Meditation: Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. - Patanjali |
- Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. - Patanjali
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| My one and only gripe with meditation advice... Don't time yourself!! Posted: 20 Jan 2021 06:44 PM PST Everyone always says to meditate everyday, and to meditate for longer. It's always more, more, more... Sometimes less is best! Meditation is not a chore or a job. Let curiosity and interest guide your journey into meditation. You may find you only need to meditate a certain amount of time, if at all! You make the rules. Listen, observe, and reflect. Happy meditating! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jan 2021 10:58 PM PST While wandering through reddit, a post caught my eye and reminded me of this: An elderly once told a story to his grandson, "There were two wolves fighting an endless battle in my heart. One wolf is cunning, greedy and wrathful, while the other is kind, resourceful and benevolent." The grandson then asked, "which of the two wins, grandpa?" And the elderly said, "the one I feed" I hope this could remind us all to "feed" the wolf that we need most. Have a great day! ☺ [link] [comments] |
| how much time is ideal for meditation? how much time one should meditate? Posted: 21 Jan 2021 12:10 AM PST |
| Posted: 20 Jan 2021 01:28 PM PST Hey guys, I hope you are well. Yesterday I tried Wim Hof breathing for the first time and to be perfectly honest, I feel their's something really quite amazing about it. I must say that I feel genuinely content and joyful, all from the breath. Whilst this may initially sound a small deal, the fact that a ten minute guided breath session can have such an emotional component to it to me is astonishing. I feel like the stress that stops me from doing the things I need to do withers into nothingness. If you haven't already give it a try. [link] [comments] |
| Head vibrating and spinning after meditation? Posted: 21 Jan 2021 12:43 AM PST I did 10 minutes of meditation just focusing on my breath and afterwards my head felt really heavy and it felt like lots of vibrations in my head, kind of uncomfortable. Felt a little disorientated too. Why is this? [link] [comments] |
| On Light (aka awareness, attention, sati, Mind, The Thing) Posted: 20 Jan 2021 06:15 PM PST LightIt's attention. The Buddhists call it Mind (capital M) or awareness. The Pali term for it is sati. Some call it The Thing. I like Light. It's like the beam of a flashlight in a dark room. Where it shines you see. Where it doesn't shine you don't see. You direct your Light at experience-stuff. Sights, sounds, thoughts, feelings etc. Right now it's directed at the visual phenomenon of these words on this screen, and at your thoughts about these words. Light is what you concentrate when you concentrate. When you get distracted it's what gets yanked around. Light is mostly under the control of habit and desire. It's tricky. It's formless. Like a cloud or a blob of water. It can take all kinds of shapes and move all kinds of ways. It's what we manipulate in meditation. [link] [comments] |
| What's Mindfulness? I'm confused Posted: 20 Jan 2021 04:18 PM PST People on the subreddit are really empathatic and its amazing to read what people observe when they meditate to accomplish whatever they want from life but there is this concept everyone talks about which is mindfulness is it just focusing on your body and brain and being mindful of whats going on in and around you or is some sort of book/app? This is my first post on this subreddit and following this subreddit for like a day. [link] [comments] |
| I've decided to write a book about what I learn from my meditations. Posted: 20 Jan 2021 07:52 PM PST I will write a section about how a person's attitude should be in life. This step is the real beginning. It comes before meditation or any activity in life. Yes, I am doing this. [link] [comments] |
| Book suggestions on meditation/ the non-dual state? Posted: 20 Jan 2021 10:50 PM PST Hi everyone. I'm a heavy reader and was wondering if anyone had suggestions on the above topics. I recently finished "Wherever You Go There You Are" by Jon Kabatt-Zinn. I found it extraordinarily refreshing to see a medical professional's point of view. I would prefer an author who has a scientific background. Although I wouldn't mind if they didn't. As long as the author doesn't claim mystical hoo-ha without any clear reasoning. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 20 Jan 2021 05:23 PM PST When I was a teenager I would meditate semi-regularly and got quite comfortable with it except one day I got in too deep too fast and scared myself. It felt like falling into my own body without any control. As someone with control issues, this turned me off from meditating at all. Now that I'm in my 20's, I've been working on myself and my spirituality and I know that the next step is healing myself via meditation. A few nights ago I tried to do a past life regression meditation and it went well for the most part, however, I felt anxious the entire time as I had my eyes closed. I couldn't shake the feeling you'd get as a child hiding under the covers afraid to peek out into your dark bedroom. I really want to help myself heal and move forward from my traumas but it's hard when relaxing feels like a trap in itself. I struggle to relax outside of meditation as well and tend to constantly busy myself with tasks to avoid downtime. When I do try to relax I feel as though I'm being lazy and I bully myself for being unproductive. Any advice or anything of the like would be appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2021 12:20 AM PST The few times I have mediated have been great. I'm really good at it actually. The problem is that I never feel like doing it. It's so hard for me to stop what I'm doing and sit down and do nothing. I always wanna put it off until "later" which never comes. What can I do? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation becoming difficult? Posted: 20 Jan 2021 08:34 PM PST Hey everyone, so I've meditated on and off for a few years now, but I've made a commitment to meditating for 20 minutes every day for a month now through the headspace app. I want to practice meditation for the rest of my life, but the issue I'm facing is that I feel like it's becoming more difficult to really notice and keep track of my thoughts and emotions. I guess it's difficult because the headspace app promotes being aware of thoughts/emotions and then returning back to the present moment, but recently it has been challenging to actually apply this practice in real life. The practice itself isn't as novel and "new" in my head, so it feels like i don't put as much mental emphasis on noticing thoughts/emotions. Don't get me wrong, I feel like I'm much more mentally capable of handling thoughts and emotions with meditation, but it's difficult to hold myself to the practice throughout the day because I'll go off in thought that isn't necessarily bad in the first place. Any tips or advice for how to handle this? Am I not committed to practicing meditation concepts throughout the day? Do I need to do something differently? Or am I simply overthinking the meditation process? Thanks for the help. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 20 Jan 2021 05:53 PM PST Hello everyone, I suffer from anxiety and having anxiety throughout my days via my subconscious. I can be doing something and start feeling weird anxiety like symptoms. Reason I mentioned that is I heard meditation can help with anxiety. My only fear of meditation is losing control over my conscious or body. I've always feared people talking about out of body experiences etc.Reason why in high school I never tried shrooms/LSD..I'm scared of being detached from my body. I want to learn to meditate but get anxiety when I try because I fear I will do something that spirals me into anxiety attacks or even a mental hospital lol. Any suggestions? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jan 2021 12:21 PM PST I have been thinking about meditation in the last few weeks, and I am wondering if anyone else out there has put this out the same way as I have: When you meditate, you deprive your mind from external stimuli. When you first meditate, you can feel many things, depending on your prior lifestyle: boredom, anxiety, relaxation, peace. As you practice more and more, you realize something: your thoughts are just thoughts. When you observe them, they stop being perceived an accurate representation of reality, and start to be perceived more as reactions to what goes around you. But before that happened, thoughts weren't just thoughts. They were your reality. So what happened in between, to make them just "thoughts", and not reality? *You* happened. Something slowly came into existence, that wasn't there before. A part of your brain started to receive signals from another part of your brain, and record them. That is basically what an observation is. Over time, the part of your brain that tunes into the rest of your brain becomes better and better at it, and its record grows and grows. Let's call it the "Observer". The Observer slowly creates a map of your mind, the inner world. It starts to recognize patterns, and begins to make deductions about the outer world, based on their effect on the inner world. As the Observer grows, it also starts to realize that some of the concepts about one's self are subjective, and disconnected from the biological reality of the body and the physical reality of the outer world, in that moment. As the Observer realizes these ungrounded concepts, they are already dissolved. The only thing that caused all this was one simple act of deprivation. Literally *nothing* was required for the individual's brain to completely restructure