Meditation: I’m done avoiding meditation |
- I’m done avoiding meditation
- Someone once told me the path inwards leads upwards. I never knew what that meant till I started meditating. Everything in my life improved after focusing inwards.
- 'Thinking' is the ego persuading the higher self
- How some people are treating meditation.
- Today marks the 30th day of meditating. 3 min a day.
- Stop it. You will never ever ever find what you’re looking for. Ever.
- The 10 day Pet Challenge
- Don't try to do good.
- Thoughts about my ex and his ex keeps interrupting my meditation and life in general please help
- Getting sort of light headed when I meditate
- Free year of meditation app
- Turn Your Phone Over For Two Minutes....And Do Nothing
- Anxiety
- Crying while opening and cleansing the Heart Chakra
- Is a 10 minute meditation beneficial?
- Tingling that travels from tailbone to where neck meets skull
- Does the ego cause hypersensitivity?
- Meditating with Aphantasia (and no patience)
- I had a lot of work to do, so I meditated instead
- a confused person
- After a month of meditation, I am feeling more detached. Am I doing this right?
- Just sitting with myself. Not fixing how I feel, not trying to fight it or ignore it.
| Posted: 04 Feb 2021 07:14 AM PST Writing this now to create some accountability, been slacking on integrating meditation as a serious part of my life for a while now, how come I can stare at screens for hours on end but can't take 20 damn minutes to meditate on the daily, I'm baffled at how every time I say I will take it seriously I fail in spectacular manner, even this post is yet another way of avoiding it, things will be different today onwards. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2021 08:15 PM PST At 36 I became a senior leader and people started asking why. I kept saying meditation and self awareness but no one buys it. The mindful part of me knows not to force it on others but my heart knows that meditation can vastly improve their lives. Anyone else feel what I'm trying to say?? I don't know how I can prove it other than leading by example? Any ideas? [link] [comments] |
| 'Thinking' is the ego persuading the higher self Posted: 04 Feb 2021 08:28 AM PST When you construct sentences in your head, have you ever considered who is doing the talking and who is listening? It's not possible to have a conversation with yourself, but it's possible to have a conversation with yourselves. At all times there are two of you, your lower self (ego) and the higher self (the observer). If you don't realise this, then your ego has been in control for a very, very long time. The ego is like a child, one who wants to drive the car and eat chocolate cake all day. It is up to your higher self to guide the ego in the right direction. Unfortunately the lower self has mastered language, where the higher self rarely speaks. This is where meditation comes in, you have to concentrate on feeling and stop with the thinking. When the thinking inevitably begins, pretend that it is the thinking of a child. Is this thought true? Can you correct the child's way of seeing the world? It's important to do this with compassion and love, because resentment, anger and impatience are signs that your ego is still in control - your higher self is not capable of such emotions. [link] [comments] |
| How some people are treating meditation. Posted: 04 Feb 2021 08:23 AM PST This is my opinion and I am not generalizing it to everyone. I have been paying attention to how people treat the meditation by the content they are posting. Not just reddit, but blogs, videos, etc. I found that people are beguiling themselves by consciously thinking that " Oh.. I have done meditation for 15 days, or 30 days or 1 year and I now have some magical super Brain that is calm and clear." However, you should actually treat this new brain as normal. It should actually be "Oh.. my brain was very distracted by material things and not paying attention to self. This was very unnatural. After doing meditation for this much time, it is coming back to normal. It is becoming calm and clear." Also, some of the titles I read are something like this, "I have done meditation