Meditation: You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. |
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Have you heard of "The game"? Meditation is the opposite
- Meditation is making me unlock childhood memories
- How do you overcome the ego's natural repulsion to losing control of the mind?
- Meditation practices enhance attention control, relates to inflammation levels
- I want to work towards being a less judgmental person. It's difficult holding kindness for myself in this realization.
- Pressure in head while meditating
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- Meditating in bed
- Your own children could be in their shoes in 15 years
- In your experience, is meditation like working out?
- Curiosity: The Key To A Fulfilling Life.
- How do I make the most of 2 months? Meditation for clarity
- I made a how-to video about mindfulness.
- Mindfulness practice based on impermanence
- Free Soul Reading
- Energy healing, aura reading, mindfulness and meditation correlate with narcissism and spiritual superiority.
- Am I meditating correctly? Are these sensations that I get when I meditate beneficial and do any of you guys get the same thing?
- This is an invitation to join me for your awakening.
- Getting out of my head
- After all this time... Where to start?
- thinking too much causes mental injury, as does exercising too much causes physical injury
- Not aware while meditating
| You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Posted: 06 Dec 2020 07:17 AM PST |
| Have you heard of "The game"? Meditation is the opposite Posted: 06 Dec 2020 06:09 PM PST The only rule of "The game" is not to think of "The game". When you think of it - you lose. I lost. And that's ok. For those of you, who just starting out meditating, make your breath "The breath". And everytime you notice it, you win. And that's ok. Have a pleasant one, and don't worry much. It's ok. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is making me unlock childhood memories Posted: 06 Dec 2020 09:58 AM PST There is no point of this post except expressing this happiness and peacefulness place meditation put me into, it's warm and beautiful. also as the title says, i'm regaining a lot of forgotten memoires and Feelings i even forgot that it existed! PLEASE have a great Day and a great life Remember there is nothing that's actually worth stressing about You are loved You are worth it And it's time for you to get up and heal There is always time, but c'mon Now is the time! [link] [comments] |
| How do you overcome the ego's natural repulsion to losing control of the mind? Posted: 06 Dec 2020 04:55 PM PST For the last 15 years. I (35M) have been an alcoholic with periods of sobriety. For about as long, I've had an on and off relationship with meditation. I'll let you guess in which parts of those 15 years my meditation practice was more active. Over time I have found it harder and harder to convince myself, or my ego as we'll call it, to even try to meditate. I can feel it fighting me, fighting to remain in control and it is currently winning. How have you dealt with similar feelings or impulses? To add a bit more context for those interested I've been lucky enough to blessed with a valuable skill set and a supportive family, which has allowed me to either maintain my bad habits for a while or rebuild when they inevitably catch up to me. But 3 years ago this landed me with a criminal record for assault and the loss of my dream job. I decided then to take my ephemeral meditative practice more seriously and went in for a ten-day Vipassana. Around day 4 to 5 I noticed that, during mediation, my ego would bombard me with increasingly old and bizarre shameful events of my past. On the night of day 6, when I had finally managed to silence the inner voice, I spent a sleepless night. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced. Every time I closed my eyes I would see these horror movies like creatures with horrible hands clawing at me. When I tried very hard to clear my mind, they would slowly recede away. It worked for a while, until my attention would slip and they'd return. The more scared I got the harder it was to maintain focus and so I kept my eyes open the rest of the night. I went to see the teacher in the morning and he brought me to the person in charge. According to him, my ego had been challenged too quickly for my skill level and recommended I go home and get some rest. I went home and had a bottle instead. I haven't really meditated in any serious way since. I'm terrified to, but once again I've blown my life up and I have to try something, anything. With each of the springs on my trampoline either gone or worn thin, my rebounds are numbered. Please help [link] [comments] |
| Meditation practices enhance attention control, relates to inflammation levels Posted: 06 Dec 2020 03:35 PM PST "An intensive meditation retreat improved controlled attention among those who had attended for five weeks, according to a new longitudinal, waitlist-controlled study. The study, published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, also found evidence that higher inflammatory activity was related to worse attentional control." