Meditation: Am I the only who feels that daily meditation slows down perception of time? |
- Am I the only who feels that daily meditation slows down perception of time?
- Weed is messing up my practice.
- Have you noticed when you get angry you keep fueling your anger with angry thoughts , or when you get anxious, same thing you fuel your anxiety with anxious thoughts
- Starting to get really introspective.
- Did I cure my anxiety through meditation?
- How to be more consistent?
- A state I experience after meditation
- Dealing With Change
- Asking for help: Ego gives me advice/thinks about meditation while I’m trying to meditate...
- I think I fell into some sort of deep trance state? Felt like I was falling and involuntary moving in a symmetrical and geometric pattern that was very pleasurable?
- I keep falling asleep during mindfulness guided meditations, Any reason why this is happening and how to avoid it?
- Re-centering around my posture instead of my breath has helped my practice AND my back/hip pain
- Is listening to the calm sounds enough?
- Advice for meditation
- Nonduality101 discord community.
- Transcendental meditation
- I’ve started practicing Zhan Zhuang with Dantian breathing, anyone here had positive experiences with either?
- Can I use the same guided meditations multiple times ?
- Thank you for the Dalai Lama. Grateful for his dedication to help bring more peace, love and compassion into the world.
- New to meditation
- Any meditation methods suited for an extremely loud environment?
- Has anyone gotten through a break up with meditation?
- Ones inner tranquility, maybe another’s hell. Meditation has enlightened me lately. Be patient, and use the tools given to you, good and bad, those are the tools with which you’re given and must work with. It’s all a test.
- Do you sometimes feel pain in your head while meditating
| Am I the only who feels that daily meditation slows down perception of time? Posted: 16 Dec 2020 06:34 PM PST It seems that as people get older they always remark that time just flies by faster and faster without them noticing. But I feel like daily meditation is the antidote to this. When you are meditating each morning, you prevent yourself from going into autopilot for the entire day. Furthermore, you are constantly assessing and adjusting your lifestyle choices, so you are always trying new things and therefore having novel experiences, which leads to a slower perception of time. Anyone else have a similar experience? I just think back to when I began meditating 2.5 years ago (I was a sophomore in college), and it feels like another lifetime at this point, while most people say that their college years went by in a flash and that they just lose track of time. Even when I think back to one month ago it feels to me like a month rather than the blink of an eye. [link] [comments] |
| Weed is messing up my practice. Posted: 16 Dec 2020 07:51 AM PST I've been quite the heavy stoner for the past 7 years give or take. I recently got into daily meditation practice and I am starting to see that weed can no longer help me on my journey. I'm not mad about it though. Kinda happy to be moving on with my life instead of going thru it in a haze. Basically all the benefits I was trying to get out of meditation was destroyed by weed addiction. I learned that I have to let go of my attachments. Weed was a huge attachment. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2020 09:51 AM PST We think angry thoughts when angry, worried thoughts when anxious, and sad thoughts when sad. [link] [comments] |
| Starting to get really introspective. Posted: 16 Dec 2020 10:42 PM PST I've meditated daily for the past 6 months and for these last two months I have been meditating whenever I get the chance to. That amounts to 4-5 sessions a day. 3 of those sessions are more than 50 minutes. I meditated today for 2 hours and this is how I feel: I feel how I feel like on shrooms. I feel melting sensations. I can feel anxiety and look at it from afar and not identify with it. I can feel myself wanting to distract myself when I feel anxiety creeping in. I tell myself, "don't worry, it'll pass" and I feel that sensation passing inside of me. I feel that sensation without judgement. I feel like I can explore my mind without identifying with anything. I see how everything changes and I see the beauty in impermanence. I realize how scary it was to live inside my mind at one point. I realize it didn't have to be that way. I realize that I can walk away from those bad feelings and intrusive thoughts by accepting the present moment and seeing what is true. I don't throw this word around a lot but I feel like I'm awakening or have already awakened. Edit: yeah, I'm not even meditating right now but when I sit still I can access that meditative state pretty easily. I just realized that I forgot what it's like to be human and to want to explore this divine mystery. It's like someone took that human right away from me. [link] [comments] |
