Meditation: "You're all God in disguise, Jesus found that out and they crucified him for saying so." - Alan Watts |
- "You're all God in disguise, Jesus found that out and they crucified him for saying so." - Alan Watts
- Meditation has improved my mind-muscle connection while exercising, leading to more efficient workouts !
- Who am I?
- You'll never live the same moment twice.
- A release of negative emotions while meditating
- This world robs us of our conscious awareness by:
- Livestream #2 – “Being happy in a prison” - Sunday 19:00 CET
- How to change your natural state
- any meditations that are effective, safe and clear the mind?
- I’m starting to lose faith in meditation. please don’t condemn me, just help.
- Negative thoughts still running
- How to manage dramatic change ?
- Does ALPHA MUSIC help for Meditation ?
- Discord Server for all Starseeds! �� ���������� ���������� �� ����������
- Meditation/ OBE/ REM Discord Server!
- Opinions on Headspace: Guide to Meditation on Netflix
- Do you guys force yourselves into calm on those moments you just can't focus?
- I am doing a 30 Days of Meditation Challenge, please join me!
- Help - Monkey mind adapts
- Is meditation for five minutes enough ?
- I wrote a post earlier about labeling thoughts and feelings to help release them. I was wrong.
- How do you know you’re meditating ?
- I Feel like I am back on level 0
- When i started to meditate i used to feel a lot of energy on my body
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| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 08:57 AM PST I have been meditating (fairly consistently) over the last 2 years now. I had started meditation to mainly deal with constant feelings of anxiety and trauma from the past. While I am certainly seeing improvements in these areas, one of the unexpected benefits I am seeing is improvements in my workouts ! Instead of crazily and aimlessly pumping out reps, I realized I am now able to actually feel the muscles working while doing the workouts. So every rep feels more meaningful now as I am able to focus on my breath better, be more aware of how much my muscles are working at every rep which eventually leads to more efficient workouts. I don't know if this is what they call "mind-muscle" connection. It has also improved my form on certain exercises like squats which I previously was doing with poor form, even though I theoretically knew what the correct form was, but wasn't aware that I was executing it incorrectly. Simply being more aware made a huge difference. I am not a "gains" person or anything like that, I just workout to keep myself fit and active, but I feel like meditating has helped me get more out of a workout now than I previously would. Wishing you all a happy new year and more happy meditation stories this year ! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2021 02:06 AM PST The Divine is nothing different. It's just you. Like you are a reflection of it, it's a reflection of you. For example, today you got up at the right time. Feeling blessed and relaxed. You decide to plant a Lincoln Gem Cactus. It's a beautiful plant. You initiate action and plant it. And it flowers. Just like you took this body and shared wisdom with us. So, your will came into existence. It's a way. Then, sometimes you head to the pot. And see some weeds growing. The difference between a flower and a weed is judgment. But let's call it weeds for this example. And the weeds are growing. Getting longer in length and blossoming in their own way. But you didn't intend for them. So you enjoy. Enjoy the will of the universe. You let go and let it be. That's a great way too. I don't need to give examples for the moments when you will but it doesn't happen. The wise ones can use the 2 examples above and know it's applicable in all permutations and combinations. But the divine is everywhere. Every moment. So, it keeps bleeding it's essence everywhere. So, if you follow a little more physics, you know. Even to this moment, we are not able to establish whether a particle is wave or matter. Because In different experiments, it exhibits one of these 2 natures. Sometimes the phenomena can be explained only by assuming it as a wave. Sometimes the phenomena can be explained only by assuming it as a matter. You are freewill and you are divine will too. Interchanging every moment. Sometimes you will and do your things. Sometimes the divine will and does things. You see it all. Take a day off. Will 10 things and take action. Some follow you to completion, some follow the divine to seeming incompletion. But the truth is one. What are you then? The ever changing or the ever constant? Don't think. Live this day. Tell me later. Much love and peace to you Note: I replied this to a beautiful soul. Found it worth sharing and made this post. Thank you [link] [comments] |
