Meditation: I wrote a Kindle book about Mindfulness. It is based on my 24 years of experience in severe depression, ocd, and panic disorder. |
- I wrote a Kindle book about Mindfulness. It is based on my 24 years of experience in severe depression, ocd, and panic disorder.
- Best Meditation Yet
- Best type of meditation for people with adhd
- Hey im not from here im just passing by i just wanted to ask one thing ?
- So is meditation even real or is it all in your heads?
- Question do you believe meditation is merely a means to discipline the mind or a way to connect to a spiritual/divine force
- Is a meditation retreat particularly useful?
- Meditation Inception?
- All the small things: training yourself to be aware and grateful for the everyday little stuff puts you on the path of happiness
- Joseph Goldstein on free will
- Certain mental disorders making it impossible to meditate
- What is deep meditation like? How does it change the mind?
- Thoughts about using meditation for neurolinguistic programming (NLP)
- how to get a kid to like meditation
- i need help picking out a good type of meditation (pls read whole thing)
- [Question] Physical, Spiritual and practical impact of digestion on a meditative practice: is meditation right after eating a good idea?
- Chakra and kundalini energy
- Am I doing it wrong? Focusing on the darkness behind closed eyes.
- does anyone else have a sense that their thoughts come from a specific direction?
- Questioning stage
- Effect of meditation on mind
- 15 minutes guided meditation before sleep
- How to practice equanimity?
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| Posted: 12 Dec 2020 10:51 PM PST I just had the best meditation session, the guided meditation I found resonated 100% with how I was feeling and talked me away from my intrusive thoughts and into a peaceful place of mindfulness. Very thankful to have had that experience hope you all are having a good day take care 🙏❤️ [link] [comments] |
| Best type of meditation for people with adhd Posted: 12 Dec 2020 08:22 AM PST My mind is constantly noisy! Even when I don't choose to think about things. I don't particularly worry about things or turn over ideas in my mind. It's just noise, kind of like when you're dreaming, but in audio. I guess it's like there's a radio playing a random talk show in my mind lol I really don't know how to explain this! I assume this is part of my adhd, who knows! But I'd love to learn which type of meditation can help switch this off so if anyone could help I'd really appreciate it. [link] [comments] |
| Hey im not from here im just passing by i just wanted to ask one thing ? Posted: 13 Dec 2020 02:46 AM PST Does this bellow sense make sense to anyone, as I talk a completely different language and im trying to figure out how to resonate with y'all ;) The human brain is much simpler than you think. You can transcend it and I think the word is Hack it? But not chop it up I mean beat the mind. The ego can't and shouldn't be beaten defeated but how to brain works can You guys practice almost everything you can think of, arts, music sports etc, But not as many people practice how you feel emotionally. As that's what it means to be human. To Feel In your meditation practice. feeling emotions. Go between a loving feeling to gratitude, fear, sadness, hope, joy, bliss. At first you will only just scrap the surface, the same as in your normal day to day living. But with a little practice you will find deeper levels of these feelings you never thought possible. Of course you don't need to learn to strongly these more "negative" emotions but it does turn the contrast up for a more extreme life. To taste a sweet fruit after experiencing a bitter one has a stronger impact, In general start to learn how these emotional feel inside you while in meditation state of mind. Anyways let me know if that was helpful or just confusing as I can come from a different point if view next time. All the words above are best felt with the heart not to try figure out with the mind. That's how real communication is meant to be done. X, ∆^ [link] [comments] |
| So is meditation even real or is it all in your heads? Posted: 13 Dec 2020 02:44 AM PST |
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| Is a meditation retreat particularly useful? Posted: 13 Dec 2020 01:47 AM PST I have been meditating for two years now fairly consistently. In the last 6 months I have been especially dedicated with my practice, getting roughly 40 minutes to an hour per day. I am now considering the possibility of doing a retreat once COVID relaxes. Is there anyone who has done one before, that was at roughly my level of experience or more, who can tell me about how their mindfulness practice benefited? Another question I would like to ask is whether the benefits of a retreat increase the deeper ones daily practice is, in terms of length and quality? It seems to me that if a person with no experience of particularly long sits was to be asked to meditate for hours on end a day, the benefits of doing so would be significantly diminished as compared to someone with greater experience. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2020 01:37 AM PST So I cannot recall many things but I can picture the last few "seconds" of the dream. I was in a store kinda like Walmart it seemed. An old lady came up to me and had me pick up this donut shaped object off of the self (shelf, typo but I thought it sounded amusing keeping the typo). Said something like "for the chakras" but all I really remember is the word chakras and the intention of it being helpful in some fashion. Instinctively my dream form turned around with her still beside/behind me and stood straight up, held the ring out in front of me with one arm in a particular way where it was parralel to the center of my chest, closed my eyes, felt as if I was in a meditative state, then next thing I remember...waking up. I can also recall the ladys face. How her skin was ashen white, crumbling. Her Jet White hair to her shoulders unkempt. And the most jarring thing, her piercing gaze ever fixated on my own. Eye color: Light Blue I just thought this was interesting, never experienced a dream like it. Thank you for your time. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2020 08:48 AM PST In the Buddhist tradition, desire is seen as the root of all suffering - when we're dissatisfied with our lives its because we're attached to the idea that something better is out there that we don't have. One of the reasons social media is bad for our mental health is because it feeds us a kind of highlight reel of other people's lives and accomplishments, which increases our desire and unhappiness. We also get too used to normal, leaving us blind to the good things right in front of us. So you might look at gratitude as being the antidote to that sense of dissatisfaction. We can be grateful for the important things like the people we love or our health, but it makes even more difference to take joy in the small things in our world . This might be sitting down in a comfortable chair, walking in the park or when you see a bird land in the garden. If you train your awareness regularly through meditation you can be more attuned to these small moments of happiness. To really kick it up a notch and get the happy juices flowing, you can practice mindful gratitude for the normal, everyday, mundane stuff we usually don't notice. Thich Nhat Hanh illustrates this with a toothache - if you've ever had one you know how painful it is and you're aware of it all the time. You'd give anything just to go back to normal again, that feeling of not having a toothache. Once you go to the dentist and get it sorted out the relief is incredible and normal feels amazing - in mindfulness we call feeling that our non-toothache, the enjoyment and gratitude for simply being alive. We can feel this for our inbreath and outbreath, you can enjoy your posture, you can enjoy the feeling of your heart beating. When you get into the practice of enjoying the small things and the normal things, that's walking the path of happiness. There is no path to happiness, happiness is the path. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2020 01:12 AM PST Hello everyone, I'm doing a little personal research on meditation teachers' points of view regarding free will. I would be interested in knowing Joseph Goldstein's position on the topic. Can you kindly help me find texts or videos where he deepens the subject? [link] [comments] |
| Certain mental disorders making it impossible to meditate Posted: 12 Dec 2020 06:49 PM PST So I have Aspergers and PTSD, which is a wonderful combination which makes sitting down and focusing already hard enough, but with the added stress that comes with keeping my mind quiet and letting thoughts pass by. My friends have been trying to get me to try meditation and mindfulness for a while, but it's extremely difficult for me because of these things. It's caused a lot more anxiety for me than helping, and that's even if I'm able to get myself to start it in the first place. I really don't know what to do to be able to actually meditate [link] [comments] |
| What is deep meditation like? How does it change the mind? Posted: 12 Dec 2020 08:11 PM PST Hey you, I recently got into meditation again and I noticed this thought come up. It was wondering what deep meditation is like, and how it affects the mind? Much peace and love [link] [comments] |
| Thoughts about using meditation for neurolinguistic programming (NLP) Posted: 12 Dec 2020 05:45 PM PST Hello all, I was watching a podcast earlier today with Dr. Andrew Huberman. He is a Stanford trained neuroscientist that works on motivation and arousal behaviors in mice and human models. In the podcast he speaks about hypnosis and how new patterns of behavior can be generated quickly because of the focused but simultaneously relaxed state the person achieves. There are several meditative practices which can induce a hypnotic like state. Paying attention to the breath and chanting or transcendental meditation come to mind. I sometimes use this freshly generated state to notice negative thought patterns, but to also try to replace them with more accurate or positive thoughts. Has anyone else had success with an experience like this? The link to this podcast is below. Hubereman begins talking about hypnosis at 40:00 min mark roughly. [link] [comments] |
| how to get a kid to like meditation Posted: 12 Dec 2020 01:31 PM PST Here's me trying to teach my son to meditate. He does ok for a 5 year old. Try it with your kid. Right before bedtime is the best time. [link] [comments] |
