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- Meditation is the awareness of difference between you have thoughts and thoughts have you
- I've noticed this in my experience: Social Media reifies/strengthens an unhealthy sense of self.
- Breathwork meditation has been changing my life (you should try it!)
- Will meditation help me get over my ex girlfriend
- Can anyone suggest any meditation techniques to treat a.d.d?
- The meditation to convert anger, jealousy,hatred and lust into bliss
- I created a subreddit to ask and answer any questions related to meditation
- When reading mindfulness/meditation/Buddhist books, etc, how do you retain the information?
- How do you watch a thought?
- Some kind of meditation or hypnosis approach for cravings / addiction
- I developed a new gratitude meditation technique today
- Addiction and Meditation
- I'm sure this has happened to someone at some point.
- Learn teepathy in one months
- Feeling extremely disconnected
- Embarrassed to ask, but what is meditating?
- The idea of watching thoughts
- "Calm" state?
- Can Mediation with open eyes and focusing on your eyes improve Vision?
- What did I experience last night?
- Is it possible to use mediation as a way to stop thinking about somebody?
- Energy is trapped in seeking relief by escaping the irritation, uneasiness, any psychological discomfort is creating within you. To become aware of the seeking is Meditation. Whole energy is concentrated here.
- Thought you all might find this interesting too as I’ve seen you all post about Wim Hof breathing
- High pitched sound
- I can't seem to escape work and I need some meditation advice
| Meditation is the awareness of difference between you have thoughts and thoughts have you Posted: 23 Dec 2020 08:23 AM PST |
| I've noticed this in my experience: Social Media reifies/strengthens an unhealthy sense of self. Posted: 23 Dec 2020 03:48 PM PST It's often been said that the whole practice of meditation is to undermine the reality of the self and recognize that it's only an illusion. Whether you're taking a more gradualist approach or a more sudden one, the goal is the same. Since from the Buddhist perspective nearly all of our suffering and dissatisfaction arrises because we believe that there is a solid separate self behind experience that can be hurt, judged, fail, ect. Essentially the belief that there is a "you" that's in some sort of relative danger. Now this is just my perspective but I believe that actively participating in social media does the exact opposite of meditation. It in fact reifies and solidifies a belief in the self. Because most of what we post on social media is designed to signify to others how we perceive ourselves in relation to concepts and objects. We post about our accomplishments and a myriad of different things that we believe define us as a person, in order to feel fulfilled. We actively solidify a conceptual self by imagining and trying to control how other people should see us in their mind's eye. However in meditation we are attempting to unravel all that so we can experience liberation. In meditation it becomes more and more clear that the only thing that we truly are is this empty luminous awareness from with everything arises and passes. And actively participating in social media strengthens our attachments to all the things which we are not. The part of you that enjoys external validation and praise is the same part of you that feels cut down and humiliated by external criticism. Strengthening one strengthens the other. It's still possible to experience results in meditation and enjoy social media to a degree, but just be mindful of the pitfalls. And yes I understand the irony of posting on Reddit, which can also strengthen these unhealthy beliefs. [link] [comments] |
| Breathwork meditation has been changing my life (you should try it!) Posted: 23 Dec 2020 01:47 PM PST Hey everyone! Breathwork meditation has been having an awesome impact on my life recently, so I just wanted to share some info about it for anyone thinking about getting into breathwork! Breathwork is a type of meditation that involves consciously changing your breathing patterns. Certain breathing patterns can actually produce real, physiological changes in your body and mind. But how does just breathing do this? There's actually a couple ways. Breathwork can be used to stimulate the Vagus Nerve, which is related to blood pressure control. Taking slow, deliberate breaths from the belly can actually reduce your heart rate and calm you down. Breathwork can also alter your brain waves! Gamma waves = stress and anxiety Alpha waves = relaxation and clarity Breathwork takes you from gamma waves to alpha waves, put simply, it can take you from stressed as fuck to chill as fuck. Some benefits of breathwork include:
Here are a few easy breathwork techniques to try: 4-7-8 Breathing
Diaphragmatic Breathing
Box Breathing
Personally my favourite breathwork techniques are box breathing and Wim Hof breathing. I do Wim Hof every morning while taking a cold shower, which wakes me up in the morning and makes me feel like I'm ready to crush the day. I use box breathing at night, or whenever I just want to chill out, calm my mind, or ground myself. If you made it this far thanks for reading and I hoped there was some helpful info for you! TL:DR: Breathwork can actually change your brain waves and slow down your heart rate in order to boost your mood. My favourites are Wim Hof in the morning and Box Breathing at night. Edit: thank you for the awards! [link] [comments] |
