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- Have you noticed that when you get on a subway, bus or any vehicle, the first thing you look for is an empty seat?
- I'm a 20 year old dude and all I want to do is meditate
- How do you deal with people who disrespect you or walk over you?
- Meditation and Yoga video with powerful speech
- Headspace app
- 'The voice' inside your head is just there to explain to you why you are the way you are. But that is only because you believe you are the way you are.
- Day 1 of meditation after failing many times
- I fell out of the habit for a very long time and holy fuck I need some help getting back in
- Anybody else feel the trauma escaping their body during meditation?
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- Gab
- Extremely new to purposeful meditation
- Has anyone here experienced level 4 and level 5 closed-eye visuals (CEV) while meditating? Please share your experiences.
- What do you guys do when you just seem to stressed and anxious?
- Medtation Art by Tomás Sánchez
- Meditation helped me overcome my anxiety + PTSD
- Neck pain increased after a few sessions
- Am I missing the point of meditation by using that time to focus on one thing?
- Meditation correlation with yoga/relaxation/stretching?
- Who is thinking?
- Headlessness and the Single Eye - Talk by Douglas Harding in London 03/03/02
- Understanding how mind works
| Posted: 19 Feb 2021 07:40 AM PST Or when you look for an apartment or house, you size up the amount of space available? Or when you want to write you look for a blank piece of paper? Imagine if all the space on any matter were to crush in on them, nothing will ever exist. Only out of empty spaces can we become who we are meant to be. Only out of stillness can we hear the universal message. From nothingness, that something is born. From silence, the wisdom of our being is heard. Meditation is a giving of space to our being, a state of nothingness, a state of infinite growth. [link] [comments] |
| I'm a 20 year old dude and all I want to do is meditate Posted: 19 Feb 2021 10:56 AM PST I started meditation a little more than a year ago right after another traumatic incident in my life happened. After that I literally fell in love. Every time I meditate I feel like I am opening my mind, heart and soul to god and can listen to the universe. I wanna stop doing my degree and focus on myself and improve my state of mind. Everyone around me loves me but their ego minds think that they are the ones that are living in truth. I am so doubtful that my parents would ever let me do anything like this because when I told them they started to make fun of monks and people that practice this. They told me to stop meditating and focus on my studies. I want to go somewhere where I can learn. I don't feel the need to learn, I feel like I can do it myself, however I would like to be around other people. I don't see why I should waste another 2 years in university studying something that is rotting my brain. [link] [comments] |
| How do you deal with people who disrespect you or walk over you? Posted: 19 Feb 2021 04:44 PM PST Ever since I have started my spiritual journey I think it has made my energy more grounded. I have been more neutral and peaceful So, when in group settings I no longer feel the need to assert dominance or try to be the alpha male. When talking with others I don't get as loud and I find myself observing the conversation more than talking. I find myself thinking and talking more slowly. This has led to others seeing me as weak or lesser than them and I find that others disrespect and walk all over me. Because I forgive quickly and don't hold grudges (again this is due me progressing on my spiritual journey, I live a happier life if I can forgive people and don't hold onto grudges). They do this because they know I am peaceful and they will have no consequences for their actions. Now normally when someone disrespects someone the normal response is to lash out at them and make fun of them back. But, I believe this constitutes as violence and you are playing fire with fire. This goes against the yogic teachings. So, how do I stop people from disrespecting me while conducting it in a peaceful way? I am not very witty and think slowly, so you won't ever get a witty answer from me. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation and Yoga video with powerful speech Posted: 20 Feb 2021 12:43 AM PST |
| Posted: 19 Feb 2021 09:47 PM PST Does anyone know where i can find guided meditations similar to what is on the headspace app but for free? I've been using headspace and really love it but i canceled my subscription because i just couldn't keep paying for the app. Does anyone know something similar that free or some google drive where the headspace meditations have been posted for free? [link] [comments] |
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| Day 1 of meditation after failing many times Posted: 19 Feb 2021 05:34 PM PST It's early in the morning 5:30am. I'm sitting here on my yoga mat on terrace of my house and meditating. The weather is cold. There's no sun, the cool breeze whispers in my ear as colourful birds flap their wings near me and the sound of them flying( the feathers) , chirping, moving in a flock with the cool breeze is amazing. It's really cloudy. The breeze showing showering me with positiveness. The sound of the leaves ( we have a lot of plants on terrace, you can say a mini garden) rustling as the wind flows, the small feet of my dog when it's roaming around the terrace waiting for me to complete meditation, little raindrop kissing my nose and cheeks. This is an amazing experience. My favourite weather ( I don't really like sun) These small little details make up nature. And today was great. The sound of my breath combined with this, I feel a rush of positiveness. I'm set for the day. If you go through my old posts, you'll know that I've been the definition of negativity lately but today was different. It's amazing. I want to be stuck in this moment forever. Meditating in nature is magic.[link] [comments] |
