Meditation: "A person's behavior has to do more with thier internal struggle than it ever did with you" |
- "A person's behavior has to do more with thier internal struggle than it ever did with you"
- I just want to share with you my beautiful experience
- Meditating on Hare Krishna has made me stronger.
- Overwhelmed with existential anxiety
- Does anyone else feel high right after meditating ?
- Meditating in short intervals or all at once?
- Meditation helps me fight depression
- I hate myself, I can’t focus on meditation because of my hateful intrusive thoughts
- I saw the curtain
- Need Guidance
- Why religion and why meditation?
- When you have nothing left to hold onto, you start floating.
- Things about Meditation
- Combining Meditation and Journaling
- Meditation has no limit and no end
- I just had one of my best meditation experience and I want to share!
- Does meditation increases energy in one's body?
- Meditation Plateau
- Power in Fear (83)
- Meditate LIVE
- Does anyone else feel like caffeine makes them overly ambitious?
- My body is weak and I struggle finding a maintainable posture
- Meditating upright is quite uncomfortable.
- Guided or individual meditation?
- Getting back on track
| "A person's behavior has to do more with thier internal struggle than it ever did with you" Posted: 03 Jan 2021 07:17 PM PST |
| I just want to share with you my beautiful experience Posted: 03 Jan 2021 05:55 AM PST My wife and I just meditated for 20 minutes. We were sitting in our living room which is connected to the kitchen with me sitting closer to the fridge. I have to add that my wife is pregnant with our first child at the moment. At the beginning of the meditation, I noticed how the compressor of the fridge was working and humming, but tried to focus on my breath. Shortly after, I got overwhelmed by a euphoric feeling, sending shivers down my spine and my thoughts went to my wife how she can already feel the baby in her womb and I was so happy for her and for us. Then, some time after, I noticed that the fridge wasn't even humming anymore and that I didn't even notice the change because I was so concentrated on my breath and the euphoric feeling. We are doing so good, despite everything going on around us and in the world and I'm very grateful for everything we have and share. I hope you all are doing well too. [link] [comments] |
| Meditating on Hare Krishna has made me stronger. Posted: 03 Jan 2021 06:38 PM PST After trying so many meditation techniques, and each with their own benefits, I came across a Hare Krishna street devotee that handed me a book. I told him I already do breath awareness meditation. He was happy that I did that, and went on to telling me how meditation originates from the east, etc. He asked me to incorporate transcendental vibration meditation along with breath awareness. This type of meditation is meditating on the Hare Krishna mantra (Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare on japa beads. Being already a meditator I was keen, so took a book and started the following morning as he recommended. Fast forward one year, and this is what I've noticed: (This may not matter so much but I've had a pretty bad childhood which has left me feeling incompetent, anxious, insecure, timid, and fearful).
I did not read the book before I started this meditation practise. But I did just now finish reading it and felt inspired to write this post. A lot of the things I had realised was aligned with the book, and it just blew my mind away! (Except that I'm a soul...that I read in the book, and it resonated well with me). Happy Meditating all. [link] [comments] |
| Overwhelmed with existential anxiety Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:23 PM PST Quick backstory: About 7 years ago, I had a pretty deep existential crisis and suffered intense anxiety and panic attacks, which lasted many months. I eventually came out of it, but it has had a partial resurgence this past year, likely due in part to Covid and being home more/stuck in thoughts, etc. It's like whenever I start to relax and enjoy the moment, my brain reminds me to be fearful of death and how short life is, time moving too fast, fear of meaninglessness, fear of the unknown, fear of a family member or friend dying, and thoughts of that nature. My mind keeps compressing my entire life into a blink of an eye. I know, this sounds like the opposite of being "in the now" and present with mindfulness... I just can't seem to help these thoughts from mercilessly creeping back in. Any suggestions for good guided sessions for this or other techniques? Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone else feel high right after meditating ? Posted: 03 Jan 2021 11:33 PM PST I sit down criss cross with my palms and feet pointed up and i close my eyes and just focus on breathing in and out for 5 minutes and then when I open my eyes and stand up I have the best brain high everything seems so magnified but so spaced out at the same time like if your brain is breathing it kind of feels like a longer lasting post nut clarity but w out the guilt lmao. Does anyone else feel this way like high right after ? [link] [comments] |
