Meditation: Netflix is releasing headspace guide to meditation tonight Narrated by Andy Puddicombe |
- Netflix is releasing headspace guide to meditation tonight Narrated by Andy Puddicombe
- I just meditated into 2021
- Gratitude is making me happier
- Being aware constantly makes the days longer.
- Has anyone successfully overcome a tendency to try too hard or to make things happen in meditation?
- Can everyone stop taking meditation so seriously?
- Is it good to meditate before you go to sleep
- I'm grateful and amazed at our bodies ability to constantly repair themselves.
- Meditation 30 min/day
- Help from advanced meditators about my experience.
- Who am I?
- Practicing in a Harsh Environment
- Yesterday i taught meditation to my younger brothers
- Question about Waking Up practice
- Happy new year?
- What’s the best way to convince others to meditate?
- I’m going to meditate for at least 10 minute for the entirety of 2021
- I have a big issue with letting other peoples opinions and statements make me emotional. Can meditation allow me to be numb to these things? In a good way?
- Has meditation helped you make better decisions? Why or why not?
- I meditated for the first time
- Strength in Fear (80)
- Thoughts on the app Headspace
- Is it typical to have a "dark phase" on the meditation journey?
- Things you would have like to know when starting?
| Netflix is releasing headspace guide to meditation tonight Narrated by Andy Puddicombe Posted: 31 Dec 2020 02:01 PM PST |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 04:19 PM PST This is probably the coolest way I could have imagined my year to end! So, due to Covid I didn't visit a new years eve party this year, which I didn't really mind. I had a very relaxed evening with my parents and even thought about going to sleep sometime around half past 11. Around 15 minutes before midnight I decided to meditate because...well because anytime is a great time to meditate so why not. It was a great session, of course I noticed the fireworks going off at midnight but I accepted them and didn't mind. Shortly after, my parents came to my room, I heard them coming in so I opened my eyes and they both gave me a hug and told me some very sweet things, I told them I love them and I just felt so grateful. I was truly enjoying that moment. They knew I was being with myself before they had come in, so they quickly left my room afterwards and I just continued to meditate for another 10 or 15 minutes. It was a very spontaneous thing and honestly it might not sound like that big of a deal, but after very inconsistent meditation throughout 2019, I feel like this year was the first year for me to truly train my mind, so it's just perfect that this is how I spent the first minutes of 2021. I am very thankful that I started doing this. Meditation has become a part of my everyday routine, it has helped me throughout this whole quarantine thing, being with myself, accepting my thoughts and watching my overthinking habits. I can also say, that my character and view of things was truly challenged a couple of times this year, and I believe that every single time, it was one of those pure and mind refreshing sessions that helped me doing the right choices for me. I wish all of you, a lot of those mind refreshing moments for the next year! [link] [comments] |
| Gratitude is making me happier Posted: 31 Dec 2020 07:06 AM PST I was so used to having certain things that I did not value them. I live in a big house, with garden, I have a nice room, with my pc, tablet and phone. I have animals like chickens or birds. I wasn't grateful for those things that I had, and I was complaining for everything. For example, I complained about the cold day, wishing it was sunny. Complained about having to work 8h/day, or complained about loosing skill on some sport. Also I wanted more and more. Maybe a new videogame, a new computer, a new relationship to avoid thinking... I looked outside instead of looking inside. I started daily gratitude meditation 2 months ago in the evenings (after having plenty of grateful things), and now it makes me happier. I'm grateful living here, with warm clothes and warm sheets. Grateful because I have a work that I like, to be able to practice sports healthy, or just because I have skills to make my work fast and then I can relax myself, because I work remote. And even though I have ADHD, I can get work done. Belive me that this is a life changer. But in which I am most grateful, it's in my new awareness. I'm grateful to stick with meditation for months, for taking care of myself, for taking care of my self esteem, for removing bad habits and trying to get new ones. Gratitude also helps me to come back to the present. Even when I have a bad day, there are plenty of things to be grateful. Having food, clothes, bed, meditated, learned things about bad situations... And I'm grateful for this sub, because I learn new things and keeps me motivated. Thank you all. [link] [comments] |