| You'll never live the same moment twice. Posted: 06 Jan 2021 02:33 PM PST Today it hit me. I finally understood with all my being what the concept of impermanence really means. Working on my meditation practice led me to become curious about meditation and language learning : How and why it can improve learning a foreign language. Surprisingly I was expecting this video I found to be talking about meditation enhancing learning capabilities in general but I found the opposite. This random dude on the internet talked about how he got so good at speaking Japanese after living in japan and studying for many years to finding himself loosing a lot of his "fluency" after coming back to the US and not using Japanese for half a decade. Learning a language is in fact just like any goal we can have for ourselves. We are aiming to get on top of the mountain hoping that being there satisfies us. When that finally happens, we become happy and fulfilled for a short period of time and soon become depressed because we're thinking : "what's next?" Many language learners will find themselves being nostalgic of the first moments they finally started getting good at speaking a language from a country they weren't born in. So naturally many of them want to experience this again. They switch to learning another language and start the journey all over again. Only then to become frustrated once again. Meanwhile, languages that we do not "maintain" start to fade away the more we put them on the side. And it can be a frustrating experience to be so good at something and realize that over time you got so much worse at it. But nothing lasts in this Universe. Everything dies at some point. I mean everything. I talked about language learning but the same applies to many things if not most things in life. Projecting yourself in the future, living a better moment later is such a common thing for us humans that we forget that all the happiness is here in this moment and it always will be the case. Even when we achieve our most profound dreams it's not the achievement itself that is bringing us joy, it is only the top of the iceberg. If you give it a closer look, it probably is because we finally judge that the present moment is alright thus leading to a better experience overall. Our mind stops resisting to the present moment. "I'll allow it, because I got what I wanted." Look back at your memories and find the best ones you ever experienced. You'll realize that you were present, no longer trapped in thinking about the past or hoping for a better future. Same thing goes for the past. I once saw a meme that said : "How come we didn't realize back then that these were the days. What if we're right now living something we'll look back on and say, these were the days as well?" It's most likely that there exist within you souvenirs of moments of your life you wish you could get back to and experience again. Sometimes it leaves a sense of bitterness and sadness within us. But it doesn't have to. Because you know what? You'll never live the same moment twice. Every moment is unique. The Earth keeps spinning around the Sun, giving us different seasons to experience. While it's cold, this cold will never be the same as last year or the one tomorrow. Because life is never the same and that's the beauty of it. You're constantly changing. Constantly evolving. If you were capable of looking at the very inside of your body, at a DNA level, you'll realize that even your cells change every now and then. Instead of looking back to the past wishing we could get back to experience the same thing again or change what happened, we should embrace the present moment fully, and learn to experience the whole beauty around it. Because the present moment is life! The rest is already gone or is just a product of your mind. Life is. So start living to the fullest and do not look back. Another thing about impermanence. I realized that most of my suffering originated from being attached to certain experiences. I'm a very competitive person by nature and truly hated how inconsistent I was with my performances. One day I was playing like a god and another day I was absolute trash. I always wanted to be at my best. I did everything I could. At the time I knew that I was achieving peak performance while I was completely present or most commonly referred as to "being in the zone." But I was my worst enemy. I got into a loophole. I was bashing myself for not being present which in turn didn't help at focusing myself on the present moment. I was in my head trying to use the present moment as a mean to an end. I was trying to become present to fulfill my ego driven desires. Which by the way implies time and being dissatisfied until the present circumstances fit the rock solid expectations of my mind. I was wrong the whole time. Living in the present moment isn't about living a perfect moment. It's about accepting the imperfect nature of life itself. Riding the wave of emotions, upsides and downsides. Good news and bad news. The present will vary rarely match what our mind wants. Because at the core the mind lives in time and wants to have things stay the same forever. This brings tremendous suffering. Because as I said, life always changes. I was also fooled by my own mind when I kept going with my meditation practice. I achieved states I thought weren't possibly. I experienced bliss, peace and contentment. I was so attached to experience these states once again that it created a lot of suffering when I wasn't able to. I even took breaks from meditating because I thought I was doing something wrong. I wasn't doing anything wrong. In fact it was the total opposite. The act of meditating is one of acceptance. Of whatever you may be feeling either emotionally, mentally or physically. It isn't about being at peace all the freaking time. In turn acceptance opens the way for peace to come in. Quite a paradox. I never found peace by looking for it, it always came naturally as I accepted my unpleasant feelings and aches present in my body. So whatever you're feeling right now, this too shall pass. There will be days where you will be able to feel amazing after meditating and others where you can't concentrate and have your mind and emotions go all over the place. That is fine. Keep meditating everyday. You'll never regret meditating even if you are still upset after getting up and going on with your day. This moment will never be the same. That is why you learn to appreciate it and accept it as it is. We're all the same and at the same time so unique. Do not compare your meditation practice, mine or those of others because they're not you. Everything that comes up when you meditate is legitimate. Every roadblock you experience is right. As long as you're sitting, closing your eyes to focus on your breath you're doing it right. [link] [comments] |