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889159120305870 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 01:04 PM PST I recognize a lot now that my old ways of interacting and being in the world involve a lot of judgment and sarcasm. Most of this is along the lines of biting humour and commentary about others I judge to be bad or wrong in some way. Often in reaction to a hostile environment around me. Perhaps I will judge someone who is being mean, or make fun of someone. I think until now I have allowed this to slide as I have seen it as a defence mechanism against those I've always deemed as the ones being actually mean and or cruel. Someone bullies me and I feel I become defensive. A hostile environment arrises and I feel I need to defend myself. But in truth these actions of mine speak to my own insecurity and hurt and are as ugly really as any other. I am much more aware of this now than ever. It is difficult for me to change these long engrained patterns while having compassion for myself. Not slipping into self hatred for it but I am working on it. Although it is also difficult for me to untangle this and know how much of this too is me simply being punishingly hard on myself. In truth few people have told me I have done wrong and this is mostly my own analysis of myself. Not that it's wrong to wish self improvement of course. But I struggle all the time with holding feelings of trauma, hurt, that I am not a good person. It is often difficult to see clearly. [link] [comments] |
| Pressure in head while meditating Posted: 06 Dec 2020 08:03 PM PST I'm a novice meditator. However, my first periods of meditation occurred as long as 5+ years ago. Back then, whenever I got settled into a sit (5-10 minutes in), there would be this pleasant and comfortable sensation in my head accompanying my breathing that helped a lot with concentration and easing into the practice. A couple years ago, when I tried to meditate, I noticed this feeling was gone and replaced with a sort of dull pressure that intensified the longer I sat. As I've gotten back into meditation now, it's exactly the same way. Some context is that I've been depressed for a few years, and I've lost the ability to feel most emotions and pleasures, but it's odd that a basic part of meditation would change in this way. What do you think of this? Could this potentially fix itself given more practice? I want to overcome it and return to my old practice, but right now it just looks like a faceless obstacle. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 08:03 PM PST imagine a blue eye, you are this blue eye, This blue eye perceives all things conjoined [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 02:54 PM PST I struggle with procrastination, boredom, discomfort and desire to do something else when meditating. This morning, when I woke up, I stayed under the covers and did breath meditation. My mind tends to be clearest and lightest in the morning, I didn't have problems with falling asleep, it was comfortable, I wanted to keep doing it and time flew by. Once my cats became insistent enough on getting their breakfast that I had to get up, it felt like one of my best meditation sessions. Perhaps this could be helpful to some. [link] [comments] |
| Your own children could be in their shoes in 15 years Posted: 06 Dec 2020 12:41 PM PST Cannabis isn´t a gateway drug Alcohol isn´t a gateway drug Nicotine isn´t a gateway drug Caffeine isn´t a gateway drug Trauma is the gateway. Childhood abuse is the gateway. Molestation is the gateway. Neglect is the gateway. Drug abuse violent behavior, hyper sexuality and self harm are often symptoms (Not the cause) of much bigger issues. And it almost always stems from a childhood filled with trauma, absent parents, and an abusive family. But most people are too busy laughing at the homeless and drug addicts to realize your own children could be in their shoes in 15 years. Created by Russel Brand (Correct me if I am wrong) I also shared this in my discord [link] [comments] |
| In your experience, is meditation like working out? Posted: 06 Dec 2020 03:52 PM PST It's common knowledge among the fitness community that rest is actually even more important than working out as progress comes from the repairing of your muscles and organs, not the damage done to them when working out. Has anyone found that meditation is at all like this? That when we take a strategic break from meditation is when they find they are better able to focus and stay mindful? I've noticed this a little myself, but it could just be coincidental. Also, I have been told by running coaches that the key to progress in running is to pace yourself and only run at the speed that will allow you to maintain the run for the whole duration rather than pushing yourself and then stopping. Has anyone found this to be true for meditation? That is, should we only set a time for which we know we will be able to stay mindful for the vast majority of the time though it still be difficult and then work our way up from there, or does it not matter? Any studies on this? [link] [comments] |
| Curiosity: The Key To A Fulfilling Life. Posted: 06 Dec 2020 07:36 AM PST Lately with everything going on in the world, I've been reflecting on what are some of the most important things that makes life truly special. For me at least I believe that some our greatest joys all start from being curious, whether it be in our relationships, in our education, or in our hobbies. The thought of growing older and losing this curiosity seems to bother me, since without it, I think life would feel dull and meaningless. We wouldn't have much of a desire to understand the workings of ourselves and environment. So I made a small piece linked below if anyone is interested on exploring the origins of curiosity and my perspective on the topic. Thank you again for reading this and hope everyone has a great day. [link] [comments] |