| Did I cure my anxiety through meditation? Posted: 16 Dec 2020 06:14 PM PST Kind of had an odd experience today in regards to my anxiety, and just trying to figure out what may have helped me so much. I appreciate any advice or ideas about what may have happened and why these correlate, as I feel they do. Had a very intense meditation session. I had just got back from a run and got into it, I sat on the floor and forced myself to sit upright. It was extremely painful because I was using a lot of strength to sit upright, the same pain I'm sure a lot of people who do those 10 day meditation retreats feel. I focused really deeply on the pain and all the sensations in my body, and was still able to have a clear mind and calmly pass away thoughts and return to focus, especially on the pain. The next day when I went out in public, as someone who suffers from anxiety pretty badly, I had basically no anxiety. It felt very foreign. Actually, I felt really confident in myself. I think it boils down to reactiveness and power over pain, which I exerted a lot of in that meditation session. I will continue to experiment and might post an update, if I actually rid of my anxiety with meditation I would be amazed and grateful. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2020 11:35 PM PST Hello everyone, I stumbled on this subreddit a few months ago and have seen some amazing stories about how people have overcome some of their troubles with meditation, I.e. anxiety. I personally have been trying to incorporate meditation into a daily routine as I've felt a lot of benefits. Meditating can be like taming a wild animal (your mind). It helps you quiet down your thoughts and acknowledge what's in front of you. Time stands still and it's amazing being in that present moment. My issue is that I can't develop any consistency in my practice. I really enjoy the benefits of meditating but it's hard to practice it at places like work, where my mind is constantly on go mode. Have any of you had any similar experiences? [link] [comments] |
| A state I experience after meditation Posted: 17 Dec 2020 01:02 AM PST I've seen that after meditation,I'm in a state where my movements slow down and I'm completely present in the moment.The words that flow down from my mouth are also good.What is that state after meditation?Im able to retain it for around 4-5 hours.Why does it slows me down? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2020 10:52 AM PST 2020 has changed my life. (M19)
Dec 9th. My fathers 40th birthday. Gan passed away that evening. That morning I accepted a collect call from dad and he was really hoping she wouldn't pass on his birthday.. My heart has never felt this sinking feeling. Like a hole in my chest. This is the closest person I've known that has passed away. And really I don't know how my Mother (lost her mom at the age of 17) and my S/O (lost her mother, also at the same age, 2 years ago) could bear so much pain. Losing someone really makes you contemplate your own life and the life of others as it is certain we do not live forever. What meditation has done for me. I'm hurting but I'm also healing. I think about Dad all the time. But i know he is alive and I know he thinks about me too. I've mentioned meditation to him multiple times. I'll get him to eventually. My Grandma will be greatly missed but at least she isn't suffering anymore. That's really hard to think about sometimes. She'll never enter her home again and we now have memories in place of her existence. My spirit is growing. Almost blossoming as I approach my 20's and continue to love everyone including myself. I've personally dedicated my next set of dreadlocks to Gan in her memory and Dads own journey in the system. I just wanted to share! [link] [comments] |
| Asking for help: Ego gives me advice/thinks about meditation while I’m trying to meditate... Posted: 16 Dec 2020 08:27 PM PST Most thoughts pass during my meditations, except for ones giving me advice/pondering meditation and spirituality... for example I'll start pondering the quote "you are always one thought away from living" but by thinking that thought I am not living. One of the many ironies I encounter when the ego speaks of meditation. Has anyone else experienced this? If so how did you get past this? Thank you, much love to you all! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2020 12:09 AM PST Honestly, I don't really know how to classify what I experienced. I don't know if it was a trance I entered or if it was a sort of ego dissolution that resulted from my meditation. Here's what happened, hopefully someone can give me insight into exactly what type of state it is that I'm describing. Full disclosure, I was pretty crossfaded during the experience. Had a lot of wine and two good hits of weed. It was weed I'd smoked many times before so I know there is nothing weird in it. After taking the hits, I sat down to engage in some meditation like I do almost every night. Sometimes sober, sometimes not. Suddenly, it felt like I was going to fall backwards and I was very aware of the symmetry of my body. I could sense that something was happening, and I welcome all aspects of altered or spiritual states so I gave in to the sensation and as soon as I consciously relinquished control, it took over. It felt as if I was stretching and falling backwards and it was as if I had many fractal limbs that were twisting and growing through a geometric sequence. As if I was the embodiment of fractal geometry. There was minimal consciousness of my physical human body. It was extremely pleasurable, as I felt like my "form" was somehow being stimulated at all the right points as I "tumbled" through the motions. After spiralling through this for what felt like eternity I would come back to being conscious of being in my room. Then the feeling would take over again, and I'd give in and let it take me through the same motion again. It was quite fascinating and it felt almost exactly like what I fell into after an intense ego death I had on a high dose of acid over a year ago. Although during that experience, the geometric pleasure peaked into orgasm, and in this one it did not. After I went under and cycled through multiple times involuntarily and received the same degree of perfectly calculated pleasure, I began to wonder if I was dying. Thinking that perhaps I had alcohol poisoning or was physically dying of something else somehow. Even though I did not drink nearly enough for that, the state I was in felt so ethereal and out of body that I considered I might be dying. I considered that I might be stuck cycling through this abstract dimension of nothing but infinite cycles of perfect sensation. As if I had reached the core of the sensory inner working of our being and would stay there in that state. It is incredibly hard to describe the pleasure that seemed to have a very perfect mathematical nature. As if all the energy inside me was released from my physical body to spill and spread out in its natural and unbridled infinite form. But part of me did not want to be dead yet so I started fighting to regain my control. It was dark in my room, as I turned the light off at some point. I could see a spot of light in the corner of the room from the lights on my record player. It looked abstracted and unreal, as if I was tripping. I began to move towards it as if it could pull me out of the state I was in and repeated to myself that I was going to wake back up into the physical world. As if I was willing myself back into the third dimension. Willing myself back to life by moving towards the light. And then I was aware of myself standing by the record player. I then went to turn the lights back on and it still felt like I was tripping, simply because I was shocked by the degree of what I just experienced but I stayed calm enough because my previous ego death that came with a similar experience informed me that this too would pass and that I was not actually physically dying. Eventually I went to sleep once my high wore off and I felt more and more physically there again. Anyway, I would like to hear what you all have to say about this or if you've experienced anything similar. I found the experience to be very informative, as it was like I was witnessing my ego death again without the fear that came with it the first time (due to never having experienced it before and being unconvinced during the first experience that it would ever end/that I wasn't really dead). [link] [comments] |
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| Re-centering around my posture instead of my breath has helped my practice AND my back/hip pain Posted: 16 Dec 2020 11:56 AM PST If I'm already in a state of calm, focusing on my breath tends to work best for me. But when my mind is busier, I tend to require a lot more attentiveness to get anywhere following my breath. Breathing feels far too manual when my mind is busy and it gets increasingly more difficult to let go and just be. However I recently discovered that I'm significantly better at disengaging with my thoughts when my point of focus is physical balance and spinal/hip alignment. I've learned that both the way I sit and stand used to have my hips too open, which in turn caused pain from my pelvic area down my legs. Staying mindful to this in a meditation session has both gradually eased my pain day by day, as well as helped me sit with better posture naturally without thinking about it. I also observed my "natural" position of my right shoulder was too low and forward, causing strain on my trapezeus muscle which gave me pain under my right shoulder blade tied to the upper left side of my neck, and unbelievably, causing pressure in my right ear drum. Staying mindful to this has definitively eased my neck and shoulder pain, as well as my ear pressure. If you're like me and you have crappy posture, struggle with breath focus, or both, give posture a shot as your focus point! [link] [comments] |
| Is listening to the calm sounds enough? Posted: 17 Dec 2020 02:18 AM PST So, I use this app called Medito for meditation. Earlier I used to focus on my breath as guided. Doing this on a regular basis seemed hard but not impossible. I eventually got to a better focus than the times when I started. But, nothing phenomenal. I'm talking about 60+ sessions. So, it's not a big number. However, recently in two sessions I found keeping a timer and using meditation sound as my point of focus helped me throughout the day. I just try to keep my focus on the sound being played rather my breath. It works for me, but I am not sure. I'll continue this from now on. Putting on a timer (say five minutes) and keeping a background music to keep my focus on it (so called awareness about something) and by doing this am I going to miss out on anything? Say, from the breath method. PS: Even by using the sound method, I am pulled towards my breath. Somehow there is harmony, not clear enough, between the two. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2020 02:05 AM PST I tried meditating 2-3 times but sometimes its so hard to control my thoughts and focus I really want to start doing meditation everyday because im really stressed any advice about how to start or what type ? [link] [comments] |
