Meditation: I felt genuine compassion for myself for the first time while meditating. |
- I felt genuine compassion for myself for the first time while meditating.
- Don't take the mind's bait.
- Back to meditating daily and feel so much better!
- Pain Healing (87)
- Meditation bringing up PTSD
- An sudden electric shock in my head while meditation and it brought me back
- Beginning Meditator - My Experience
- How to actually implement meditation in daily life?
- Looking to speak to college students
- Holotropic breathing?
- I'm going to talk to a Zen Monk.
- Awesome meditation anchor when you keep getting distracted
- How does it feel to meditate after a little bit of drink? No not drunk but maybr a bit of buzz?
- Body scan
- I can’t comprehend how the sense of self can be an illusion
- Perspective
- Beginner
- How to advance in meditation?
- Help please
- I'm going to talk to a Zen Monk.
- Is your heart center open?
- Do you use apps to meditate? More importantly, does someone really need to use apps?
- Does meditation really work?
- Just started
- Hello I am a Buddhist Monk from America living in SE Asia. I run a meditation community online and invite you to join~
| I felt genuine compassion for myself for the first time while meditating. Posted: 07 Jan 2021 06:52 PM PST I just began meditating these recent months. I experience intense anxiety. This has helped greatly. Yesterday, I woke up disturbed and feeling pulled by all these negative thoughts that I have been struggling with for the past few years. I decided to meditate. And...I'm not sure how many minutes in i reached, but I felt this rush of compassion and love for myself. For the things I have struggled with. It was such a real and strong feeling that I've only felt for others rather than for myself. It brought tears to my eyes. I'm so grateful for the community. If it weren't for you all, I wouldn't have have started this. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2021 05:40 AM PST The mind wants your attention, it basically feeds on it and the more attention you give it, the tighter it's grip on you becomes. I hear a lot of people talking about ignoring negative thoughts and only focusing on positive ones, but this doesn't really work because they are both two sides of the same coin. It's more effective to not engage with either positive or negative thoughts, this way you stay detached from the mind as a passive observer. And the more you observe the mind in this way, the less your mind bothers you. I felt i should share this realisation, and I even wrote this song called 'The Art of Watching' about it because I've realised that meditation is essentially just about watching, watching your thoughts, feelings, emotions and reactions to situations and people. The key is to not take the mind's bait and not engage with it. Basically I'm saying pay the mind no mind. [link] [comments] |
| Back to meditating daily and feel so much better! Posted: 07 Jan 2021 02:13 PM PST Its insane how a quick 5 minutes a day can have such an impact on lowering my stress & anxiety! Highly recommend to anyone who deals with stress or depression. Being completely present is the only true fix for it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2021 06:04 PM PST Through unexpected events we feel pain and hurt, sadness and dwelling, regret and what could have been? What could have been doesn't matter anymore because that situation can not be changed. I share love and light throughout my posts but these posts, words, photos etc., have all been influenced, inspired and stems from pain, from trauma, from loss of self, heartbreaks, anxiety and depression. I have learned that we all experience these and somedays will be filled of exhaustion, somedays will be filled of joy and happiness, it is all valid. To heal we must acknowledge our pain, to reach a peace of happiness, we must embrace our sadness and anxiety. When we embrace rather than try and defend or attack against it, we are then allowing ourselves to feel all the emotions rather than creating more barriers and getting in our own way. Think about it like this, once we start feeling anxiety, what causes more anxiety it self is not the anxiety but rather the thinking of the anxiety, asking self why? Whats going on right now? Am in danger? Is this situation wrong for me? Is this person trying to get something out of me? Which will then lead to having anxiety over the anxiety we are feeling, and then bam, anxiety attack. Those are always such a great time. Up and down waves, throwing us all around with no end in sight and then suddenly, gone. I remember when I was first made aware of my anxiety, what it really was, because prior I had only been aware of the feeling; that is when I allowed my anxiety attacks to begin to increase, allowing it to consume my mind, soul, being and body. Shutting down and locking myself in my room for hours on end, waiting for the anxiety to go away and of course as we all know, it goes away. There is a fine line between embracing and being consumed by those anxious feelings, by those sad feelings, by the depression, but being aware when we feel the change inside, to take a second to step back from the situation, and take 3 deep breaths; in through the nose, hold and out through the mouth, wait a few seconds, repeat, wait a few seconds, repeat. We have been built to withstand and truly be resilient, no matter what our anxiety is making us think we are thinking, as well as what our anxiety is making us think we are feeling. "Anxiety can only continue, only if we allow it" Today: Breathe. Give yourself time and space to get outside, be outside, without a time limit and be present. Enjoy this moment and give yourself a BIG HUG. I love you. Drey <3 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2021 12:18 AM PST I don't doubt that meditation is very helpful for a lot of people. In my experience, though, while meditating, my mind always immediately gravitates to negative past experiences. That's not the fault of meditation, it's my own fault, but I can't seem to break it. I meditated every day for over a year at one point, and I was pretty miserable the whole time. A few nights ago I started trying to meditate again as suggested by my therapist, to wind down before bed/sleep (having bad insomnia these past couple months). Unfortunately the meditation brought back my PTSD/ruminations in full force, and it has been stuck in my head since, for a few days. I guess the answer is just to stop meditating, since I've always had a negative affiliation with it and never enjoyed it, personally, but I wonder if it's something I should try and work through. Of course I'm not meditating the 'right' way, but I can't seem to avoid digging up the past when I'm meditating, maybe just because I have trained my mind to do that. Which is why I try to keep my mind as occupied as possible throughout the day - internet, social media, video games, TV, anything where I don't have to think and be alone with my thoughts. It's also a problem when trying to sleep, I don't want to just lay there being sad and thinking of past traumatic events or other sad things. Just wondering if you have any advice or if anyone else with PTSD has run into the same issue, I don't know what to do. I do see a therapist but working through that kind of stuff takes a long time. [link] [comments] |
| An sudden electric shock in my head while meditation and it brought me back Posted: 07 Jan 2021 09:59 PM PST Before going to sleep at night, I started to meditate in my bed. I started from focussing on breath and slowly moving inward and as I started going deeper, a dream started to happen and I was not fully aware of it. I was still aware of going deeper. In that dream there was an elevator which was going deeper and could feel my body relaxing more & more and there was a moment where the elevator almost became something non physical and exactly at that moment, I experienced a sudden electric jolt in the centre of my head and it shook my entire body. It scared me but this has happened to me before, so I thought let's try again, this time with more awareness and relaxation. And this time again a dream appeared but I guess I was a bit more aware than before. I again had shock at a deeper level but this was not as strong as the first one and was a bit mild which brought me back in a more subtle way. This wasn't scary. And after that I felt sleepy so went to sleep. Has anyone experienced something similar? Can u please explain this phenomenon? It made me a bit scared, so would love to understand it better. [link] [comments] |
| Beginning Meditator - My Experience Posted: 07 Jan 2021 02:15 PM PST Not looking for tips or anything. Just wanted to share. I'm s therapist and while I speak to my clients about practicing meditation, I've always struggled. Until a good friend of mine told me that the way the west teaches meditation is BS, and introduced me to some taoist philosophy. After that discussion, I decided to try something different... really a few different ideas that spoke to me. One is this idea of sinking... I have an affinity for water, so I imagined sinking in the ocean, deep below surface, where you don't feel the tide pull. I brought in breathing in yin and out yang, deep from my belly, and I focused on warm white light teeming with positive energy. And then I usually drop into a place that I can only describe as a calm happy place. Sometimes it feels like I'm floating in space, sometimes I'm in a room lit gold with torches... and my dog who passed in 2014 comes and hangs out with me. Usually lays down with his head on my leg and I just stroke his head. And then usually I'll get some message to take away from the session. And I often have this feeling of complete peace, oneness with the universe, connection and love. I normally don't come back until something in me says "ok, today is complete, you can go back." And I kind of imagine slowly coming up from the ocean, bit by bit, moving my limbs, stretching a little, and the last step is opening my eyes. Somehow this internal clock measures right around 20 minutes. I usually feel more sensitive... like I was just on a different planet for a little while and coming back to earth is surreal. Usually takes 10-15 minutes to not feel like an alien. And the whole meditation usually feels like it was a dream.even though I'm fully conscious, aware of my physical location, can feel the ground under me... I never thought meditating could be so effortless. I look forward to my session every day during my lunch break. Today's message, btw, was "the worlds pain is your pain." Yesterdays was "for the world to have peace, first chaos." Is my experience a bit out there? I dunno, I feel like a weirdo. Been doing this daily for the past 7 days 😁 [link] [comments] |
| How to actually implement meditation in daily life? Posted: 07 Jan 2021 10:27 PM PST I've been meditating for 59 days now. And yes it has helped me get through some really dark days and appreciate all the great days I had as well. But when it comes to actually changing the way I think using meditation, I am not seeing any results yet. For example, I still get triggered by little things many times. How do I control that using meditation? Am I doing it wrong or something? I use the Calm app for meditation. Edit: I know the term "being mindful" but I dont understand it totally yet. [link] [comments] |
