Meditation: Viewing your body, emotions, thoughts as a burden/enemy vs. listening to yourself with compassion and the intention to understand and support |
- Viewing your body, emotions, thoughts as a burden/enemy vs. listening to yourself with compassion and the intention to understand and support
- Today I’ve meditate a total of 125 hours
- You can not stop your mind.
- A beautiful story to bring you back
- Do we just make work for ourselves?
- falling a sleep while meditating
- Meditation with anxiety disorder
- I’ve integrated my teenage years finally!
- My thoughts on the Calm App for anyone considering it
- Motivation and focus, two great benefits that I have noticed these 11 days
- Reconsider the self help trap
- I feel really weird after meditation
- Are these hypnagogic hallucinations?
- How to finally stick with meditation?
- Insight!
- Is it fine meditating on a chair?
- No one understands that 'Feeling'
- What kind of meditation am I doing?
- HOW DO YA'LL MEDITATE
- Are Buddhist monks trying to achieve the same thing from mediation as we are?
- shoulder twitching and shaking during meditation
- What is the right time to mediate ? Morning , afternoon, evening or night?
- My past is Breakfast. My future is the rest of the Day.
- How do I feel my anxious and depressing feelings without being absorbed by them
| Posted: 29 Dec 2020 07:57 PM PST I've been having a lot of anxiety lately, and many other difficult emotions. You know how it goes. The more I fought it, the more they became stronger and stuck around longer. I've been practicing acceptance...but I realized tonight I've mostly been "putting up with" what's going on internally. I realized I have needs I've been ignoring...and the more I ignore them, the louder my emotions get and the more I have repetitive, negative thoughts. Like a child being ignored, screaming for attention. Instead of treating my needs like a burden, I'm shifting my intention to listen with love and understanding...not judge or fight. Like, if I'm feeling insecure, angry, lost, confused...there's a deep need in me begging to be listened to and understood. These are valuable needs to be respected and listened to, not begrudgingly put up with and avoided. The more I listen to them, I think I will be able to meet those needs. I dunno, just kind of working through this right now and was wondering if any of you relate. [link] [comments] |
| Today I’ve meditate a total of 125 hours Posted: 29 Dec 2020 09:32 AM PST 7489 minutes to be exact , really proud of myself and grateful towards myself. Just wanted to share [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2020 08:39 PM PST The goal of meditation isn't to surrender to your thoughts nor try to squish or ignore them. You acknowledge your thoughts and be aware of them but your main focus will be on your meditation object. Trying to get your mind to stop thinking by telling yourself to "stop thinking" will do the reverse of what you want and create more chatter in the mind. [link] [comments] |
| A beautiful story to bring you back Posted: 29 Dec 2020 03:28 AM PST The crazy thing is ,there is nothing except enlightenment. Everything around is just that. We create ideas of ego and trust the senses sensing it as alternate/false versions of it. A beautiful story. Once upon a time, there was a great king. Everyone was happy in his kingdom A few years later, he started losing his shine. There was chaos in the kingdom. He introspected and found the reason. His mind was the reason. He didn't feel like working good anymore. His mind always wandering to other pleasures and wasting time in mildly interesting things. He got very upset He heard that a great yogi is camping around the outer wall of the kingdom. He had heard great things about him And as the tradition goes, he did not call him to palace. He reached his place with gratitude and hope. With folded hands, he requested to be set free of the mind. As it will be good for him and the people in kingdom. The yogi asked him to come the next day. 0340 hrs in the morning. Alone. And asked him to bring the mind with him. The yogi promised to beat the mind with his stick and free the king. The king was amused. It was such a crazy proposition. But as the great tradition goes, he bowed down and promised to arrive at the specified time The king couldn't sleep that night. To reach at 0340 hrs, he would have to leave the palace at midnight. Not much time to sleep. And the crazy proposition of yogi. to bring the mind with him and he will beat the mind with the stick was just illogical. The ways of really wise, always seem crazy to intelligent ones. Always difficult to comprehend something, beyond the practice of comprehending with the mind. But as a good king like him keeps his promises, he finally decided to go. When he reached at 0340 hours, yogi was doing pranayama. The yogi asked him " did you bring the mind with you" The king was astonished. How can one bring the mind with them? The mind is always here, inside one. He said the mind is within me. Yes I brought it. The yogi said okay. Where exactly in the body? Show me the place. I will strike it with my stick. The king was taken aback. Seeing the king confused, yogi asked him to sit and close eyes. And then asked him to search for the mind. When he finds where the mind is, just tell the yogi. On acquiring the precise location of mind in the body, the yogi will beat the mind and free him. The king sat till sunrise ,but couldn't find where the mind is staying in the body. He got up. Touched the feet of yogi. And everything went well after that. The king had realised. There's no mind. It was always him. So, he realised that and went back to kingdom, established in himself Much love and peace to you Note: I replied this to a beautiful soul and made this post for everyone here [link] [comments] |