| Nonduality101 discord community. Posted: 17 Dec 2020 02:05 AM PST Hello, this is the nobody speaking, come ask me questions for proof! The nobody has created a server for those who seek an end to spiritual seeking once and for all. Nonduality101 is a discord communion dedicated to getting to the point of what is all about with no more questions asked! So called enlightenment. Invite ----- https://discord.gg/bsMYutrRNd [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2020 09:46 PM PST Is it real? Online says that it's life changing but you have to go to an actual studio to experience it. Is this true? [link] [comments] |
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| Can I use the same guided meditations multiple times ? Posted: 17 Dec 2020 01:32 AM PST Today I was asking myself this, just after my practice ended. I'm trying to go back to the basics, because my focus seems gone, and I'm using an app, Meditopia, that is very good. Only problem, I'm not paying for the premium content, so I have little access to practices, and sometimes I do the same practice 2 or 3 times. Is it okay, or does it have no effect? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2020 12:01 PM PST Thank you for the Dalai Lama. Grateful for his dedication to help bring more peace, love and compassion into the world. Thank you for all the people who donate blood everyday all over the world. Thank you for all the compassionate skilled nurses who help heal and comfort people when they are sick or injured. Thank you for public libraries for providing free books, computers and internet to millions of people every day. Thank you for airlines and all the people who work for them that allow people to visit family and friends all around the world. Thank you for the USPS and all the packages and mail they have helped me send and receive in my life. Thank you for the technology of DVD"S and all the joy they have brought me and others. Thank you for the technology of vinyl LP's and the many hours of entertainment and joy they have given people. Thank you for the technology of LP, CD, DVD and tape players that have given me and millions of other people endless hours of entertainment and happiness. Thank you for the Santa Cruz juice company for their fantastic organic juices. Thank you for Whole Foods, Sprouts grocery stores and all the people who work there providing organic healthy foods and supplements. Thank you for Best Buy stores and all the times they helped me by providing electronics and parts I needed. Thank you for all the companies that design and manufacture light fixtures and light bulbs so we are able to have lighting in our homes and business's. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2020 07:17 PM PST Hi, I️ have been meditating or trying to for a few weeks now and have a question (well, many of them but we'll start with one). Hopefully it's ok to ask on here because I'm also fairly new to posting on Reddit and not sure how exactly this works. Sometimes meditation makes me cry, is this normal? I'm going through a difficult time and have been for close to 5 years. Is crying my way of releasing the stress during meditation? Thanks in advance and sorry if this goes against the rules. [link] [comments] |
| Any meditation methods suited for an extremely loud environment? Posted: 16 Dec 2020 06:44 PM PST I live in a house with four other people, and at all times there is always at least two things playing very loudly. My family members are also rather nosy, and will walk into my room just about whenever, especially now to check in regularly on my pet's cage or in the mornings if they think I'm 'up too early' or. I also have a big dog with a big bark. Sound quickly makes me overstimulated, which is part of why I would like to meditate. However, I am not at a point where I can meditate despite these things in the background. Ear plugs are nice, but then I have the problem of people walking in and things still being too loud despite plugs. It is too cold to meditate outside as of current. Any suggested meditation methods or mentalities that may help would be wonderful! TIA! [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone gotten through a break up with meditation? Posted: 16 Dec 2020 08:48 PM PST Hello everyone, I'm going through a very difficult time right now. The only time I tried meditation was years ago. Back then I have to admit, I didn't really see the point or couldn't feel that it works in any way, because after I felt mentally and physically like nothing had changed. Now, I thought maybe meditation could help. Does it work? Not just for heartbreak, but in life. I'm overthinking a lot and hope that it doesn't just help for the time I'm meditating, but also for the rest of the day afterwards. [link] [comments] |
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| Do you sometimes feel pain in your head while meditating Posted: 16 Dec 2020 11:22 PM PST I don't know is it a bad or good thing, I hope somebody ca explain it to me [link] [comments] |
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