Meditation: Weekly Discussion - November 02 2020 |
- Weekly Discussion - November 02 2020
- Update: I’ve been meditating for 100 straight days now, and over the past three months and change, I feel like I’ve grown to like myself so much more
- Dalai Lama quote on the idea that the "self" does not exist
- I can't be in the moment for more than few seconds
- Why does it feel like there are 3 parts of the brain?
- Crying and meditating
- Started meditation yesterday, i feel great!
- You’d Think I Would Be Good at it By Now
- Quick questions about meditation sessions
- Since I meditate I became a so much better man
- Just finished my first 10 minutes!
- Watch This Meditation Every Morning When you wake up
- Here is why I think meditation helps to build self love, peace, tranquility.
- Advice from the experienced?
- stress relief music . subscribe !
- How to stop the 'illusory self' from distracting me when practicing mindfulness meditation
- Starting meditation
- Self control is a form of free will.
- What is hearfulness meditation?
- Just hit the realization after months of meditating. I’m in control.
- How do I truly connect within. I want that connection, how do I properly mediate?
- 528 Hz | Energy CLEANSE | Positive Energy | Balance Chakras | Healing Sl...
- [Discussion] Would you help us make habits easier?
- Confusion around self and consciousness
- Truth
| Weekly Discussion - November 02 2020 Posted: 02 Nov 2020 07:09 AM PST This is a reoccuring thread for questions relating to your practice and discussion around your experiences. Questions Ask questions relating to your practice, the theory of meditation, various traditions and lineages of thought, or practical tips. If you're new, please read our FAQ before posting, as it contains a wealth of information that all of us should come back to occasionally. Discussion Also use this thread for a more free-form discussion of your experiences and other tidbits that might not warrant their own full post. Use this space to connect with the /r/meditation community, it won't be heavily moderated. Also check out the monthly meditation challenge. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 06:47 PM PST So I last talked to you all when I had been doing this for one week. I started during a hard time in my life where my academic advisor was toxic and would berate me constantly. It was a dark time in my life. But the techniques I learned during meditation helped me realize that the stress he put on me was not something I had to take, and that I could separate the stress from actually feeling stressed. I even used those techniques as I successfully defended my master's degree! Now I'm part way through the first semester of my Ph.D. My new advisor is absolutely amazing. I still get stressed as we all do, but I'm able to center and realign myself when I need. I feel like I don't let my emotions get to the best of me, and that I don't take them out on others as much. Even my mood tracker has gone from mostly red/sad days to more purple/happy ones. It was so hard at first, and some days I almost gave up. But I'm really happy I haven't. This commitment has helped me make more good habits, like stretching more, setting up a good skincare routine, and even drinking more water. I realized that I can turn these good habits into truly habitual routines. So if you're thinking about meditating, or having a hard time with it, seriously keep going. You've got this. We are all so much stronger than we think we are. ETA: a 100-day streak. Sadly I do need to eat and do basic human functions so I can't mediate 24/7. Not my best worst choice lol. I do at least ten minutes a day, some days it can be an hour, some days that hour is broken up in groups of 5, other days it's just 10 minutes. It all depends on the day really, but even having ten minutes to myself has been incredibly helpful. [link] [comments] |
| Dalai Lama quote on the idea that the "self" does not exist Posted: 02 Nov 2020 12:43 PM PST https://i.imgur.com/u5rjIyT.jpg "With regard to selflessness, it is necessary to know what "self" is — to identify the self that does not exist. Then one can understand its opposite, selflessness. Selflessness is not a case of something that existed in the past becoming non-existent; rather, this sort of "self" is something that never did exist. What is needed is to identify as non-existent something that always was nonexistent, for due to not having made such identification, we are drawn into the afflictive emotions of desire and hatred as well as all the problems these bring." -Dalai Lama [link] [comments] |
| I can't be in the moment for more than few seconds Posted: 02 Nov 2020 11:52 PM PST Whenever I try being in the moment, either being aware of what im seeing, hearing, etc its allways only a few seconds until my mind starts thinking again [link] [comments] |
