Meditation: Exactly how do i ‘meditate’? |
- Exactly how do i ‘meditate’?
- How to deal with lots of anger.
- I'm a novice who meditates like a weirdo. Do you know any ways I should be altering/improving my process?
- When I'm In The Middle Of Meditating Why Do I Feel A Swaying Motion In My Spine?
- Can anyone recommend non-woo guided meditations on Insight Timer?
- Being pulled?
- The world is too non-stop for me to establish a perfect practice.
- Vibration frequency
- For the people that have a racing mind
- Advice
- I just got a random panic attack after meditation I was outside and just trying to connect with everything around me and a just a surge panic and anxiety got to me out of no where, I’m confused
- What to do when I feel like nothing matters ?
- For those who meditate
- Mental block during meditation?
- Can meditation help with self hate?
- Experiencing an anxiety attack at new job after two months of meditation practice
- hi im mikael,
- Please help me out if u can
- Can you prove to me that "repressed emotions" and "emotions in the body" are real?
- How to stop judging yourself - become more aware of your thoughts and ask yourself if they're really true
- Meditating while tired?
- Is this a normal thing to experience?
- I don't understand the point of a meditation retreat? I hear lots of hype but don't understand can someone please explain thank you?
- I meditated for 10 minutes. I breathed deeper, slower than usual, but it was not forced and comfortable. Towards the end of my session, I felt a buzzing/tingling/vibrating/electricity like feeling in my hands and mouth. Why?
| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 12:44 PM PST I suffer with anxiety, and apparently mediation can help. Except i dont know exactly how to meditate. I'm assuming its more than simply sitting in silence. Are there any instructions or tips for beginners who dont know how to meditate, or what meditation even is exactly? Thank you [link] [comments] |
| How to deal with lots of anger. Posted: 13 Feb 2021 09:07 AM PST Some days I get soooo angry mostly about things that happen in my life and in the world, my home country. I get anxious for my parents and family. I feel like I can't control anything then I get more angry. I just lost my faith in religion and I need an outlet does anyone have any tips or resources on meditation to deal with anger. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 06:59 AM PST During some kind of mental health emergency/psychosis once a few years ago I came up with an exercise that I continue to do. It's a grounding method that I use during meditation and it seems to work very well for me. But I'm moving around a lot. Is this even meditation? During the ritual I reach out and cut the moment with my fingers, and catch it and stare into it. And I "hold the moment" between breaths, and as I do my chin and the side of my hand are on my chest, and if I'm completely still I can feel myself rocking gently with my heartbeat. So I focus on that, until it's time to breathe again, and I reach out, give the moment away, and take a deep breath. I go back and forth, focusing on the breath, focusing on the heartbeat. On the breath, on the heartbeat. I do it enough times, then I stop and meditate traditionally for a while, and when I'm feeling done, I do the ritual a bunch more times, and meditate traditionally some more. I guess I'm just wondering today, if any experienced meditators have any feedback for such a practice. It looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAJHF0pNcQ I'm a little nervous to share this, I don't want anyone coming down on me for being a jackass. I have shared places before to mixed reception. I just woke up this morning feeling extra self conscious about it for some reason, and am wondering if anyone with some real experience has anything to say. [link] [comments] |
| When I'm In The Middle Of Meditating Why Do I Feel A Swaying Motion In My Spine? Posted: 13 Feb 2021 11:11 AM PST I'm starting to notice this weird sensation in my spine whenever I'm in the middle of meditation and it kinda throws me off focusing on my breath (I do mindfulness meditation). It's like a swaying, unbalanced motion in my spine that makes me feel like I'm not laying down straight (I meditate while laying in bed) or I got scoliosis or something. My educated guess is that it's because of my "Chakras" but I don't know. But do any of y'all know what's going on or have y'all experienced the same thing? [link] [comments] |
| Can anyone recommend non-woo guided meditations on Insight Timer? Posted: 13 Feb 2021 04:33 PM PST I love Insight Timer, (especially the timer lol) but sometime I feel I need that soothing guiding voice, however if the meditation starts to involve various types of new age woo it really kills it for me. Can anyone recommend some good guided meditation without woo on Insight Timer? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 07:49 PM PST I did a 30 min session. I got towards the end. I felt my existence being pulled. I felt like I was phasing out. I kept my posture but I was out. No thoughts I had my bowl sounds playing. I had the really odd sensation of being pulled to describe it. Anyone else? [link] [comments] |