| Will meditation help me get over my ex girlfriend Posted: 23 Dec 2020 08:51 PM PST Without getting into details, I have a very traumatizing experience with a woman over a year ago that was so traumatizing that every single day and every single night since then I have thought about it and replayed the experience over and over and over and over. I have no Control over it. It's destroyed my personal relationships and my personality has changed completely. I'm incredibly sad and hurt and I can't escape the feeling. It's been torture for over a year. I'm going crazy and I need a therapist. A lot of it. I'm hoping that meditation may help control my thoughts. I need to feel the way I did before I met her. Before everything that happened happened. I want to look at the world the way I did over a year ago. I want to experience the same feelings I did before I met her. Iv lost my mind and it's torture and I don't want to do something stupid and hurt myself. Edit: I can acknowledge I probably have some severe form of ADHD coupled with other traumatizing experiences that have exasperated this specific breakup. But idk where to turn. I have heard good things about meditation. [link] [comments] |
| Can anyone suggest any meditation techniques to treat a.d.d? Posted: 23 Dec 2020 09:27 PM PST My mind is generally a 24 hr chaotic circus of random images, sounds and music. I've tried focusing on my breath for a few weeks now but the progress is minimal. Anyone have any experience with meditation and a.d.d? What technique worked best for you? Thankyou [link] [comments] |
| The meditation to convert anger, jealousy,hatred and lust into bliss Posted: 24 Dec 2020 12:40 AM PST The meditation to convert anger, jealousy,hatred and lust into bliss What happens when you feel such intense emotions, you are disturbed. The uprising of energy destabilises you. Your whole body, your whole being seems to be possessed by these emotions. And then you project these emotions to someone or something outside of you. As the energy started flowing outwards, entropy of your being reduces. You feel spent. You feel relaxed. But for how long. Again someone or something will catalyse you into same emotions. You will again transfer this energy outside. You will lose energy. That feels like relaxation. But how much energy do you have. You can't keep spilling energy outside. Sometimes there's no energy left and after a while it's just an energy-less life. The whole burnout and feeling like being dragged through life is only this. And again comes the guilt and negative vibes once you are possessed by such emotions. We take vows to not get angry again. And it breaks. We take the vow again. It breaks again. After such cycles, your whole will power is diminished. Now even taking vow would be impossible. Such loss of self-confidence is not a good situation. Actionable Steps:
You are right. The energy has to be channelised.
So now when such emotion arises. Close the door. Sit . Close your eyes. And find where the lust, anger , hatred or jealousy is coming from. Keep looking. It is like an erupting volcano. You can see the flames. You can see the lava. You can see the volcano too. Give it 90 days. Whenever such emotions arise, get separated. Close eyes and find the source where it's coming from. Once you experience the source, then it's calm forever. Then you will the master of everything. Because nothing external affects you. You know it's always you. You have mastered and known yourself. Congratulations Much love and peace to you [link] [comments] |
| I created a subreddit to ask and answer any questions related to meditation Posted: 23 Dec 2020 07:59 PM PST r/askmeditation has been created! It's purpose is like r/askreddit but designed for discussions of meditation. There won't be lofty quotes or anything like that. Hope you'll become part of the community :) [link] [comments] |
| When reading mindfulness/meditation/Buddhist books, etc, how do you retain the information? Posted: 23 Dec 2020 09:39 PM PST I have adhd and kind of bad memory in general, so when I read books, I usually don't retain much. In what ways have you found success in retention of information when reading these kind of books 📚? Thank you. 🙏 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2020 10:31 PM PST Ive been into meditation for a good while and have NEVER grasped how to do this. I have to focus on an external object like the noise from my fan or the sound and feelings of my breath. Anything but thoughts. I have ADHD and generalized anxiety, so watching thoughts spirals out of control very quickly. A thought could pop up and say "Im lazy." by watching thoughts it makes it worse and generates more bad thinking til I end up with a headache. Watching thoughts is nearly impossible for me to do, so i personally never do. [link] [comments] |
| Some kind of meditation or hypnosis approach for cravings / addiction Posted: 23 Dec 2020 10:00 PM PST Hi. I'm specifically working on my health and a big issue for me is food cravings. Will meditation help with this and are there any kinds of meditation that could work better? Sorry if this is a strange question, but I am very new to this world. I've heard of hypnosis as a possible way of reducing addition, but don't know if it could help with simple food cravings. Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| I developed a new gratitude meditation technique today Posted: 23 Dec 2020 11:42 AM PST Try it out. It feels so good. I'm challenging myself to 1 hour of meditation for 100 days and today is day 3. I decided to sit in the sun since it was kind of warm outside. Right when I started and my face basked in the sun, I thought, "I'm so grateful for the sun, so much love for the sun". Then I thought, what else am I grateful for? I took a huge slow inhale "So much love for mom." Then a long slow exhale, "So much love for mom" ... I repeated that on an inhale-exhale cycle. Then on the third cycle, inhale, "I love you mom", exhale "I love you mom" Then I moved on to everyone in my family and my extended family. I probably went through 20 people. It felt great, plus, since I connected it with my breath it took a long time. It seemed like the hour breezed by! I'm doing time-lapses of all my meditations https://www.tiktok.com/@g.somewhere/video/6909533459694357766 I'd love to hear how it goes for you [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2020 11:42 AM PST To be frank I am a drug addict. I am opioid dependent (currently tapering off) on gabapentin (tapering off) smoke way too much cannabis and engage in harder drugs every so often. I am desperately trying to get clean and am wanting to try meditation. The only catch is the times throughout the day that I am "sober" I am upset, irritable,-!: angry. I feel like there's no point trying to meditate under the influence, but also feel like it is impossible when I am sober but dysfunctional. I feel hopeless and all I want to do is get out of my own head [link] [comments] |