| Meditating in short intervals or all at once? Posted: 03 Jan 2021 07:23 PM PST My question is whether or not I should meditate once a day for a large amount of time, or split it up into many smaller meditations. Today I probably meditated for around an hour, 6 sets of 5-15 minutes, and I began to think that it might be more beneficial to meditate for one hour all at once, or two sessions of 30 minutes. Does anybody know which option is more beneficial. It seems like the longer sessions would help improve concentration, but that is just my thought based on no evidence at all. If anybody knows which method is better I would appreciate if you let me know. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation helps me fight depression Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:00 AM PST When I sit down for 10 minutes and embrace the thoughts I'm having rather than shutting them down, I feel much more capable of doing things. I'm less bogged down by negativity and actually capable of living life. I just want to say if you stick with this practice you'll experience some amazing shit. [link] [comments] |
| I hate myself, I can’t focus on meditation because of my hateful intrusive thoughts Posted: 03 Jan 2021 09:48 PM PST Title says most of it. I just don't know what to do. Meditation and yoga used to be really effective and it got me out of a super dark place a few years ago, but I can't seem to get back into the practice. I've tried to make it part of my routine everyday but, I end up just sitting and being carried away to shadowland where I think all of my negative thoughts at once. Ultimately I end up sobbing, feeling worse than when I started. My depression is affecting my success in school, my relationships with friends and family, my self esteem, and overall my romantic relationship. This has been a lifelong struggle for me but the pandemic is obviously making things so much harder. I'm so discouraged. I want to love myself. I want to feel confident and attractive. I'm so lost and I need help. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 12:19 AM PST Hi, I would like to share the experience I had 3 years ago, that was so strong that I rejected it, felt into kind of nihilism, derealization and depression. I started meditation to calm my thoughts 2 years prior the experience I am gonna share. As many when it became trendy, it was just a tool to calm my brain and feel more at peace. I was doing it at home through an app, and I wish that at some point I trained with professionals to certainly avoid the rough year I had after the big experience, but like I said, I just did not know those things could happen. After a month of doing meditation, I started seeing green light circle which the more I focus on my breathe the more I was "entering into it" until one time suddenly, while my eyes closed and focus on my body, everything became white. When I said white, it is as if you were in the dark and suddenly somoene turn the light, but in a more violent way. It litteraly turn dark to light, brigh bright light. It shocked me so much I open my eyes and went out of my meditation and then noticed something : I was out of breathe as though I had run, or kept my breathe, it was really weird. Talk about it to some other friends, said they never experienced such things, so I just took it as a weird things, and kept practicing. Sooner, when meditating, and enter in a really focus "body-breathe" I would be able to feel sensations, as feeling my blood traveling in my body, sometimes my body will vibrate, then vibrate so much that I will feel my inside "turning" as if, my "soul" was moving in my body, sometimes so much that I will have nausea. I will also have my brain tickling or like "pumping" One time, I was feeling pain from a tooth so decided to meditate while waiting my appointment, and this time I experienced an out of body experience, but was not sure if I had dreamed I went out of my body, or really did it. I will leave that as a mystery. Years passed and meditation will lead me to just pure joy. I will not know why, but all the time I will just be unable to contain my really loud laugh. At this point before arriving to the point of pure joy, I will always pass through a phase of visions and voice, always explaining "life". Believe me, it was beautiful to me, as somoene interest into psychoanalysis I thought I was connecting to my subconscious. And that make sense, because I am the type of person who always remember at least 3-4 dreams, experienced lucid dreams and such, so I believe I always has been super sensitive to what was "inside" and that meditation was a tool I could use to "explore" and be more in touch with it. I was unable to certainly attach this "inside" to also a more spiritual voice, at this time, I was wondering about the spiritual touch of those voice, but did not look that much for any other experience than my own. But I loved C.G Jung and thought about the maybe spiritual side of this "inside". Few days before the big