Meditation: Weekly Discussion - November 16 2020 |
- Weekly Discussion - November 16 2020
- I practice blindfold chess every day as a form of meditation.
- Every perception is heavily colored by each person's own mental projections.
- From this day on I’m meditating every day. I don’t care what I have going on.
- Reminder to Raise Your Vibration Right Now
- Your ideas about spirituality are holding you back
- Sitting in your car is a great place to meditate
- Feel weird after meditation
- Has anyone tried recording their own guided meditations for themselves to use?
- After first meditation, time went past fast?
- Somehow, I can now produce pleasure at will
- Meditation happens automatically when you see that discomfort, irritation you experience can not be covered up or wished away or that relief, pleasure you experience can not be held.
- TM Question
- Crying during meditation
- How to discern ones own biases to read situations clearly?
- Meditations to Astral Project that can be done while awake
- What is the "bible" or go to book for Samatha Mediation?
- I've been trying to be patient but it's hard
- recommendations?
- I'm struggling - is this normal?
- I can't seem to do anything, my mind isn't helping either
- Nonviolent communication
- Just starting Meditation
- TM and Nightmares
| Weekly Discussion - November 16 2020 Posted: 16 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] |
| I practice blindfold chess every day as a form of meditation. Posted: 16 Nov 2020 03:47 PM PST I'm a pretty decent club player (1800) and I've been practicing blindfold chess every day without a board, in my head, just using chess notation. I'm not very good at it yet, I can only last about 10 moves, but hopefully I'll get better. My goal is to be able to play one game at a time from start to finish. I do this in addition to regular meditation and it's a wonderful visualisation tool for focusing my mind! I know many people can't play chess but just thought I'd share. [link] [comments] |
| Every perception is heavily colored by each person's own mental projections. Posted: 16 Nov 2020 01:52 PM PST Every interaction or perception is first, foremost and lastly a projection of your own consciousness. Until we understand that all relationships exist as a reflection of filters in our own mind, we cannot see others clearly. Remove or diminish the filters through loving-kindness, compassion, understanding and wisdom, then the world looks much different. Many times if a person who perceives themselves as a sensitive, intuition or psychic, believes that what they are coming contact with is truth or real. A clairvoyant is seeing through the filter of their own colors in their aura, which changes the colors they perceive. The same is true with all senses. We must adjust for our own bias. If there is a belief which says, "what I perceive is real", this is cautionary. Until each of us has removed our emotional glamours, mental illusions, it's tough to say we're experiencing things clearly. [link] [comments] |
| From this day on I’m meditating every day. I don’t care what I have going on. Posted: 16 Nov 2020 10:44 PM PST I already meditate a few times every week. Why not just do it every day? A lot of the days I don't it's because I think about it but then realize I have something else that's more important. But not being able to set aside 5-30 minutes a day for a habit that can drastically improve your life is actually atrocious. [link] [comments] |
| Reminder to Raise Your Vibration Right Now Posted: 16 Nov 2020 09:01 AM PST
We must raise our vibration to raise the collective consciousness. In this year, after everything that happened which is also a clear attack on the collective consciousness we must do something but FOR REAL. We are now and here - let's make the best of it! [link] [comments] |
| Your ideas about spirituality are holding you back Posted: 16 Nov 2020 10:23 PM PST This is something I've been realizing lately. Whatever you think spirituality is, you need to let go of that. Your ideas—the mental stuff, the concepts—that you have about spirituality (be it how to practice it, how you should feel, your memories of past glimpses, your conception of where you're at in the spiritual path) are holding you back. Whenever you remember how you felt in some past meditation session, or how a previous glimpse you had was, you probably expect and try to force your current experience to be similar to what you remember. These memories, these ideas that now form your conception of what spirituality is, are holding you back. You need to let go of these. To be in the present moment, you have to let go of thoughts, including those concerning spirituality. [link] [comments] |
| Sitting in your car is a great place to meditate Posted: 16 Nov 2020 06:22 PM PST Not sure why I didn't think of it before but it really shields you from a lot of noise and energy. Just thought I'd share with anyone that has difficulty finding a private place to meditate. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2020 12:02 AM PST I'm new to meditation. I meditated for 20 mins just now and it was the longest I've ever tried. However, I feel so weird after I opened my eyes. I feel as if I was sleeping the past 20 mins but I know I wasn't. I couldn't remember what was going on in my mind that 20 mins even thought I knew I had many different random thoughts. I guess I just feel like that 20 mins "didn't exist" and my brain is trying to analyze what happened. Did anyone feel like this before? Is it a good thing? I'm really new to this so everything makes me curious [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone tried recording their own guided meditations for themselves to use? Posted: 16 Nov 2020 06:35 PM PST Here are some reasons why I think it could have value:
Has anybody tried this? Does anyone have any thoughts about this, good or bad? [link] [comments] |
| After first meditation, time went past fast? Posted: 17 Nov 2020 01:01 AM PST Is this normal,15 minutes were like 3 minutes. Maybe because I was kinda sleepy since it was early in the morning and I'm not an early owl?? Also, when I tried to meditate I was always aware of breathing and always thinking "breathe" in repetition. Is this okay? [link] [comments] |
