Meditation: Cheat Code to the Universe |
- Cheat Code to the Universe
- The best way to let go is to realise that you can't hold on.
- There is no try
- Life is an endless fight against entropy
- One sign of accomplishment in meditation is kindness. Kindness is a good sign.
- Very lost. How do you reconcile acceptance of bad situations with striving for a better one?
- Meditation is just the mind learning about itself.
- Those inner voices belong to different people?
- Friend Self Peace (79)
- Does anyone else randomly hear harmonic bells or a high pitch tone sometimes?�� if so what does it mean...
- Thoughts on Waking Up app?
- Embarrassed questions from a noob
- GOD Is A Black Woman
- Headspace/Calm/or Other
- Most of the time I don’t want this.
- Terminology. A couple of questions.
- How do you survive awakening?
- Using Meditation to Vaccinate Yourself Against Negatively Responding to Challenging Situations
- Can someone point me to meditative techniques that explore specific sensory channels in penetrating detail?
- Strong determination sitting by shinzen young
- It which order do you prefer doing the following: exercising, meditating, caffeinating, showering
- I am interested in the scientific reasons as to why we experience vibrations.
- Some insight on what I witnessed meditating?
- Having your thoughts late a night is better than sun gazing on face.
| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 06:25 PM PST I'm sure by now many of you may have figured out that meditation has many benefits. But it goes a bit deeper than just reducing stress. It turns out this is part one of a universal cheat code. In fact, this cheat code allows me to access flow state on a regular basis. This allows me to learn things immediately, improve and build relationships, as well as attract just about anything I want into my life. It has even got me out of a few traffic stops and allows me to ride a bike with no hands. It literally works on everything. What I noticed is that being super relaxed doesn't always produce outcomes that I am happy with. It would produce a bliss state at first but this eventually went away. However, this "bliss" is essential for flow state, which is where miracles start happening. To access flow state, it only requires you to ask yourself this question at all times: "Could I be more relaxed? Could I be more nice" You just keep asking yourself this question all day. You will start noticing how quickly you are picking up tension and negative emotions. I should mention that being "nice" means first a foremost being nice to yourself mentally and physically, but also everything and everyone. Treat everything and everyone like a God/Goddess and they will be. It is that easy. You may even understand it intuitively if you think back through your life. It is never a good time to be tense or angry. Think back to someone who made you feel extremely special. What was it about them? Were they relaxed and angry? Were they tense and nice? Were they tense and angry? Or were they being relaxed and nice? Now, which group made you feel the worse? That really is the whole summary, but If you would like to read more I wrote a short paper about how to relax and be nice in every single situation. The benefits of it. How it has helped me. As well as a cheat sheet on the back that should help put you in the right headspace as soon as you wake up. I wrote this paper trying to figure out consciousness. Writing this paper helped wake me up. I hope reading it does something for you too. May infinite love and light permeate your universe from this day forward. [link] [comments] |
| The best way to let go is to realise that you can't hold on. Posted: 30 Dec 2020 05:15 AM PST Trying to let go doesn't work because the person trying is the problem. The easiest and quickest way to let go is to remember that you can't hold on, and once you remember that you immediately relax because the feeling of holding on too tight was just a dream, you can't hold on in the first place because there is nothing to hold on to. Life is a flux, it's constantly changing (and yet it's always the same) and things are always coming and going so trying to hold on and control life (including your thoughts and emotions) is actually insane. This realisation really cleared a lot of things up for me and I even felt moved to write a song sharing this realisation called 'Let Go'. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 10:16 PM PST Looking at my mind. What I realize is that where in my life I "keep trying" like money and career, what I'm actually detecting is a discursive process out of control, 90% complaining, and the other 10% split between to do lists and enacting them. That the reason these things don't improve is because this is totally removed from Doing. An example where I am progressing is guitar playing. This doesn't really occupy that much thought space. What it does is pretty simple, like when I'll play. Mostly it is spontaneous, I pick up unscheduled and challenge myself because it feels good and I want to, without a lot of thinking. Not really sure what the upshot is for my areas of chronic "trying". My hope is as I meditate more and quiet the chattering, I'll feel less numb and schizoid about these necessities and be able to just see the benefits and act. [link] [comments] |
