Meditation: “If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key.” |
- “If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key.”
- Has anyone here ever thought maybe our pain and tendency to have more negative thoughts than positive is a way of our minds bringing us back to self care?
- I asked myself “What is real love?” And It replied to me, sarcastically, “Is it a thought?”
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- Is breathing manually being mindful?
- 4-7-8 Breathing for Sleep: How to Do It, Science of It, and More
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- How much are the profound meditators of you mindful during the day?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnP3hDlBMts Meditation For World Peace Subliminal By Drvirtual7
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- Have you used psychedelics before? How has it affected your meditation practice?
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- Existential crisis around mortality, led me to meditation. I’ve had some crazy experiences.
- How to meditate after the earthquake?
- I just started meditating and my head kind of hurts . I don’t know how to explain it
- How to deal with overthinking?
- I have been doing a meditation where I clear my mind of thoughts, what is happening?
- My sleepy body
| Posted: 27 Dec 2020 07:44 AM PST take the time to meditate do it for atleast 40 min a day you may think 40 min a day i dont have that much time just split it up in 2 times 20 min each day you can do it i believe in you and so should you [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2020 09:12 PM PST I know this is confusing, but I had this thought while was meditating. A lot of the time, what motivates people to take part in meditation and other spiritual practices is pain. We want our minds to be healthier so we go into these practices because we want to lessen our suffering. Do you think our minds make us suffer so that we will be pushed to spend more time taking care of ourselves and getting closer to enlightenment? Maybe there is a force in the universe that uses our pain to force us to get into those practices so that we can get closer to enlightenment while we are here [link] [comments] |
| I asked myself “What is real love?” And It replied to me, sarcastically, “Is it a thought?” Posted: 27 Dec 2020 11:24 PM PST |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2020 05:24 PM PST I just started to meditate the last month, and i feel so good with myself, it´s like i´ve learned new abilities to controls my emotions and my reactions to the things that happen to me. I just wanted to share this and any tip that you can give will be well received. :) [link] [comments] |
| Is breathing manually being mindful? Posted: 27 Dec 2020 05:39 PM PST Hello im new to meditation, often times i struggle with focusing on my breathe so what I do is I do it manually. But I dont know if im really meditating or just doing a breathing exercise [link] [comments] |
| 4-7-8 Breathing for Sleep: How to Do It, Science of It, and More Posted: 27 Dec 2020 08:40 AM PST 4-7-8 Breathing for Sleep: How to Do It, Science of It, and More How can a simple breathing technique help with insomnia and stress? The 4-7-8 breathing method has been really effective for many people – myself included – at helping relax the body and mind ready for sleep. The first time I tried it I was genuinely surprised the next day at how quickly I'd fallen asleep! It's also been successful for some sufferers of PTSD and anxiety at reducing their symptoms by stimulating the Vagus Nerve. In this article I'll explain what it does to relax the body, and why it is so effective. How To Perform 4-7-8 Breathing Exercise
To understand why this breathing pattern is so effective, we need to look at the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for regulating the automatic functions of our body, such as heartrate, immune function and digestion. Two Halves of the Autonomic Nervous SystemSympathetic Nervous System (SNS) – activated when we perceive danger or need alertness:
Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) – activated when our body feels that it's safe to relax
The sympathetic nervous system is super important, but with the busy modern life that many of us lead, full of stimulus and stress, it is activated too much of the time. Our PNS rarely has a chance to take over, which causes problems for recovery and especially for sleep! Using 4-7-8 Breathing to Regulate Your Nervous SystemEffects of Deep BreathingWe have minimal direct control over what our autonomic nervous system does, but via specific breathwork exercises it is actually possible to switch its state between the SNS and PNS. When we breathe deeply (i.e., from the diaphragm rather than from the chest) we activate stretch receptors around the diaphragm linked to the parasympathetic nervous system. Any deep breathing will have this effect, but it's especially powerful in the 4-7-8 method as we pause for 7 seconds in the slightly stretched position for a stronger "rest and