| Being aware constantly makes the days longer. Posted: 31 Dec 2020 05:41 PM PST I got hit by a car and sent to a hospital. After this time I realized that school passed me by in the blink of an eye. This served to be a reminder to be aware all day. I thought my previous meditations made me aware of all day but I was just aware during my meditations. Now being aware constantly with no forgetting to be present makes the days infinitely longer. I don't know how much I can take this before it drives me crazy. I want to stay aware but I don't know if I can do it for a lifetime. [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone successfully overcome a tendency to try too hard or to make things happen in meditation? Posted: 01 Jan 2021 12:05 AM PST Need some help with overcoming this tendency. I just get too impatient and push harder and harder in order to get tangible results (ie a calm state, or to get insights pop etc), which makes meditation even more stressful and hinders the results from coming, which causes me to push even harder and redouble my efforts but with less and less results. [link] [comments] |
| Can everyone stop taking meditation so seriously? Posted: 01 Jan 2021 01:28 AM PST I agree that meditation is extremely beneficial for everyone but some of the advice on here is just plain wrong. Things like you need crystals, or need incense etc. These extra unneeded expectations put extra pressure on the new people who want to meditate naturally. Please help others out...without all the judgements and opinions of how you have to do it. [link] [comments] |
| Is it good to meditate before you go to sleep Posted: 31 Dec 2020 11:32 PM PST |
| I'm grateful and amazed at our bodies ability to constantly repair themselves. Posted: 31 Dec 2020 11:12 AM PST I'm grateful and amazed at our bodies ability to constantly repair themselves. I'm very grateful that I have a strong healthy heart that circulates my red blood cells perfectly.. Thank you for all the humanitarian help and relief the salvation army does around the world. I am incredibly grateful for the internet. It makes my life better in countless ways. Thank you for all the car rental companies that have helped me when my car was being repaired or I was out of town and needed a car. Thank you for the tremendous contribution to music the Beatles made and for all the future artists they inspired. Thank you for almond and coconut milk. I'm grateful their are so many delicious non dairy milk choices. Thank you for the inspiring storytelling of Philip Van Doren Stern. Thank you for the memoir Maria Augusta von Trapp wrote which inspired the musical The Sound of Music. Thank you for solar companies that save people money and help the environment. I'm incredibly grateful for my gps in my car. It makes my life so much better and easier. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:32 PM PST I started meditating fairly regularly in 2020. Probably 250/365 days. I sit for 30 minutes, counting from 1-10 (odd numbers on in breath, even out). It feels good. I try to carry it with me for the rest of the day. I can't imagine what I'd be like if I hadn't done it. I'm still a miserable prick. I love what the buddha has taught; it's the only thing that makes sense. Still, I'd love to see how he'd have managed in our modern society. Happy New Year. [link] [comments] |
| Help from advanced meditators about my experience. Posted: 01 Jan 2021 01:23 AM PST Hi everyone, I'm seeking advice from practitioners in the vipasanna and dzogchen field about my experience. I'm a total novice at vipassana but since took it up after an extreme bout of depression a while ago that I'm fully recovered of for quite some time. After I got better I decided to pick up vipassana to gain more emotional clarity of myself for better well being. I've never been to a retreat but have been practicing half an hour sits daily for around 3 months on my own. I found it rather easy to practice as a depressed person you essentially just meditate on your grief so I was kinda easy in flipping that awareness to my breath, body etc. I've been away on holidays up the coast and have upped the practice to over two hours per day as I simply have found it so beneficial to my everyday life. Now here's my experience, tonight I'd cultivated a strong focus a few hours into my sit when I'd remembered the dzogchen instructions I'd read so I began observing my own consciousness. I wasn't really trying to do this but curiosity simply blew the ship. I became more and more aware of the simple emptiness as I looked when I found myself in a state of total silence of mind, I mean total silence that lasted over half an hour. Not the type of silence that you get meditating this was different. Thoughts, emotions, memories just stopped happening and extreme sense of vast openness was present. Kinda felt like what infinity would feel like if it was an emotion. I just keep thinking that the experience is below someone's pay grade that is not an experience meditator. Any way happy mew year everyone, and any advice I'd love. Thanks! Edit: the advice I want to know is there a term for that experience? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:32 PM PST I hear, I see, I smell, I touch, I taste I think I feel Anxiety, Joy, Grief, Love, Anger, Hope Who am I? My senses? My thoughts? My emotions? I'm the stillness in between The silent observer The life beneath [link] [comments] |