| I fell out of the habit for a very long time and holy fuck I need some help getting back in Posted: 19 Feb 2021 05:22 PM PST I started with the calm app a while back and was pretty good and consistent. Business ended up making me lose the habit for a long time and I only recently rediscovered my desire to get back in. I sat down, started a meditation with minimal guidance for 15min, and after being unable to stop myself from thinking and becoming restless, I figured that I had been doing it for 10 minutes and that was a good start. It was barely 5. I felt crushed that I could barely meditate that long. I know "how should I get into it?!?'" Is probably asked a million times a day on this sub but really I just want to know how do I un-fuck my brain [link] [comments] |
| Anybody else feel the trauma escaping their body during meditation? Posted: 20 Feb 2021 01:50 AM PST I've been meditating for about 2 years. I do the sort where you focus on body sensations and emotions. When I focus on my chest area, I can feel a dark cloud there of sadness, shame, and anxiety. Meditation has helped me thin this cloud and I do feel generally more content. Sometimes however during this meditation, I could almost tangibly feel the cloud rising up my chest and out my nose actually leaving a burning sensation in the back of my nostrils and throat. Does anyone else feel similar sensations? I'm wondering if it's more common than I thought. [link] [comments] |
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| Extremely new to purposeful meditation Posted: 19 Feb 2021 04:57 PM PST So I've always been able to calm my mind. But I never harnessed that ability to fully meditate. I decided to start recently because I'm seeking more. Life is getting bumpy and I need to support myself mentally. I don't follow any particular practice. I just sit and focus on my breath. The one thing I'm not doing, and I'm not sure if there's a right or wrong, is ignoring whatever my mind presents to me. Instead, when I finish I make notes of my interpretations or things I see. It could just be my mind going through files, but words I hear feel intentional. And the things I see are not familiar. Today I saw a set of female eyes look at me, a guy pointing, then before the end a face try to materialize. Every time at the end it's like my brain clicks and says "ok, done!" And my eyes just pop open. Any advice? Should I just do what I feel is right? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Feb 2021 08:05 PM PST I consider myself a beginner meditator, but maybe a level 2 or 3 psychonaut (out of say 10 levels). My meditation sessions are very infrequent but they usually last 1h to 2h. On days when my anxiety is low I'm able to enter a different state of mind within 10-30 min of closed-eye meditation. Then when I try to see behind my eyelids and focus on the closed-eye visuals/noise, I start seeing patterns and objects that may be classified under level 3 or level 4 CEV according to Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination I am just curious about other people's experiences with this phenomenon. What have you seen/heard/experienced when you've tried to do something similar? What are your preferred techniques to hallucinate without using drugs? [link] [comments] |
| What do you guys do when you just seem to stressed and anxious? Posted: 19 Feb 2021 07:29 PM PST I tend to put my feet in a warm bath and just try to shut everything out for about an hour, but looking for other methods as well. [link] [comments] |
| Medtation Art by Tomás Sánchez Posted: 19 Feb 2021 11:06 PM PST Hey, I hope this belongs here. I just discovered some artworks of the cuban painter Tomás Sánchez. A lot of his work seems to be linked to nature and the experience of meditation. His paintings have an extremely soothing effect on me and I think they are very inspiring. This could be some impressions to meditate with. I just wanted to share this because maybe the pictures inspire you too. https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6204418 Have a nice Day! :) [link] [comments] |
| Meditation helped me overcome my anxiety + PTSD Posted: 19 Feb 2021 05:18 AM PST Edit: thanks so much for the award!!! 😁 TL;DR: Started meditating deeply in 2020 to deal with covid anxiety, and it ended up helping me face my trauma + PTSD too, and I finally feel I'm back to a mindful, positive headspace 6 years ago, I was in a very abusive relationship, and I've been on a very up and down healing journey since then. A few years back now I was diagnosed with PTSD, and have struggled very hard with nightmares, flashbacks, and hypervigilance - my brain was always perceiving the threat in everything, and I had been dealing with this for so long, that I forgot what it actually was like to feel grounded and at a baseline. 3 years ago, I wrote my thesis on mindfulness meditation, and I took a deep dive into all the current literature on meditation, the mindful state, and the cognitive benefits that come from it. I was very intrigued and I did a lot of meditation practice myself while I was working on that study, and I was amazed at the level of peace and freedom I felt from my own mind. After I graduated, I moved to another state, and I fell out of my practice until last year. In 2020, anxiety controlled me. Between covid and forced isolation, stress from working from home, and the impending sense that I'd lost all control over my own life, I was so crippled by my anxiety that there were days that all I could do was stare at my computer screen and move my mouse around at work so it looked like I was online, but in reality, I was just suppressing a constant panic attack that was so debilitating I couldn't focus. I remembered meditation, and I started my practice again in the fall. After a month of 10-15 minutes daily, I was learning how to let go of all of my anxious thoughts because I would recognize them as they came up, acknowledge them, and shift my focus back to the moment. I started to realise that despite covid, I could still find ways to enjoy my space and be at peace, and I was able to function at work a little better. That was when I realized that the main mental thorn in my side so to speak was my trauma, and I decided to finally confront it. I started working with a therapist, and continued my meditation practice daily. 