| Do we just make work for ourselves? Posted: 29 Dec 2020 12:06 PM PST I've been spending the last year doing "work." I have a traumatic past. I have been spending lots of time with unprocessed emotions. I let them come up, feel them, cry, and let them go. I find real peace and stillness for a while, but the painful emotions keep coming back. I can't do this work and carry on with my life. When I bring up these emotions, I bring up old unconscious behaviors too. I start living out my past again. I've destroyed my life by doing this. I dropped out of college, broke off an engagement, moved back in with my parents, quit my job. I can't seem to handle working with my pain and live a normal life. I desperately want to piece my life back together. I want to finish college, start a new relationship, make friends again, and support myself. All of these seem too emotionally challenging to begin. I'm afraid though that if I don't completely process my past I will just self destruct in the future again, so I avoid putting myself back into the world. Yet my current circumstances have me more depressed than ever. What do I do? I am feeling so lost. [link] [comments] |
| falling a sleep while meditating Posted: 30 Dec 2020 12:08 AM PST sometimes i mediate after work on a bean bag, i turn on some binaural beats and i work on my breathe work. next thing you know, i fall alseep for 30 mins or so. am i doing something wrong? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation with anxiety disorder Posted: 29 Dec 2020 12:00 PM PST I started to meditate and I dont did it often but i don't feel really good . I have an anxiety disorder and after I meditate I think i have more anxiety attacks and it's strengthen the anxiety disorder and i feel blocked when I meditate because of this. Is it just Placebo or have you got any tips what I can do? Maybe it's the wrong video which I use to meditate but I don't know. Thanks for help! Ps: im not a native speaker. My english is not the best [link] [comments] |
| I’ve integrated my teenage years finally! Posted: 29 Dec 2020 04:36 PM PST I did so much shadow work during meditation to finally integrate my most challenging years. My 17th and 18th year of age. My first heartbreak, friend betrayals, and bullying. Took 6 hours today, Now I am so drained of energy. Tired!! [link] [comments] |
| My thoughts on the Calm App for anyone considering it Posted: 30 Dec 2020 12:08 AM PST I guess end of the year and beginning of the year are generally popular times for people considering to start a new habit such as meditation so I wanted to share my quick 2 cents on Calm app and other meditation apps as someone who's been using it to get into a meditation habit. I currently use Calm but honestly you can try all the big apps and just see which works for you and which stick for you. I have tried Calm, Headspace, Insight Timer and 1 Giant Mind and Aura. I have free subscription to Calm and Aura through promotions. I prefer Calm because it has new Daily Calm and I'm just someone who loves the variety and small anticipation of wondering what the daily theme is and how it'll help frame my day. I actually use it at night though and it helps me sleep in a positive frame of mind. I will probably try to add another session to my mornings though in 2021. What I also love is that the Daily Reflection is also based on the daily theme. What I do is play the meditation at night until my screen sleeps then wake up and turn on my phone and the screen prompts me for a Daily Reflection and that is my morning journal prompt basically. I also love the daily quotes as well because I just love collecting quotes as inspiration. For me, this app has made meditation a lot less daunting and more enjoyable which is the purpose of it. I am not so hung up on if I'm meditation "correctly" but I do think the additional moments listening to the positive messages and reflections help me and are just nice reminders. Anyways, just wanted to let people know that Calm currently have 60% off their lifetime membership and honestly I never really pay for apps and never imagined myself paying for a meditation app (I got a year of premium free from a promotion) but the positive impacts of the app especially during this year have made me subscribe to the lifetime membership and I see it as a small investment into my mental health and wellbeing. Meditation and Calm are not a magic solution by any means but I appreciate the incremental goodness it has added to my routine. I feel like when I do the Daily Calm I'm doing something good for myself and that in itself is a good feeling. PS. For any beginners, you don't have to jump straight into the lifetime membership. It's probably better to get the trial to see if you enjoy it and it works for you first. If you do like it, then get the lifetime membership as it's quite cost efficient at 60% off. I don't know if this happens every year though. This isn't really a plug for the promotion haha. [link] [comments] |