digest" effect. For many people, the level of cortisol (the "stress hormone") is chronically high and this can hinder sleep. Deep breathing, such as in the 4-7-8 method, has been scientifically shown to reduce levels of cortisol. Effects of Slow Breathing Furthermore the rhythm of breathing affects our autonomic nervous system, with slow, controlled breathing activating the PNS. This should come as no surprise (given popular advice to "take a deep breath" when feeling overwhelmed) but it was only in 2016 that scientists first found the part of the brainstem that seems to cause this! In the 4-7-8 pattern, each breath is very slow – around 19 seconds, so again it stimulates the part of the nervous system that allows us to sleep. Reducing Effort for the Muscles The last thing you need when trying to sleep is physical effort. It generates unnecessary heat, increases heart rate and generally prepares your body for sport rather than rest. Even something as simple as a breathing exercise can require some physical effort. In particular, to extend the exhale for as long as 8 seconds, it is necessary to restrict the airflow out of the lungs. This would ordinarily be done by tensing up various muscles around the lungs and windpipe. The 4-7-8 method avoids this by simply placing the tongue against the upper gums to restrict the airflow considerably. The muscles have minimal work to do and we can physically relax a lot faster. SummaryIf you're like many people who have difficulty physically relaxing, this breathing technique may help you like it helped many before you. It quickly starts to activate the PNS and reduces cortisol, all while performing a meditative activity with minimal physical demands. --- I hope you liked the article! I've been developing a breathing exercises app with a couple of friends, 4-7-8 Breathing is also included obviously! I'd love to hear some feedback about the app - so if you want to try it shoot me a DM 💛 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2020 02:02 AM PST Put 8 monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed on, set upon him and beat him up. Soon, none of the eight monkeys ever attempts to climb the ladder. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why none of the other monkeys are doing the obvious. But undaunted, he immediately begins to climb the ladder.All the other monkeys fall upon him and beat him silly and he has no idea why. However, he no longer attempts to climb the ladder; A second original monkey is removed and replaced. The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammer the crap out of him. This includes the previous new monkey,who, grateful that he's not on the receiving end this time, participates in the beating because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he has no idea why he's attacking the new monkey. One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced. Eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed by ice water. None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any idea why. That is how #traditions, #religion and #ethnic profiling get established and followed. Think twice before following a tradition, religion or negative ethnic profiling. It would make more sense if you get your own understanding to it! Have an isolated and informed perspective on all decisions that govern and determine the way you live your life. [link] [comments] |
| How much are the profound meditators of you mindful during the day? Posted: 28 Dec 2020 01:36 AM PST I am wondering how much of the day (percent or total time) experienced meditators are consciously aware of their thoughts or if recognizing emotions and certain thoughts arising early on just becomes automatic. [link] [comments] |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnP3hDlBMts Meditation For World Peace Subliminal By Drvirtual7 Posted: 28 Dec 2020 01:27 AM PST |
| Good meditation app recommendations for parents Posted: 28 Dec 2020 01:24 AM PST Hi all, Throwaway on the off chance this is seen by anyone in my family. My sister passed away 5 days ago. I've known about and used the benefits of meditation for quite a while, and have been using it. I actively follow, but rarely comment in this community on my main. My mom is having the most trouble, as she was bestfriends with my sister, and they both suffered different, unrelated illnesses (neither of which ((actively)) affected personality, just pain related chronic illnesses). I've been pitching meditation to my mom, and she understands and has practiced meditation, as shes had chronic migraines for nearly 15 years. My mom says that she can meditate, just not so that it can help her get to sleep... shes also having more than her fair share of trouble with racing thoughts. I dont use an app, I just practice with a timer and a fan. This doesnt work as well for my mom. Does anyone have any app recommendations for guided meditations that may be of help to her? [link] [comments] |