| How do I make the most of 2 months? Meditation for clarity Posted: 06 Dec 2020 03:05 PM PST I am 25yrs old. Have spent the past 2yrs working an extremely high pressure corporate job which has upended my mental health and is threatening to destroy relationships I value very highly. I'm struggling with an insidious combination of debilitating impostor syndrome, meaninglessness (the sense that I am wasting my talents and youth, adding nothing to the world and serving no one). This is not a lifestyle i can sustain. Due to the structure of my job and a lot of accrued leave, I'm able to take the next 2 months off. I plan to use some of this time to work on refining my skills and building an escape plan. What I would really like though is to come out of this time with a greater sense of clarity about my future. I don't expect miracles, but I guess I'd like... hope? A sense of direction? I've tried meditation at various points in my life. have always found it beneficial but have not been able to sustain it. My question is - how do I not waste this time? Are there any resources or practices you would recommend? How would you use this time if you were in my situation. I'd really appreciate any advice [link] [comments] |
| I made a how-to video about mindfulness. Posted: 06 Dec 2020 10:28 PM PST For general meditation advice, and info on the most frequently asked questions about meditation, see this subreddit's FAQ. I feel like it is real important to get people meditating. Especially at this time when so many are sick, so many are stressed, and so many are dying. Elders are dying of neglect. Couples and roommates and families are trapped in stressful situations they cannot just walk away from for a bit to blow of steam. And it's the ever-perennially-depressing holiday season. This video presents everything I know to be integral to meditation, and includes warnings about harmful practices like focused daydreaming and focused rumination which can cause depression and potentially PTSD. I also include methods that can improve the mood or outlook. Beneath is essentially the script. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlUjV7K1bXk General Content There are spiritual practices that use meditation, but meditation is not a spiritual practice. Meditation is a focus training exercise that increases cognitive awareness, increases dopamine production in the brain, and can put the brain into a theta state like deep sleep but while wide-awake. Meditation will not nevessarily reduce stress, below is a stress relief meditation technique. Meditation does not and will not induce "enlightenment" or "clarity" about anything you don't already know, it can just make it easier to see how the peices of the puzzle can go together. If you study critical editing, then meditation and separate rumination can help you to make sense of your mind. Meditation will not necessarily bring calmness of the mind. Warning Certain meditation practices can be psychologically harmful. See Dr. Willoughby Britton Dark Side of Meditation, article Dark Night of the Soul, article Using meditation coupled with daydreaming, contemplation, or rumination may cause the highly focused mind to face traumatic ideas or repressed memories--again, while highly focused--and can cause depression and/or PTSD. I always recommend mindfulness or focus or concentration meditation, putting the focus on any one thing or idea, and putting interfering thoughts aside without exploring or labeling them, just drop it and return the attention to the breath or other focus object. How Long To Sit? Research shows that five minutes a week has the same cognitive effects as any longer period but it is very hard to keep up a five minute per week habit, so a daily ritual is very common. Because of a cultlike group called TM being popular in Hollywood among celebrities, which recommends two 20-minute sits a day, that schedule is popular in the West, but you can sit as long or as short as you like. Breathe Look up, straight up, as you can for just a second and then level your skull so your head faces forward atop your straight spine. Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth but if you experience shortness if breath breathe in through both nose and mouth. Breathe with your belly not into your belly, use your diaphragm... breathe into your lungs using your belly and notice this helps keep your posture true. If you discover you are controlling your breathing and can't stop controlling it, then clearly you are not controlling your breathing because you can't stop and it is just a distraction, let it go. You are just breathing. Don't try to breathe in a certain way and don't try not to breathe in a certain way, just breathe. You are just breathing. Mindfulness This is the easiest way I have found to teach mindfulness meditation. Count in this way: 1 1, 2 1, 2, 3... Count incrementally up to ten. If you get distracted or lose count, start over. When you get to ten, start over. Notice that when you do get distracted or lose count that your mind continues counting though you aren't paying attention, like you go on breathing. Your mind will keep doing whether you watch it or not. Just don't watch it. Dealing With Distraction If you find something interesting to explore while meditating, let it go. It will still be there, right where you left it, in your mind, if you want to explore it later. I tend to say to myself "no" or "zero" when interfering thoughts arise, to remind me I am busy. Daydreaming is its own thing and should be done separately from meditation; meditation is a focus control exercise that develops cognitive awareness, increases dopamine production in the brain, and can put the brain into a theta state, like deep sleep, but while wide-awake. If/when you get distracted, let the distraction go, no matter what it is--unless it is some actual physical emergency that must be dealt with--and start