Meditation: Can we make a collective effort and list all the ways meditation changes the human brain? |
- Can we make a collective effort and list all the ways meditation changes the human brain?
- I see no improvement at all.
- Most people don't think, but thinking happens to them.
- Did I break myself in the process of awakening?
- If you think Meditation is not for you, you need to 100% Meditate.
- My formal sit down meditation practice is not transferring over to mindful awareness in my daily lifem
- Add a 2min guided meditation to any video call
- What is the opposite of thought?
- Breathing question
- I need some help
- A Question about Meditation and Introspection
- Understanding Vipassana Meditation
- Having a very hard time meditating
- Some valuable insights shared by Alan watts
- Help in lustful thoughts
- Going back home?
- Skeptical about starting meditation (should I be or not?)
- ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TANTRA
- Thinking positively only makes me think more negatively.
- Getting dizzy while meditating.
- Feeling stuck with meditation
- Buddhist Nun Emma Slade speaks about Meditation and Happiness and how can we adapt it in our distracted lives
- how can i meditate for an hour?
- A SOLUTION TO MY BLOATED SOUL. LONG STORY SHORT: MEDITATION TECHNIQUES FOR LIGHTNESS AND "COMPLETION"?
| Can we make a collective effort and list all the ways meditation changes the human brain? Posted: 25 Feb 2021 01:37 PM PST I haven't really dug deep into what the internet could offer in terms of research papers. One that I found is titled 'Rajyoga meditation induces grey matter volume changes in regions that process reward and happiness'. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73221-x I also heard about meditation changing brainwaves, and it reduces the activity of the default-mode network, etc. I think it would be great to collect all the ways it effects our brain, and how those changes benefit our daily life, to be able to (literally) raise awarness and make the practice more popular, especially amongst sceptics. Maybe there is already list like this out there. Let me know if that's the case! Thank you for your help in advance! Love&peace!(:: [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2021 12:45 AM PST I've been meditating consistently for about a month now. Fifteen minutes first thing in the morning just focusing on my breath, returning back to it if I notice my mind wandering. A month later, my mind is just as tameless as it was when I'd first started out. My mind wanders like 75% of the time (during meditation and in real life). Makes me question if this is even worth doing anymore. [link] [comments] |
| Most people don't think, but thinking happens to them. Posted: 25 Feb 2021 04:53 AM PST This isn't a judgement or put down or anything, It's just a fact. If you have a hard time accepting that then consider this: can you stop thinking when you want? and if so (which is unlikely), for how long? The truth is thinking isn't something we do, it happens to us. The thoughts that come and go in your head aren't even really yours. They're societies thoughts and your parents thoughts. That's why most people grow up to follow the religion they were raised in. When you realise all this, it becomes easier to detach from your thoughts because they aren't even yours in the first place, so why cling to them? That's why it's futile to try to force yourself to think positively, ofcourse it's better than thinking negatively but either way, you can't have positive without negative. It's simpler to just see through the illusory nature of thoughts and just remain as the awareness. [link] [comments] |
| Did I break myself in the process of awakening? Posted: 25 Feb 2021 12:34 PM PST Several months ago I began to become conscious. I realized that I had spent my whole life trying to be "somebody." I became aware of the constant lies, stories, tricks, and manipulations that my little mind uses to "protect" "me" by keeping me in the bondage of its self-concept. I started treating my mind as a loud, stubborn, fearful child. I try to keep it quiet. Sometimes it works. When it's not quiet, I try not to give effect to what it says. I try to let the words (which are often not spoken but intuited) roll away into oblivion. When the words roll away I am left with their emotional residue in my body. My practice is to give myself absolute permission to feel however I feel. That is, I give emotions free rein in my body to work out what they need to work out. I am careful not to repress, suppress, avoid, escape, hide, deflect, distract, numb, medicate, or detach from the feelings in my body. I am not perfect in this regard, but I imagine I am getting close. Over the course of these months, I have had some periods of profound presence. I have felt delicious oneness inside and (often simultaneous) connectedness with others, behind the veil, so to speak. I have felt at times ecstatic and have experienced what I would describe as rapture. However, I have also never felt so much intense fear and tension. It feels like a sickening whole body fear that goes deeper than the emotion. It feels like my body is drying out and burning almost. It's like the fear is so bad that it is breaking my body. It's like I have two modes right now-- profound peace and profound fear/pain. The fear comes when I am alone and when I am with people. When I am alone, my mind tells me that I am dying and I surrender to that. When I am with people, in addition to this sense of impending death, I feel a profound deep heavy guilt-laden fear like I am being pulled to be "somebody" that I can't be anymore. Like the personality/personalities are no longer accessible to me. Rather than feel connected I feel completely alienated. Can anyone guide me here? [link] [comments] |