experience, things got more intense, in one of my experience I saw, I think the universe and "understood" that everything was an illusion, and that everything was just possibilities, it is hard to explain, but like the theory of physics quantic with multiple things happening in the same time (and at this time I did not heard about the physics quantic stuff). I found it untersting but quite heavy for my brain and just did not went further with the meditation. Few days after, something that changed my life happened, as usual I will have the weird body experience, the brain "tickling", the light that you can enter into, but this time the vision was not as usual, it was...it was as if suddenly I opened a box and felt into it, it was not images, but an experience. Suddenly I had this, "I saw my whole life flashed before my eyes" it was so so quick, but it was exactly this expression that people say before they think they're gonna die (and a part of me really died) before just suddenly standing in a theater. And "understanding" (when I say understanding, it is just because somoene is telling it to me but it is not properly sharing through sentence or with a voice) that : nothing was important. Life is like a theater, people come and left on the stage, everything die, everything come to life again, it is not important. What I think is not important. What people think are important only if I chose to give them importance. Because everything is just my entire world, and I invite and reject people and things all the time. All the time, I am building my own world. But nothing is real, everything are just things I am asking and creating, all the time. It was then followed by me, in complete darkness, with just one gold flower that was "understood" as the only flower I need in my garden, the flower of creation. And I knew I did not have to be afraid of anything. Because there is nothing to fear, just to create, I have infinite possibilities that I can create. The world is just clay, and my imagination and thoughts can give it the shape I want. I will not enter into all the details of this experience because it will be even more long. But when I opened my eyes, I saw a transparent curtain. I know that this is the most crazy part and some would chose to not believe me or to call me crazy, believe me, I told you I did not enter into meditation in a spiritual way, and I have always explained things through the power of the subconscious. And I am after all, sharing this story, 3 years after I could, finally, accepted it. I saw a transparent curtain moving in front of my eyes. Which gave my room an "unrealistic" aspect, played with it for a while. Then I burst into cries saying : I was so stupid, I lived so stupidly giving so much importance to useless things and thoughts. I cried a lot. Stand up, took my journal and wrote this big experience, even wrote, this time that I did not heard truths, I lived it, I lived the truths. Then the moment I closed my journal. It felt into me : so, now that I clean all this self, now that I know the scenario I was living is just as that, and that I can not find importance to it...What am I gonna do now...and why ? That's when the "nothing is important" hit me in a terrible way. Nothing was important, nothing. The past self just became that, a self, somoene I could watch and be "why did she do that ?" And all the things she loved faded with her, everything. I then experienced derealization and suddenly a sadness to not be able to "play life" like everyone could. I regretted this experience and wished I could just stay ignorant, and play life, love things give them importance, have desire, all of that was removed. I started to though that I lived enough, and that if reincarnation exist, I wish to not become a human again, I had enough, time started to feel slow. The weird thing is that specific thought did not come from sadness, it come from...contentment. I experienced enough and had no idea why I would "pretend". I was grateful, but as no desire to continue. One thing saved "me", my ex-boyfriend of that time, even though nothing is important, I did not want to hurt people, to make them sad, so I decided to carry on, not for my self, but for others, but it was terribly hard to become "somoene" so while struggling one day I said really loud : "if I am not be able to "experience" life again, I will be better dead, so universe better help me on this". And I do not know if this survival instinc that woke up, but I found strength to build a self, understand the importance of the ego and slowly but surely, take pleasure as to be a human on earth, it started with really tiny things, take pleasure in food, seeing nature, then laughing etc...slowly I understood. Nothing is important so I can chose more freely. So I chose what self I wanted, what things I wanted to experience and really return in the play of life. I even worry sometimes again, about not important things. I did not read what I wrote for years. It was a trauma, sure I was enjoying things more freely but it was still a trauma. I had a nihilistic vision of things