| Practicing in a Harsh Environment Posted: 31 Dec 2020 03:43 PM PST I'm an undergrad student who is home for a very long winter break (due to covid). My home life is quite difficult to live in. My family suffers and takes it out on each other, so there is constant negativity in the air. I used to be this way, too, until I left. Coming back, I'm finding it hard to hold on to who I am and seem to be falling into my old outlook on life: feeling hatred for my environment, for others, for myself, feeling no motivation to get out of bed let alone practice. Before this, I was practicing every night. Now, when I try to practice, my family bothers me and makes fun of me for doing so. It's become very hard for me to focus or even want to sit down and breathe. I don't know what to do. I thought coming here wouldn't be so bad, that I'd grown enough to face my situation and stay true to myself. Does anyone have any advice? How can I feel motivated to practice in such a negative environment? How can I see that it's not negative? [link] [comments] |
| Yesterday i taught meditation to my younger brothers Posted: 31 Dec 2020 09:10 AM PST One of them couldnt stay a lot meditating and the other did 15 minutes! And said he liked a lot, i felt so good to teach something that helped me to others ill tey to meditate with them this week so they can get a habit or something [link] [comments] |
| Question about Waking Up practice Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:09 PM PST I've been using the Waking Up app for a few months now and it's really helping me with meditation concepts. One thing that has been said in a few episodes is "look for the thinker" I get a bit stuck on this and am not sure what I should be doing, do I try to look within myself or at myself or from outside the body? If someone who understands this concept could explain it I'd greatly appreciate it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2021 02:15 AM PST The happy new year is just a thought ,the one you identified with, strongly and deeply. But it's just a thought. At least we can accept thoughts are just thoughts and we don't identify with or label thoughts in many meditation techniques. The thoughts are accorded nil value in them. For example, if I put you on an island and get you busy. Enough busy that you stop counting the sunrises and sunsets. Then you won't know which year it is. Then after sometime, I can provide you with a calendar of 2022. And subtly suggest it's 2022. Highly probable,You will accept that. And it becomes your truth. So you see, it's just a thought. Like every other thought. Can be easily implanted. Let's enjoy the one enjoying these thoughts. Let's enjoy the self. The self beyond the thoughts/ideas of time and years. Let's come back to the eternal core. Much love and peace to all And a happy new year :D [link] [comments] |
| What’s the best way to convince others to meditate? Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:31 PM PST I have trouble explaining to other people why they should meditate. Every time I try, I'm met with something like "I'm glad YOU enjoy that, but it's not for ME" or "I would just be bored" What is the best way to convince others that meditation is something they should try? I think a lot of the benefits are better understood yourself rather than someone explaining it to you, but you can't experience the benefits until you start practicing... I would love to hear any ideas or thoughts [link] [comments] |
| I’m going to meditate for at least 10 minute for the entirety of 2021 Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:21 AM PST I've previously started regular meditation practices but either got lazy with it or stopped altogether because I didn't feel any effects (even though I have only been practicing for weeks). I consciously realize that meditation leads to growth over time and it's NOT like a switch being flicked on, but it's just so hard to stick with it when you don't notice anything. But this year. I want to shake things up. I want to change myself and I want to be better. I hope practicing mindfulness will give me the sense of peace that Im looking for. Here's wishing you all a very happy New Year! I hope this year brings you everything you've ever prayed for ❤️ [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 05:28 PM PST I'm sick of hearing someone say something towards me that I disagree with and there too ignorant to even be open to a discussion. I'm sick of my emotions consuming me. I want to be able to control my anger and just ignore them. Just look at them talking all their nonsense and then hit them with an "ok, cool" and just go on with my day. Can this state of relaxation and mindset be achieved through meditation? Idk if this is a bad mindset but I want to be numb. From emotion, from negative thoughts, from all of it. I want to get into a conversation with a clear mind and without letting it eat away at me during, and well after the conversation is over. [link] [comments] |
| Has meditation helped you make better decisions? Why or why not? Posted: 31 Dec 2020 02:47 PM PST I'm interested in this because I suffer from ADHD. I'm overly impulsive. I know I'm not stupid, and I can easily see what I should have done, but only after the fact. Can anyone help me understand what effect meditation has had on their decision-making? [link] [comments] |