| If you think Meditation is not for you, you need to 100% Meditate. Posted: 26 Feb 2021 12:04 AM PST |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 11:24 PM PST I've been meditating for a few years now for about 10-20 minutes a day. I still don't find myself being mindful throughout the day. It's hard at work when you are busy. Isn't the whole point of formal meditation practice to then train yourself to bring in mindful awareness with everything you do? How can I improve this? [link] [comments] |
| Add a 2min guided meditation to any video call Posted: 25 Feb 2021 03:35 AM PST We made a thing that lets you add a 2min meditation to your online meetings [link] [comments] |
| What is the opposite of thought? Posted: 25 Feb 2021 09:11 PM PST In my recent meditative practices, while taking walks, I've came across a unique type of phenomenon I can't really describe besides being the polar opposite of thought. I can best describe it as follows: First I have to clear out my mind to be really mindful, and then I create what I could only describe as the opposite of thought, like "negative concentration" if that makes sense, Where I first clear my mind of thoughts and then direct my mind in such a way that is similar to thought, but opposite in every way. For comparison, instead of thinking words and concepts out the frontal lobe (in terms of mental position) I think of nothing, transitioning directly into a form of to pure action with no thought in-between, the energy sort of going directly into the center of my brain instead of directly out. What I experience during this is quite an odd feeling, no words of my mind, no chatter, but moreso my mind and whatever is around it interacting directly with no middle, as if action with no thought. I've noticed animals approach me differently when I do this. Unfortunately I can currently only hold it for a few seconds at best before my chatter comes back as it makes my head feel tensed (not like a muscle, but like my hole brain is rubber that's been stretched out and held there) and hot. But I don't exactly know what it is, and I think others insight might help me build upon it further. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 07:29 PM PST How do you observe breathing without controlling breathing? It's the one thing I've had the most trouble managing in a couple years of on and off meditation. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 08:00 PM PST Ever since I started meditation and nofap I started to feel scared and more stressed it's always in my head that I did something wrong I thought it was supposed to help but it made everything worse idk what to do please someone explain why this is happening [link] [comments] |
| A Question about Meditation and Introspection Posted: 25 Feb 2021 09:26 PM PST I just recently started meditating by following the waking up app and have generally been quite enjoying it. Sam harris who narrates the guided meditation, generally asks you at different points to engage in some form of introspection. Like he might say things like "look for your head" or "look for where the thoughts are coming from". Though one thing that wasn't clear to me was whether I am supposed to engage in this introspection actively. As in am I supposed to actively think about where the thoughts may be coming from? which I would imagine involves in some cases engaging in an internal dialogue with myself about the subject. Or is it more of a passive thing (at least relatively), for example, should I be trying to widen my attention to see if something like what he is talking about appears in my consciousness or not? Or am I completely missing the point? As I understand, the app follows (at least the beginner sections) some variation of vipassana meditations. Is it normal in vipassana meditation to engage in internal dialogue or would it more likely to be a passive act of just noticing. I tried googling about the thing but nothing concrete came up, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Understanding Vipassana Meditation Posted: 25 Feb 2021 11:37 PM PST I came across this talk with Sam Harris, where he so eloquently and clearly expresses the goal of Vipassana Meditation. He also explains why Vipassana could be the most global form of meditation accepted as it is so easily exportable due to its, say, unallegiance with any religion. Personally, having read about so many different forms of meditation, I had always been confused as to which practice I should be actually following. After seeing this video, things became so much clearer for me, so much so that I wish I had seen this a few years earlier. Because I liked the talk so much, I wanted to share it with this community. Ofcourse, if there are any counter points to this talk, please let me know in the comments. I'm always trying to further my understanding of this process while building upon my practice. Thanks! Link Below Sam Harris Dan Harris Vipassana Youtube [link] [comments] |
