Meditation: A motivating insight I had |
- A motivating insight I had
- Last week i felt so much happines just for beeing alive it was great
- Please share your fav 3rd eye mediation videos. Quit my high paying job today Feel ost need help
- No need to overcomplicate it
- When I walk, I am aware that I walk, which means I am aware of how walking manifests itself in awareness.
- Chanting at work?
- A Visual Meditation Guide
- How to be mindful during powerpoint presentation?
- One the of the best explanations of mindfulness I’ve ever heard
- What condititions does meditation help with?
- Experience of a Novice
- can meditation on the go calm my anxiety? whats your recommended method?
- Open Awareness
- Old pond, a frog jumps in... Plop!
- Spiritual awakening
- Why meditate when I can just smoke DMT? (Serious question)
- Really experiencing my emotions
- Group-Sourced Mindfulness and Connection
- People should teach children mindfulness
- Please help, any advice or direction is greatly appreciated. I am not religious.
- A question about mindfulness meditation
- What happens when you die? - (Part Two)
- Sound bowls during meditation
| Posted: 14 Jan 2021 01:57 PM PST Any time you have felt true joy (whether it was from doing something fun, enjoying delicious food or having a great conversation), is a moment when your attention was deeply rooted in the present. Anytime you are unhappy, stressed or angry, you are detached from that connection with the present [link] [comments] |
| Last week i felt so much happines just for beeing alive it was great Posted: 14 Jan 2021 05:48 PM PST So i woke up pet my dogs, went to give food to my guinea pigs and i saw my garden and i felt true happines, it was a great view of my guinea pigs coming to eat in my hands and i petted them, i felt like i was on the right place all amxiety and bad thoughts everything just gone, i was just living and it felt great [link] [comments] |
| Please share your fav 3rd eye mediation videos. Quit my high paying job today Feel ost need help Posted: 14 Jan 2021 05:06 PM PST I quit my high paying job today as it wasn't serving my life purpose . Felt thrilled but now questions my decision and almost going into panic. Did some mediation and it was great but feel really lost. Please guide and help for 3rd eye meditation. I know decision was right but I am maybe looking for a sign what to do. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2021 05:28 PM PST The meditation is to keep your awareness on your object. When your mind starts to wander and think "Am I doing this right?" "How do I know it's working?" "What if I'm no good at meditating?" "Why can't I focus?" Simply return to your object, really observe it. What does it sound like? What does it feel like? If it's a physical object what does it look like? The thoughts are not your main priority, acknowledge them but continue your focus on your object. If you got lost that's okay, treat yourself kindly, it's important that you are gentle and understanding with yourself, slowly bring your awareness back to your object. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2021 06:39 PM PST That's how I meditate while walking. When I eat, I am aware of how tasting manifests itself in awareness. What I taste is irrelevant because I taste tasting. When I hear a sound, I hear hearing. When I touch I touch the touching. I breath breathing. When I sit, I sit in awareness with everything. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2021 11:32 PM PST I'm not sure the right place to post this so I'll start with here. I tried chanting and feel like it brings me to a meditative state similar to focused attention type meditation. I was physically and mentally drained and found it very hard to think while at work. I then chanted quietly while cleaning the house very quickly(work as caregiver). I found that I was able to stay on task very well and even though I was sweaty by the end of the cleaning I felt very refreshed. Does anyone have experience with chanting and doing manual labor or other things? If so what do you think the benefits are? Pitfalls? I definitely don't think this would work if you need to think about something, but seemed to work for manual labor for me. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2021 07:44 PM PST This is a guide through a meditation practice I discovered Please let me know if anyone else has discovered this. Start by closing your eyes and getting into a meditate state. In order the achive a meditate state, you must count your breath and let time pass. Your body should go numb and you are present. Once you are in this state, start slowly open your eyes. Open them as slow as possible. Just let in a little light. Remember, the meditation has not ended. In classical meditation, the meditator tries to detach from thoughts and find a center. In visual meditation, we will try to separate our selves from vision. You can play around and adjust the light you are receiving from the outside using your eyelids You'd be surprised at your fine-tuning abilities. Try not to interpret the light you are receiving. Try seeing yourself as if you were in a dark movie theater and the screen is displaying abstract art. Then, only when you are ready, open your eyes completely. The world rushes in so quickly! Lastly, remember this is just a practice or a method of inquiry. [link] [comments] |