| Why does it feel like there are 3 parts of the brain? Posted: 02 Nov 2020 11:49 PM PST Why does it feel like there are 3 parts of the brain? One being the part that day dreams and holds all the mental chatter. Another part that listens to all that mental chatter and gets sucked in. And the part of that sees the other 2 parts and acknowledges they're there. Probably the part that's asking this question now. I wonder of anyone can shed some light on this thought? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 03:17 PM PST Hello lovely humans! First post here. I've been meditating just about every day for almost a year now and I love it! It's helped me a lot as a person. So I'm curious to hear about any other people in this community who end up crying during a meditation? I find myself crying almost every time I meditate. It's pretty much always tears of joy. When I start giving myself positive affirmations during a meditation, the tears start flowing. I always leave the meditation feeling even more awakened and happier. [link] [comments] |
| Started meditation yesterday, i feel great! Posted: 02 Nov 2020 03:43 PM PST I can see the difference already. First i was contemplating it a lot due to lots of stress and anger in my life. I tried it for 10 minutes before going to work and i was way more relaxed and nice than i was before. We had a ton of more work to do than normally but i wasnt stressed or getting upset at al. It felt great and i still do feel great. Its like unlocking a new part of me i didnt know i had. I am 100% going to continue doing this everyday (also did it today) because it seems like it is having a positive effect on me. Glad i found this, hope y'all have a good day! [link] [comments] |
| You’d Think I Would Be Good at it By Now Posted: 02 Nov 2020 12:07 PM PST I just had my four year anniversary. I've sat for 40 minutes a day every day. When I started doing meditation, I thought that after a few years I would be able to float off the floor, stay focused for the entire session, and have achieved nirvana. It didn't turn out that way. OK, I'm pretty sure you can't actually float and achieving nirvana is quite a stretch. I did think I would be able to keep focus for long periods of time. Instead, my mind wanders just as much as it did when I started. Sometimes I can only count a few breathes before my monkey mind is swinging through the branches again. I've had quite the grand tour of my past memories, the to do list, and what I'm going to have for lunch. What has improved is my ability to get 'in the zone' when I do manage to stay focused. By 'in the zone', I mean a calm quiet feeling and being able to tune out what's going on outside of me. When I first started, it would often take the entire sitting to get to that point. I remember several times getting there only to have the timer go off for the end of the session. Now, I can there after a few minutes on a good day. Occasionally, if I have a good session, it will carry out over the rest of the morning. I just have to stop what I'm doing and I can get right back into it. A few hours is all I could manage. By the evening, it's gone. At other times, an insight about myself or the world will pop into my mind. They have never been anything earth shaking and I usually forget what they were not long after. I'm glad that I had them. Despite my lackluster progress, I've never thought about quitting. Maybe it takes six years before you really get good at it. Maybe it's just the journey. [link] [comments] |
| Quick questions about meditation sessions Posted: 02 Nov 2020 11:14 PM PST I have had on-off experience with meditation. I just started to give it a go one more time. Today was my 3rd day with one-hour do-nothing meditations. I have some questions which I think would help me if I get the answers to those:
Thanks in advance, fam! [link] [comments] |
| Since I meditate I became a so much better man Posted: 02 Nov 2020 02:38 AM PST I could say I was a loser. I had bad grades, no confidence,was weak (almost no physical engagement), bad friends, no girlfriend, ugly, and in the state of being depressed. So I had to start changing. I've gone to a box training, then corona hit us so I started doing workouts at home and I also took the opportunity to stop smoking weed cuz I smoked since I'm 14 and my ,friends' and I smoked at school and almost every weekend we smoked the whole day. My highs weren't even enjoyable anymore and I started doing other drugs like codeine, LSD, Shrooms and benzos. Thank god not for long. At this time the rap culture influenced me a lot, this went so far that I started selling drugs at school to be able to buy my own drugs. Ok anyway as soon as the pandemic hits us I started doing workouts eating well and healthy I even made a routine for my mornings and evenings. This worked well and I felt really good almost better than ever. Later when school started again I started to smoke again but thank god just every second week and I was proud of how good I could manage my smoking sessions. This worked out for like a month or so. Then summer started. I went with a friend of mine camping. I wanted to get there and meet new people so I can enhance my social skills which I'm still struggling with and he said he will take some weed with us. To be honest I would never stop smoking weed cuz I just wanted to smoke so much regularly. It shouldn't be my life just a small part of it. Like I wanted to smoke maybe weekly but just when I had a good day if you understand what I mean. Overall we had a great time there I met a lot of new people there at my age or even older. I even got invited to drink a few beers because it's kind of a culture in Austria to drink beer. Anyway