| A release of negative emotions while meditating Posted: 06 Jan 2021 01:32 PM PST I have been going through a dark night of the soul and letting myself release all of the negative emotions I've been harboring unknowingly. When I sat down to meditate just now, I let myself feel all that I've been burying, and my body started to heat up and I grew so angry and cried. I don't know if anyone needs to hear this, but don't hold onto those types of emotions. Let yourself feel them. I am feeling better though not best. Thanks for reading. [link] [comments] |
| This world robs us of our conscious awareness by: Posted: 06 Jan 2021 06:22 PM PST making us take things way to seriously, being stuck in the past, being ruled by our emotions and the fear of being criticized. If you don't already know our conscious awareness is one of our most powerful tool in this life. Being in full control of it opens us up to receive the infinite cosmic energy from the universe. Did he just say infinite? Yes, and you can see how this energy truly is by noticing how every second we get a new opportunity to change our state of being, point of view, and mental state. Did he just say cosmic energy!? Yes I did, and on the energetic side you can observe this cosmic energy inside of you when you get goosebumps from watching inspiring movies, listening to moving or exciting music, feeling eager, thinking about someone you love and more. I've found many names for this energy like Spiritual chills, Euphoria, Voluntary goosebumps, Ecstasy, Prana, Chi, Qi, Vayus, Aura, Mana, Life force, Pitī, Rapture, Ruah, Ether, Nephesch, Chills, Goosebumps and many more. If you want to learn how to really tap into this energy here's a YouTube video for you. On a less deeper side, you can open yourself up to it by: Letting go of all the baggages from your past, Not taking everything so seriously, Stop letting yourself be ruled by your Emotions (mind over matter) And by not blocking yourself from living life because of the fear of criticism from others. One or all of these things combined will take away all of your power that you have from the now, your present. [link] [comments] |
| Livestream #2 – “Being happy in a prison” - Sunday 19:00 CET Posted: 07 Jan 2021 02:51 AM PST I still want to pass on what I learned about how to live a fulfilled life, so here's round 2. Feel free to ask anything, i'm very willing to this being interactive, so when there's real questions and difficulties, share them. Maybe the topics this time are:
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| How to change your natural state Posted: 07 Jan 2021 02:49 AM PST Hello everyone, I'm recently recovering from 5 years of a chronic anxiety disorder. I've been meditating for 3 years and a few weeks ago, essentially managed to dive deep into the cause of my anxiety and fix the problems. This was enhanced by the effects of cannabis - I'm finding the combination of cannabis and meditation to be extremely powerful for me. It was almost like an ego death. Right now, a few weeks later, I still feel as though I died that night and was reborn a new person. Anyway, so here's my question. Now that I'm recovering from my anxiety and definitely becoming a more aware and spiritual person (I thought I was before, but it's amazing how the lack of anxiety can amplify that feeling ten fold) I am noticing how much pain my body is in. When I enter my meditation and check in with my body, I can literally feel the tears in my back muscles, as well as in my chest and abdomen. It feels as though this pain is being caused by my body attempting to heal the 5 years of tissue damage caused by chronic tension. When I'm awake I'm able to allow my body to relax so that these pains evaporate. However, I'm noticing that I always wake up with a tight chest, tight back and tight abdomen. I always need to get myself back into the correct state (if you will) after waking. My question to you is: how am I able to stay in this relaxed state and make it a permanent part of my life? Is it just a case of continuing with what I'm doing and then eventually it'll become my normal state of being? I feel like the pain I'm experiencing in the morning is a hangover from my body's default state of fight or flight over the years. After waking up, I'm needing to allow my mind to realise that anxiety isn't the standard operating level of my body anymore. I want my mind to realise this on its own and not put me back into "anxiety mode" whilst I sleep. Let me know what you think and feel free to ask further questions. 😊 [link] [comments] |
| any meditations that are effective, safe and clear the mind? Posted: 07 Jan 2021 02:34 AM PST my 4 second in, 4 second out method has been working very well. although, i feel tingles around the five minute mark and they keep increasing. i hear the tingles are hyperoxia and may cause injury to the lens of the eye, lungs, heart, brain and gastrointestinal tract. it may also induce seizures. does anybody know a meditation thats effective, safe and clears the mind? i may need to be meditating multiple times a day. [link] [comments] |