itself, gain awareness, and move to a position of higher stability and peace. The Observer did not exist before meditation. It was meditation which *created* the Observer. After meditation, a new entity comes into existence in the human mind---one that is more connected to the rest of the mind, to the body, and to the outer world. That is what is meant by "finding yourself" in the spiritual context. But that is a misdirection---the self mentioned here did *not* exist *before* meditation. And it was not exactly "creation" either, because that implies a *creator*, and the Observer cannot create itself before it exists. It is more like an ongoing bootstrapping. It is not binary---there is no exact moment when the Observer is 100% fully matured. The best analogy is birth. The Observer is *born* into the mind continuously, ever expanding and ever recording. You don't "find" yourself through meditation. You give birth to your *self* through meditation, over and over. [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone else constantly have to tell themselves "it's okay" during sessions? Posted: 20 Jan 2021 01:46 PM PST Hi everyone! I used to meditate a lot when I was younger, but got sick and fell out of practice a number of years ago and have since developed ADHD that's made it very difficult to stay focused and still through a session. All I've been able to feel when I meditate recently is the pull of everything outside my mind; my phone, people walking around the house, light itches, work. When I lose track of my practice and my thoughts wander like this, I have an unintended mantra of telling myself "it's okay" to just sit and exist. "It's okay" has become something of a short breath for me that brings me back into focus, even if it's just for a short time before I have to think "it's okay" again. I've been trying to go for about 10 minutes a day, and I'm struggling mightily even with that little bit. I feel like I'm saying "it's okay" so many times, partially as an indication of how many times my mind wanders completely and partially as a marker of how much work I have to do on my practice, that I'm starting to get a little discouraged. I'm not going to stop, though I know 5-10 minutes a day is pretty minuscule in terms of benefit, because I'm determined to deepen my practice, clear my mind, and go for longer periods. I suppose I'm not really looking for advice or anything, I just wanted to share and could use some words of strength. The hardest thing about this for me, since picking meditation back up, has been persevering through what feels like a number of useless sessions even though I know they aren't useless. My mind just feels extremely foggy and far gone right now and it's been extremely challenging trying to break the mold. I hope you're all well and safe! [link] [comments] |
| How to Concentrate if I have Chronic Daily Temple Tension Posted: 20 Jan 2021 07:42 PM PST Is it better to have an equinaity with the pain and try to concentrate and just feel the pain or is better to try to take my attention off the pain to concentrate if I am trying to listen to someone talk or watch a movie? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jan 2021 04:48 PM PST That's me. For those reasons, I've found meditation particularly frustrating-- but useful-sounding. My main goal is to practice and develop attention and focus, so I'm better able to direct my attention as I desire instead of getting distracted. I'd also like to slow down my racing thoughts. I find that my thoughts are very verbal and sort of auditory, for whatever that's worth. My main form of meditation lately has been closing my eyes, focusing on my breathing, and redirecting my attention when I catch my thoughts straying. Seems good for attention/focus, but I sometimes find my breathing to be a tricky thing to focus on, as a) it's intermittent and b) it's affected by me being conscious of it. I've wondered if I might be better off focusing on a specific visual, or maybe even something that incorporates sounds so I can practice focusing on the sounds I'm hearing instead of just my inner monologue. Any thoughts? And thanks in advance for any suggestions! [link] [comments] |
| How do I start liking meditation? Posted: 20 Jan 2021 02:00 PM PST 16 year old here, I've always had a hard time incorporating meditation into my daily routine, I usually just end up skipping it in the morning because I don't feel like doing it, and the times I do it I feel like I'm just doing it wrong and its un motivating [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jan 2021 12:35 PM PST The first part of the book builds up the position for insight meditation which is also explained. The last part of "The Fundamentals of Meditation Practice" is a glossary of Buddhist terms used in the book. The book is in the Public Domain, download the free PDF here: [link] [comments] |
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