over at one. If you have to scratch or burp or fart or cough or sneeze do so and start over at one; these things will distract until they are dealt with. If you find that your seat is uncomfortable try a more comfortable position, don't be afraid to just use a chair. Mindfulness of Whatever You Like When you feel like you have the hang of it, replace the numbers with any other focus object: a mantra, the breath, a bead, a rosary, a button, anything that can hold your focus and you are now doing mindfulness meditation. Stress To manage stress at any time: take five to ten deep slow breaths. Deep breathing slows your heart rate and oxygen breaks down stress hormones. Meditation for stress: breathe deep and slow and focus on your breathing deep and slow and if anything crosses your mind, let it go--it will still be right there in your mind later if you want to think about it when you are not meditating--and return your focus to your breathing. Dopamine to Feel Good Relax your face. More. Let it hang on your skull. Meditation is a focus training exercise. You focus on any one thing. You should feel a tingling in you forehead, focus on it. Put four focus there but relax your face or it goes away. It is your breath and pulse tickling the nerves inside your face. Just focus on the feeling. Meditation, like all exercise builds up dopamine in the brain. As you focus on your forehead notice that the tingling extends to your temples, it's just your nerves reacting to the tickling of your breath and pulse. If you can hold that focus--if something else tries to cross your mind let it go, relax your face--your brain will release dopamine and you can feel a wave of tingling sensation wash over your scalp, down your spine and out your extremities. Feel you. For love: Go to the nearest mirror and tell the person who you see reflected: "I love you." The reflection will mouth it back and the reverberation will say it back. The person in the mirror has gotten you alive through every day and even your worst day. Go tell you that you love you. For oneness with all life: Your breath is the same air as everyone else's breath is the atmosphere is the sky is a body part shared by every breathing creature on Earth and all your favorite celebrities and it is bigger than the surface of the planet and it unites us all as one creature with disparate minds. For happiness: This guy was part of a study and his EEG readings when asked to focus on happiness were higher than any other human previously recorded. This is everything you actually need from Matthieu Ricard, and it's free. I have used this from time-to-time and it works for me; I am promoting this specific technique and am not promoting any other teachings or works of Matthieu Ricard.
Full article: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-meditate-buddhist-monk-matthieu-ricard-2018-1 [link] [comments] |
| Mindfulness practice based on impermanence Posted: 06 Dec 2020 10:24 PM PST So I'm currently taking a mindful writing class. Our final project is to come up with a practice that pertains to a certain aspect from class and I chose the topic of impermanence. I'm having trouble coming up with a practice based on impermanence that also pertains to mindful writing. Can anyone give any suggestions? An example I thought of was to meditate for 5 minutes, do some writing after then burn the piece of paper. Any other ideas? Thank you in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 05:32 PM PST Hey today we are doing a Free Soul Reading to find your life path, soul urge and destiny! Comment down below if you'd like one [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 11:44 AM PST I began meditating 10 months ago for only 10 minutes a day using the calm app. Currently I meditate for 30 minutes each day and use a Zen mediation technique that I learned from YouTube. Though I took a 30 day course using the calm app, I found this technique to be most influential. Granted, I do integrate other things I have learned from the calm app course, but it's mainly zen mediation (or atleast I think it is). I begin by sitting cross-legged in a comfortable position but not too comfortable so I don't fall asleep. I focus on my breath and the feelings and sensations I get from it. I'll count till 10 and reset my counting if I have an intruding thought or image in my mind which I dismiss passively. This helps me calm down in the beginning. Recently I have begun doing something new. As I'm focusing on my breathe, my awareness begins to broaden to my whole body. I feel all sensations from the tip of my feet to the tip of my head. While I'm doing this I also make sure I'm aware of all sound around me even if it's just the silence. I find that it helps me stay outside of my head. When I start doing this, my body and my existence basically seems to be sitting in front of me in a way. It feels like a curtain of stimuli from the outside world is sitting in the light of my awareness. It's like I have a third eyeball in the back somewhere that just watches every single thing I feel. Sometimes I even begin to feel a noticeable pressure in the center of my forehead between my eyes. Being in this state does not dampen anything that I feel; it only makes being alive more peaceful and calm. Does anyone else have experience with this way of putting your existence/feelings in front of you and just watching them? Is this a good way to meditate? Is this zen meditation? Thank you👁🍄💛 [link] [comments] |