| Somehow, I can now produce pleasure at will Posted: 16 Nov 2020 08:29 AM PST I felt a subtle sensation which if I focused on can be intensified into a pleasurable sensation, and I can even make it last for hours. It feels like tickling my brain. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2020 09:54 AM PST Hope as an escape from what one is experiencing now is bondage to pain from which one is running. We live by postponing 'living' as if stability will come and stay. This search has to drop abruptly to see 'what is True'. You are essentially seeking relief by complaining, blaming, feeling guilty when something unpalatable happens or by holding relief when you get or accomplish something. If you can notice this, whole energy is here. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2020 06:10 PM PST So I learned TM, took the class. And I like it, and feel like I want to continue with it. But when they start talking about levitating and that kind of stuff, I just start to feel a little weary about it. Like it starts to sound a little ridiculous. And I really want to get more involved with it, like taking the advanced techniques classes and maybe even more than that, but I dont believe in that levitating type stuff they talk about. So I just dont know if I should really continue taking more of the advanced classes because that stuff sounds too silly to me. Whats anyone elses thoughts on TM and that advanced stuff they teach? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2020 09:40 PM PST HI, Im new to meditation, i suffer from mental health and Substance abuse issues. The last two times ive tried medtiation ( i have probably tried meditation around 6-10 times) ive started to cry heavily, and i guess i just want to know if thats normal for beginners or people with trauma. i also plan on keeping up with the practice and would love any suggestions for meditations for finding (or coping perferably finding) the source of emotional pain. Any help would be greatly appreciated [link] [comments] |
| How to discern ones own biases to read situations clearly? Posted: 16 Nov 2020 07:08 PM PST What can I do to divine the differences between my perception and the real circumstances of an occasion? I am sometimes a deeply emotional person, and become confused by the weight that I suspect I add to observations in some circumstances. Right now I'm in a situation which leaves me uncertain and confused. I am beginning to believe personal reflection on the matter will yield very few answers. I'd love to hear the story of your experiences regarding becoming a more objective observer, or anything relevant you have to say which might provide me perspective. [link] [comments] |
| Meditations to Astral Project that can be done while awake Posted: 17 Nov 2020 01:05 AM PST I know a lot of the thing of AP requires you to be in "the phase" or in the state between awake and asleep anyway, but I was wondering if there was some kind of meditation excercise that would help in enhacing the chance for AP and lucid dreaming. [link] [comments] |
| What is the "bible" or go to book for Samatha Mediation? Posted: 16 Nov 2020 06:28 PM PST Due to a rough child hood and a very critical parenting style , I have developed extremely critical and damaging habitual mental and emotional patterns that I'm findind it hard to let go of and is causing most of my suffering I would like to help calm my mind and have been advised to do Samatha meditation As Leigh Brasington is the go to for Jhanas, is there a go to for Samatha meditation? [link] [comments] |
| I've been trying to be patient but it's hard Posted: 16 Nov 2020 07:25 PM PST I am often impatient, and this makes me depressed every day because the things I wait for have not come true, for example, when I pray for something, I want my prayer to be answered quickly, or when I want to have a girlfriend, I want to be able to have a girlfriend as soon as possible, while maybe it can't be like that because I have to wait. I've tried practicing my breathing and meditation when I'm impatient, but this only temporarily calms me down, a few hours later I'm impatient again. Is there any meditation method that can make me a patient person? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2020 11:02 PM PST i typically meditate whilst listening to rain sounds on youtube but i want to try some guided meditations. i'm open to practically anything as long as it's calm and preferably has little to no background music and focuses on being positive and raising vibrations in general. [link] [comments] |
| I'm struggling - is this normal? Posted: 16 Nov 2020 04:44 AM PST Over the last few months I've been systematically reducing my maladaptive behaviours. Basically anything that I used to 'check out' - alcohol, mindlessly browsing the web, sugar etc. And I have been meditating every morning during these changes. Recently, I've been struggling. But I'm ready for the discomfort. I'm finding it harder to be around certain people. People I've spent a lot of time with. This is especially more so ATM. During the lockdown as there aren't many options. As a result, I feel I'm withdrawing. Becoming quieter. Saying less around these people. And that's adding to my discomfort. I feel like I crave something different to where I am in life now. I feel like I'm transitioning. My interests are changing. My values are changing. And as a result, I feel a bit lost at the moment. I'm trying to stay grounded where I am. But I find myself craving a different sort of connection with people. I think this is my predisposition that I've been hiding from myself for too long. But I'm ready to keep going. To say goodbye to these maladaptive behaviours. Can anyone chime in? [link] [comments] |
| I can't seem to do anything, my mind isn't helping either Posted: 16 Nov 2020 10:31 PM PST I'm a 21 year old who's just graduated, I studied business but have come to realise I don't enjoy it as much so now I've to find something that I would want to do. I feel like I don't have any direction and feel like that I won't be able to find anything and end up remaining mediocre, that bothers me which in turn creates mental chaos. Lately I've kicked my routine out of the window, all I do is smoke and chill while coping with this constant anxiety which I believe roots from not knowing where I'm going. That uncertainty. Now I'm having a tough time jumping back and finding a path. Every night I make ambitious plans for the day after, knowing inside that my mind might trick me in the morning, and it has been doing that, for a while now. I feel I'm self destructing because 1) I want to create a life for myself but am not doing so 2) I can't seem to sit with anything, I can't feel the passion and the determination to even explore. All im doing is giving into instant gratification and my mind's on a loop. Hope I can get some words of advice from you lovely people. That's the reason I'm writing this. Hopefully you lovely people have some words of advice. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2020 09:09 AM PST I have been reading the book nonviolent communication the past week, and it's one of the most profound things I've ever read. Ever feel like reading Buddhist literature about the ego is too wishy washy and hard to understand? This is a very practical book for understanding the ego in today's culture. If you've read this book, I'd love to know what you think of it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2020 12:36 PM PST I get so confused with all of this information. Can you recommend me some videos about to start or some simple information? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2020 08:05 PM PST I've been practicing TM for two months and lately my anxiety has returned in the form of extremely visual and disturbing dreams. I'm constantly feeling like I'm going to die when I wake up. I'm also extremely forgetful lately. I can't find words sometimes. It's beginning to frighten me. Anyone else experience this? [link] [comments] |
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