| The world is too non-stop for me to establish a perfect practice. Posted: 13 Feb 2021 05:19 PM PST Maybe that's where I went wrong, hyperfocusing on having a "perfect" sit. Going to the same place in my room, meditating for the same 20 minutes, making sure I've waited three hours after eating...it's just not conductive to any sort of consistency on my end. The modern age is too fast-paced. Maybe it's just a matter of spinning my computer chair away from the screen, closing my eyes and breathing. I've lost interest in ritual. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2021 01:25 AM PST So I've been meditating for about a month everyday now, nothing special has really happened, which I'm ok with, but I just finished meditating and something weird happened, was wondering if anyone could explain it. So I began my meditation as usual I sit down and I take 3 deep breathes, after that I begin to count in my head every exhalation, all the way to 10 then start back at 1. I'm pretty early into my session but I have extreme concentration like never before, and then I hear a constant ring in my ear like the random ones you get in your life time but this was one was amplified enormously. At first it start in my left ear, then it traveled to my right ear, so I focused on it then it was directly in my head , very loud constant ringing frequency, I still concentrate on it then I begin to get this weird sensation in my body and goosebumps starting from my left foot all the way around my body. This sensation last the rest of the session and then my dogs go crazy down stairs and I feel a certain presence around me. Then I end my session. [link] [comments] |
| For the people that have a racing mind Posted: 13 Feb 2021 10:27 AM PST Hello, I know a lot of people say that having a lot of thoughts crossing your mind is a part of meditation and is completely normal. For me, I had racing thought for a long time that wouldn't go away even after a lot of practice. I then found out of the do-nothing meditation, which consist of literally not doing anything. You just try to observe without doing anything and if you find yourself responding to the thought, do nothing bout it. I realized that sometimes, my ego kind of responds to the thoughts and I always was judging myself for it without noticing it and it caused my head to produce more thoughts. So I would suggest you to try the do-nothing meditation because it helped me a lot and I feel a lot more peaceful. You can still do mindfulness in a separate meditation aswell. I find it really good to have one meditation that helps you letting go of everything to reach inner peace and another meditation to help you being mindful. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 03:07 PM PST I am fairly young, 24, but I have been through a long range of hardships and even, recently, some successes. I decided a few years ago, that I want to be the person I needed when I was younger, for others. Childhood trauma, mental health/suicide, physical health, a true near death experience, relationships/marriage/divorce, addiction, self care/love. If you are looking for answers, advice or just an ear who will listen, please feel free to comment/message me at any time. No judgement. I genuinely enjoy helping others and believe that all my experiences have happened for a reason. Currently, my reason is to share those experiences/advices with others, in hopes of atleast one person taking something away from what I have to say. [link] [comments] |
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| What to do when I feel like nothing matters ? Posted: 13 Feb 2021 11:11 AM PST As I have been meditating for about an year, my feeling of gratitute, love, compassion, and all the positivity are changing to idgaf. Like I don't care about what happens to me or anyone. If my parents die, I would grieve but it's not that big of a deal becuz they are just going back to nature. If I die, no one will remember me after 100 years or more, and 100 years is so small in our cosmic timeline. I don't give a damn about making money. I can't feel emotions from movies, animes, or from real people cuz I start to let go of feelings or emotions immediately. They become dull and not fun anymore. I used to cry to songs and movies, but I can't. I used to feel pains of others and now they seem rather pointless. I don't get hurt from people but I can't love them anymore. Even as I am typing, I don't see there is anything wrong with me but I'm wondering why this happens. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 06:44 PM PST Ok so I've come to the redit community to try and find and explanation for this experience I had about four years ago. So one night I was in my garage, hanging out (it was the "hangout" spot") by myself and I had this overwhelming urge to meditate right there and than. In my life up to that point I had maybe meditated a total of six times tops so already that was a strange feeling to have. Now, along with this urge to meditate also came this fear, and the best way I could describe it is like I feared I was disappear if I meditated. Bare with me, I probably wouldn't believe it if it didn't actually happen to me. So instead I decide to leave the garage for my bedroom and would meditate on my bed instead. So I sit down and next I think how great if I put on some meditation music (something else I had never done while meditating before). So I put my headphones in my ears and this "meditation music" is really just a gong begging hit at different times and making different tones. Not too long into this session I was suddenly thrust into this place or idk, but I saw and ocean underneath me, I must of been five hundred feet in the air, I had no sense of my body, and as soon as I got there, tears began running down my cheeks. That's the story, now I'm wondering if anyone else has ever heard of a similar experience. If it was four years ago I would've been 23 years old. Since that night I've never been able to get back to that place, although I haven't really meditated much since that time either. If anyone has any ideas, I'm open. Thought Google would lead me in the right way but it didn't, so now I'm here lol [link] [comments] |
| Mental block during meditation? Posted: 13 Feb 2021 12:40 PM PST Yesterday I tried a new focus of internal will during meditation. And that focus was to try perceiving and treating myself with the mindset in which I treat and view other people. In a sense, like a prelude to what one would call loving-kindness meditation. I've always been hard on myself to that point where I treat myself almost inhumanely, yet I've never directed that towards others (I do the very opposite actually). So I tried beginning to feel and direct compassion and understanding towards myself. And while attempting it, I experienced this sensation of what felt like my subconscious pushing my efforts and will away. Almost like knocking on a door to see if someone's home, yet only feeling sadness and despair peeking through the peephole. Yet this sadness and despair would not welcome you into its home. It felt like a mental block in my subconscious nature having a defensive reaction towards self-compassion and self-love. I'm sharing because I'm wondering if anyone has experience anything of this nature? I'm about 1-2 months into meditation (daily) if that could indicate something. [link] [comments] |
| Can meditation help with self hate? Posted: 13 Feb 2021 04:21 PM PST I see a therapist once a week, and been meditating on and off since I was young. But do you think if I really got disciplined with my meditation practice it could help with me not hate myself? I'm so tired and want to finally let go of that hate. I practice Taoist inner dissolving if that matters. Thank you [link] [comments] |
| Experiencing an anxiety attack at new job after two months of meditation practice Posted: 13 Feb 2021 01:10 PM PST I'm fairly new to practicing meditation. I've been meditating since early December. I began after taking a leave of absence from work because of anxiety/depression/suicidal ideation (I'm diagnosed bipolar). During my leave, meditation has been such an amazing part of my life. Along with practicing meditation, I've been reading into mindfulness and self-compassion. Instead of returning to my old job, I lucked out and found a new job—retail. Dealing with people is never great for someone with acute anxiety and last night I experienced anxiety so intense it made me cry and nearly vomit. I tried to focus on my breathing and comfort myself with bits of mindfulness. I would meditate during my breaks, but once I was back on the sales floor, I was back in a terrible headspace, drowning in negative thoughts. I even recited the litany of fear from Dune to no avail. I'm better now that I have the day off and am out of that environment, but I'm writing because I want advice on how to face this environment again stronger and able to embrace the moment without feeling like I've fallen apart all over again. Any advice is welcome and appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 07:01 PM PST I Want to help people with meditating so if there are people that need advice just let me know trough dm or reaction! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 06:52 PM PST So I've been meditating for about a Month daily, for 40 minutes, and ive been loving my benefits. I've lost and let go of all my insecurities, my anxiety, my negativity, and I ultimately feel my meditation working. There was a point where like the crust of the oceans, I felt pressure in the middle of my forehead and I honestly loved it. I had a childlike bliss surrounding me ultimately, and I loved every minute of it. However I'm a 17 year old, and a process of going through old and wise, instead I kind of was young and dumb at this point, considering I gave into peer pressure and smoked weed. Ever since I smoked weed, unfortunately I haven't felt the pressure in my forehead and I was wondering how I can build that pressure back up, will I have to wait until the weed gets out of my system within 30 days? What would be my next step in opening up my third eye, must I meditate some more? I'm being mindful as I write this but I miss that pressure in my forehead so badly and I regret smoking weed and am ultimately never doing that again. [link] [comments] |