| Having a very hard time meditating Posted: 26 Feb 2021 02:46 AM PST My anxietys been at an all time high lately, so iv decided to give meditation a go again But im having an extremely difficult time focusing on my breath/bodypart im constantly getting distracted by the feeling of my heart pounding, i cant seem to focus on anything longer than 2 seconds, my heart beating is way too distracting/discomforting All this is making me frustrated.. [link] [comments] |
| Some valuable insights shared by Alan watts Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:46 PM PST Read something a few weeks ago that Alan Watts had said. It was something to the tune of when you discover something valuable through the telescope of psychedelics or meditation don't continue to look through the telescope. Instead go and apply and live out what you've learned. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 07:40 PM PST Hi guys How can we control those lustful thoughts and get rid of masturbation through the mediation. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2021 01:23 AM PST Hello everyone, I am wondering if there is any reason why (at most times), one can feel as if wanting to go home. It is more of a feeling, than actually going somewhere. I'm not sure even if it has anything to do with the state of meditation, it just occurred one day and the only way is to accept it and live with it. Has anyone gone through similar path? Does this have to do something with being an indigo child? Or any concept like that? [link] [comments] |
| Skeptical about starting meditation (should I be or not?) Posted: 26 Feb 2021 01:10 AM PST Hi all, My uncle recommended meditation to me years ago as u have always been restless and seem to get worked up over the most trivial of things! I always considered meditation from what you see in the movies and people think they are starting it to find their "inner chi" and start levitating As of recently I am considering starting it now after reading some articles Was anyone else in the same boat as me in terms of they didn't know the effectiveness of meditation and if you did begin it, in what way did it help you?? Thanks! 🙏 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 08:57 PM PST ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TANTRA I have an ancient soul that remembers a great deal about achieving higher states through mutual orgasm with another. This post is based on a specific mediation and enlightening experience that anybody can achieve by simply following the steps and visualizing the necessary pathways of energy. Tantra focuses on the desired goal of prolonging an orgasm in order to prolong the feelings of incredible ecstasy. From the post on Sacred Sexuality I detailed that a continual state of ecstasy would allow our bodies to feel a small glimpse of what it means to exist in the fascinating highs of a Creator. From these origins I am now going to teach you how to achieve a more beneficial pathway to direct your sexual energies whilst having sex in order to promote highly powerful experiences from the moment of orgasm. With this knowledge itself, you are already beyond most teachings of commercialized forms of Tantra that solely focus on sexual relief and heightened pleasure. My technique is based upon 3 fundamental parts that come together to form what is known as Ancient Egyptian Tantra: 1) Breathing, 2) Visualization, and 3) the Physical Orgasm. This technique becomes more powerful with every time you apply its teachings, and it may be wise to learn the basics by yourself before moving on to coordinate the teachings with a partner. I have found that it is actually easier to time your own personal orgasm by yourself rather than relying on the sexual activities of your partner. I would also like to clearly state that it doesn't matter if you apply this technique between heterosexual or homosexual couples so long as one party has a predominantly masculine energy whilst the other has a predominantly feminine energy. It is completely normal to find men expressing feminine energy at its finest and vice versa.
Complete Breathing is a method used to breath with the full capacity of the lungs rather than just the top portion or bottom portion. If you would like to read more information about the correct forms of breathing, please refer to a free online book called The Science of Breath by Yogi Ramacharaka. The specific techniques on learning to breath Complete Breaths with both the bottom portion and top portion of the lungs is the most important part. Until that moment in time then just learn to time your breathing at regular intervals of 8 seconds, 10 seconds or 12 seconds. What this means is that you should practice separating your breathing into 4 parts; inhaling, holding, exhaling, holding. This practice of counting to 8 while inhaling, hold your breath for 8 seconds, exhaling to the count of 8, and then holding your negative breath for 8 seconds, will induce a greater amount of energy capture within your lungs as well as increasing your metabolic rate. I normally even start sweating by just breathing in such a certain way. You do not need to breathe in a 4-part cycle whilst performing this Ancient Egyptian Tantra, all you need to do is breathe slowly and deeply until the visualization part where you have to breathe in and hold your breath whilst visualizing the flow of energy. The 4-part cycle teaches you however to maintain your breaths whilst consciously visualizing energy patterns. I should also mention that deep and very slow breaths takes your mind off having sex and also prolongs the length of time it takes to orgasm as your mental focus is now upon a different aspect of yourself.