| Looking to speak to college students Posted: 08 Jan 2021 12:13 AM PST Hello all, My name is Nour and I'm a psychology graduate from Columbia University. I am working on a research initiative to better understand mental health on college campuses. We are currently speaking to college students who have either:
Would you be open to speaking to us briefly for about 20 mins in the next few weeks? I would so appreciate your perspective, wisdom, and experience to help guide our efforts. If you are willing to help us please let me know what times work with you via DM or you can directly schedule a call here: https://calendly.com/greblernoam/mental-health-in-college-campuses I hope everyone is having a restful holiday and looking forward to meeting and speaking with you. Kindly, [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2021 08:15 PM PST I've been getting interested in holotropic breathing since I have gone sober, I did it just a few minutes ago for what I would say was only a minute. Filling my lungs with air, breathing from the stomach, then letting the air escape out of me rinse and repeat. I began to feel this vibrating all over my body (what I assumed was loss of circulation or perhaps high oxygen levels.) Could anyone elaborate on this breathing technique for me, whether its dangerous or not, and how I could improve on the experience. [link] [comments] |
| I'm going to talk to a Zen Monk. Posted: 07 Jan 2021 05:26 PM PST Hi guys, I'm currently living in Japan and was lucky enough to attain an opportunity to talk to a Zen Monk who is the head of a large Soto Zen Temple. He has been a Zen monk for more than 40 years. I will be talking to him tomorrow so if you have any questions that you would like me to ask him, specifically questions more geared towards "problems you yourself face while trying to live a happy life", I'll relay it to him and try to get some answers. Feel free to write any other questions that you would want me to ask him on the comment section. [link] [comments] |
| Awesome meditation anchor when you keep getting distracted Posted: 07 Jan 2021 05:14 PM PST I have been meditating for a little over 1.5 years now. For about 9 months, I have wanted to be able to maintain awareness throughout an entire day. It is only in the past two weeks that I have been doing pretty decent at this, using breath as my anchor, whereas before, I never had an anchor. Anyways, what I've now noticed, is that, when I am sleeping in bed and wake up, I will try to be mindful of my breath, but for some reason, this is usually a lot harder than maintaining breath awareness during the day, and I get distracted a lot more. While I was in this awake-trying-to-sleep state, I came up with the idea of using my distraction as my anchor. Upon doing this, I no longer got pulled into that distraction, and actually was able to return to breath awareness, although still keeping the distraction I had as my anchor. I think this works great for multiple reasons. If you only have ONE thought that keeps taking away your awareness, by using this ONE thought as your anchor, it is a one-pointed anchor. It also keeps you hyper-aware of making sure to not engage in it, and naturally will return you towards your regular anchor. Later that day, I experienced in meditation, tons of different thoughts, not just one. And so, instead of naming 5 anchors for having 5 different thought distractions, I just named Distraction in and of itself as my anchor, and this worked as well. This is also one-pointed, since you're anchor is Distraction. I do not do this all the time, I always try to keep my breath as my anchor, but when I find that I keep getting pulled from breath, I've found this to be an awesome method. Even for when I have to pee really bad in the morning, or I have physical pains while meditating, I make these my anchors, and they seem to go away very quickly, and I get deep into meditation. tldr: If you keep getting pulled from your regular anchor in meditation, if you find that there is 1 recurring thought that keeps distracting you, use that as your anchor. If there are multiple thoughts that keep pulling your awareness, make Distraction in and of itself your anchor. I've found this helps a ton for those otherwise very distracting meditations, turning it from what would be a "bad" one into a "good" one. [link] [comments] |
| How does it feel to meditate after a little bit of drink? No not drunk but maybr a bit of buzz? Posted: 07 Jan 2021 08:26 PM PST |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2021 02:14 AM PST Hi to all. Quick background: neurotic individual (anxiety, depression, nihilism, ocd patterns) who practiced meditation for 3 years, with some periods off. Tried also psychedelics, read eckhart tolle's book (the power of now) and listened to him quite a lot. Problem /question: while doing body scan meditation I get muscular spasms or strange feelings in my body, noticed it for the first time during a 5 meo dmt trip, now they occurs many times. Is it ego resistance to presence? How to fix? [link] [comments] |