for 50 days, Look I am super human." That thought will bring ego about your meditation habit and completely ruins the very purpose of meditation. So in short, please don't treat your brain as some supernatural brain after meditation (1 month or 50 year). Just tell yourself that clear and calm brain is the natural brain. P.S. I had the same issue of treating the meditation as something that gives me superpower. But eventually I realized that it actually makes you more natural and self-realized person who is not clung to ego, jealousy, resentment etc. Again this is only my perspective. Happy meditation. [link] [comments] |
| Today marks the 30th day of meditating. 3 min a day. Posted: 04 Feb 2021 11:26 AM PST I only meditate for 3 minutes a day, but I started with 1 minute and build up. I know it doesn't sound like much but Im proud as hell: it seems doable now to continue and built up to 30 minutes a day. Every week, 1 minute more. i'll report back here in 7 weeks, when I hit my 10 minutes mark😄😄. [link] [comments] |
| Stop it. You will never ever ever find what you’re looking for. Ever. Posted: 04 Feb 2021 12:38 PM PST It doesn't matter if you want peace. Enlightenment. To be rid of depression/anxiety/fear. Stop. Looking. You're looking around trying to see the lens of your eye. And causing a disruption when you can't see it. Whatever you want you have. There's nothing else to get. This is it. Some people post here about how meditation gave them an emotional orgasm or whatever. And now you want it. And now you think something is wrong when you don't have it. So you keep looking or searching or trying. To get that "goodie" from this practice. "But I feel sad and want help" or whatever special case you think you have. You want to feel good and push the bad feelings down? Animals and man love drugs. Go try some. Or don't. It really doesn't matter. But looking for whatever you want in meditation is like looking at water and waiting for your thirst to be quenched. Just fucking drink it. Life isn't here to make you happy or sad. It isn't here for you at all. It owes you nothing it will Give you nothing. What kind of nothing? What's in space? Nothing. Ok that is the nothing I'm talking about. The nothing that contains EVERYTHING. You came from Nothing. Into everything. And will return to nothing from everything. And you want a certain piece? Please. If it comes it goes. If you get it you'll lose it. So why do you want it? MARINATE IN YOUR PERFECTION AS YOU ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE. OR YOU WOULDN'T BE TO BEGIN WITH. Imagine thinking you need nothing. You are without nothing. You wouldn't be here looking. But you wake up and say "I need _____" and now you're without it. Now you're in conflict. And once you get it. It will leave. And you'll rinse and repeat. You want the secret? The steps to happiness? Well I'll tell you what happens the second before you become totally enlightened and blissful. Here it comes!!!! Right before you become enlightened, the moment before joy happens... you will be totally unenlightened and asleep. So you're there! You're right before becoming enlightened, you're literally one step away! Woohoooooo!! And how do you take that final step? By knowing you never ever had a step to take in the first place. So give it up. Feel that moment of giving up, of stopping to try and squint and see your lenses. You DONT see out. The world comes rushing in. Whether you try or not. So why try. Just be. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2021 09:07 PM PST Here's the challenge....For the next 10 days, spend a few mindful minutes with your pet. Can you be fully present? Report back here and let us know how it went - challenges and successes. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2021 10:16 PM PST We live in a time when appearances are more important than the reality. So everybody wants to appear to be good and kind, so much so that some people even record themselves doing things like giving money to homeless people and stuff, which is gross. It seems it's more important to seem like you're good, instead of actually being good. But this isn't the right way to go about it.