| How to be mindful during powerpoint presentation? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 01:56 AM PST Last year, during a PPT presentation, in-person, you could say I had a weird anxiety attack. It started pretty chill, no major anxiety in sight. I was checking my notes simultaneously, and at one point I saw that the next sentence on the ppt wasn't in my notes. At that point a rush of anxiety took me over, my legs started to shake, my voice was trembling in every sentence and I wasn't able to finish it. I corrected that sentence of course, but at that point I was the show of the presentation.Of course, at one point I chuckled cause I knew that this whole thing was stupid. I just had enough strength to finish my part. I calmed down, still embarrassed and joking to myself of how stupid that whole scene was. Now that is started meditating and being more mindful my overall anxiety dropped dramatically. I started making some changes in my life which I explain in another post. My question is, how can I be mindful during a presentation when or ,even better, before something like that happens again. Cause I feel like if I become mindful about my breath or emotions or my body, I will lose track with what I have to say during the presentation. Every help is much appreciated me fellow redditors. [link] [comments] |
| One the of the best explanations of mindfulness I’ve ever heard Posted: 14 Jan 2021 06:03 PM PST Hey all, I wanted to share this video with you all today, titled: All It Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes. It was a Ted talk given by Andy Puddicombe, founder of Headspace. In it he discusses the concept of mindfulness is a truly brilliant and succinct way. I highly encourage anyone who has 10 minute to spare to check it out. Well worth the watch in my opinion. https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_puddicombe_all_it_takes_is_10_mindful_minutes/up-next?language=en [link] [comments] |
| What condititions does meditation help with? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 01:19 AM PST What kind of conditions does meditation help with? I know some of the obvious ones are stress and anxiety. What are some other medical conditions that meditation helps with? Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Jan 2021 12:41 AM PST Hey all! I hope everyone is doing well in their journey. I just wanted to make this post to share my beginner experience. None of my friends or family practice meditation so this is the only community I have to share this with. I have been meditating now for around two months after having listened to Breht from RevLeft Radio share his experience and reading Mindfulness in Plain English. I have set up my practice so: 20 minutes in the morning and evening and I go in with the intention to cultivate mindfulness by concentrating on the breath. Whenever I get pulled away by thought, I try to gently refocus my attention on the breath and specifically breath coming out and in the nostrils. What I have experienced is that I can only manage a few seconds of concentration before a thought crops up. I do my best to simply note the thought and return to the breath; it seems like this happens almost every second where a thought comes and I have to return to the breath. Of course, I still find myself pulling myself out of an entire train of thoughts (they happen so gosh darn instantaneously). But this is my experience so far: trying to concentrate and be mindful (and having brief moments when it happens), but having thoughts come up almost every second. I have seen how many thoughts my ego produces and that they all pass. Or how thoughts sometime exist as an amorphous blob of images, sentences, feelings, etc. And when I look at this blob or think too much about it, a concrete thought emerges. Nonetheless, I am going to keep practicing. Meditation even at this stage has been very helpful in my life and the very thought of abandoning it makes me sad. Thinking about shortening my sits from 20 minutes to 10. But any comments, advice, thoughts, etc. would be very much appreciated. I only joined this community on reddit a week or so ago but it is some of the best, most wholesome, and kind content on the internet. Be well everyone! [link] [comments] |
| can meditation on the go calm my anxiety? whats your recommended method? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 12:18 AM PST im new to meditation and ive been trying to sticking with a schedule for 3-5 mins a day and its going ok.. but what about when i go outside and i feel stressed, anxiety, my heart beat goes really fast and i cant focus everything around me. do you have any recommendation or method to calm down when things like this happen? :( [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2021 11:11 PM PST I am using the Healthy Minds app for my guided meditation. I am really enjoying learning about meditation and practicing it through this app. I've reached the "Awareness" chapter of the journey, and one practice teaches you to alternate between focused attention and open awareness. I am having trouble understanding how to be openly aware. The guide talks about it being more of a state of being rather than doing. We aren't lost in open awareness, or distracted. We are fully present and aware, just not directing attention to anything in particular. Not trying to control thoughts or feelings. Let your mind