| Life is an endless fight against entropy Posted: 30 Dec 2020 05:30 PM PST Life always tends to disorder, you will always have problems to solve. Don't expect to arrive at some place or circumstance that you won't have struggles. That's life. Just a thought that came when I was meditating high on the beach 🌴 [link] [comments] |
| One sign of accomplishment in meditation is kindness. Kindness is a good sign. Posted: 30 Dec 2020 08:19 AM PST One sign of accomplishment in meditation practice is an increase in loving-kindness. Loving-kindness is a good sign. It may take months, or years for the full blossoming of this noble human quality, but the investment is of timeless value. "Have courage and be kind. Where there is kindness....there is hope and where there is hope....there is life." - HH the Dalai Lama [link] [comments] |
| Very lost. How do you reconcile acceptance of bad situations with striving for a better one? Posted: 30 Dec 2020 11:14 PM PST How do you reconcile knowing your life could be orders of magnitude better with total acceptance of the present? For example, I've never worked a job I liked. The last job was brutal physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. I hated every second. I wasn't furthering a single goal of mine. It was not fun. Do I just use sheer willpower and mindfulness to somehow trick myself into finding some kind of positive somehow? Just accept that this moment is going to "blow over"? I mean I guess there are some small good moments here and there but the general overarching theme is pure existential pain and the desire to leave immediately and do anything else at all in the world. How to I balance accepting what I have now, practicing gratitude, and living in the moment with striving to something better? Is the ultimate goal just to be content and accepting of being actively lit on fire or staring at a blank wall or entering data into one quadrillion excel rows? I mean, I'm a realist, I like worldly pleasures, and I'm also a nihilist and pessimist, but I have a true true deep yearning to understand myself better, be more kind to myself and others, and welcome whatever comes with true acceptance. I mean I still in the end have to go "add value" to some firm while all I want to do is make music all day, learn new recipes, play hockey, make art, learn new skills, make a table out of wood. Help my friends and family. I truly have an insatiable desire, a want, a goal, to make music and release an album this year. I have an attachment to the idea of making music. It's all I want to do. But I have to make money at some shit, soul draining job. I've contemplated ending it cause I feel like I'm just wasting away so much time. How do I reconcile an attachment to my goals with accepting the roadblocks preventing me from my goals? I clearly am early in my meditation/mindfulness journey and I can see how this may come across as childish. But I feel like that guy in office space. I remember I used to drive to work at another job and my mind was utterly free. Clear. No thoughts. I'd almost make it there and not remember the drive. It was so calm and peaceful. I started thinking to myself...is my mind lazy? Are successful people scheming in their head all day? Doing math equations and thinking how to make money? So I started trying to actively think on my drives. Form plans. It didn't really add anything positive to my life, and I'm still here wasting time and procrastinating years later. I miss those days dearly now. Maybe it was just a really good time in my life. It's almost inexplicable. This post has clearly turned into a stream of consciousness as I get more tired here. Maybe there's someone out there with similar thoughts or advice. If not, have a good day! [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is just the mind learning about itself. Posted: 30 Dec 2020 12:02 PM PST The mind loves to cling to sensations (e.g. thoughts, emotions) without realising it. Once it realising it's clinging by coming back to the present moment, it lets go. [link] [comments] |