| Motivation and focus, two great benefits that I have noticed these 11 days Posted: 29 Dec 2020 04:30 PM PST I started my path in meditation 11 days ago, I have been meditating a total of 302 minutes with an average of 15 minutes a day ... Before: I had a tremendous mental fog, I got carried away by YouTube videos very easily, I found myself watching self-improvement videos making the excuse that I am doing something good, that I was not wasting time, when in fact I was not. I was easy prey for the typical YouTube cycle. Now: I have decreased my sugar intake, I decreased my time on social networks like Facebook and Instagram. Now I only use Instagram for a new business account that I just opened. Takeaway: These last 2 days I have had an incredible focus when it comes to pursuing my goals. I enrolled a Udemy course about 5 months ago that has a total of 9 hours, I had not been able to advance it until 3 days ago. I easily advanced an hour, this is something incredible. The best thing is that it does not require so much effort, I feel like I released a huge load. I no longer have the same laziness that I had before, now I get up, have breakfast and get fully into my course. My focus increased like a rocket. Regarding motivation, one of my goals for a couple of years has been to achieve financial freedom so that my family can live an even better quality of life, but motivation came to me very rarely. Now, after 11 days of meditating I am motivated most of the day, I feel in a state of flow most of the time. For example; I have been exercising for 9 months (weight lifting and calisthenics), and whenever I went to my exercise place I spent it wandering from there to here and I thought a lot about it to begin with. Now I do not struggle, I go up to my place (roof), I exercise, and I get off. And above all, I heard that entering a state of flow more often will make you a happier person. I couldn't agree more, I feel well-being inside me. Although the bad days don't go away, but they don't overwhelm me like they did before. Edit: orthography [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 12:36 AM PST I just found this and I'm glad I did, he recently uploaded a 1 of a 2 part video on law of attraction and I was one of the ones who somewhat got addicted to self help but I always was conscious of it being fraudulent but for me personally it helped me to mature and change my life, also by not going too deep down the addiction of this new age and chucking my money at them. Check out his other videos too he's very enlightening! [link] [comments] |
| I feel really weird after meditation Posted: 30 Dec 2020 12:25 AM PST Hi everyone, I'm new to this group as well as in meditation. Started a couple of days ago and I've been practicing that for a few minutes in the morning and at night before sleep. I exercised a lot as well in the last couple of days, but after I did some meditation I felt even more tired. My head is heavy, let's not talk about my muscles. It does feel good as soon as I finish, but seems like I just feel like a pile of crap for the rest of the day lol. But I'm willing to continue anyway. Is it normal to feel this tired/exhausted/heavy after the first time trying meditation? I'd like to know your opinion on that. Thank you in advance🙏🏻 [link] [comments] |
| Are these hypnagogic hallucinations? Posted: 29 Dec 2020 07:17 PM PST I haven't been sleeping enough recently, so during meditations, I know I get into some sort of states sometimes. Sometimes I feel myself nodding off, then I wake myself up, and go back into meditation, etc.. One thing that happened quite a few times is going into piti sukha, following it (I follow Leigh Brasington's Access Concentration method), then a very clear, bright, but still but very realistic image emerges in front of my eyes which is an image of like a room - living room or bedroom, with the table here, a mobile phone on the table, a shelf there, etc.. Except this is not really what's in front of me. It's not my real living/bed room. It looks a bit like it in some ways, maybe the lighting, or the shadows, but it is not the real thing. There are no persons in it. Like I would study the contents of this image and notice things in the image... I actually see it then I would think to myself, is this real? Where is this? Why am I seeing that? Are my eyes open? I thought I had them shut! Then I try opening them, and they open and I see a dark black room around me (I tend to meditate in a dark room at night so I won't be bothered by lights from the streets outside my windows etc), so obviously my eyes were shut when I saw the still image. The