Meditation: I've been crying of happiness a lot lately |
- I've been crying of happiness a lot lately
- Today I defeated my greatest demon
- Trouble meditating when in a constant stage of hyper vigilance
- Are longer meditations better than 2 small ones?
- "There's nothing that can make me stop feeling what I'm feeling"
- I'm very new to meditation and am interested in Zen Buddhist and Stoic philosophy. Be so kind and recommend me a few beginner-tier books in that category.
- SOMEBODY HELP ME
- Thankful for the Breath
- Meditation as medicine
- Ego death
- Noticing emotions
- J.Krishnamurti on meditation and pacifism
- Not treating the present moment as a means to an end, but an end in itself
- a mindful morning idea
- Aversion to suffering is delayed suffering. Embrace the inevitable and process what is never yours.
- Exploring pain
- I'm wondering if there's any other people with ADHD that were able to see benefits from meditation?
- Discomfort while meditating?
- Meditation and the Aspergers advantage.
- Meditation made me realize I'm not socially awkward
- Finally opens my heart chakra last night. Bless you all from the warmth of my heart.
- Isn’t meditation kind of related to nihilism?
- Meditation Journal
- Weird experience meditating trying to AP
| I've been crying of happiness a lot lately Posted: 09 Jan 2021 06:08 PM PST Recently I've been finding myself in a pure aware state for much of the day. I meditated in lotus on the beach the other day, listening to the waves crashing before me. After a while it seemed that I became the water. It was incredible. Then I did some stretches and just laid down flat on the sand, allowing my mind to be completely free, not focusing on anything. Then I felt my entire body spinning round, like it was doing lots of backward rolls. It felt as though I could feel the rotation of the earth. I can't describe the amazing feeling I felt. I then slowly (like super slowly) walked back home, observing every tree, animal and sound I noticed along the way. I felt so incredibly happy, when all I was doing was looking around, but I was taking it in, absorbing the nature around me. That was an incredible day. Then more recently I've been finding myself in that same state and then I just start crying, but of happiness. I'm talking proper sobbing. I find it very easy now to allow any negative feelings to drift away, but happy feelings I've been embracing. I've also been crying a lot when watching my favourite TV show (I've watched it like 12 times). Crying at all the sad parts, the happy parts, then laughing out loud at all the jokes, even though I can never remember laughing out loud over anything on TV before. I seem to be feeling every emotion very strongly, and my empathy for other lifeforms has increased too. Every animal I see I have nothing but an enormous amount of love for, and every person I feel deeply about. For instance, the other day I was walking home and someone drove past and shouted "How's it going, fatty?" (I'm actually feeling super secure about my weight as well. I put on a lot of pounds over the last 2 years due to mental illness, but am now easily shifting the weight) and I didn't feel offended, I didn't feel upset. I only thought of the person that had said that to me. I thought of how miserable his life must be to cause him to want to insult another lifeform, emotionally cause harm in another term... No person who is happy would ever want to do this. So I felt for the person. I wanted to make their life better. Is it normal for someone who meditates to spontaneously cry like this, and to feel this way in general? Obviously I'm really happy with my path to enlightenment, but crying at most things seems strange. I've been meditating for 3 years but recently have been doing a lot of spiritual work. [link] [comments] |
| Today I defeated my greatest demon Posted: 09 Jan 2021 03:41 AM PST Long story I suppose but to get to the point, I work third shift at a local midwest gas station (Kwik Trip). the day started off kinda busy for a Friday. A few hours pass of me strenuously completing my nightly routine, and then a man yells at me for not getting his gas on his bill. Startled I apologise and proceed to finish his transaction. I begin to feel a kind of resentment for him for being so rude for such a small occurrence. Then I let go, and I'm once again at peace (confused but at peace) this wasn't my demon, what came a few hours later was. The girl I have had a crush on for years, fell for and hit the ground over walked in with her boyfriend (I think it was) I didn't realize it was them until they were at the checkout, I felt a pain in the stomach and tasted iron in my mouth. I took the money, gave the change and looked them in the eyes and told them to have a nice night. Something i never thought I'd have the strength to do at such a sincere level. My recent meditation routines and stoic readings have taught me to let go, live in the now. I don't think I would have been as nice without it. So in my own way, today I defeated the part of me that was resentful, depressed and caught up in past times. Today, I feel reborn in a way I can't explain. I feel free. Maybe it's temporary, maybe I'm just telling myself it to comfort myself, but if the opportunity arises to defeat the demon again I will surely apply meditation to help me on my path. [link] [comments] |