and the super excited young person curious about "what is the mind" died. I was not exciting about it. But one experience made me though about it few months ago, and read it again. Then I cried, read that I did not just wrote the experience but also all the step and rules to follow to become free, to create etc... Things I read just a week before in another book and found. Even my clay metaphor, my power of the imagination, what is the role of other people in this play etc...Everything was there, but I forgot. Most importantly, I did not even try to practice it. Me who saw a curtain, I was still doubting what I experienced, and stop at the "nothing is important". So today, after months of trying to living through those truths, doubt hit me again. I decided to open my journal again to read what I wrote 3 years ago. And put it out to the world, kinda to say to my brain "I am not coming back" I know this was a long text, and maybe you will judge it as a text from a crazy person. It is not important. I will delete this post in the future, when I will feel that I will have to share it from a better place, a place of confidence and to maybe help people like me, that doubt. Poisson [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 12:07 AM PST Namaste fellow meditators! Wishing everyone a Very Peaceful and Happy New Year! So I need some guidance for choosing a technique to meditate. I struggle with chronic depression and anxiety. I tried many meditation techniques since childhood but never been consistent with practice. Past few years meditating gave me negative effects like severe intrusive and obsessive thoughts, flashbacks whenever I close my eyes and sit through meditation. I always hear people changing their lives positively by meditating for years , so many benefits to physical, mental and emotional health. I always felt like missing out on something. Now this year I want to restart with the practice on my own. So what meditation technique you recommend for a beginner struggling with intrusive thoughts? I'm planning on starting small like 10 mins each morning. Also any tips to stop the obsessive thoughts, wandering mind and lack of focus during the practice, will be greatly appreciated! Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Why religion and why meditation? Posted: 04 Jan 2021 12:02 AM PST For example,Earlier, we used to drink and enjoy pleasures. We were attached to drinking and enjoying pleasures. Then , we acquired some information. Felt guilt. So, left it. Felt like freedom from those attachments? Right. No. Further ahead in the example, the guilt lead us to religion. Now, we enjoy going to church and attending religious activities. We are now attached to religion and religious activities. We are still in maze of attachments We are still in bondage It is not enlightenment/freedom/ state of 24/7 bliss independent of anything/anyone Now, what will happen? As the attachment happens to the ones in their mind and bodies, they get attached to other things as well. Why? Because that's the nature of mind. It keeps changing its interests and objects/subjects of interest. And that's why you see the most illegal and abusive things happening to children,women,men in many such religious places. Nobody requires citations for this. Internet is filled with scandals of extreme nature at churches/other religious places. If you are in your mind and body most of the time, you will sometimes become saint and you will sometimes become sinner, in variable proportions. Because mind is nothing but the phenomena of change. And if you are unaware, you will not get to know when you are saint and when the sinner That's a dangerous situation for society. So, we made rules of social and personal conduct. Congratulations, you just learned the basic concept behind laws and legal systems. And what happened with that, just open up any good news website and see. I absolutely love and respect Jesus Christ. I haven't met him but I've heard great things about him. The kind of things he did, and helped and loved so many people. It deserves respect for sure. The path of Jesus Christ is the path of surrender. You surrender your good,bad everything to him. And attain calm. How? You've told him everything and now he will guide you. It takes the stress off your head. It feels good. As you see more and more magical things happening, you stop identifying too much with the mind ,anymore. You just receive his blessings and just follow that. That's a great state. Because now you don't care much about mind and body. You just accept what he does. I will not get into how Jesus Christ does it. That will be too much for now. I love and respect you and Jesus Christ and all of us. Let's pick a great device to transcend/meditation/path and do it. That will be better than everything else. That will be permanent. That will be good for all of us. Together we learn, together we grow. We sail together, we sink together Much love and peace to you Note: I replied this to a beautiful soul. Modified and made this post. Thank you [link] [comments] |