| Have you used psychedelics before? How has it affected your meditation practice? Posted: 28 Dec 2020 01:01 AM PST The IMPRINT (Integrating Psychedelic and Meditation Research Initiative) project will be the largest study to date exploring regular meditators' relationship to psychedelics. You can support this research project if you have meditated at least 3 times per week during the last 12 months. You can find more details and the link to the survey on www.ways-of-looking.com The IMPRINT project is led by researchers at University College London. The findings will be shared in open-access journals and the anonymous data will be made available to other researchers in the field. Thank you for supporting psychedelic and meditation research. The time you dedicate to this project and the experiences you share are very valuable to us. Please feel free to share the survey with your networks. [link] [comments] |
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| Meditating with OCD and Tourette's Posted: 27 Dec 2020 03:43 PM PST Meditation has been recommended to me to help control my anxiety and I have recently started and enjoy it. I have obsessive thoughts and tics which make it a bit challenging though. My tics from tourettes and obsessive thoughts are mostly related towards getting comfortable. I fidget with my clothes constantly even when I am not meditating. It also makes it harder to let go of worries. Is some fidgeting ok during meditation? Will these thoughts and feelings make it difficult to get into a meditative state? Any advice for someone meditating with either of these. I think meditation could really be helpful for me in dealing with these issues in the long run. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
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| Existential crisis around mortality, led me to meditation. I’ve had some crazy experiences. Posted: 27 Dec 2020 04:23 PM PST As I reached 30 I looked back at my dads passing thinking, what the hell is this all about? I'm a collection of cells, with the most improbable odds to exist and for one lifetime I experience the universe as me. I ask myself again and what is this universe I find myself in? Am I here for some reason? Or am I just a figment of my own imagination? Before meditating I watched many videos on ayahuasca and the experiences. I wondered if the reason we don't remember before birth, is because well I wasn't this before birth. This mind I embody did not exist before you were born. So why would you remember. But if I was spirit, wouldn't I always feel a connection or sense of that other world? Maybe. Maybe the process of life distances us from what we really are. So, with intention in mind, many hours of reading, from breathing techniques to diets. I began meditating. I always meditate with some question, but never focus on it. It's just there somewhere and if it's not answered, it's not answered. That's fine. I typically start with very slow breaths, maybe an inhale and exhale might last something like 30 seconds. Very very slow. To the point I'm almost breathing in and out once a minute. I think maybe I'm subconsciously trying to emulate death, by not breathing. In fact many a time I completely lose sense of who I am, I'm just aware of the space I occupy. But when I go further and lose sense of the space I occupy, I panic. I suddenly realise I'm not breathing, it's as if I have forgotten how to, I jolt back into life and realise, almost feeling like I either passed out or occupied some other space, of which I am flung out of back to myself. I have no idea how long I've been not breathing or how slow my breath was, I have no idea of how much time has passed. I have a moment of complete confusion. Or maybe my brain will become unbelievably active. Thinking like 20 scenarios all at once, questions, daydreams. It goes berserk, of which I have to just accept it's happening, let it do its thing and I'm good carry on meditating. Some other times, I see blue not black. All blue. Swirly patterns, triangles, hexagons, fractals. All blue. Eventually I will feel as if I am falling into the centre of this pattern. But rather than a literal fall, it's as if I am going into my own head. When this occurs I see beings. Not human, sometimes beings without form, sometimes they are the shapes, but morph in and out of some humoresque being. I sense someone or something there but can never quite pin them down. It's always changing. I'll ask them what am I doing here. It's always the same, they bring my this huge chalkboard and on this I write equations. It's as if I know everything. But I can never retain knowledge. I can never retain answers they may have given me. Literally no idea. When they do say things, it's almost as if they are right here with my body, I on occasion literally hear them talk in my ear. But it's never anything I can understand. It always makes me jump and I always instantly come out of any deep meditation. Because I have a moment of panic, then I question myself. Am I hallucinating? Is anything that just happened real? Is it my mind making it up? Was I actually asleep and that was a dream? It feels so real though. For a brief moment I think, I