| I'm sure this has happened to someone at some point. Posted: 23 Dec 2020 09:01 PM PST You're in the midst of a meditation session and suddenly you begin to analyze your feeling during the session. You start to compare your emotional state as it is currently to how it was prior, you start randomly paying attention to the involuntary act that is your breathing and suddenly you hear the faintest sound from the next room and spend the next minute trying to piece together what it could have been. Just me? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2020 01:29 AM PST How to do Telepathy 1- Focussing your thoughts 2- Doing yoga 3- Meditate to calm your mind 4- Don't think about your past and future 5- These are the things you can follow to do telepathy and telekinesis. But there is some simple tips that increase your brain power in 1 month if interested then tell me [link] [comments] |
| Feeling extremely disconnected Posted: 23 Dec 2020 07:28 PM PST A little background:
I have never stuck with meditation this long consistently, but I am having less success with it than I ever have. i really wanted to commit because i want so much to have a safe place inside myself to go to when things are hard. So I decided to invest my time, and I went through insight timer and started from scratch. I began with the free course insight timer has, and it was great. Then I went through a premium course. I stuck with it through the end, but I was really disconnected from the instructor. She kept saying, meditation is about moving things from the head to the heart. I just dont connect with that. Just say you're processing stuff. I did not learn much and struggled to keep my mind anywhere near stillness. Now I am doing the 40 days of transformation with david g. and I feel I connect even less with him. Being one with the universe, it just isn't real to me and I can't jump off from there. I don't even feel connected to myself, much less the universe. It makes me feel silly to hear him suggest that I say namaste to everyone in my head. I think it's a great thought, but at what point am I just telling myself that I don't really feel that way about a person and I'm just shoving my feelings down? My overall goals are to connect with myself, to find out where it hurts, but most of all, I want inner peace. My life has been turbulent the past few years and I am so tired. I just want the equivalent of a hot shower, a warm blanket, moisturizer on dry skin, the relief of a release of a breath after holding it in for awhile- but i want all that for my brain. I can't seem to stop thinking. I can't quiet my mind, and I can't comfort myself when I am feeling despondent. I'm totally out of touch and unaware of my body- I trip on the furniture which hasnt moved since I last saw it, I slouch within 15 seconds of correcting my posture, I can't dance, I can't translate the movement in my head- what I think I should look like- and make my body do that. I'm 0% looking to fast track this process. I know that I am at the beginning of a skill that takes a whole lifetime to work on. But I also know that the journey doesn't feel like this. As I said before, I have felt more connected to myself in shorter bouts of time. This doesnt feel like just starting out. For whatever reason, I feel like I am trying to plug something into an outlet in the dark and if the light were to flip on, I would find myself 10 feet away from the outlet and seeing that I've been trying to shove the plug into the wall itself and it's just not going. I know that makes it sound like I'm trying too hard, but I really do sit there and trying to expect nothing- try to gently guide the errant thought, try to remind myself I don't need to think about that right now, but I am mostly just letting myself exist. I end up having sat for a half hour listening to my thoughts as if they had a microphone on stage and the audience has nowhere to go. I am feeling so down tonight and in need of this safe place within me; in need of self soothing. I don't want to feel like this anymore. Any advice would be very appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Embarrassed to ask, but what is meditating? Posted: 23 Dec 2020 01:56 PM PST I want to strengthen my mind, meditation has always been alluring to me. I am just confused on a few things so clarification would be appreciated. 1) Can I have white noise playing while I meditate like rain? Or is that a bad habit to build a foundation on. 2) Is the goal to just be focused on your breathing, or do you use meditation to think about your day and reflect purposefully? 3) What are the benefits you've seen from meditating? If this is a redundant post then let me know and I'll delete. I've not any teachers or friends in this arena so I'm turning to Reddit bluntly. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2020 01:04 AM PST So I keep seeing similar question posts about "watching thoughts". I'm a beginner in meditation and a student of the practice but I feel like "watching thoughts" is kind of a confusing term. For beginners, I can see how the terminology can be confusing when putting it to practice. Thus, the best way I can explain it is I don't think you actually watch thoughts it's more like being attentive to thoughts that may pop up. When you actually watch your thoughts more than likely you are just giving power or strength to your thoughts by focusing on them, which is exactly the opposite of what you want. You want to instead see thoughts as neutral objects regardless of their content. An example of "watching your thoughts", You're focusing on your breath and you have the thought,"I'm lazy". When you notice you had that thought, at that moment you "watched/observed/noticed" the thought. Sometimes you might catch your thoughts after a chain, "I'm lazy... I can never do anything right... I wish I worked harder". As soon as you realize that you are in a loop of thought, just focus your awareness (attention) back to your anchor like your breath or whatever you prefer. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2020 01:02 AM PST So, I've been doing a but of mixing from free awarness. Now also a bit of concentration. I was wondering, what the calm state is called. That happens when I am concentrating on breath? I doubt for example it's Jhana, cuase I don't feel specifically happy. More like peacefull, I also don't accurately notice my breath. Altough it does get more shallow. Any idead guys ? [link] [comments] |
| Can Mediation with open eyes and focusing on your eyes improve Vision? Posted: 24 Dec 2020 12:22 AM PST Much like Meditation has improved my hearing over the past 6months [link] [comments] |
| What did I experience last night? Posted: 23 Dec 2020 03:22 AM PST Hi all, I've been meditating very regularly (every day for around 1h) for around a year now, but I experienced something really new last night. I've had some challenges getting off to sleep the past week or so, so I decided to try out a new guided lucid dream meditation last night. It went super deep, I think the audio was actually listed as a hypnosis (which I've never experienced before), but was just your standard voice over ambient sounds. After however long I was feeling pretty relaxed, when specifically on the word "sleep", it felt like my eyes slid down my face. They were shut, so nothing changed in terms of vision, but I very vividly felt my perspective shift down my face. I've experienced my perspective shifting backwards into my head during meditation before but never down my face, and I was a bit frightened by it at first, but eventually leant into the new, deep feeling. It was a really strange sensation, sensing my eyes move from where they sit now to in line with my nostrils, and staying there. But it got stranger. After a short while of sitting with the sensation and listening to the audio, I felt the need to readjust my positioning on my bed. Normally if this happens while meditating, I will mentally acknowledge that I need to move/itch before I do, and my meditation remains uninterrupted. I did this, turned onto my side, and felt something really odd. While my body was led on it's side, I felt my eyes parallel to the floor. It's hard to visualise and explain, one was around my forehead area and the other just below my nose, so while my body was sideways, I could sense my eyes remain parallel. As though my body had moved independently of my inner perspective, as separate entities. Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this? Could it be an out-of-body experience, does this happen regularly during hypnosis? Any and all insight always appreciated, a super interesting internal experience nonetheless! [link] [comments] |
| Is it possible to use mediation as a way to stop thinking about somebody? Posted: 23 Dec 2020 05:48 PM PST Hey everyone! So, I'm very new to meditation and I'm absolutely loving it so far. I was just wondering if anybody has used meditation to help them to stop thinking about/ get over somebody? I've had a huge crush on this guy that I probably have zero chance with for a couple months now and it's driving me absolutely crazy and I'd love to be able to train my brain to just stop thinking about him and to just focus on myself and following my own goals and dreams instead. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2020 06:37 AM PST Things do not happen as you wish. Thoughts, apprehensions do come to your mind, which you do not like. It means the 'wishing entity' is not in control. It means 'wishing' and 'happening' are related in a frictional mode. It is being comfortable with this friction, this uneasiness, this discomfort, if you call it so, that puts you on the Total ground. Psychological self-sufficiency develops when one is not carried away by any relief promised against one's unsatisfactory state or when one does not complain, blame, explain away any discomfort. Psychological self-sufficiency is concentration of total energy, is one's connection to the 'whole'. [link] [comments] |
| Thought you all might find this interesting too as I’ve seen you all post about Wim Hof breathing Posted: 23 Dec 2020 05:39 PM PST |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2020 10:29 PM PST I have been meditating on and off. ( Isha meditation) Recently started hearing high pitched sound. Dec 20th night I could not fall asleep till 4 am with this loud noice. Do you think this is too anything with conjunction? [link] [comments] |
| I can't seem to escape work and I need some meditation advice Posted: 23 Dec 2020 06:33 PM PST I'm in a live in staff accommodation situation with housemates and I share the room with my partner. While they are all absolutely beautiful people I'm such a naturally happier alone person and I find we all just vent about work constantly. We're all hospitality workers in the middle of a rising Canadian pandemic and it's just all situations are negative. I really crave a space of just total stillness and silence - I'm not really sure how to achieve that. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've thought of meditating in the bath or shower with earplugs - honestly if anyone as any ideas please share! [link] [comments] |
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