be as it is naturally. The above in bold is what I have some trouble understanding. I get focused attention; focusing on the breath, a sound, a feeling, but when it comes to open awareness, how do you actively let go of attention. It's like asking me not to think of the colour pink. Also, there seems to be some contradicting information - at one point the guide says, let your mind be as it is, and at another point says, we shouldn't be lost in open awareness, or distracted. I am practicing meditation due to anxiety and depression, and my mind, as it is, is very distracted and all over the place, so, how do I reconcile the two bits of information. I am practicing meditation to try and control my racing mind. Can someone please explain to be what open awareness is? If it's letting go of focusing on what ever it is you are focusing on (breath, body, sound etc), how do you force yourself to let go of that? [link] [comments] |
| Old pond, a frog jumps in... Plop! Posted: 14 Jan 2021 11:02 PM PST A lesson in just the nature of things, the present moment and nothingness Anyone else find this poem simple yet deep. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2021 10:54 PM PST I've been meditating and journaling trying to begin my spiritual awaking and I feel like I don't know where to start. I need help any suggestions? [link] [comments] |
| Why meditate when I can just smoke DMT? (Serious question) Posted: 14 Jan 2021 10:45 PM PST |
| Really experiencing my emotions Posted: 14 Jan 2021 06:45 PM PST Hi! Just thought I would share something which I have noticed recently. I have been practicing on and off for around 5 months now, but recently have been very consistent with my practice. I have noticed that I feel and experience my emotions a lot more intensely than I used to. I find that when I laugh, I REALLY laugh, and actually have found that I laugh a lot more and find joy in things I may not have used to. I feel as though I am able to process my emotions and feel them deeply, it is actually quite beautiful. I just thought this was an interesting benefit I have noticed recently, and would like to know if anyone else has felt the same. Thanks for reading! [link] [comments] |
| Group-Sourced Mindfulness and Connection Posted: 14 Jan 2021 10:25 PM PST I really appreciate the dialogue between meditators in this subreddit. I think that when we only listen to teachers, we miss out on sharing the diverse wisdom that arises in everyone as they apply themselves to mindfulness. We can inspire each other through a guru-free sangha, in other words. I am part of a small online meditation group committed to doing just that. We rotate who is holding the space, take turns giving meditation and metta instructions, and have time each week to connect with each other in an intuitive way. Sometimes someone starts a topic or a prompt, sometimes we talk about the group or share about our lives, and often there are spacious (allowing discomfort) periods of silence during the sharing time. I really love it. So far there are only two of us dedicated to holding the space, usually 2-4 people per week, and we would love to see a few new faces. Wanna join us? It's free. Open to anyone, including brand new beginners and advanced meditators. We are focused on mindfulness meditation and mindful connection, not on the "guided visualization to change your state of mind" kind of meditating, although of course the distinction is an ongoing exploration. Every Tuesday at 6-8pm MT www.groupmindful.org Or Group-Sourced Mindfulness and Connection on Facebook [link] [comments] |
| People should teach children mindfulness Posted: 14 Jan 2021 06:23 AM PST Many people and children are suffering of a depression. Or they are destructive towards themselves and sometimes even other people. Many depressions or depressed feelings are caused by the fact that children start to feel like they are not good enough. This is one of the results of raising children in a system where there almost always is an illusionary goal that should be achieved. And only when they achieve the goal they feel like they did a great job. Like they're good enough. But there is no ultimate goal. Everything is connected. Everything exists because of the surroundings so everything is one. Let's call this one big thing the universe. Are we as the universe going to somewhere? Do we need to achieve a goal? No we don't. So let's teach children this so they start to enjoy life at every moment. Of course there are also illusionary goals outside of schools. That's why I think that it would be useful to teach children how to observe their thoughts. Because then they will learn to not get caught up by depressing thoughts. And when they will also learn to live in the present moment, they will really see the beautiful things of life because they are not living in their head. So together with knowledge about life, observing thoughts, and living in the present moment. There will probably be less depressed children. I recently created the An Awakened Earth platforms on YouTube, Ko-fi, and Soundcloud. An Awakened Earth supports the collective awakening which has to take place to live in unity and survive as a species. Do you have some content which can help people to awake? Send it to me via [quintenvanommen@gmail.com](mailto:quintenvanommen@gmail.com) and I will try to upload it on the platforms! [link] [comments] |