The most important ones to focus on for this meditation are the Root Chakra (Red), Heart Chakra (Green) and Crown Chakra (Indigo Pink). For those who are advanced enough, the 8th Chakra or 12th Chakra should be used for the arching visualization rather than any of the other three. Only 3 Chakra points will be focused upon for this meditation; The Root Chakra, the Heart Chakra and either the Crown Chakra, 8th Chakra or the 12th Chakra depending on your level of spiritual ability. If you do not know where the 8th Chakra or 12th Chakra is located, please focus on the Crown Chakra. The visualization will always start with the Root Chakra, weave through the Heart Chakra and arch over your head through one of the divine Chakras (Crown/8th/12th). The visualization should be in the shape of an Egyptian Ankh. Normally the point of orgasm sends energy up from our Root Chakra and directly out of our Crown Chakra in a straight line out of our body. The biggest problem with this normal course of energy is that all of that enlightening momentum is completely lost after the point of impact, with only the residual chemicals left over that have been released by our brain to stimulate an incredible sense of relaxation. The Ancient Egyptian Tantra aims to direct the flow of energy from the Root Chakra, through the Heart Chakra and upwards to arch through the Crown Chakra, and finally back down in the Heart Chakra to reconnect the energy in an infinite loop. This loop of energy aims to sustain the enlightening momentum of the orgasm into the circular flow of a loop through the highest of our Chakras. This meditation connects our grounding Chakra with our divine Chakra and simulates direct enlightenment in one swoop of incredible energy. The Heart Chakra is the only useful interweaving Chakra point for us on Earth for it directly pushes out Unconditional Love in a more beneficial cycle. Now instead of visualizing the top loop going from left to right, it will be visualized as leaving the Heart Chakra out from your back, to loop backwards and up to the Crown Chakra, to then loop forwards and down in the front of your chest back into your Heart Chakra. In order to combine both the breathing and visualization parts, please follow the following mediation technique: 1) Take very slow and deep breaths, and concentrate upon controlling your breathing. 2) Whilst inhaling a deep breath, visualize golden energy shooting up from your Root Chakra and into your Heart Chakra. Breathe in to approximately 90% of the capacity of your lungs. 3) When this initial burst of energy meets your Heart Chakra, hold your breath and then shoot the golden energy out of your back and loop it up to your Crown Chakra. 4) Once this golden energy meets your Crown Chakra, explode/open your Crown Chakra with a burst of Indigo Pink light, and then proceed to trace those golden energies forwards in a downward loop to reconnect them with your Heart Chakra. 5) Just before the golden energies re-enter your Heart Chakra, breathe in the final 10% till your lungs are at 100% capacity to help the golden energies reconnect back into your system. 6) Slowly exhale in a very controlled manner. This is usually the most gratifying part, releasing your extremely charged breath and allowing the orgasmic energies to swirl through your 3 most important Chakras. Repeat steps 1-6 a couple times before sexual intercourse, and a couple times during sexual intercourse in preparation for the moment of the orgasm. At the moment of the orgasm, shoot those powerful energies into your Heart Chakra, out of your back, through your Crown Chakra, and reconnect them from the front of your chest. It is particularly easier to perform this mediation by yourself as the timing of the breathing and visualization can be completely controlled by yourself. It is also absolutely fine to practice this mediation during masturbation. If you are performing this mediation with a partner, when you initially shoot up your orgasmic energies from your Root Chakra and into your Heart Chakra, explode your Heart Chakra open and connect your Heart Chakra with your partner (assuming the missionary position). This link will allow for a very deep felt orgasm, very enlightening indeed. For those who are particularly advanced, sub in the 8th or 12th Chakra instead of looping your energies through the Crown Chakra. It allows for a much larger explosion of energy whilst hitting the 12th, however this takes some practice.