as I went home I started smoking almost daily. I felt bad and had no motivation to go to the gym or do workouts. After a month school started again in September I still wasn't hitting the gym because I focused so much on school and played a lot of basketball there. Like at the end of the day I felt half dead into my bed at maybe 9.30 am. 1 1/2 Months have passed like this. I felt great I didn't even smoke, got good grades, girls were interacting with me and almost every one said I've improved myself. I hadn't have contact with my loser friends anymore and I was proud of it. I was becoming antisocial because I saw my potential and I thought the most of my friends were just holding me down. Ok now we have a 1 week autumn break. I went to a friend and met a girl there. It seemed that she liked me and I liked her. She was a beautiful girl. At the beginning we talked a lot then I started introverting myself. And she went to talk to a friend of mine, which was one of my only 4 friends I could call my friends. I literally hated me for this action the next few days. I felt very bad the next few days so I started going to the gym again. I started meditating daily since then so I can regulate my dopamine. I felt and still feel great. I focused so much on my career the last 2 months that I had no occupation. So I started smoking again for three days. And I said to myself I can't live like this. My whole life I was a giant rock head like I grew up with rock music. I even had a own band when I was 10 or 11 and I played as keyboard player there, but to be honest our music was terrible. I had a break from listening to rock until from now 2 months. Anyway I always wanted to play an instrument and once I woke up i heard my alarm playing ,smells like teen spirit - Nirvana' and thought the guitar is such a strong instrument. I grabbed my money which I would spend on weed and bought myself an electric guitar. Now I'm practicing every day because I want to make my own music, but I don't want to be famous. I want to do it for my family, my friends, my partner and me. I'll be happy if they like my music and if not I will grind till I'm able to make great songs on my own. I don't really want to play in a band because I don't really know anyone that grinds like me. One of my few friends used to play the drum but idk if he's going to grind like me. Anyway from now on as soon as I wake up I drink water, meditate 10 mins, do a little workout, go into the shower, prepare my breakfast and after that I'm going to hit the gym 6 times per week after the gym I eat and play the guitar. From now on I found out how precious my time is and I shouldn't lose it on social media, gaming, bad friends and many more like this. I never felt that good. And I'm still working on gaining muscles and improving my social skills. I thank you so much for reading and you can take my experience as motivation. Any questions/ideas? Regards [link] [comments] |
| Just finished my first 10 minutes! Posted: 03 Nov 2020 01:28 AM PST I decided to just start with the FAQ-recommended, close eyes, listen and focus on breath, technique. I'm surprised how fast the 10 minutes went by, I did have some thoughts that popped up, but only once, after that, I was able to do it fully (at least I think so). Now, I'm thinking of doing another 15 minutes today in the evening. I loved how well it worked for me, it felt like being somewhere else, like a sort of sleep, just not actually asleep. I do have a question, can you overdo meditation, is it just a matter of how long you can keep focused or is there something else? [link] [comments] |
| Watch This Meditation Every Morning When you wake up Posted: 03 Nov 2020 01:25 AM PST |
| Here is why I think meditation helps to build self love, peace, tranquility. Posted: 02 Nov 2020 09:28 PM PST Because meditation is about allowing yourself to accept the present moment, whatever that may be. This seems at first to be an innocuous sentence but there is so much packed into this little kernel of truth. How does this help you to build self love and peace? Because the opposite of these things is entirely about not accepting something about the present moment or focusing on the past or the future, which don't actually exist. In the meditative practise ALL that exists is this infinitesimally small slice of time in the here and now. The in breath, the out breath, the barking dog, the rain, the sore muscle, the heart beat, the tension in the stomach, the stray thought. If you can learn to accept THIS, a small window opens to true self acceptance and peace. Because these things are ALL there ever are, all there ever has been, and all that there ever will be. Yes we will always be distracted again and worry about "our life", the past, the future, that will always return. But if you can also always return to the present moment you realize that in the here and now it can all be ok. This is the kernel of self love I think. I am going to be ok in the here and now. I am ok right now. And right now is all there ever is. Don't get me wrong. Many of the things that bring us pain and suffering are real. Life can seem very cruel, in some way's it is cruel, it certainly is not "fair" and people certainly can be cruel. These are all the more reasons for us to work