| Those inner voices belong to different people? Posted: 30 Dec 2020 08:21 PM PST Excuse the ramble!! The more I study the brain, the more I understand that different areas of brain activity are manifested as thoughts, each with their own agenda, even though we attribute them to a single source, I.e. the self. It's a fragmented and occasionally dissonant chorus of voices - all spoken with the same inner voice. People who hear different voices in their head may just be more cognizant of their differentiated sources? I've started labeling the different voices that deliver thoughts to my awareness. There's the Lover, the Planner, the Dreamer, the Ruminator, the Worrier. They're different "people" because their sources and agendas are different and all vying for my attention. They want "the spotlight". It can be mildly dissociative if you are still clinging to ego, but it's helped me welcome and release the thoughts. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 03:09 PM PST Find Self Peace. In yourself. I do understand how important it is to have loving, supportive friends, family, partners, relationships etc., but the fact is, YOU are the only person that wakes up in YOUR body and YOU are the only person that goes to sleep. These past 9 months of quarantine have been interesting, with lots of time for self awareness, solitude, to sit in myself and be with myself. I have learned a lot, I still struggle. I am healing & I still hurt. I am getting comfortable with my identity, I still struggle with dysphoria. It is all apart of the life of being. The life that yes must have its downs, to know what the ups are. To know that the downs only last for a little while and then there we are, bouncing back up again. It takes time. Sometimes I feel too secluded and wanting to chat with someone I used to talk to, or someone that has been removed from my life by God and the Universe that I want to check up on just because I feel lonely. We must be present with ourself in those moments and realize that WE MUST NOT MOVE BACKWARDS BECAUSE WE ARE FEELING LONELY. There are 1000's of people on the internet to chat with if needed, but realistically in those moments it might be best not to message anyone at all and just sit. I love speaking with people, I love conversing, I love communicating and experiencing different perspectives with like minded beings in other places in the world, but as well as I love my space and time for me; to paint, to journal, to meditate, to be outside, to play video games or just solely to sit. Find whats right for you and focus on that. Connect with people that have unconditional love for you, if you are looking for people like that, go look, they are there and here. All around. I wish you a day of health, happiness and healing. Together, Separately. I love you. Drey <3 [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 08:48 PM PST Is it worth paying for? I've heard good things about it but I'm kind of hesitant subscribing to it cause I've tried other similar apps such as Calm and Headspace and to be honest I don't think they were worth the money. Basically what I want to know is how does it compare to other meditation apps? [link] [comments] |
| Embarrassed questions from a noob Posted: 30 Dec 2020 06:56 PM PST Hope everyone's happy n healthy. Ive recently started meditating over the past month using the calm ap, I havent been doimg it everyday but my new years resolution is to get to an hour a day before my 19th. My first question is no matter how long I meditate for, 10 20 30 minutes, by the end of the exercise im left feeling a bit agitated frustrated or almost annoyed, why is this? And should I just continue everyday to control it? My second question is after around 15 minutes my legs go very numb to the point they ache which seems impossible, then when I stop and get up I cant feel my legs for 20 seconds then they go so tingly I cant stand on them properly, its pretty funny actually im just worried I might be causing damage or something. Anyone know if this is bad for me or not? Thank you if you read this! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 02:15 AM PST What if God isn't an old bearded man, but he was something that we'd never expected [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 07:46 PM PST I am looking for a good app to help re-center my mediation on the go. What (IYO) is the best app for on the go mediation/always at my fingertips. I want to make sure I am investing my money towards a tool that will be beneficial since they aren't cheap. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Most of the time I don’t want this. Posted: 30 Dec 2020 03:16 PM PST I'm sure most of those in this sub either are, or at some point, have struggled with mindfulness. I was wondering if anyone here actually notices that when their mind frees itself of a gripping anxious or exciting line of thought, you will become fully aware of this. Once I realize it, I go into this mode of frantically trying to remember what it is that I was onto. This occurrence happens to me quite often with both harmful thoughts as well as thoughts of solving all my problems and unfortunately I am usually met with success when attempting to realign my mind with the automatic thought processes. This is sort of like reverse meditation in the sense that I am focusing on existing solely in my head. I am a novice meditator to the extent that I barely get around to it and I am really excited to become one of the best at it judging from how it helps me. I am especially sharing this because I thought some of you might read this and identify with it. Then, you are a part of the right sub, especially if it bothers you. Remember there is nothing unbecoming of the way that the mind works except for that which you decide is cumbersome to your goals. If you can see the problem for what it is then you now know how to be the solution. I suppose the real reason for writing this was to get it off my mind and to move on without ever coming back to it. Good luck to you all and thank you for being kind to yourself. [link] [comments] |
