more like 34 inside my bathroom, where I can still hear some bass-y sounds from occasional traffic. White noise and earplugs mean that I can get sufficient sleep. For two nights running I have tried what Buddhists might call meditating in the "charnel ground" - basically staring your demon in the face and contemplating its nature. I've done a sound meditation whereby I went into the noisiest part of the noise and followed each sound neutrally until it faded, then I picked another sound. During the meditation this was transformative, and it was quite successful. I was even able to neutrally note several stories I tell myself around noise and my experience with it. However, its benefits faded quite quickly, and by 3 PM today I had ugly-cried twice in frustration and had one full-on panic attack. I would say this is misophonia, but the specific trigger seems to change to be centered around whatever I perceive as a concentration/peace threat in my home. At the last place it was screaming kids, but when we moved screaming kids became neutral. Now it's traffic, and I find traffic anxiety-inducing even in non-home contexts. My question is, has anyone had success reducing or eliminating similar noise anxiety? If so, what was your secret sauce? Do you think this is just a matter of keeping at it longer? (It certainly can't hurt, right?) We're stuck here - just moved to this place four days ago and already going nuts [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Nov 2020 08:46 PM PST I've recently been trying to build the practice of meditation into my lifestyle to help with mental chatter and anxiety to reasonable success. I have been relying mostly on guided mediations for now, on one hand it keeps me on track and get into a certain mind space. But also a couple times I feel as though I've been reaching a deeper state of relaxation or mindfulness or about to, and then the audio of the guided meditation will snap me out of it and pull me in a different direction. Have you found that Unguided meditation leads to deeper mindfulness easier or should I just do longer guided mediations and find tracks that don't interrupt my flow? [link] [comments] |
| How can I practice to shut up before speaking and thinking about the things I say? Posted: 24 Nov 2020 10:46 PM PST |
| Has anyone ever gone through something like this? feeling weird Posted: 24 Nov 2020 03:33 PM PST So to start off I wanna give some background. Im a 20 year old guy and I go to college. I grew up middle class most of my life ( I say most because before my mom graduated college we lived way more frugally and were basically poor) So I started meditating about 4 months ago and at first it was pretty lame and I felt like I was getting nowhere. Eventually (about 2-3 months in) I started to be able to sit for 30 minutes straight and meditate. This is were I would get into a state where I felt almost unaware of my physical body (I don't mean astral projection but more like if I had my hands on my lap they would feel like they were part of my lap and not individual hands) I would basically get into trance like states if I focused on my breath for 15+ minutes. After this I started to become aware of thoughts and ultimately started to develop this gut feeling. This gut feeling was weird kind of like a mix between butterflies and anxiety in my chest/torso. Then out of the blue my thinking changed. This is the part that worries me. I feel like my perception started to change. I feel like im having a paradigm shift. Before I used to think people were crazy when they said things like "lifting the veil" or "third eye opening" Believe me it still seems kind of odd to me. Its just that I understand the notion of things like "you are the universe" and "reality is a reflection of your internal state". I feel like I understand what it means to be in the present moment. That time is an illusion and there is no future or past there is only the present. This is the part that bugs me. I feel like reality is created by thoughts, that im the center of the universe. This last part really hits something deep in me. Whenever I focus on the present, everything in my mind feels clear and at that moment I feel blissed out. Its really a feeling that cant be put into words. Anybody every felt like this? Is this me becoming delusional? Someone help me out Tldr: I meditated now I feel like ive been looking at life wrong [link] [comments] |
| How do you know whether you should act on your ego? Posted: 24 Nov 2020 01:50 PM PST So, my friends and I always make fun of each other. Whenever one of us messes up or says something silly, they get ridiculed by the group - like most friend groups. No one is safe lol. But when one of us messes up and the rest of us make fun of that person, isn't that the ego wanting to make us seem superior in that instance? If the answer is "yes and you should stop making fun", doesn't that remove the fun or jesty aspect of our friendship? I'm interested to hear your thoughts. :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Nov 2020 07:27 PM PST I want to try TM but idk where to start. I know i need to create or find a mantra, but how do i get one that doesn't remind me of anything? If anyone could please give me a short tutorial on how to do it, that would be great, thank you [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Nov 2020 09:24 PM PST https://vocal.media/longevity/what-does-yoga-actually-mean view my insights if yoga here [link] [comments] |
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