This final part is relatively simple in comparison as its mainly about how to stimulate a deeper orgasm. You will find it very useful to perform the visualization a couple times during the process of trying to achieve an orgasm. More specifically, perform the visualization as you nearly climax your energies, to then stop stimulating yourself and/or each other, and gently relax those energies with the visualization itself. This process of working yourself or your partner up to a near-climatic point, and then relaxing back down a couple times, will allow for a very large orgasmic experience when you finally release those built-up energies. For men in particular it will be quite hard to settle yourself down whilst nearing an orgasm, for the masculine climax is very hard to tame whilst in its peak. Whilst sharing mutual pleasure, it is very important to communicate with each other whist nearing an orgasm. Most won't know when to back off, especially if we can't feel the rising energies in another person. It is rare for two people to orgasm and climax at the exact same time, however this is the ultimate form of this meditation; dual climatic points exploding their enlightening energies together in a powerful experience of Oneness. Please be patient for such an uplifting moment in time, as it is perfectly fine to allow one party to orgasm first and to then work on your partner so they may experience the same result. Once you have experienced an orgasm whilst using this form of Ancient Egyptian Tantra, you will never want to just release the normal way ever again. This form of mediation is addictive and very deeply powerful. It is not something you can take lightly and then forget about later, those depths will stay with you. It is like tasting the true form of an art that has never been shown to you before. This technique will reignite your passions for sex. That magic, that ecstasy still swirling within your mind, the uplifting of energies that provides more color and feeling to an already highly sensual act, it will change you. You master this technique and you will be changed. If more people experienced this kind of ecstatic relief, there would seriously be fewer problems in the world. [link] [comments] |
| Thinking positively only makes me think more negatively. Posted: 25 Feb 2021 05:02 PM PST By default my brain thinks negatively. For weeks and weeks I have forced myself to try to be positive and I only end up feeling more frustrated because the positive thoughts feel so fake and forced. Meditation hasnt really seemed to help. Should I just quit? Meditation Ive been doing for a few months. Faking being positive Ive been trying to do for years. The only time I can truly atay positive is after a psychedelic trip but that isnt real positivity if its drug induced and goes away within days of using that drug. If I accepted my negative mindset at least then failure to stay positive is one less thing I would need to worry about. [link] [comments] |
| Getting dizzy while meditating. Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:39 PM PST I'm pretty new to the practice, and I've noticed that I tend to get this weird dizzy feeling about 5 minutes in. Best way to describe it is like the sensation of falling. Is this normal? Is it just oxygen overload from newfound good posture and calmed breathing? It's not that bad that I'd pass out, but it forces me to open my eyes and stop my mantras. My sessions are about 10 minutes long. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 06:07 PM PST I've been practising mindfulness meditation for 3 months now, started at 5min, now at 10min 2x per day. Now, I feel like I'm starting to lose focus easily compared to before, I think I'm not as aware as before so I just tell myself it'll get better but I think it's not getting better lol. I get bored and restless easily too when meditating. What should I do? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 08:02 PM PST Not everyday we get the privilege to learn from a Buddhist Nun about meditation. This is one of the best episodes recorded on It's Not That Complicated. Emma beautifully walks us through everything about meditation and happiness. How to adapt compassion in our lives and what can we do to accept meditation and use it for our own good Emma Slade talks about Adapting Meditation in our distracted lives https://youtu.be/kMLlVCkXpUw [link] [comments] |
| how can i meditate for an hour? Posted: 25 Feb 2021 05:46 PM PST |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 05:32 PM PST Hello friends, For the last few years I have been feeling, in lack of better words, bloated. When I was a kid I was able to take a really deep breath and feel my lungs reach their full capacity and I would feel satisfied. Now however, my body and soul just feel like they are being dragged around by my will going through life without really getting somewhere. I guess I can also explain it as "stopping" at a STOP sign but not really stopping fully and you get a ticket and you wish to be better but it is so hard. I always feel heavy and like I never get to be present. The most important part though is that when I am with loved ones my vision blurs and my attention span disappears; I start thinking of other things (mainly napping). I do the breathing meditations but the improvement is very small and my lungs still not quite get there (I am healthy btw in case you were wondering). Water fasting has worked the best, but it makes me feel uncomfortable and I have really stressful work to get done daily (also my body might weaken during a pandemic). Any meditation techniques you all recommend? Sorry for the weird explanation, IDK how else to describe it. Thanks for the help. [link] [comments] |
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