| Terminology. A couple of questions. Posted: 30 Dec 2020 06:44 PM PST We have 2 techniques. The Buddhists call them SAMATHA and VIPASSANA. Other names for SAMATHA : Concentration, Stillness, Samatha, Quietness, Object Meditation, Anapanasati, Samprajnata Dhayna (Meditation With A Seed), Zooming-In and The Technique of Irritability, Shrinking. Other names for VIPASSANA : Shikantaza, Vipassana, Watching, Objectless, Formless, Choiceless Awareness, Untangling, Cessation, Open-Monitoring, Zooming-Out and Asamprajnata Dhyana (Meditation Without A Seed), Growing. In meditation we flex AWARENESS. We concentrate it in samatha. We spread it out in vipassana. Other names for AWARENESS : Attention, Light, Sati, Mind (capital M) and The Thing. I'm looking for 3 good terms. I've pretty much decided on Concentration. I'll also probably use Awareness, tho I loathe the term it seems to be the least of the evils. And as for Vipassana etc, well, for that one I'm just not sure. Something modern, brief and descriptive would be ideal. Any intelligent input would be welcome. Because I'm working on a nice scientific type treatment of the subject. Starting with a simple experiment and so on. Because the field kinda needs it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 12:46 PM PST I (my masochistic bastard of a higher self?) did something really stupid. I was trying meditation just to relax. I ended up having an "out of body" experience (my sense of self was somewhere above my head but I was still seeing through my eyes). It felt like I was dying, but it was still interesting that something happened. I watched a self-help video on how to deal with fear, learned how to "let go", and then my head felt like it was rewiring itself over the next few days. I had no idea what I was doing, I've come to realise what I did was something like opening the third eye. Then I had this amazing feeling of love, joy and happiness all over, even when not meditating. I noticed that, as I started thinking about what was happening, the feeling would go away and I would start feeling miserable instead, so I learned to "let go" of those thoughts and whatever other feelings came up, which would get me back to the happiness, it was like crack. That cycle I'm basically still stuck in two months later. I've experienced many other things during this trip, many of which I'm grateful for, a lot of insights into why I do the things I do, feeling that "I understand everything" (there's some transcendent bullcrap), amazing flow states, focus and clarity of mind, having no mind, brief feelings of derealisation, existential horror and a lot of weird nightmares. Mostly I've got through the bad parts by "letting go". Some days, i feel like I'm trapped in my skull (by ego structures/karma?) and I'm completely miserable to the point of being suicidal, feeling like I'm nothing, until I find something I can let go of. Once I managed to get into what I think is called "witnessing". It was very peaceful and effortless, with no emotions. I could sit there with my eyes open and feel i needed to blink, but it would actually take effort to blink rather than just ignoring the impulse. I'm not really very well practised and my mind is a mess most days, and I can't get anywhere consistently. I've been reading a lot trying to understand what to do or how to think, and I try to think positively about it when I can, "The Mind Illuminated" helped explain some of the strange mental states, how most of what we do is automatic etc..., but didn't say much about awakening. I understand this was probably not an ideal way of doing it. Trying to do a regular dayjob while going through this probably isn't a good idea? Can anyone offer any advice or suggested reading? [link] [comments] |