get it. That's me, in that place and I needed experience and I am meant to pursue knowledge. That after I die I lose this person I am now. But that unexplainable awareness goes back into this cycle of which you can go back into life again. Some time, in some way. But as quick as I have these thoughts and questions. I always end up back at, what if it's all made up and life is completely meaningless. I think this is why Ayahuasca seems so tantalising to me. It has all these stories of how it truly changes your view and your understanding. Because you physically experience it. To you, you are dead, but still exist as some sort of eternal energy. Supposedly. But with meditation you never truly go deep enough to lose that thing in your head that says, I'm alive, I'm this person, this is my family, so on so on. So you always have some level of doubt. As with many of us the thought is, it is fascinating and amazing, to exist. Regardless of how bad things get. To beat the almost infinite odds, to exist, is a miracle in itself. Now although I am grateful if my life, I'm very lucky. It's that same burning questions we all have, that we have no clue what we're doing here, why we're here, where we're going after this is done with, do we come back here again. At times it's almost infuriating to not know for sure. But I have to say since meditating, I've gone from atheist to completely agnostic. As in I don't know. I've gone from arguing with religious people, to I have no right to argue belief systems. I've become more humble, I get angry less, problems always seem smaller than they would have before. I panic less, I'm less anxious, I'm more in-tune with just experiencing existence. I feel more empathy, I keep crying over the smallest things. I'm more understanding of others. But I truly have no clue what the hell is going on, in general. I cannot say if God exists, if they don't exist. I cannot say if there is some sort of after death awareness or not. I cannot even be certain at times that I exist, perhaps I am some figment of my own creativity. Who the hell knows? But I'll continue pursuing some kind of answers or enlightenment. Never know, it's worth a go, ain't it. [link] [comments] |
| How to meditate after the earthquake? Posted: 27 Dec 2020 11:44 PM PST Hi, how to not think about life threatening situations after powerful earthquake and do mindfulness ? Should i "welcome" or ignore that thoughts during the meditation? I live in a tall building and if earthquake is happening i can't react fast and get on safety because it takes very long time to get out. Earthquakes are common here. I just want to learn how to meditate in my home with that thoughts in peace? Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| I just started meditating and my head kind of hurts . I don’t know how to explain it Posted: 27 Dec 2020 07:19 PM PST It doesn't hurt like a head ache.. just I feel my mind getting tired or maybe worked in a way it usually isn't? Is this normal? I want to try a vipassana retreat one day and I know it'll take a lot of time before I reach that level but I don't know how I'll be able to get to that level if my head gets tired. [link] [comments] |
| How to deal with overthinking? Posted: 27 Dec 2020 10:49 AM PST Hello all! I have been trying (and tried) meditation for many days now. I have tried to focus my mind on one thing but I can't seem to concentrate on my breath or any other sensation. I keep thinking one thing or the other. Even in my day to day activities, I seem to think a lot before the activity, during the activity and after the activity as well. And I can assure you, more often than not, these thoughts are not helpful. Infact I planned to learn and practice meditation to be calm and stress-free. It saddens me that overthinking is ruining my social life and my personal life and it saddens me even more than I tend to overthink even when I am meditating. Can anyone please guide me as to how I can help myself? Thank you [link] [comments] |
| I have been doing a meditation where I clear my mind of thoughts, what is happening? Posted: 27 Dec 2020 11:55 AM PST I'll try my best to explain this meditation. I lay down with my eyes closed. As soon as a thought comes into my mind, whatever it says, I shut it down. I don't know how I do it but I keep shutting thoughts down over and over. Eventually, my mind is very clear. I started doing this in my day to day life when negative emotions would come up. I could feel sad, anxious, rejected, just for a few seconds and then shut it down. Can anyone explain what is going on? Edit: I'm not complaining about this, I'm curious. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2020 09:36 PM PST I love the idea of meditating, but, I am not very good at it. I do it resting on my bed with music on. When I do it, I can't feel my hands, arms and legs. Also, I feel my head tilting a little bit from left to right. Have anyone experienced something similar? I am new to this so I would love comments or tips Thanks! [link] [comments] |
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