2 weeks ago, I had a major breakthrough moment on an idle Saturday that allowed me to finally let go and provide myself my own closure/resolution to my trauma, and the following week, while telling my therapist about the breakthrough I'd had, he told me in response that we hit a natural stopping point, and I had achieved my major goal I came in with - moving past the thing that's been holding me back since my early 20s. I have felt light as a feather since then. I'm no longer struggling with feeling a loss of control from covid, I'm back to being myself and being productive at work, and I am no longer having nightmares, flashbacks, or constantly feeling alert and on edge. The other day, a loud noise that usually would have startled me and sent me into a flashback did not even phase me. I never thought I would get here. I never thought I would be able to let go of the thing that I felt had an indefinite tight hold on me, but, meditation helped me realize how much I was holding onto it, too, and gave me the tools I needed to let it go. This has been a major turning point in my life and even though meditation was not the only thing that contributed to me getting here, I could not have gotten here without my practice. On my last session, my therapist told me to go live my life without the weight and the burden of my trauma on me all the time, and I almost cried. I didn't realize how heavy that weight had been until it was gone. Meditation really saved me this past year, and I am so grateful for that. [link] [comments] |
| Neck pain increased after a few sessions Posted: 19 Feb 2021 10:56 PM PST Hey guys, I wonder if anyone else get this really annoying neck pain. I feel like I'm wearing a neck brace as if I move it around it aches like a severe headache. This happens when I meditate few days straight. Neck stretches doesn't seem to give me anything at all, and I know I wasn't slouching as theres no pain if my head is straight and chin up- just like how i meditated... [link] [comments] |
| Am I missing the point of meditation by using that time to focus on one thing? Posted: 19 Feb 2021 06:52 PM PST Basically, I've just picked up meditation. I started about 5 days ago roughly. I find it very difficult to just focus on breathing in and out without thinking about anything else. But I train to improve my physique, and I decided to practice stomach vacuums while meditating. I still focus on counting, but I count to 10 with breathing, and then the same again while performing the vacuum. I find I'm able to stay focused for the entire meditation session, of which I am currently doing 5 minutes, after waking and before bed. In doing this, am I missing the positive benefits of meditation because I'm using it in this manner? I'd like to know, especially since I seem to be able to focus for longer when doing this. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation correlation with yoga/relaxation/stretching? Posted: 19 Feb 2021 10:02 PM PST How much of a part of relaxation does anyone consider stretching and releasing tension/stretching muscles that are holding so much stress and stiffness that it results in potential disease or negative emotional states? The feeling of release of tension in these areas is sublime and I think meditation helps to hone in on these mind/body bottlenecks when entering that quiet space of stillness that meditation can create. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Feb 2021 03:35 PM PST How do you stop identifying yourself with thinking? I get it in regard to all those random thoughts popping up all the time. But when I "actively" think about something, is that not me? One could say that I am the one who is aware of the thinking. Wouldn't that in consequence mean that there is no way to do anything based on free will, as the only thing "I" am capable of is purely receiving/being? Or how would I express my free will, if everything is merely appearing to me? You might have guessed that I am somewhat confused. Thanks for helping me understand! [link] [comments] |
| Headlessness and the Single Eye - Talk by Douglas Harding in London 03/03/02 Posted: 19 Feb 2021 09:31 PM PST |
| Posted: 19 Feb 2021 09:21 PM PST This is an excerpt from Sadhguru's Youtube video. Trying to put in my words. He says that one needs to understand how the mind works. And with a little bit of focus one can identify that the mind tries to attach to things that one wants to get away from. Ex If you are told to not think of a giraffe for the next 5 mins it is a nearly impossible job to do unless you have not heard the request itself. So now we know what does not work. And what works is taking your mind to things that you do not necessarily want to get away from. Especially things that identify with the very basic fundamentals of life. Once you start connecting with your breath or heartbeat the mind starts to identify with the life you are in the very basic essence of it. And it wants you to care more about it. This made sense to me and I wanted to share it with you all. Will love to end this post with a Sanskrit shloka which gives me strength and inculcates the feeling of universalism and well-being of all. सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः। सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग् भवेत्।। Read as below: sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ sarve santu nirāmayāḥ| sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu mā kaścidduḥkhabhāg bhavet|| Meaning below: May all be happy; May all be free from infirmities; May all see good; May none partake suffering. OM SHANTI 🙏 [link] [comments] |
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