| When you have nothing left to hold onto, you start floating. Posted: 03 Jan 2021 07:12 PM PST I've caught fleeting glimpses of these feelings. Meditation takes eternal vigilance!! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 01:53 AM PST Meditation simply makes the monkey mind into a monk, it stops the mind from bombarding us with thoughts. Thoughts will create fear, stress, worry, anxiety. Therefore meditation stills the mind, it makes us introspect, it gives us peace, and so our mood is peaceful. It is also good for our health because the entire body works in a calmer fashion. Otherwise, there is anxiety in the body, and this affects not just the mind but also various organs of our body. Meditation is the solution not just for contemplation and for peace but for realization of the Truth, for overcoming ignorance and for attaining the ultimate goal of enlightenment and of liberation. [link] [comments] |
| Combining Meditation and Journaling Posted: 03 Jan 2021 04:44 PM PST Hello and Happy New Years! Hope all of your holidays have been great! I'm currently building an app that combines Journaling and Mediation, and wanted to get your insights! If you could please help me by answering a survey that I created I would greatly appreciate it! https://forms.gle/fUY4h9LFCbp3Tjtx8 If you have any questions, please let me know! Wishing all your Present Moments are happy :) [link] [comments] |
| Meditation has no limit and no end Posted: 03 Jan 2021 02:34 PM PST this post has no purpose other than wanting to share and maybe inspire. I used to think meditation was done a proper way. Over time i realized There is no correct way, just what you like and what works for you. here's a few practices i do often: transcendental subconscious reprograming and thought deconstruction relaxation gratitude visualizing/motivational goal oriented. breath/ sustained focus exercises. so much more fun when you don't limit yourself, and also a LOT more rewarding and beneficial. [link] [comments] |
| I just had one of my best meditation experience and I want to share! Posted: 03 Jan 2021 02:15 PM PST So, obviously I'm going to tell it to my boyfriend right after when we'll play video games together lol, but I think I want to share this with people that meditate too. I am one that is not consistant with meditation. I am one that wants to do it so so so much, that reads everything she can find about it, that sets up daily reminders to do it, but that always find an excuse not to do it. "I have something else to do", "I have to study", "my boyfriend is asleep next to me, so I gotta cuddle him, I can't meditate"... you get the picture. But, tonight, when my boyfriend told me on the phone "I'm coming back in an half hour", I said, I'm going to meditate. Yes, I had other things to do, like drawing stickers, trying to learn some kalimba, or even scroll through reddit. But I decided to meditate. I chose a great guided meditation, sat on my bed, closed my eyes. This meditation is made to calm and quiet your mind, and to increase the sense of peace. I did well on the first part, getting sometimes distracted by thoughts, but focusing back on my breath, on my body. Then, the second part was something like "feel the love". The person said to picture something or someone you deeply love, that opens your heart, so I thought immediately of my boyfriend. Then, with her instructions, the coolest thing happened: I felt love physically. It's so weird, it's like the feeling was not abstract, like it was some kind of gas spreading slowly in my body, and even out. I felt the feeling spreading from my chest to my hands to my thighs to my knees, and so on. Also, I visualised the feeling being pink, bright pink. I cried, smiled, and I don't know, it felt amazing. It is truly one of my best meditation experience so far, and it makes me want to keep it up seriously even more. [link] [comments] |
| Does meditation increases energy in one's body? Posted: 04 Jan 2021 02:26 AM PST Universe is made up of two things:
Every human have certain energy in himself/herself. So does meditation increases capacity of keeping energy in one's body? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:23 PM PST Hello to all. I've now achieved 20 hrs of meditation ever since I've started taking it seriously and trying to build a habit of it back in October, I consider myself intermediate in that I feel I can comprehend the basics of breathing meditation. I've used Headspace for meditating all this time and it has brought massive benefits in my day to day life. However at this moment I feel like I've hit a plateau and am even going backwards with the practice, I've also felt that the courses and the guidance offered by Headspace are restricting me to a specific agenda and are preventing me from going deeper into the practice. While meditating I also feel like now I'm creating a ficticious focus and am actually letting my thoughts run rampant at a deeper level that I don't even realize it anymore. I'd like to ask for advice in new ways to meditate and/or deepen the practice and also counsel if you've had a similar experience. I appreciate your time to read this and hope you all have a mindful and happy life. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2021 04:24 PM PST Fear. It can easily consume our minds and body. Fear, over financial, food, our business, our safety, our health etc., there are many things that fear can try and consume and overwhelm us with. WE MUST BE CONSCIOUS AND ALLOW OURSELVES TO CONNECT WITH THE EXTERNAL & OUT OF OUR PERSONAL SELF. Connecting with God, Jesus, Higher Power, the Universe, Source, Divine Energy etc., you name it. Fear has always been a problem with me, fear of someone else's opinion, fear of my safety, fear of how I will make it through; anxiety, depression and many things that can be connected to fear, until I started meditating daily, until I started praying daily, writing gratitude lists daily, being in nature daily; the divine energy that I was given and now am given daily, has now allowed me to be in touch with myself, (remember I am still learning, I am still healing, I am still struggling) that it now has allowed me to be in touch with my identity, stopped the need for excessive self induced numbing and began to see the world as God and Jesus has intended for me, through Love & Light, rather than fear & illusion. It all takes time and I am grateful for it. Grateful for the pains, the sadness, the hardships, the anxiety attacks, the depression and everything in between that has now led me to creating my story. WE ALL HAVE STORIES. We must keep doing our best everyday until, we are ready to speak, or share through many different ways of mediums. Starting each day with an open mind, starting each day with knowing that today will be better than yesterday and releasing the fact of thinking what will happen tomorrow, we can constantly connect and live solely in the present. The present is where the happiness is. The present is where the peace is. The present is where the healing is. Its difficult to live in the present and then still have the same mindset that we will continue to live for another 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 years etc., but we can do it. With day to day practice and connection with the energy that is external from us. Today: Try something new. Try something that you have been wanting to for the past little while. Try something that is causing fear or anxiety on your life. Try something that even if you don't know, deep down you know its the right step for you; starting a business, writing poetry, making art, having a conversation with someone etc., thats up to you to decide what to do but I know and I believe in you, that you will get it done. I love you. Drey <3 [link] [comments] |
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| Does anyone else feel like caffeine makes them overly ambitious? Posted: 03 Jan 2021 03:16 PM PST I've noticed over the past little while that in the mornings when I have a couple cups of coffee I not only have a surge of energy (expected) but I become far more materialistic and ambitious (unexpected). Meditation seems to temper the feeling but it is still very noticeable. Later on in the day I find I lose that zealous desire and feel far more balanced. I enjoy the lack of ego, desire, and materialism that comes with losing that ambitiousness. Has anyone else made any similar observations? I'm going to give up coffee/caffeine for the next week or so and monitor what difference it makes but it would be interesting to hear if anyone else has experienced this. [link] [comments] |
| My body is weak and I struggle finding a maintainable posture Posted: 04 Jan 2021 01:36 AM PST My zafu is too hard on my butt, so I can't last much on it. Sitting on a chair requires strength on the back and legs. I start shaking and can't maintain a posture either. I tried sitting on the ground, with legs fully streched and back touching wall. This constricts breathing as the belly is too bent, so it isn't maintainable also. The only other position I can think of is fully laying on a yoga mat, but that brings the risk of falling asleep. Looking from an outside perspective, I realize I only seem to be complaining, but even if it isn't believed, at times our body is sick and is not able to do things in the usual way. Appreciate any help. [link] [comments] |
| Meditating upright is quite uncomfortable. Posted: 03 Jan 2021 09:49 PM PST I've been a slouched all my life. Can't I just lean back in a recliner and meditate? How important is posture? [link] [comments] |
| Guided or individual meditation? Posted: 04 Jan 2021 01:14 AM PST Hi, everyone. I've been using guided meditations for a year or two, and I was wondering what you think about them, and if I should try meditating without any guide. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2021 07:10 PM PST I've been trying to get on a consistent meditation routine and I find that if I miss a day, it becomes insanely difficult to get back on the wagon. What are some ways I can help myself work past that block and build a better routine? [link] [comments] |
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