| I’m starting to lose faith in meditation. please don’t condemn me, just help. Posted: 06 Jan 2021 11:35 AM PST I just want it to stop, my mind. I've been doing this for years and my mind is still monkeying. I still have anxiety. I still have ADHD. I still get anxious so often. I still struggle to sleep. I no longer know what the purpose of meditation is supposed to be. "It will help you unlock your brain power." "It allows you to declutter your mind." "Meditation isn't about bring out a better version of you. It's not even about benefitting you. It's simply about awareness." I watch eckhart tolle videos about presence in order to avoid the present moment and dream about a future in which I am enlightened the way he appears to be. I still meditate. But I no longer know why and I'm starting to think it's not worth it. I do 40 minute to 1 hour meditations sometimes. The longest I've done is two hours (though i've only done that once or twice). I get masses of work to do as a college student, but I tell myself meditation and living in the present is more important because the work is so overwhelming and I can't focus most of the time. "If I become present, i will get better at doing what I do." is what i say, and yet no matter what I am not present. Sometimes I feel like I'm wrong and that I should not have spent so much wasted time meditating. I should have stayed on my grind. I should have stuck with the hustler mentality. Sometimes I feel like all the people who meditate and believe it to be the solution are simply indulging themselves - Making non-falsifiable claims about meditation that cannot be verified nor proven wrong. That people like those on this subreddit are talking about meditation positively even though they themselves rarely live in the present moment. Striving for something that is unachievable - falsely believing they can beat their anxiety in a world that demands us to be anxious. Listening to gurus and businessmen pedalling meditation who for all we know might be full of shit. Believing that the mind is the root of our problems, not our social systems. Secularising meditation and ignoring its religious context in order to fetishisize it. ^ All of what I've written above, these are the fears I have. The thoughts and doubts about meditation that I've always tried to shed away. But they're there. I posted this because I know people will do everything they can to dispel my doubt - to tell me why what I've said in this post is bullshit. And that's what I want. Because I wanna believe it's helping me, but I still feel so anxious. My mind is still frequently not at peace. Most importantly, I can almost never focus on my work. Please tell me where I'm going wrong. Is it okay to doubt? Do you sometimes have these doubts but simply except them for what they are and continue meditating? Are some of these criticisms of meditation well-founded? [link] [comments] |
| Negative thoughts still running Posted: 06 Jan 2021 07:50 PM PST I have been practicing meditation for a few days now and I still seem to get negative thoughts while trying to quiet my mind. Typically, how long does it take to gain complete or near silence? Is it normal to have floating thoughts during meditation? [link] [comments] |
| How to manage dramatic change ? Posted: 07 Jan 2021 01:30 AM PST I will be brief though this has been a long journey. So, lately I have been having fairly intense experiences. I feel that the materialist / physicalist grounding that I had to the world is now dissolving ~ simply put my older worldview is under threat of dissolving. Although, this has been bought on by a series of deep insights over the years, I feel that this is all hitting me up too rapidly now. I feel more at ease with the world than I have ever been but I am terrified of this. Of this change. I worry if I am bullshitting myself inadvertently. I acknowledge that it's quite possible. I don't know how to place this experience. This is so ordinary yet so out of the world. This is like getting deeply in touch with yourself and losing yourself at the same time. Just wanted to share. Thanks for reading. [link] [comments] |
| Does ALPHA MUSIC help for Meditation ? Posted: 07 Jan 2021 01:04 AM PST What do you know guys about these Alpha Music for meditation ? Does it do any good ? [link] [comments] |
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| Meditation/ OBE/ REM Discord Server! Posted: 06 Jan 2021 08:49 PM PST Hello everybody! I'm stopping by in this subreddit to drop a small invite link for a brand new Discord server that's born to spread a little bit of knowledge! We would like to speak about Meditation, Out of body experiences and.. why not? Even about REM phases :) I hope to see you there! Namastè ✨ [link] [comments] |
| Opinions on Headspace: Guide to Meditation on Netflix Posted: 06 Jan 2021 08:08 AM PST I have recently devoted time out of my day to meditate and bring myself back to the present. I'm also focusing on personal growth in reducing anxiety and being more productive with my energy at the start and end of the day. Often times I would mindlessly watch shows on Netflix out of boredom, but upon searching there is this new one season series on meditation. With my new habit of meditation I decided to venture into watching one episode a day. (only on episode 3) In my opinion it seems productive. The guide is Andy Puddicombe speaking if you wanted to look more into him. The structure of each episode starts with an explanation for the type of meditation work he will be focusing on. Then tips and analogies that help structure that and lessons he has learned while being a monk. Then it's wrapped up in a guided meditation at the end pertaining to what you learned throughout the episode. I'm curious if anyone has started it and what your opinion is on it? For the experienced meditators, how beneficial do you all see it being for beginners? Side note: I love the illustration and animation of it too. [link] [comments] |