| Trouble meditating when in a constant stage of hyper vigilance Posted: 09 Jan 2021 07:49 PM PST TLDR; Mild PTSD as a result of childhood and professional work in criminal justice. Practitioner of mindfulness meditation. I've come to realize my anxiety and rumination is stemming from being in a constant state of hyper vigilance or "threat assessment." This is likely tied to my unhappy childhood and work with violent criminal offenders. What's worse is that there is a looming trigger in my daily life that I deem a potential threat. Therefore making the state of hyper vigilance even more heightened. I am anxious all day at home. At this time there is nothing I can do to remove this specific trigger, but even those I confide in agree that the trigger is real and not imagined or overblown. I sometimes am so anxious during the day that I cannot even bring myself to meditate. Mediation helps, but sometimes I'm so anxious I can't being myself to meditate. Any tips? [link] [comments] |
| Are longer meditations better than 2 small ones? Posted: 09 Jan 2021 07:34 PM PST I do 2 sessions of around 40 minutes each! Is there any benefits for going beyond the 1 hour mark in one set? For those who meditate for 2 hours a day? Tips [link] [comments] |
| "There's nothing that can make me stop feeling what I'm feeling" Posted: 09 Jan 2021 11:33 PM PST I've noticed in myself and others that sometimes, we flee in various ways. We do things, anything, to maybe feel better. Watch a TV show to get your mind off something. Do a hobby. Drink. We can be a bit like those lab rats that keep pressing a lever to get more sugary water except that here, it's an animal in pain that tries to keep pushing a lever to get a few drops of something that will alleviate that suffering. Repeating that phrase was distressing at first but after a while, it gave me a stillness, a quality of presence that I don't remember having since the happy part of my childhood. Phrasing it like that seems to have made a difference so others might benefit from using that as a mantra and see if it helps them. Not even as a way of dealing with whatever emotions but just accepting the emotions and not trying to make them go away, cover them up with something else. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2021 08:31 PM PST |
| Posted: 10 Jan 2021 01:36 AM PST I always stop meditating for back and neck pain, someone help me(I meditate against the wall, but I always feel like I'm forcing my neck) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2021 09:52 AM PST I am so thankful for the air we breathe! It has the oxygen in it that we need, the oxygen that comes from all the trees and plants in the world, mostly from the green algae in the seas. Without the air we would suffocate and die. Isn't breathing awesome and wonderful? Breathe in, breathe out, and be so thankful for meditation and the breath! – Paine 🙏🏻 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2021 02:09 PM PST I was thinking about sharing progress, but I knew I wouldn't allow myself to get into a habit of posting over and over again. There'd have to be one post about my progress. What I've been experiencing for the past two days (following some intensive meditation) is noteworthy. Without having to think about it, I find myself staring into space for minutes at a time. My mind would constantly be in the position of thinking its way out of a bad situation, would be demanding that I do something fun to deal with boredom, or thinking in a random manner when that wasn't possible. It would be busy giving me relief from the slightest negative sensation or emotion, because it tolerated none. I needed a bridge to better behavior. Eventually, I had luck. I would be spending time with my mother, whose house is very quiet and a good place to meditate, and I started meditating for 60 minutes or a few minutes longer at a time. And I realized what meditating for 60 minutes or longer could be: Powerful. It gave me the same thing every time, a quieter mind, and that sense of relief drew me back to it. I set a three hours a day objective, and went up to four hours. My ego was rewarded. I spent time drawing clouds in the middle of the night. I cleaned my apartment and enjoyed doing it. Music was more fun. My sick mind healed. That's not the case with a lot of people, but in my case, meditation is medicine for a mind that's been sick for years. A mind that can't handle staring into space for a few minutes, because that's boring. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2021 06:31 AM PST The concept of ego death attracts many people because we all want a part of us to die. Maybe it's the scared, angry, sad, guilty, shameful part. However, ego death is a gradual process based on your own subjective realization of how your being is interconnected with the literal universe. It is the gradual understanding that YOU as a being, not a mental construct of parts, is home. Meditation is part of a vast philosophal system that is used as a tool, next to many other tools, to come to this understanding. Are you interested in what it has to offer? During meditation you can experience feelings of calm and joy, why are you experiencing them? Because you start to dissolve the urgency to react. Life is flowing, moving, energetic, changing. We cannot calm ourselves if we do not understand this basic nature. Our sense of belonging is a very deep one. We belong to our communities, the human race, even our opinions are part of us, this is all true. But this leads a problem: that we don't belong to other communities, people and ideas. This loneliness of I is a false interpretation of our experience, because the ultimate truth is that we are a seed that grows from the earth, so we come out of this very essence of what we directly experience (life and nature). To directly see and feel this will certainly dissolve your ego temporarily. Ego death is not something that just happens. It is a very gradual understanding of what I have mentioned above. It is indeed loving the mother nature for giving us her breast. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2021 05:38 PM PST After today's meditation, I took some time to think. I began thinking about myself and how I handle my emotions. I know that I am good at not identifying with my emotions once I realize I'm experiencing them. There's this divider in my mind that I use to separate myself from my feelings, but this is something that I have to do manually. By this I mean that in order to separate myself from these emotions I must first notice the feeling, and then I make the decision to not identify with it. The problem with this is that I don't usually notice the emotions in time. I asked myself how I could train myself to notice my emotions, and I decided that I am going to begin checking in with myself multiple times a day and ask myself how I'm feeling in this moment, until it becomes a habit to notice how I'm feeling. I know this is not really some huge epiphany but I am still decently new to meditation and I just feel excited and proud of myself for working on becoming the best version of myself that I can be. Thanks to everyone that read this far, you're awesome. [link] [comments] |
| J.Krishnamurti on meditation and pacifism Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST The next morning K answered questions to a smaller audience, confined to Fellows of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Of the fifteen questions handed to him, he answered only the first and last. The answer to the first question 'What is creativity? What is meditation?' took up almost the whole of the allotted hour and a half and he repeated much of what he had said the day before. About meditation he said:
The last question was: 'If you were Director of the Laboratory with the responsibility for the defence of the country and recognizing the way things are, how would you direct the activities of the Laboratory and the research?' K answered this in part:
Member of audience: Sir, if I may say so – I think you have convinced us.
Member of audience: What I mean is, that when we really try to understand this and do something in that direction, somehow we seem to lack the necessary energy … What is it that is really holding us back? We can see the house is on fire, but still we are not able to do anything about stopping the fire.
Source: Lutyens, Mary. The Life And Death Of Krishnamurti . Ebury Publishing. Kindle Edition. P.S. I'm not forcing, teaching, convincing, disputing, arguing, but merely sharing. [link] [comments] |
| Not treating the present moment as a means to an end, but an end in itself Posted: 09 Jan 2021 10:53 AM PST I've heard Eckhart Tolle say this many times, and I had a moment yesterday where I was following my breath. I noticed anxiety increasing, and then I realized I was anticipating the next breath, the next sensation in my body, the next moment. I suddenly had a shift in consciousness, and this quote came to mind. Since then that's continued, and I try and embody this sentiment. I've noticed a decrease in impulsive behavior, like binge eating or constantly browsing on my phone, because I am not chasing the dragon of the next moment. Just thought I'd share to see if anyone can relate. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jan 2021 01:36 AM PST I woke up this morning and was still sleepy, drifting and dozing a little bit, enjoying my pillow. Suddenly then I had a thought about something - an idea for a present for my mum tomorrow - I was then hit with some energy and I felt less tired - I think this is dopamine? If so then I was lying in this place of sleepiness and dopamine, on the edge of them with some choice about where I could go, I could sleep or get up depending on what I thought about next. If you feel like you want to sleep then you can be mindful and try to steer away from the thoughts that encourage dopamine (or the energy), if you want to get up you can choose to entertain the thoughts and get up and do this cool birthday thing. I feel like this is some evidence of how becoming more aware gives you more influence on how your body works; with meditation I have learnt how to discipline my mind. So I feel like I have just expereinced and understood the power that my thoughts have. Like.. in that moment I have the decision to go: You wanna sleep? => yeahhhh => be mindful and disciplined enough to not carry on the thought process that was giving you this energy to get up => you are sleepy and your body is not secreting certain hormones into your blood. So therefore my conscious decision has influenced my biology for the day. So can this be put to other things? Can your thoughts influence your biology in other circumstances? Or does anyone have any papers or personal insight into this? e.g. You have a cut on your leg, if you choose to concentrate loving thoughts and a feeling of peace to your cut will it aid the healing process? Or if you have a brain tumor growing, is there some way that you divert the catastrophe before it is evolved? TLDR: with free will can steer your thoughts to some direction and influence how your body feels, is there any more information out there or research that explores the extent to which this can go to? Thoughts? Also if this is the wrong place to post this kind of stuff then any reccomendations on some subs that discuss this sort of stuff would be great. [link] [comments] |
| Aversion to suffering is delayed suffering. Embrace the inevitable and process what is never yours. Posted: 09 Jan 2021 11:38 AM PST |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2021 08:30 PM PST For a long while I have been sitting with the intent to explore discomfort in my legs, similar to restless leg sensations. I have narrowed this discomfort to be centered in my sacrum; so much so that I hyper ventilate when I come too close and my breathing distracts be from what is there. Please help me explore this pain/ discomfort I'm feeling in my body so that I can continue to work through it. [link] [comments] |