| i need help picking out a good type of meditation (pls read whole thing) Posted: 12 Dec 2020 09:34 PM PST i am 18 year old male with adhd and anxiety. My mental illness has significantly improved and I'm fine now, but I tend to worry, lose focus, daydream (very badly when I'm driving which is an obvious problem) my mind wanders all the time. I meditate occasionally for about 15-20 mins, and what I do is sit cross legged (uncomfortable position because my right hip is very tight) and i try my best to relax my entire body. I notice that I am involuntarily tensing up and I will occasionally have muscle jerks. I try to focus on my breathing, the sounds around my, how my body feels, and just achieve a state of thoughtlessness and peaceful awareness of my own body and surroundings. I literally cannot do this for a full minute before my mind begins to wander. I also am for lack of a better word kind of stupid because i don't pay attention or think before I act sometimes, like I'm so impulsive that it never occurs to me to think before I do certain things. can someone please tell me what I can do so ultimatly I'm more relaxed physically, mentally, and spiritually as well as being more present and aware, stopping daydreaming, increasing focus, and bring less scatterbrained and jittery? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2020 08:44 PM PST Hello there, /r/meditation, how's it going? I'm a new subscriber, new to the subreddit, but have some beginner experience with meditative practices. For whatever reasons, my new schedule allows me to meditate only right after my first meal. I would like to hear the thoughts of more advanced practitioners, especially, but not limited to, of those who are into spiritual practices. I'm particularly concerned with the effects of meditating just right after eating. Will digestion have any sort of negative impact on my meditative session? Will it make it LESS PRODUCTIVE, physically, mentally or emotionally speaking? Will I miss out any spiritual insight/goodie/benefit/whatever you may call it? is it better to meditate in a fasting state? I did a quick search through some old posts and didn't find anything related to my questions. I hope I'm not infringing any other rule, if so, apologies, and I thank you in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2020 02:09 PM PST So, I recently started to get into meditation and I learned about chakra and kundalini energy. I can physically feel kundalini energy when i meditate, which is super awesome, but I do notice that some chakras are either weak or don't have a lot of energy. Is there a best practice for strengthening multiple chakras or continue to do what I've been doing? Also, there's a space between my throat chakra and sternum that is a little tougher for energy to flow (area not a specific chakra) And advice will help, thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Am I doing it wrong? Focusing on the darkness behind closed eyes. Posted: 12 Dec 2020 01:37 PM PST Greetings, I have been meditating on and off for almost 10 months now and the technique that sticks with me is to sit in a dark room, focus on breathing, observe my thoughts. Lately it has been becoming easier to settle and my mind tends to focus on the darkness behind my eyes, sometimes it feels almost as if one layer of it keeps enveloping the other layer of black and for a moment I feel suffocated and as if I'm super compacted in the room but at the same time I feel (idk how to say this) whole. I tend to bow and break away from my practice then but this threshold has been coming closer to within 10 mins of meditation. How do I deal with this? [link] [comments] |
| does anyone else have a sense that their thoughts come from a specific direction? Posted: 12 Dec 2020 03:44 PM PST often when i'm overthinking it'll feel like thoughts are coming from all directions and sort of reverberating in the mind. during mindfulness practice, i sometimes have the sense that a thought came from the left or right, or even above my forehead. often varying in "volume" and tone as well. is this.. i mean, is something WRONG? can anyone relate to this? i suppose theres no need to name it, but i do worry about it occasionally. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2020 08:03 AM PST I feel like I'm questioning everything. Why am I here, who is god, how do I know he's all loving? Why am I experiencing fear and pain when I've been practicing for so long. This will never get better...defeat comes. I'm scared. I'm losing my mind, fear of losing my mind, meaning I'll just end up nuts in a psych ward while everyone is blissfully happy. I'm angry- this is bullshit. Why is this happening to me. I'm trying so fricken hard. Also it just begun, and I'm going through a transition in life. I don't trust anything or anyone. I had my first sleepless night, where my brain just ran wild on its own. So anxious. So afraid, so alone, so unsure of the world. Has anyone gone through this? Please tell me it gets better lol I'm losing hope [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2020 06:22 AM PST Meditation is the process that silences the mind; meditation calms the mind. The mind is thinking up to fifty thousand thoughts a day, practically one thought every second. Even when we sleep, the mind doesn't spare us because we dream while asleep. What does meditation do? It calms the mind, it slows down the mind, it reduces the MTR, the Mental Thought Rate. Meditation is not about sitting in a fancy position and the mind wandering, meditation is about becoming conscious of the mind, wherever you are and slowing down its pace. That is true meditation and it will give us peace of mind. [link] [comments] |
| 15 minutes guided meditation before sleep Posted: 12 Dec 2020 03:58 PM PST |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2020 09:47 AM PST I found this guided meditation practice for equanimity that I plan to do daily. However, what are other ways I can practice equanimity? Like when I'm going through my daily life/activities (e.g. work, exercise, family/friends, etc.)? [link] [comments] |
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