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- I'm very grateful to have a comfortable bed to sleep in every night and blankets to keep me warm.
- For many years I was on xanax, klonpin, ambient, and hydrocodone. After two years of weening off and practicing Zen meditation I have been five years without a single pill.
- If anyone is looking for a reason to start or just want a positive story, Please read.
- Feeling vibrations/waves
- 1 Hour Beautiful Seashore Piano Music for Studying and Relaxing【BGM】| Me...
- Little tip for better meditation
- The meaning of mindfulness
- What are some things that should be done right after meditation?
- Is it limiting to visualize the meditation?
- What if you *are* your thoughts after all?
- A meditation practise is not easy. Something to remember in being kind with ourselves.
- Just started my Job, but I’m not sure I can hold on to it.... need advice.
- How to meditate while sitting on mat relaxed ? Anything more than 20 mins cause back pain or unrest in legs ?
- Music Listeners
- (Need some advice) How to get past avoiding meditation because I feel dependent on it?
- After nightly meditation, is it ok to watch tv?
- First meditation session in awhile. Already feel myself shutting up.
- Is Astral Projection beneficial?
- I've engulfed myself in material to be present yet I still struggle with doing it every day, and my biggest fear is I will turn 80 and not even realize it.
- Little rant/I need help
- What things can i achieve through meditation?
- Advice- heart skipping during meditation
- Type of Meditation?
- Bhagavad Gita: Message of the Master -- W.W. Atkinson (audiobook)
| I'm very grateful to have a comfortable bed to sleep in every night and blankets to keep me warm. Posted: 18 Dec 2020 11:15 AM PST I'm very grateful to have a comfortable bed to sleep in every night and blankets to keep me warm. Thank you for clean fresh water to drink, cook with, and bathe every day. Thank you for the abundance of grocery stores that are everywhere and full of all sorts of fresh food and beverages and supplies we need. Thank you for the abundance of delicious food that I am able to choose from every day. I'm grateful to have access to medicine if I need it. Thank you for all the gifted surgeons in the world who perform miracles every day. Thank you for Harry Jennings and Herbert Everest for using their skills and vision to bring wheelchairs to the masses and greatly improving the quality of life for so many people. I'm very grateful for organizations like Doctors Without Boarders and for the doctors who volunteer. Thank you for the wonderful people working with and supporting Habitat for Humanity. Thank you for all the satellites that help us with telecommunications, weather forecasting, GPS and so many more things. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2020 04:31 PM PST For a long time I was a nervous paranoid wreck. My doctor put me on medications which did work for a while, but gave me lots of side effects and the efficacy always wore off, requiring higher doses. I decided to work hard on Zen meditation and the benefits have been amazing. I basically just do a regular routine, except I always listen to 3.2hz binaural music. I usually meditate for 30 minutes three times a day. Edit: Around the same time I also started to eat and drink healthy, stay hydrated, and exercise regularly. This was also very important as well, but I do feel meditation was the most beneficial. [link] [comments] |
| If anyone is looking for a reason to start or just want a positive story, Please read. Posted: 18 Dec 2020 11:11 PM PST If someone would have told me (M19) last December I would be meditating daily by next year.. I would've called them fucking crazy. I always thought it was some weird middle aged white women shit that I would never need/ want to be part of. Then I had my first panic attack in my dorm room in March of this year. At that point I've been seeing my therapist for about a month and just got off my first (and last) week of lexapro and then was told to try mindfulness. The absolute dread and constant fear in the following days made me desperate to try ANYTHING. I remember the next few days just laying in my bed with guided meditations on and just really focusing on my breath. After staying with it for a few months now it's probably now my top 5 favorite thing to do. It slowed down my anxious thoughts and just made me be able to step back from myself when needed. I've become more self aware and feel 10x less stressed in my day to day. My anxiety and depression symptoms have significantly improved and I haven't had a panic attack since. There was and will be up and downs with mental health battles but meditation has taught me a center level that I can always return to. I also learned all types of people do it because we're all human and at the end of the day we have stressed and or feared about something. Meditation has taught me how to deal with those things. Before you take a pill please try this practice. Also, I have severe tinnitus in one of my ears so I like to use the guided meditation as a bigger mask to the ringing, but I'm looking to just use a sound or something like binaural beats? I don't really know much about them so I don't know which to choose. Blessings to all ❤️❤️☮️ TL;DR Meditation=100% life changing, Binaural beats?? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2020 10:36 PM PST Lately I have been feeling my body vibrating or a kind of "waving" sensations sometimes while meditating or just before falling asleep when I am in bed. It is subtle and I only feel it when focusing on mind/body connection but I start to get better at "activating" it. I do not think it is tremors. It only comes if I am allowing it and looking for it. I can only describe it like I can feel every atoms in my body moving but staying bounded together. Anyone ever have that feeling? What the hell is this all about [link] [comments] |