| I'm wondering if there's any other people with ADHD that were able to see benefits from meditation? Posted: 09 Jan 2021 05:59 AM PST |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2021 01:09 PM PST Whenever I meditate I get uncomfortable and tempted to check my phone to see how long I've been meditating, even though when I finish meditating I feel relaxed. I follow my breath and whenever I get an intrusive thought I ignore it. What can I do? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation and the Aspergers advantage. Posted: 09 Jan 2021 08:40 AM PST The Ancient Raja Yogis (magicians, basically) called Aspergers, "habitually one pointed". They were the preferred recruits. Some shamanic cultures called Aspergers "the educating disease" (bit of a double-entendre there, maybe). Aspergers is a deformation of awareness, relatively speaking. The shape of the Aspergers awareness deviates from the norm. This deviation brings awareness into high relief. For the asperger awareness is quite visible. He contends with it daily. It is not so mysterious. This is the education. The asperger is uncommonly good at concentration. Concentration is the first trick. Which leads naturally to the second trick. So the asperger has an advantage this way. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation made me realize I'm not socially awkward Posted: 09 Jan 2021 09:51 PM PST I thought I am a shy introverted person for the longest time, but after being aware I realized I am a really loud person that doesn't have any problems with the people around me, I always thought I would be nervous around strangers and girls but noticed how calm and natural I am when talking with them. Its only when I always think hard before all of that does it become awkward. I feel different knowing this, and I finally know my weaknesses now that I'm aware of myself. Its "Bad/Rude people and difficult situations" I just don't know what to do when someone is trying to make fun of me and insult me, they are the ones acting unnaturally, I feel less reactive now that I have hit 10 weeks of constant meditation. But I just don't know how to respond and feel when someone just doesn't like me, sometimes people I knew for years and sometimes strangers. But its only natural that there are bad people who don't care about you, I just don't know why I feel this way and how to react and how to respond. I just wish I knew [link] [comments] |
| Finally opens my heart chakra last night. Bless you all from the warmth of my heart. Posted: 09 Jan 2021 01:30 PM PST Finally was able to fully feel and open my heart chakra. All worries are gone. Sense of peace and relaxation is there. Total belief in myself and god is there and love for all universe. I am part of the one. I am the one. Life force is all around us bathe in it feel it's sensation. Connected with two deities one gave me a strong yellowish orange almost golden light. Other gave me a very light bluish light and then the same golden light later. I have formed some specific meditation practices and they need to be tailored to you and your beliefs. I would love to help out if anyone is interested for free. No scams here :) just love for all universe. Here is my attempt at capturing the main essence https://imgur.com/a/VOz5K6F [link] [comments] |
| Isn’t meditation kind of related to nihilism? Posted: 09 Jan 2021 02:45 PM PST Meditation is about living in the moment and trying detach from the subjective world, which I feel resonates with nihilism, because nihilists embrace the fact that life is meaningless and we're just floating on a big blue rock. Maybe I'm confusing it with existentialism or I'm just talking out of my ass.... [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2021 11:33 AM PST Does anyone here keep a meditation journal? I'm not really sure if it's a thing to be honest, but I thought of the idea a few days ago and was wondering if anyone actually keeps one and what do you write about and when? Hope everyone's day is going well. [link] [comments] |
| Weird experience meditating trying to AP Posted: 09 Jan 2021 10:32 AM PST This just happened. Sometimes i try to astral project using the sleep paralysis method (i listen to binaural beats, meditate and remain completely still). I know i've about to reach this state once i feel vibrations (accompanied by fear) and either a floating feeling or a feeling that i'm being yanked down. The first thing i do is also to let go of fear and make it known i travel with God. I felt a floating feeling and saw my body entering white light (this is still the normal part for me). What happened next was strange. I came down from this light and was stuck in a paralysis. I could move my soul body (my body was still completely still) but only my arms. I moved my arms and hands to different positions experimenting. Each position I would pick up different extremely high frequencies that I could hear. It almost sounded like the tools my dentist uses but also kinda alienish. There was one position that the high pitched/annoying sounds went away and it was a calm rumble that sounded like someone racing a car. I continuously called for God throughout the whole process but the whole time I never felt his presence, mostly evil. [link] [comments] |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Meditation. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
No comments:
Post a Comment