| Do you guys force yourselves into calm on those moments you just can't focus? Posted: 06 Jan 2021 05:53 PM PST I've been meditating regularly in almost a year but there's always a day where I just can't reach it, no matter what time is it. Thoughts come and go so hard and fast while meditating and I feel I'm just more aware of them. I know that's not necessarily bad but I feel a bit frustrated. When this happens I normaly wait until next day and try again, what do you guys do? [link] [comments] |
| I am doing a 30 Days of Meditation Challenge, please join me! Posted: 06 Jan 2021 10:17 AM PST I have seen so many benefits from meditation (Calmer, more centered, more grounded, less reactive, more joyful, more aware of our interconnectedness) that I want to share my journey and experiences. I started with 2 minutes on Day 1 (January 1) and I am adding 2 minutes every day until we hit an entire hour of meditation by Jan 30. Now that I have breached the 10 minute mark, I wanted to invite everyone on this subreddit to join me. Today is Day 6 with 12 minutes of meditation. Tomorrow will be Day 7 with 14 Minutes of meditation, etc. I personally really start to feel the magic of meditation after the 10 minute mark. These are not guided meditations. These are just timers with a calm drone. I feel like silence is the best guide. Here is the link to today's meditation: Thanks for checking it out. I truly believe that everything that we are searching for, everything that we feel that we are missing in our lives (peace, self-love, compassion, joy) can be found within and that the way there is through meditation. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 07:51 PM PST I've had a recurring obstacle I cannot seem to move past on my own, despite various attempts over the years. This is hard to explain using words, so please bear with me. Every time I learn a new way of understanding and applying mindfulness, it works wonders for a few weeks. Once my chattering mind gets too "used to it", it becomes immune to mindfulness, and I will have to find another way to "inspire myself" with a fresh understanding though a new book, article or audio. I have been meditating consistently for years with some humble progress but this by far has been a recurring hurdle. I want to stop relying on external inspiration to overcome the adaptation of the monkey mind. I really hope I clearly expressed this problem. Can anyone shed any insight or means to end this "arms race" between my monkey mind and my conscious mind? [link] [comments] |
| Is meditation for five minutes enough ? Posted: 06 Jan 2021 03:54 PM PST I am interested in cultivating mindfulness in my daily life. My question is this: is meditating for five minutes enough to see improvements in mindfulness? Or do I need to do more and practice mindfulness throughout the day? [link] [comments] |
| I wrote a post earlier about labeling thoughts and feelings to help release them. I was wrong. Posted: 06 Jan 2021 07:26 PM PST It turns out that utilizing words to label my fleeting thoughts, verbalizing them, is to engage with them at a level removed from reality. Language is a poor symbolic intermediary between me and reality, and I am now trying to vanquish words from my fleeting thoughts and my reactions to them. [link] [comments] |
| How do you know you’re meditating ? Posted: 06 Jan 2021 10:43 PM PST So I've recently been listening 432hz and meditating for 30 minutes (usually do 5 min) I lay down and Idk how long it takes but I eventually lose all sense of time and get hit with tunnels kind of weird pictures I can think the entire time and I can sense emotions/feelings? And earlier today I could see my body lying down from my eyes but they were closed and then I freaked out went back to that space and was breathing hard ? So idk if I'm meditating astral projecting or sleeping or what ? [link] [comments] |
| I Feel like I am back on level 0 Posted: 06 Jan 2021 06:52 PM PST I started meditation a month ago. I had a schedule of 20 minutes in the morning and 20 in the evening. My goal was to overall be more mindful of my surroundings and concentration. I mean concentration in the sense when you are chanting something and you want your mind to remain on the task. Type of meditation: I am doing breathing meditation. I think I made a lot of progress early on. I was more focused. I was feeling mindful. It was becoming easier and easier to concentrate on other activities like chanting etc. I had even some illuminations where I learnt that its not about focusing on your breath. It is about returning back to the breath. It all felt good. And things were working. Unfortunately I became sick. Had to stop for 2 days. Now I have been meditating again for the last 5 days but I feel like I am on 0. I don't enjoy meditation anymore. I keep my practice but I lose focus. Also the benifits in my daily life etc. have disappeared. Help!!! [link] [comments] |
| When i started to meditate i used to feel a lot of energy on my body Posted: 06 Jan 2021 10:23 PM PST But now its totally still i feel nothing, i used to meditate closing mt eyes and obaerving it, in many ocasions i tried to mess with this energy and experienced what some of you call "ego death"(only once), but now when i try to reach this it seems blurry and i cant use this energy as freely as before, it was really cool and i unfortunaly feel like im not evolving in my meditation [link] [comments] |
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