toward a kinder gentler present. But in the act of insisting that present reality is not as it is, in the fighting of the present moment, we add an extra layer to life's cruelty. We are now also cruel to ourselves. None of this is to say any of this is easy. Meditation and the building of self love (perhaps love in general?) is one of those deceptively hard things. We are fooled by society into thinking that it "should" be easy when in fact it is one of the hardest of all things to practise. Millions of years of evolution indeed works against our favour in this. The mind, the ego, our biology, our culture, all of them push us in the direction of non acceptance. But in our daily practise we remind ourselves that I exist only in this slim nanosecond sandwiched between billions of years of nonexistence, I can be kind to myself in this nanosecond, and this one, and this one too. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Nov 2020 01:07 AM PST Hello everyone, i've never posted on reddit before but I am struggling with an issue and I have no idea how to fix it. I was diagnosed with GAD and Trichotillomania when I was in 3rd grade, and now i'm graduating high school. I have always struggled a lot with my anxiety and meditation seems like a great way to detach myself from my troubles. I love the idea of meditation and have been trying to meditate for a few months now. Unfortunately, though, I cannot meditate for extended periods of time for two reasons. Reason #1: I begin to feel ill? I feel sick to my stomach or my head will start to hurt. Back pains, neck pains, etc. I can't really get comfortable enough to relax. Reason #2: very bad paranoia. I cannot keep my eyes closed for more than a few seconds at a time without my mind becoming paranoid and freaking out. I try having headphones in, playing vibration frequencies, meditation during the daytime, but paranoia almost always disrupts my meditation as soon as I feel relaxed. My mind usually convinces itself that i'm being watched, held at gunpoint, or some other obscure thing. I cannot keep my eyes closed or stop myself from these thoughts. please help. Thank you so much for reading, I am desperate for advice! [link] [comments] |
| stress relief music . subscribe ! Posted: 03 Nov 2020 12:57 AM PST |
| How to stop the 'illusory self' from distracting me when practicing mindfulness meditation Posted: 03 Nov 2020 12:32 AM PST I have been meditating everyday now since the start of the year. Using the simply technique of concentrating on breathing, then once i get distracted by my thoughts I return my attention back to the breathing. I purposefully abstained from delving into any literature on the subject as i was aware that it can be esoteric and was sure that if i were to read any meditation based literature i would most likely get bogged down in the details and become frustrated. Well last week i read Sam Harris's 'Waking Up' and became aware of the concept of the 'self/ego' which has left me with a fair few questions. But long story short, now when meditating i have become aware that i do so from the prospective that i have a separate 'self' behind my eyes. I can dispel this sensation by 'observing the observer' but by doing this i feel like this is distracting me from the main principle of mindfulness meditation - concentrating on my breathing. Do i simply carry on meditating from the point of view from the ego? Or i do i carry on trying to remove the ego from the practice? ***TLDR *** During mindfulness mediation i feel like i am meditating from the point of view of the 'ego/self' do i try to remove this sensation? Or Keep on meditating from this point of view? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 08:31 PM PST Hey guys, I am going to start meditating more and more now. I am trying to balance my chakras and meditation is one of the things I got to do. I have been meditating on and off for a while now but I don't know what I should be doing. I have been breathing in through my nose and out of my mouth but I was only doing it to get the head high but it doesn't feel comfortable for me, like it just feels more work somewhat. So I was wondering if I could just focus on my body? Like my hands, just feeling the energy inside my hand? And also it doesn't matter how you sit or lay down as long as you are comfortable? Thank you in advance [link] [comments] |
| Self control is a form of free will. Posted: 02 Nov 2020 10:10 AM PST Self control is a form of free will The more aware we are the more choice we have. So, it is good to practice the pause. It is good to be calm Frustration is the door to perception. It is good to let go It takes effort to think. From the need to want to be something I think. Life is a practice of holding on and letting go Everything is a phase, we are nothing and everything, limitless awareness. Let go a little have a little peace, let go a lot, have a lot of peace. You gotta know when to hold em, when to play them and when to fold them One love. Just bored, thought i'd rant. [link] [comments] |
| What is hearfulness meditation? Posted: 02 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST |
| Just hit the realization after months of meditating. I’m in control. Posted: 02 Nov 2020 02:06 PM PST I use my thoughts to think not to identify with. I am awareness. I am a consciousness. How is one consciousness different from another? The only difference is in the mind. The mind is controlled by our consciousness and does not define us. We use our minds to examine and to think. You don't need to think over yourself. You are a consciousness. Simply an awareness which has a mind and body. You can think over your thoughts and you can control them. But thats the only way it is. I. Control. My. Thought. With. My. Brain. [link] [comments] |
| How do I truly connect within. I want that connection, how do I properly mediate? Posted: 02 Nov 2020 10:07 PM PST |
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| [Discussion] Would you help us make habits easier? Posted: 02 Nov 2020 05:47 PM PST Hey guys, The struggle of building healthy habits is very real, we all have experienced at some point. Would you like to help us understand the most difficult part? We are trying to understand the triggers of human motivation so that habit building no longer remains reserved for the first week of January! Quick background, I'm Amogh, currently an engineering undergraduate. My college-mate Shubham and I are always looking for interesting problems to study and unwind. After a recent exploration into the topic of social psychology, we wanted to apply our learnings in a way that actually helped people. We decided to work on a product that actually works when nothing currently available made much difference to us. This is not a company/startup at this point and we don't expect any monetary gain, we just want create a solution for a problem that is very personal to us. The reason we want to reach out to people like you who have had past experiences is that you will help us get a better understanding of what problems are most common and what solution will be most effective for it. Just book a slot on the calendly link below and join us for a quick hangout call! We understand that the struggle is very personal to everyone and won't ask any PII. Come on! Don't stall on this! We'll keep it fun. Promise! See ya 😃 Calendly Link: https://calendly.com/get-inhabit/30min [link] [comments] |
| Confusion around self and consciousness Posted: 02 Nov 2020 09:01 PM PST The true nature of ourselves as consciousness itself, makes sense conceptually and is empirically verifiable. Something that is worrying to me is when people try to take the finding, "I am consciousness itself" as synonymous as complete dissociation from ones experience. If I am consciousness itself, am I not my personality either? I mean am "I" thinking, analyzing, and typing this, or is consciousness? If you say the answer is the latter, than it would follow that I am just a helpless observer with no free will being pushed around by an agency that Is not me. Consciousness cognizes, but does it "do" anything? So what is doing the doing? Is it not better to be completely at one and intimate with experience rather than be some detached cognizance? Am I missing something here? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 11:43 AM PST We are all one. I know you have heard this before. I want you to see it for yourself. Not as a thought, but as a direct knowing. I am going to share how I came in touch with it. If you look at the feeling recognized as yourself. This feeling is the only thing that holds knowledge/memory/thought/and any kind of form together. Without the sense of self it doesn't exist. Maybe you can see it with this guidance. It can also be experienced naturally and understood also through deep levels of emotion when you realize it is the only cause holding it all together. This sense of self is literally the only cause of any effect in this journey of life. The funny thing though.. is if you direct your attention to it.. not trying to change it or think about it or anything like that. Simply looking intently at it. It will dissolve. When it dissolves you will experience the God sense. The illusory self may come back temporarily. If you, again, focus intently on the sense of self, the God sense will once again appear and you will feel and know beyond any shadow of a doubt that all is one. You will know at all times during your experience and you will know that any suffering comes from the illusory self. One easy way to bring the sense of self alive to be witnessed is looking in the mirror. Simply focusing on the sense. Let your awareness move freely if it needs to but return to the sense of self. When it dissolves you will know that all is one. There will be no question. You will simply know. One way to loosen the chains and heighten energy. When you say anything you can focus your awareness to the sound created by your voice. Often times we speak without becoming aware of our voice. If you become aware of the first tone of your expression, and still continue expressing, often times it will stop there and you only speak and express in harmony. Not in words. The power in this is that it is a deeper and more real expression of truth than words. And thus has more ability to heal and take you to a deep place which makes the illusory self stand out and become more vulnerable. Happy to answer any questions if there are any. [link] [comments] |
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