| I can’t comprehend how the sense of self can be an illusion Posted: 08 Jan 2021 01:53 AM PST Hello! I've been meditating more frequently for a few weeks with the app Waking Up (which I can't recommend enough) In yesterday's meditation Sam Harris mentioned how the sense of of internal self is just and illusion. I've also listened to a few of his lessons in the theory section of the app but i'm still baffled by this statement, I'm not disagreeing with it but I just don't understand it. I know i'm fairly new to meditation (been meditating on and of for over a year but frequently only a few weeks) so it's ok that I don't get everything right now. I feel like my sense of self is very very strong even writing this right now, I am me, the one inside my head, behind my eyes. I am the one choosing to type this right? Can someone try to explain it? I hope you have a great day! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2021 07:27 PM PST I always thought life is about perspective. Sometimes I have some first world problems that I would be ruminating about and I broaden my perspective to realize how lucky I am to even be in the situation I am in. I realize that perspective are also a thought in a way but it can also be awareness. What are y'all "thoughts" on this.. bad pun intended lol [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2021 09:33 PM PST Is there any podcasts/videos etc y'all follow to meditate or learn how to meditate [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2021 01:01 AM PST I (18M) have been meditating for about 2-3 years now on and off. I get tingling sensations on my forehead most of the time and had one experience where it felt like I was in an infinite white room. My practice is just focusing on my breath for 15-30min, and watching thoughts go by. I want to try other forms maybe more advanced now that I've had some experience, what do you all recommend? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2021 01:00 AM PST I have been trying to start meditation from so long I have done guided meditations but I want to do it myself And learn it properly without any kind of external help So what books or material would you recommend to know how to meditate Thank youu [link] [comments] |
| I'm going to talk to a Zen Monk. Posted: 07 Jan 2021 05:27 PM PST Hi guys, I'm currently living in Japan and was lucky enough to attain an opportunity to talk to a Zen Monk who is the head of a large Soto Zen Temple. He has been a Zen monk for more than 40 years. I will be talking to him tomorrow so if you have any questions that you would like me to ask him, specifically questions more geared towards "problems you yourself face while trying to live a happy life", I'll relay it to him and try to get some answers. Feel free to write any other questions that you would want me to ask him on the comment section. [link] [comments] |
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| Do you use apps to meditate? More importantly, does someone really need to use apps? Posted: 07 Jan 2021 08:48 AM PST Just curious about people's thoughts on this. Nowadays I see a lot of people using meditation apps. I've always used guided YouTube meditations and after a while I moved onto unguided. I'm wondering if an app would be beneficial or unnecessary. Thank you all! :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2021 03:17 PM PST Hey! I'm a 21F and have been struggling with depression and anxiety (who doesn't nowadays) for the past two years. Please note, there is no intention to offend anyone, just want to know your experiences! The past six months have been the worst, I lost appetite and the only thing that seem to produce it is the weed that I started smoking two months ago. It is a simple way to reduce the anxiety and to be relaxed throughout the day. Many people has recommended to practice meditation but it just doesn't make sense to me how sitting and doing nothing can improve my situation, as the fact of sitting in silence itself just triggers my anxiety and it is just impossible for me to focus and "disconnect" I recently discovered the Netflix documental and I am attending therapy, I really want to get better and i am working hard to do so. Just would like to explore the world of meditation but I am still a bit skeptical about the whole thing. Thanks for reading! Hoping to read your experiences. 🥰 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2021 06:55 PM PST So I've just started doing meditation and the visual meditation was really nice with some music and led lights, I'm thinking I'll try progressive relaxation meditation next. I'm waiting to do the mindfulness and focused meditation until days when I haven't taken my add meds [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2021 08:30 AM PST Hello everyone I am a Buddhist Monk from America living in SE Asia. I've been a Buddhist Monk for over 2 years now and since the lockdowns of the pandemic I began teaching and creating a community space online. 🌈 🌈 🌈 I invite any buddhist or Meditation practioners here to sincerely check out my content and let me know what you think. Here is a link to my YouTube where we have an introduction to me and the communities intentions. 🌄https://youtu.be/0rc5uhWG8a4🌄 ❤️https://youtu.be/HAqmpSa2rJY❤️ 🌈 🌈 🌈 On my YouTube you will also find a number of videos of our online Guided group Meditations together as well as Book Study and teachings~ I humbly offer these resources to support fellow practioners on their path. 🌈 🌈 🌈 Also~ If anyone here is inspired to become apart of our community and join in future Group Meditations or classes together please consider joining us on Discord https://discord.gg/hdq3B6kDnk Welcome, and may you be well, happy, and peaceful. 💞🙏🏿🌸💞🙏🏿🌸💞🙏🏿🌸💞 [link] [comments] |
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