| Please help, any advice or direction is greatly appreciated. I am not religious. Posted: 14 Jan 2021 10:03 PM PST I am going through something. I am in a constant battle with my thoughts. I am trying to learn how to observe my thoughts. I know my thoughts are not me. I feel a thought of guilt that yells at me and judges me for not working out, etc... I feel as if I have one person making me feel guilt and one that is listening. I feel like me observing is the person trying to listen. But the person trying to listen also asks questions to the person trying to make me feel guilty. I am struggling to identify if the person listening is me or if I should disassociate the listener as well. I have tried to disassociate the person who is listening as well but it really make it difficult to observe myself after that. I am saying people because I am trying to disassociate the thoughts from myself because I am the observer and I don't belong to my thoughts. [link] [comments] |
| A question about mindfulness meditation Posted: 14 Jan 2021 06:15 PM PST When I try to think about nothing and clear my mind I find It easier, but when I start focusing on my breathing thoughts flood in and its way harder. Is this normal? Is staying with a clear mind not focusing on anything meditation at all? Sorry if I'm asking stupid questions, quite a beginner [link] [comments] |
| What happens when you die? - (Part Two) Posted: 14 Jan 2021 09:59 PM PST What happens when you die? - (Part Two) The review is a process that every human soul has to face once it dies in its physical form on the 3D Earth plane when making its journey back up to heaven. There is no judgement here. There is no one sitting up on a throne deciding your fate based upon your actions. In fact, it is the opposite. The only one that judges you here, is you. You hold what is known as the law of light within you. When you come up to heaven, you exit the character you were playing and you can see all for what is from an objective, unbiased perspective. Here is where we hold our vibration for everything we do, there is no surpassing it. The law of light cannot lie to itself. Your vibration is bound to your core at all levels of existence including the plane of existence you just exited. A board of elders and ascended masters whom have ascended from the Earth realm gather with you for this life review. The ascended masters like Jesus and Serapis Bey for example congregate with you at this time of your review to help you better understand where you made negative choices. Their stance doesn't derive from whether you are a good or bad person as duality in these higher realms is understood to be just an illusion to test the soul within the matrix. Instead they want to help you and prepare you for the next life with the karma you have attained from your last existence. The Creator will always forgive you, but karma will not. In this review you are shown every moment of your life that flashes before your eyes. It's a strange sensation as the playback allows you to understand all your memories at once, like having a supercomputer of multiple brains connected, analysing and absorbing the information simultaneously and condensed down into a single thought form. The review is a process of understanding how to love yourself and others fully and unconditionally; to remind you the light is always inside you and to spread that light to others. Apart from the present councils members that are with you, you are joined by all the other beings who were also involved in your life story including that of your family, friends and perceived enemies. It even includes the old lady down the street you smiled at on your way to work. They were all supporting actors in the big play you agreed to exercise out amongst yourselves. Not only do you watch back the theatre play of the roles you all partook in, but you also have a discussion between yourselves and amongst the board of elders on how best to settle the karma you all collected between the parties involved in your next attempt on Earth. The movie of your life being shown back to you isn't just a spy cam that watches everything you do; it also shows you the internal playbacks of the people you negatively affected in your life too. The movie is also shown to you through their eyes. Here, you experience the other person's emotions in attempt to show you how you made others feel as a consequence of your own actions and choices. It's very common for each person in this review to say 'I didn't know I hurt you like that'. Again, this isn't shown for the sake of blame but instead to assist you in learning for the next time round. You do this with all the people who you had influence over within your life and they do the same with you too. The review prepares you all as a soul group for the next lives ahead back on Earth. These groups will share a level of soul karma in which all of you must work out together to clear these debts as one. Families are a common one, as you are all placed together for a lengthy period of time and are often bound to one another throughout each individual's life. This is why it is important to be of service to others, so you can all heal as a group. You may choose to swap the roles between these groups in order to best clear the negativity that occurred in your past lives together. By doing so, it also gives the other souls in the group an invitation to mix