| This is an invitation to join me for your awakening. Posted: 06 Dec 2020 07:18 PM PST Hey Beautiful Soul,This is an invitation to join me for your awakening. Awakening into abundance, on all levels.We are saturated in fear. But we have so much more power than we have known. We have the power within us to create worlds, literally.I know there's a lot of darkness showing up right now. It's there in humanity, it's there in ourselves.The way to get through the darkness and dismantle it is by standing in our own light.Allow the darkness, know it's there to show us.What needs to crumble.What needs to be healed. What attachments we must let go of.What needs to be cleaned and cleared.So that we may rise. Together.United.Strong.Trust that there is a plan. That plan becomes more and more crystal clear to me every day.Trust in the higher intelligence of the Infinite Creator and the Universe. You don't need to know how, just trust that there is a broader perspective than yours.And remember your own power. The power that creates worlds. How can you create a better world?Raise your vibration.Act from a place of compassion.Speak from love.Remember your power. Listen to your soul. Listen to your body. Listen to your heart.Connect with the darkness and the light within yourself and activate a state of higher awareness. Awareness is key.Love is the answer. It's our natural state. It's the natural state of the Infinite Creator and the Universe. Let go of your fears and your worries. Surrender. We are all here for a reason at this time. Trust.Join me for this Free masterclass this Tuesday, Awakening Abundance. I made you a little video with the details, just click HERE to find out more.Remember -Connect to your heart, manifest with soul.Simone xAWAKENING ABUNDANCE MASTERCLASS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8TH AT 2PM PST [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 09:34 AM PST So, I've realised that meditation has potentially made my overthinking and being stuck in my head worse. I've tried to put too much effort into focusing on my breath. I have fallen into a pattern where I rush into focusing on the breath at my nose. It literally goes like this: sit down, close eyes, focus on breath. As a result, I have created tension in my body and I actually get lost in thought more often. So, I'm trying to restart my routine to get out of my head. How does this sound? I am spending time at the start of my sit to think about my intentions for the sit ahead. I then try to spend time in my peripheral awareness; sounds etc. When I notice that I get tense and my mind tries too hard or tries to go straight to the breath, then I relax and move back to peripheral awareness. I then spend time on body sensations. And the same as above when I notice myself falling back into my old patterns. And on top of that, I will try a guided body scan meditation. Down the line, I will then move onto breath sensations. But for now, the goal is to relax and to get out of my head. What do you think? [link] [comments] |
| After all this time... Where to start? Posted: 06 Dec 2020 02:27 PM PST Hi, I'm new in this sub. I'm 18 y.o. and it's been a lot of time that I've been interested in how I could improve my life and reach happiness. I think I'm aware of a lot of my defects, and I know that sometimes I'm too emotional. My happiness depends on things that happen around me and involved me, but not on me, and this is the thing I'd like to change. I'd like to become more rational and a stronger person, as I pay too much attention of what people think about me, probably I've a lot of ego and a bad self-esteem. Anyway, I've read some books and a lot of articles about techniques that promise you to for example eliminate negativity from my life, but I've found that most of these books don't really teach you how to make your life better, but they convince you to buy another book, it's all about marketing; and so finally I'm just obsessed with reading all these theory books that don't really help me and make me more stressed. Lately I read some books about the Law of Attraction and I found it quite interesting, and I'm learning the Release Technique by Larry Crane that is about releasing emotions and just letting them pass through your body. Has anybody tried it? I've the fear that all this is a scam to make you spend more money as all books says about the same things; as you can see, I'm really confused. So... I'd like to approach to meditation, because I see it as a practical method to reach my goals. I know there are a lot of types of meditation, and I don't know how I can find the perfect one for me. I'm a huge fan of David Lynch, and I know he practises Transcendental Meditation so I've searched some informations about it and I made an introductive course. They told me this is the best type of meditation because it is the only one that allows you to transcend, but the TM can be learned only with a teacher and the course cost at least 500$... so from my experience I'm quite afraid of investing all this money because maybe it's just marketing or a scam. So I think I need a point to start and a right direction to take and that's why I'm writing this post here, so I'll be really glad if anyone could help me and give me some advices! [link] [comments] |
| thinking too much causes mental injury, as does exercising too much causes physical injury Posted: 06 Dec 2020 02:12 PM PST |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 05:53 PM PST You may what do I mean when I say this and I mean like when I am meditating and it feels like I get deeper into the meditation it feels like I lose awareness to this reality and time flies by. Like it feels like I'm not in my body, I can't explain what the feelings like when this happens Can somebody help me understand this phenomenon? [link] [comments] |
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