| 1 Hour Beautiful Seashore Piano Music for Studying and Relaxing【BGM】| Me... Posted: 19 Dec 2020 12:51 AM PST |
| Little tip for better meditation Posted: 18 Dec 2020 07:45 AM PST Hello Meditators, I am on journey of learning meditation and mindfulness in general. I have used Calm, Inside Timer, Zen and other apps but most of the time I find myself in remindng that you are doing meditation rather than letting go whatever is there. Fortunately, in today's meditation session I caught myself hurrying in breathwork as mind is following guidance from meditation guru's breathing process and somehow that keeping me in tension rather than freeing. So if someone is struggling in meditation, you may want to give your attention on slowing yourself and aligning it naturally as you prefer. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2020 02:33 AM PST So I have been looking a lot into mindfulness and researching videos that can help me with this. The idea of it had always irritated me for years on end. I would always hear the word brought up and just though at a few mentions of it that it was just annoying thing to try and practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Pfs3VuizM&t=736s This video by actualized.org by Leo had a brief exercise on mindfulness and some exercises I could do on my own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YY8PWHNkYg This video also talks about mindfulness breathing. I think I am going to stick with these two techniques and see how it goes. The mindfulness that I have been practicing is noticing when a negative thought or emotion enters my head. So far it hasn't worked to make the though go away or diminish its strength but hey, I just started today. The question I have is when a negative thought does enter your head don't you have to label it to identify it first? Does this labeling make the thought worst? Its hard for me to watch this emotion in a non-judgmental way at first. I guess it will just take a while. I have also been noticing how my heart rate changes and the feeling in my chest like when I see and attractive woman or when I think of an exciting business idea or get angry. I tried thinking of myself as a psychiatrist watching another patient and observing them externally but that hasn't helped much yet. Let me know your thoughts. [link] [comments] |
| What are some things that should be done right after meditation? Posted: 18 Dec 2020 10:40 PM PST So during my meditation session today of 45 minutes I basically felt my troubles melt away. It was as if the things I had made a big deal about weren't really a big deal. What are some things I could do right after meditation to maintain that attitude and that vibe? The problem is I feel great for that session but shortly after I get back into that anxious and cluttered energy. [link] [comments] |
| Is it limiting to visualize the meditation? Posted: 19 Dec 2020 02:23 AM PST I have only been meditating for about two months and I'm not sure if it does anything, but I will keep on going regardless. In my mindful-breathing meditation I try to reach an inner-core that is just me; where emotions and thoughts come and go but they aren't me. There appeared to be some visualization of this concept that looked like the inner core of our planet surrounded by the mantle. I am wondering if this visualization is just another distraction or if its good to go along with it. Maybe I am trying too much to reach a specific goal during meditation? [link] [comments] |
| What if you *are* your thoughts after all? Posted: 18 Dec 2020 10:27 PM PST Even though you believe that you are the observer and not your thoughts, is it possible that you are your thoughts? 1) Yes, it is possible I am my thoughts. 2) No, it is not possible I am my thoughts. If you had to chose simply yes or no, what would you choose? (I'm not trying to imply that you are only thoughts, not at all, simply wondering if thoughts possibly do have significance that should not be resisted.) [link] [comments] |
| A meditation practise is not easy. Something to remember in being kind with ourselves. Posted: 18 Dec 2020 09:24 PM PST I saw a post in here that I can't find anymore unfortunately that seemed like it was about exactly this. Any one singular meditation session is not difficult, but a lifetime's practise is certainly difficult at times, for life itself is often difficult. I'm reminded of an Eckhart Tolle story of a monk student who lost his cool standing in line waiting for paperwork after weeks of meditative practise. I believe teachers are full of such humorous stories. But they illustrate the point that even the experts and those dedicating their lives to the whole practise find things difficult. Meditation mirrors life, indeed I would say the more experience I gain from it the more I feel like it isn't anything at all except awareness. But awareness can be excruciatingly difficult to lovingly and kindly accept in the moment. There is a reason most of us live lives as drug addicts. It doesn't mater what your drug is, food, tv, music, video games, social