| Can you prove to me that "repressed emotions" and "emotions in the body" are real? Posted: 13 Feb 2021 03:49 PM PST Maybe this isn't the subreddit for this but I don't know where else to ask. All this stuff comee off very Hocus pocus new age style. How could a concept like an emotion be stuck in the body, be "found" through meditation, and need to be resolved. This seems super subjective thing that I find hard to believe. I'm a super logic based person who has incredible difficulty with anything that isn't deductive or inductive arguments. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 11:04 AM PST Have you ever remembered something embarrassing that you've done and thought "you idiot"? Or worse? Everyone does to some extent - its very ingrained in us to regret things from the past, to see ourselves as not meeting some standard and as a result we feel miserable and anxious. Its hard to stop your inner critic focusing his or her attention on you. It might be around your job performance, how you look or how you interact with other people. Learning to practice non-judgement can, over time, make a huge difference. The first step is training your mind to be aware of your mind, of your thoughts. Practicing awareness through a little bit of meditation every day will help you to tune in to the stream of thoughts passing in and out of your consciousness. Next is knowing what to do when you realise you're having judgemental thoughts about yourself. We probably feel sad, anxious or angry at ourselves and we might try and push the thought away. But to get our inner critic to relax, what we really need to do is to listen. Listen to what its saying and ask yourself whether it's true. If it was happening to a friend, what would you say to them? You'd probably comfort and reassure them - you should be as kind to yourself. Take a step backwards out of the storm, breathe and observe. Observe the criticism without reacting. Notice what feelings you have associated with the criticism without being swept away. Accept the critical thought without agreeing, just noticing that it's there. Finally I would invite you to look deeply into where the self judging comes from; the origin probably isn't whatever perceived mistake you're berating yourself for. What really drives your self criticism in this context? It might be an attachment to some past pain, something that happened in your childhood, it might be a relationship where you learned the habit, it might be something in your culture or a specific belief about yourself. We can be afraid to lift up the stone because of all the creepy crawlies that might come out but it's the only way to truly liberate yourself from suffering. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2021 12:13 AM PST Hey friends, lately I haven't been sleeping as well as I'd like, and when practicing my daily meditation, I've been finding it quite difficult to concentrate and be aware, and I've found myself being lost in thought for longer durations than usual. This doesnt frustrate me like it used to, as I've used that as an object of meditation, but im wondering whether this would make the practice less effective or worthwhile. Sometimes ive even found myself in almost dreamlike states. Should i just persist through this and practice anyway? Are there any techniques i could use in my practice while im tired? Thanks! ✌🏽 [link] [comments] |
| Is this a normal thing to experience? Posted: 13 Feb 2021 08:26 PM PST Today, I moved my meditation session to a warm bath for the first time, so this might correlate to some of the experience I had somehow, but about 5 minutes in to a 10 minute session, my hands, feet, and face started feeling like they were vibrating intensely. I am new to meditation so it took everything out of me to hold my concentration and not break my meditation to freak out about it lol. But I held it for the last 5 minutes and the vibrations got more and more intense until the end, where I then opened my eyes and those body parts kept a dull tingling sensation for a couple minutes afterwards. Does this mean anything in particular? [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 05:48 PM PST I'm pretty new to meditation. I've done it less than 30 times in my life. As I've recently decided to meditate again to improve mental health for school, I tried doing a 10-minute simple breathing session. Just focusing on breathing, accepting but ignoring everything else. I decided to breathe deeper than normal this time. I breathed in for about 3 seconds, then breathed out for about 3 seconds, filling my lungs as much as I was comfortable. This style of breathing took concentration to first get going, but as time passed it became natural and nearly effortless. Towards the end of my session I felt the feeling described in the title, growing, until I was finished. This feeling was... neutral, I guess? Anyways, I'm curious as to what it is and why. Is it because my body has more oxygen? Is it because the carbon/oxygen balance was different from normal? And finally, is this a good thing? Thank you for any answers! [link] [comments] |
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