| I meditated for the first time Posted: 31 Dec 2020 11:42 PM PST I set up 15 minutes of it. Then in between deep breaths, I replayed the mantras in my head. Am I supposed to inhale, recite the mantra in my head, then exhale, then repeat the mantra? Also, I feel strangely heavy, like there's this resistance the more I recited the mantra in my head. Is this normal? Is it my ego resisting positive affirmations? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 12:31 PM PST Being aware of what is trying to cause fear over us is where the strength lies. We have all had a difficult year. We have all had to overcome hardships, pain, sadness; which has led us to joy, evolving, growth, happiness, light and love. I am proud of you. I know it hasn't been easy but we made it through and we will continue to make it through. Know now, that YOU can accomplish and push through anything that is coming in our future. Embrace, sit present with and CONQUER. There is healing happening, for you, for your loved ones, in this very moment, in this very second. Here we are, December 31, 2020. Wow. I feel like this year has gone by in a blur but when I sit for a moment and think about everything that has happened this year, it feels like its been 5 years in 1. For me my biggest step this year was acknowledging, being aware and sharing my trans identity with gentle love, to myself and those around me. I think its important to reminisce on what has been done, gone through, felt; but only once in a while. We must focus on the now and what it is presently in front of us, as well as whats to come, but that will come, so really this moment. What will happen, will happen. We must continue to meditate, pray, ask for guidance, from God, Jesus, the Universe, Divine Spirit, Source etc., please do it & please continue to do so through the start of the year and for the year ahead, for 1, 5, 10, 15 minutes etc., everyday. Today: Give yourself a few minutes to think about this year as a whole before the festivities, celebrations and so on. Think about how far YOU have come this year, how we were all forced into solitude and how you made progress wth yourself, from the small ones all the way to major. I am so proud of you for pushing through. I love you. Drey <3 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:25 PM PST So I was going to try a few new things in 2021 to help better my self, one of thous things being meditation. I can do one year of head space for $50 a year, less than $0.14 a day, and was thinking that might be a good jumping off point untill I figure things out. Do you think I can get enough use and knowledge out of it the fist few months to justify $50. [link] [comments] |
| Is it typical to have a "dark phase" on the meditation journey? Posted: 31 Dec 2020 07:43 AM PST I've gotten to a point where I can feel pretty defeated about life and often do feel that way without some internal pep talks. I've been making some great progress in the form of revelations and realizations about how my brain is a tricksy little brainses, and general 'aha' moments about consciousness and mindfulness. But I feel as if the other side of that coin comes in the form of undeniable truths about society and the world that are dark AF. I'm not sure if I can adequately explain how I've started to feel about this, but it's something like... I've realized that I can change myself, but the world has been and will continue to be proper fucked until we destroy ourselves. It seems that removing the veil from myself has removed any notion that we've 'grown up' as a species and that we aren't living in a mostly dystopian world. What I've come up with so far is that this is a form of a 'wasted potential' sentiment. So while I'm quite happy with the improvements to my mental health and such, I'm paradoxically getting more distressed at the state of the world, and how we (societies) continue to make the same mistakes and inflict the same atrocities, but with better technologies and bigger weapons. FWIW, I had been inconsistently meditating for about a year and a half before getting serious about regularity over the past three months. TL;DR Am I a buddhist now because I seem to have realized there's nothing in life but suffering? Edit: thanks for the responses, everyone! [link] [comments] |
| Things you would have like to know when starting? Posted: 31 Dec 2020 05:37 PM PST Hello everyone. Hope you are doing wonderfully well I am new to the community and I have tried (and failed) meditation in the past. Many times. This time I want to be able to consistently keep meditation in my life as I see all its benefits. So what best way to ask more knowledgeable people than me about things that they wish they knew earlier right? I would appreciate any kind of advice indeed obv as I am an absolute beginner. I have also some questions to pose (since I am already here...) to the community that just puzzled me. They consist of the following: From what I could understand meditation at its most basic and general form consists of having an object (generally speaking your breath) on which the mind has to be focused. When the mind drifts away I have to observe the thought without judging and gently bring my mind to focus on my meditative object, correct? Also, how do you progress in terms of time devoted to meditation? As for me, it is just straight away impossible to meditate 2 times a day 20 mins per session though that is my objective. Does it make sense to start at shorter amounts and then progressively increase them? Last but not least, should I try guided meditations? How effective are they? I humbly thank you all for your patience and for your suggestions in advance and I hope you have a nice day. Also, happy new year yall! 🥳 [link] [comments] |
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