media, sex, arguing, talking, alcohol or meth, it's kind of all the same on one level. They are all distractions from feelings we don't want to feel. Loneliness, longing, sadness, anger, depression, anxiety, fear, jealousy, rage, shame, and guilt. We often put so much energy into NOT feeling these things or attempting to chase and "get" their opposites. We spend a lifetime teaching ourselves that these are not things we can feel. They are not "good". They will destroy us. We can't handle them. Who can blame us? Who can blame someone for choosing to chase happiness with a box of donuts, instead of sitting with the reality that their mother never loved them. Who can blame someone for chasing money instead of facing the fact that early childhood bullying opened wounds that never healed and led to a life time of self hatred? Who can blame someone for choosing to watch a sitcom instead of sitting with that infinite pit of loneliness from childhood abandonment that leads them to an infinite line of failed relationships? Who in their right mind would choose to feel such pain? Here is the thing, unbalanced on either side the choice to avoid all pain or to wallow in these truths is unhealthy. And I think so often we see people on either end of this swinging pendulum. The point of meditation is to clear cut the forest in the mind so we can see reality as it is. To be present for the good AND the bad day in and day out. It is a commitment to ones self not to give up on ones self. It is an act of self love. But it is NOT easy. I think we tell ourselves far too often that this "should" be easy. And by extension then that life "should" be easy. I'm not arguing to wallow in these truths I mention above, that is as unproductive as practising distractions (indeed ironically it is a form of distraction). But meditation and life is not about toxic positivity either. Life is painful, and difficult in a million little ways day in and day out, even as it is beautiful and wonderful and awe inspiring. The customer who was rude to you, the wish you had a partner, the longing for connection, the rainy day when you wished it was sunny, the tiredness in your bones from a long day. Do not discount these things as things to be shoved aside as negative, or beneath yourself to experience. Do not feel shame or guilt for feeling these things. They are painful, difficult, they are a million little paper cuts. And that is ok. You are strong, you bend and scar and bleed, but you do not have to break. Life is not about finding an easy path, it is about fully experiencing each moment, as it is. If the present moment brings you to tears allow it to. Don't allow it to get in the way of living your life, but that is precisely what will happen if you choose to ignore the painful and the difficult, the same as if you choose to assume that is ALL there is. Meditation mirrors life. You are distracted and return to the breath over and over and over and over. As in life you feel pain or fear and the mind recoils and you return to the present, over and over and over. [link] [comments] |
| Just started my Job, but I’m not sure I can hold on to it.... need advice. Posted: 19 Dec 2020 01:07 AM PST Just started my Job, but I'm not sure I can hold on to it.... need advice. I'm 21. The state of my finances is horrible right now and I need a helping hand. Literally due to childhood events don't have any famo or friends to get support from So I started a job on Friday and it's thankfully a weekly paying job so I need assistance with getting food until I'm paid (I can totally prove I'm working and show the acceptance letter with the date I started and my pay if anyone wants that). It's hard to work such a physical job for 8 hours being on my feet and all with next to no nourishment apart from alotta water. It's pushing 4 days since I've ate and truthfully 20-40 would really bail me out till I'm paid. Not 1000% sure if there are more appropriate places to put this or not but I'm putting it here because it is my favourite subreddit so with some luck nobody will be too p***** off with me. ....also yes this account is just a chuck away, my original is pretty old and has a decent amount of karma, anybody who would like to know what it is just let me know and I'll drop you it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2020 12:56 AM PST Started practicing meditation april & find it hard to sit more than 20-30 mins as feels uncomfortable .. what kind of posture helps in extending meditation time to 1 hour ? I am 34 yeard old. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2020 12:54 AM PST To the ones who listen to music while they meditate, what do you listen to? [link] [comments] |
| (Need some advice) How to get past avoiding meditation because I feel dependent on it? Posted: 18 Dec 2020 08:44 PM PST I'm at the point now where when I meditation to center myself and do it consistently throughout the week, I feel noticeable improvements in all other parts of my life and in my mental health. Sometimes, after going without meditating though, I fall back into a rut in terms of mood and productivity. From this rut it's very hard for me to want to motivate because it feels like I need it just to pick myself back up (as silly as that sounds to be worried about being dependent upon something like meditation which can be so good for you. I feel the same way about exercise, something I also really need to feel good, and ironically when I stop doing it and evidently my mood decreases again, I don't want to feel like I need to "do anything" to pick myself up again. Like I should just think my way back on track. I wonder if this is just a part of my ego talking? Like I don't want to admit that I must be at least somewhat or even very reliant on things outside of myself? Any advice? When I get this feeling I procrastinate meditation and exercise so maybe it's just my laziness under the surface secretly controlling me from doing things that take effort lol. [link] [comments] |