| Using Meditation to Vaccinate Yourself Against Negatively Responding to Challenging Situations Posted: 30 Dec 2020 08:59 AM PST I've been using the "Waking Up" app for about a year now and one of the lessons I particularly get a lot out of involves purposely thinking about something that makes your uncomfortable, anxious, or embarrassed. When you conjure that thought, pay close attention to your body's physiological response to this negative input. You are not supposed to run in the other direction, but rather lean into the thought, observe its effect on your body, and let it slip away. I love being able to train my response to anxiety-inducing situations in the safe and controlled environment of my daily meditation practice. I kind of see it like vaccinating your consciousness--you are introducing a small, manageable amount of a challenging situation and training yourself to recognize it and cope with it in a healthy way. I've found that this exercise has helped me immensely with dealing with unexpected challenges in life. Instead of a negative response, such as expressing anger or trying to avoid the emotion altogether, I take a few breaths and observe my body's reaction and let it slip away in its own time. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 03:52 PM PST Can someone point me to meditative techniques that explore specific sensory channels in penetrating detail? I've recently been expanding my meditation practice from something highly focused (attending singularly to the breathe) to a more "effortless" approach in which you are mindful of whatever arises, not just the breathe. I'm looking for techniques that really explore different sensory channels. With vision, it might be noticing the first person experience of perceiving depth, optical illusions, your visual field with eyes closed, mental imagery exercises (for instance, you can have a mental image of a tiger without knowing the exact number of stripes, whereas with vision there has to be a determinate number of stripes). Learning exercises to attend to sensations internal to the body has been interesting too. If there aren't specific meditative techniques or even drugs that allow you to explore these sensory channels in ways that are hard to come up with on your own, I'm open to reading philosophy that tries to map out all these properties of consciousness too. Phenomenology, for example. Or Daniel Dennett has this section in Consciousness Explained that describes how thoughts come in the form of propositions, mental imagery, if-then rules, conversations with yourself, and so on. [link] [comments] |
| Strong determination sitting by shinzen young Posted: 30 Dec 2020 02:10 PM PST I don't see many posts at least recently about this practice, in my experience this is one of the best forms of meditation and not talked about as much as it should be. Benefits are immediate in the first sits the longer the sits are timed the better. I invite the ones who are already meditating daily and are looking for a new experience or challenge to look into shinzen young's strong determination sits and incorporate them daily into your life along with your meditation practice. Links to videos regarding about these sits. THE QUICKEST WAY TO ENLIGHTMENT ~ Shinzen Young [link] [comments] |
| It which order do you prefer doing the following: exercising, meditating, caffeinating, showering Posted: 30 Dec 2020 05:37 PM PST So,
or
etc. which do you prefer? [link] [comments] |
| I am interested in the scientific reasons as to why we experience vibrations. Posted: 30 Dec 2020 11:19 PM PST I have experienced OBEs before a few times, generally due to sleep paralysis. I have only been meditating for a week or so consistently and I really am trying to just look at this through a scientific lense (so please don't think I'm rp'ing here). I don't really think I believe much anymore about the spiritual aspects of meditation/OBEs, etc. but I suppose I have a predisposition to that kind of thinking. Does anyone have any explanations for vibrations that isn't "opening chakras" or "astral projection/third eye/kundalini"? [link] [comments] |
| Some insight on what I witnessed meditating? Posted: 30 Dec 2020 11:10 AM PST First time meditating for 20+ minutes and I recently started meditation in general. I'm typing this out while it is fresh on my mind. I laid down and used noise cancelling headphones in the dark with some "meditation" music. Repeating the mantra "I am that, I am" in my mind with each breath. At one point it was almost like a dream state where I entered a place that was similar to a forest, but not totally earth like. Tall slender dark beings that reminded me of trees were there. It felt pretty familiar actually and I wasn't scared or anything. Maybe I actually fell asleep, I don't know. Following this I felt a huge rush of warmth down my body. After that I came back and "woke myself up". I don't think I was sleeping, but I was so relaxed it was hard to tell. Any of this sound familiar? Not sure what to make of it really, but meditation is great for relaxation. [link] [comments] |
| Having your thoughts late a night is better than sun gazing on face. Posted: 30 Dec 2020 04:28 PM PST With two back to back sessions I feel like being alone with outdoor noise echoing the my window is much more calmer than morning birds going ape shit near my window sill. Am I only like meditating at the night than during the day time? I may make the switch to have a few sessions before I go to bed. Does anyone here even care what is best time you to clear your head? [link] [comments] |
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