up new perspectives and a new set of experiences with opposing identities. If two souls were originally involved in a parent-child relationship dynamic, you might decide this time to reverse these character roles. In essence, you're rewriting the script of your group movie and assigning souls to new actor/actress posts to help everyone improve upon their karmic lessons this time round in your new lives. Many people believe that an entire soul goes into one body but this is not the case. Due to the density level of the human form, only a fragment of your soul could possibly inhabit within a physical body. A soul by itself would contain too much light and literally explode your three dimensional self if it entered into the human vessel in its full power. Instead, your soul is like a diamond in that it has multi facets that spread out amongst not only other people in the 3D reality, but also into other dimensional versions of you. That means there are others walking around right now who are another piece of your soul but you aren't aware, because your consciousness remains within a single being, for this existence that is. This is where the concept of soul mates and twin flames sharing the same soul comes from. The classic runner/chaser dynamic comes from a part of your own soul that hasn't healed and so you repel each other until you both find peace with yourself. The ascended masters and other worldly beings train you for your next role on Earth in which you will immediately forget once you incarnate back into the third dimension through what is known as the veil of forgetfulness. This happens so the experience not only comes as a challenge to you, but so you also perceive everything as real again. Your subconscious will hold onto this training and slowly awaken your soul to its true identity if you pass the tests you failed in the previous incarnation cycle/s. Some individuals are given what is known as imprints when training in the astral realms before their rebirth entry here on Earth once again. This is simply a false or artificial memory which is implanted into your consciousness that you will regard as your own once you take physical form again. It is a set of experiences taken from other beings previously within the Akashic records to help you understand how to get through your Earth education on whatever part of that learning journey you are finding difficult to overcome. It's similar to reading from a book; it's not your research, but it saves you time in having to gather all the information together through various sources. The imprint is the same thing except the experiences aren't all yours. That is why this is called The Great Experiment. We really do know nothing about how reality truly operates until we awaken to the full power of 'I am' through the sacred union of both masculine and feminine consciousness within our own self. Most people have signed up for the full Earth experience to become Earth masters of energy so they have had many incarnations to get to where they are now, on the brink of ascension. There are some star seeds however who have volunteered themselves to help Earth in this big transition of energy, bringing the Earth back to the fifth dimension. A lot of these beings have ascended themselves and decided to come back to Earth for a single life one more time to show humanity the way forward. There are many others that heard the call from Earth in other dimensions to come and help but have never experienced being in a human body before. Depending on the individual's soul contract, some of the first timers have a protective coat as it were which stops them from inheriting any negative Karma into the afterlife so they won't be bound and trapped in the third dimension after this particular existence. Thousands of people worldwide have been regressed back into these scenarios and memories before, describing their in-between lives and past selves through a form of specialised hypnosis called QHHT. Through tapping into the subconscious or super conscious mind, these individuals through manipulating their brainwaves into a theta state, are able to switch off the neocortex, the conscious part of the brain. This deeper level of trance allows them to access parts of their higher self and past life memories that are stored in the subconscious throughout the duration of your entire soul's journey. If you want to find out more, I would recommend looking into Dolores Cannon's work both in written and video content formats. Hope this helped expand your consciousness and awaken a new path of exploration on your spiritual journey. The path to ascension is within touching distance. Take care, much love and namaste. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2021 09:45 PM PST Hello :) I have been meditating on & off for a few months now & I was curious to know how people incorporate sound bowls when they meditate? I went to my favorite local shop to purchase my first one & I am in love! I've been getting the hang of it so far. Before, I would put a YouTube video of sound bowls while I meditate & I felt it did help me out a lot. Once I purchased the actual bowl & had it physically in my hand it was a whoooole different feeling! What is everyone else's take on sound bowls & how do you use them for your routine?? I appreciate the feedback :) [link] [comments] |
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