| After nightly meditation, is it ok to watch tv? Posted: 18 Dec 2020 08:38 PM PST My bedtime wind down involves watching Netflix in bed for a bit. I meditate for 20 - 30 mins before this. Would anyone consider it bad to throw Netflix shows at my mind right after that and before sleep? [link] [comments] |
| First meditation session in awhile. Already feel myself shutting up. Posted: 18 Dec 2020 08:22 PM PST Always struggle with not saying what I want to say, and then regretting saying too much or unnecessary info. Already feel that nice little buffer. Feels goood. [link] [comments] |
| Is Astral Projection beneficial? Posted: 18 Dec 2020 05:34 PM PST I've been trying to have an out of body experience (I've only partially had one before) because I feel like it will help be switch off and be more in tune with my mind. I'm not really sure of the benefits behind it (if any) so I'd love to hear peoples opinions on it and if you think it's worth trying to do? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2020 07:41 PM PST I always struggle to be present, for this reason. I meditate, I have a mindfulness reminder check app, etc but yet I struggle with this and my fear is I will be 80 and didn't even realize it. I feel like I can only be present when I close my eyes and breath or if I'm in the shower or something and I remember to be present. 99% of the time however, it's just so busy and a whirlwind and bam, the day is over. I really fear the day I get old and not realize it. Any tips? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2020 02:41 PM PST Hey guys, im full of anxiety and have been for a long time. I got COVID in July and read that it increases dementia risk. Along with long term anxiety....im very scared of this. Can meditation help decrease dementia risk? I have done some mediation and gotten a nice "after glow" after good sessions. But can this help long term? Also any tips for meditation? Im having crazy dreams and just cant relax. I havent slept good in 2+ years. Thanks guys. [link] [comments] |
| What things can i achieve through meditation? Posted: 18 Dec 2020 10:49 PM PST I've been meditating for a year now and it has helped me be aware of my emotions, my habits, and has definitely been a tool i use to guide myself towards certain goals and programmings of my personality growth. Now i just wonder what other things can meditation do? There have been times I've meditated and have literally felt my entire nervous system activate, there were times I've just felt pure ecstasy like an extended orgasm, there were times I've felt as if my soul was gonna float out of my body but it kinda scared me so i snapped out of my trance. Could someone explain these things? Could anyone explain the many possibilities of meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Advice- heart skipping during meditation Posted: 18 Dec 2020 06:44 PM PST Hey, So just curious to hear ppls opinions on an issue I've been having. I just started regular meditation a few weeks ago and have been having this issue. I've dabbled in meditation (no longer than couple weeks at a time) in the past w/o this issue. I'm 32 y.o. and am mainly drawn to meditation to deal with anxiety, focus, and difficulty sleeping that, aside from quality of life, have had a debilitating but not crippling effect on my life. Because my anxiety often manifests as physical symptoms (constant muscle twitching, heart racing) I have been mostly doing body scans. My problem is that at some point during nearly every session I get the sensation that my heart randomly skips a beat. Usually this doesn't occur until the latter half of my session but once it does it happens many more times until I'm finished meditating. This causes a shot of adrenaline that takes me out of any feelings of relaxation and makes it difficult to focus on the task at hand. I should say I have no idea if it's actually skipping or just feels like it and I have no known heart or major health issues . I haven't been checked in a year or two but I also have also had my heart checked way more than anyone my age probably needs to since my ongoing anxiety often manifests as fake heart issues. Its possible my heart is actually skipping but I think it more likely that when my body starts to relax more or even potentially start falling asleep the sensation actually freaks my brain out since I'm so used to being tightly wound with anxiety and the feeling of being relaxed and "normal" feels "wrong" after years of dealing with it. I think the fact that it usually happens after 15-20 min would be consistent with that theory. Does that make sense to anyone? Anyone have any other theories on what may be happening and how to best deal with it? Sorry I'm long winded and thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2020 10:20 PM PST Hey! I currently do 5-10 minutes of breath-focused meditation, then 10 minutes of open awareness meditation. I really feel the peace and connection to the present moment and warm feelings when doing open awareness, but usually not during the breath focused. 1. Is it ok to mix methods of meditation like this? 2. What are the trade offs between breath focused and open awareness? I kind of just want to set up a better routine, is it ok to just do one type or the other depending on how I feel? [link] [comments] |