fact is I wasn't dozing off at the time. I felt awake and I was questioning myself about what I was seeing. Why on earth am I seeing this "room" clearly? Maybe there can be no other explanations than I might have absolutely been asleep and I just felt awake and I was sort of questioning myself and engaging in internal dialogue about what I am seeing, but I wasn't really awake? Can that sort of thing happen? I don't feel like there is anything of significance about this image. Just wonder why this happens and if there is any sort of reason. And yes... I need to get my daily schedule in order... Been turned upside down due to having to hand in loads of essay assignments a week ago and staying up till 4 am daily for 2 weeks prior, so I could complete and hand in the assignments before Christmas. All through that period, I still meditated an hour or so each day. I'll have to start getting my sleep cycle back on track again... I do love staying up late at night though. Always have done. Wonder if I'll stop seeing this once I start sleeping normal hours again. It's like I've been seeing them quite often during meditation, since the assignment craze, and even on days when I do get enough sleep. Now I wonder if it will ever leave me... Not scared of it or anything but just wondering why this. [link] [comments] |
| How to finally stick with meditation? Posted: 30 Dec 2020 02:43 AM PST I always start meditating because I feel miserable and it makes me feel way better. I know about the effects meditation has. But the effects I feel literally wear off after a week or so. And after around a month, they are gone entirely. From that point on meditating feels like a chore, it annoys me I don't feel the effects as clear as before and I start to neglect it. Fast forward two or three months, I start feeling miserable again, and this sort of circle begins again. Why are the effects I feel wearing off so fast and how can I change that? I want to stick to meditation, but it seems impossible.. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 02:32 AM PST Thank you for all I have read here this week. I recently had a general and/or basic experience. [link] [comments] |
| Is it fine meditating on a chair? Posted: 29 Dec 2020 12:27 PM PST The main use a chair is to rest my back so that I don't have to concentrate much on keeping my back straight. Is this fine or? [link] [comments] |
| No one understands that 'Feeling' Posted: 30 Dec 2020 02:19 AM PST Just to say, I have meditated for 90 minutes before and ended it a state where all my concerns were just not important, and they slowly appeared back to me as kind of bubbles popping back to me. Anyhow. I am not sure this is a meditative thing, because it can be done directly and quickly, but does anyone have the ability to give yourself a 'feeling' like tingles in the limbs and it can end in shaking it off? (not that thing where you make yourself lighter) [link] [comments] |
| What kind of meditation am I doing? Posted: 29 Dec 2020 10:17 PM PST I sit on a chair, try to keep my back and head straight as possible, starting breathing normally through my nose and focusing all of my attention on my nose. If a thought pops up I refocus my attention on breathing through my nose and feel the sensation of the air entering and leaving. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2020 01:57 AM PST I'm 15 suffering from a porn addiction , i'm never happy I can't say am depressed but I feel happy in life or anything I do. I always feel empty, lonely and sad. I tried meditation but I can't focus while doing it. I want to be in charge of my thoughts and feel happy for once. How do ya'll keep the focus while meditating and how is it done do you just keep breathing until you feel okay or... Someone help with advice [link] [comments] |
| Are Buddhist monks trying to achieve the same thing from mediation as we are? Posted: 29 Dec 2020 09:24 AM PST What's the difference between a regular person mediating, and a monk doing the same thing? I am talking about the spiritual part. What are they tryna achieve from meditation besides mindfulness? [link] [comments] |
| shoulder twitching and shaking during meditation Posted: 29 Dec 2020 07:35 PM PST the injury started years ago on a meditation retreat during a long sit. Since then I experience twitching and shaking in my left shoulder during meditation. What gives? [link] [comments] |
| What is the right time to mediate ? Morning , afternoon, evening or night? Posted: 29 Dec 2020 08:50 PM PST |
| My past is Breakfast. My future is the rest of the Day. Posted: 30 Dec 2020 12:28 AM PST |
| How do I feel my anxious and depressing feelings without being absorbed by them Posted: 29 Dec 2020 05:53 PM PST I know with meditation it's not about rejecting your feeling and trying to resist them, but I find when I dont resist them i enter a state of deep anxiety and depression because i cant let go of the feelings. I let my feelings define me and control me and I dont know how to do otherwise. I'm very new to meditation if you couldnt tell and I would like some advice [link] [comments] |
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