| Bhagavad Gita: Message of the Master -- W.W. Atkinson (audiobook) Posted: 18 Dec 2020 04:07 PM PST The "Bhagavad Gita," sometimes called "The Lord's Lay," or the "Message of the Master," is an episode of the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, in the Sixth (or "Bhishma") Parva. It enjoys the highest esteem among the Hindu people, and is constantly quoted there as a great authority regarding doctrine. Its philosophy embodies the prevailing Hindu beliefs, as expounded by the Brahmans, and in its teachings it subtly blends into a harmonious whole the varying points of doctrine of Patanjali, Kapila and of the Vedas. It is supposed to have been written by Vyasa whose personality is veiled in doubt for of the time of his existence in the world no record seems to have been kept. To the reader who finds in this marvelous dialogue merely the record of a literal conversation dressed up in fancy by the Oriental imagination, the real beauty and purpose of the teaching is lost. But to him who is able to pierce the outer covering, which surrounds all of the great Oriental writings, and find beyond that the esoteric teachings, this poem is one of the grandest that has ever been given the race. One must needs read behind the covering -- and between the lines, in order to understand the Bhagavad Gita. No attempt has been made by the compiler of this publication to interpret the inner teachings of the Gita. It has, as the Hindu teachers instruct their pupils, seven texts, each superimposed upon the other, so that each man may read his own lesson from it, according to his plane of unfoldment. Each will get from it that which is fitted to his stage of unfoldment. And each reading will bring to light new beauties, for the mind of the reader will grow with each perusal and soon be prepared for the understanding of higher phases of thought. There have been a number of English translations of the Gita, from the first effort of Charles Wilkins, in India, in 1785, up to the present time. Some are very good, others indifferent, and others actually misleading and causing confusion. Some of these translations have evidently been made by persons inclining to certain schools of philosophy; and the meaning, as colored by their own philosophical glasses, while most satisfactory to them and their followers, is distracting to those outside the pale, who have had the opportunity of comparing the various editions. This particular edition, issued by us, is not a new translation, but rather a compilation from the best of the various good translations of Hindu and English translators, some of which are now out of print, or inaccessible to the general public. The compiler has endeavored to give the spirit of the teachings, in a plain, practical, understandable form, adapted to the requirements and needs of the English speaking reader, although such a presentation has often necessitated the sacrifice of any attempt at literary merit. In fact this book makes no claim whatsoever to literary style. It merely seeks to carry the Message contained within its pages, in plain words and simple form, to those who are ready for it. The compiler has purposely omitted many Sanscrit terms which have proved to be confusing to the English reader, notably the many titles and names bestowed upon both Krishna, and Arjuna, in the original. In some editions the English reader is confused by these, and has often been led to imagine that there were several persons engaged in conversation instead of but two principal characters. We trust that we have simplified the text, and that those who read it will understand the reason for the plain, simple, and unpolished style adopted. To those who, after studying this little book, are desirous of further acquainting themselves with the subject -- and who seek the Inner Doctrine underlying the various forms of the Hindu Philosophy, we would recommend the Lessons in "Gnani Yoga," issued by our house. These Lessons contain, in the plainest form and style, the higher teachings of the Yogi Philosophy -- the Inner Doctrines. We further recommend to the readers of this work a little book, also issued by us, bearing the title of "The Spirit of the Upanishads," which contains a collection of texts, quotations and selections from the great sacred books of India. The texts, etc., bear directly upon the subjects touched upon in the Bhagavad Gita, and will aid the student in obtaining a fuller conception of the underlying principles of the teachings. We strongly advise that those who intend to read this book, should first read the little notice, which follows this formal prefatory introduction. By so doing, the reader will become acquainted with certain circumstances concerning the characters, scene, and theme of the story, which will make the reading of the text far more pleasing and instructive. We trust that this little book may fulfill its mission in the carrying abroad the "Message of the Master." The Yogi Publication Society. Chicago, Ill., January 5, 1907. You can find more posts like this at +Esoteric Full text: http://newthoughtlibrary.com/atkinson-william/bhagavad-gita/pages/bhagavad-gita-157.htm#TopOfText [link] [comments] |
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