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| Thoughts about my ex and his ex keeps interrupting my meditation and life in general please help Posted: 05 Feb 2021 01:41 AM PST I can't meditate for the face and thoughts of my ex and his ex. What can i do? I broke up with my ex 2 months ago. I've really had a hard time with he's ex. We started dating like right after their relationship. Their relationship was a very long one like 4 years, they where traveling so many places together and she is very pretty. I was so jealous it hurt. And EVEN F***ING NOW AFTER!!!!!! I think about her. Yes HER. I'm still jealous. I also think about my ex, he has lied a lot so that fills my mind like what didn't he lie about. And it pisses me off at this point. I want to get rid of those thoughts. I have mastered the thoughts about him and her getting back together, and also just the jealous feelings so well. But because I've mastered the thoughts I some kind of have an anxiety that the thoughts will come back, and THAT has made their faces be in the corner of my mind 24/7. And its so so so so frustration. Even just now when I was meditating on it thoughts about them getting back together kept on coming and pictures from their previous experiences from when they where together keeps come into my mind, they are just sitting their in the right corner of my mind every f***ing second. i just please help me [link] [comments] |
| Getting sort of light headed when I meditate Posted: 04 Feb 2021 11:10 PM PST I've only gotten into meditation recently. I've started to noticed that when I really concentrate on my breathing, I start to feel something like light-headness but not quite, sort of like I'm detached but in a heightened state that makes me feel light. The reason I don't think it's real light-headness is because I don't get the dizziness that usually goes along with that feeling. I'm not sure whether it's my breathing technique that's causing me to feel this or if this is a normal meditation feeling. Can someone please advise? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2021 06:27 PM PST Balance, the meditation app, has unlocked its whole app free for a year in 2021! They've got plans to teach you breathing techniques, body scans, visualization, awareness, and more plus single meditation specific for what you need and unguided meditations. All you have to do is download it! Enjoy! (This is not a paid post. I just love the app and wanted to share!) [link] [comments] |
| Turn Your Phone Over For Two Minutes....And Do Nothing Posted: 04 Feb 2021 10:17 AM PST Found this challenge to put my phone face down for two minutes and be present. If I turned it over too soon, the timer would stop and tell me I failed. I failed a lot :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2021 11:49 PM PST Does anybody else feel anxious during or say a little after meditation, which leads to you being anxious doing meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Crying while opening and cleansing the Heart Chakra Posted: 04 Feb 2021 05:32 PM PST I'm new to meditation but have always connected with natural energies and even emotions leading me to realize that I'm an empath and remembered short periods of Astral Projection. Full disclosure, I've been in recovery for about a year and a half now and through a (what I now realize was much more than a coincidence) coincidental session with a certain therapist who must've picked up on what clicked with me, and taught me Chakra Meditation. So, backto the point. I've been meditating around once every other day (I only just started about 3 weeks ago) and every session when I move into my Heart Chakra, I become overwhelmed with passion and caring and hope to the point of having to choke back tears (if I can even keep myself together). I'm a passionate - sometimes emotional - person, so I do understand the sudden faucet of emotions while working on the Heart. But is this normal for being newly returned to energy work? I don't mind it, quite the contrary. I guess I'm looking for advice where to maybe shift that energy or if I should just be letting it out. [link] [comments] |
| Is a 10 minute meditation beneficial? Posted: 04 Feb 2021 07:33 PM PST |
| Tingling that travels from tailbone to where neck meets skull Posted: 04 Feb 2021 06:03 PM PST When I did a meditation session after I saw my chiropractor for the first time in afew months. Probably 20 minutes later I got home, sat on my pillow in lotus, and I noticed, or atleast I felt like I noticed my back stayed upright easier when seated on my low cushion. I put my hands on my stomach to follow my breathing, and after my stomach started to warm up, I felt my hips relax, and I felt my lower back release some tension, after this happened my mouth started salivating and I felt this tingle go from my, mouth or jaw I guess into my back, which felt like a tingling, then I got up to type this. This practice was like 45 minutes or so. [link] [comments] |
| Does the ego cause hypersensitivity? Posted: 04 Feb 2021 05:48 PM PST I've been meditating everyday for a couple of weeks and I have noticed I get irritated easier then before. It's like I'm sensitive to excessive noise. Is this the ego putting up a fight? It kinda seems like the opposite of what should be happening with meditation. Has anyone else experienced this? Does it go away with time, practice and patience? [link] [comments] |
| Meditating with Aphantasia (and no patience) Posted: 04 Feb 2021 11:23 PM PST Hi hi! Hoping someone could help me. I'm a spiritual person, I do tarot and pendulum divination and often try do shadow work to better improve. mediation is something I cannot seem to do. I cannot visualise images in my head like others can. I can't get my mind to just stay still (ADHD) and I have zero patience to sit (or lay) for anymore than 5 minutes without getting irritated. Where can I start? Does anyone have any tips that could be of some use? Personal stories always help shed light on things too. I'm serious about wanting to meditate as all the signs I'm getting as of late are showing me that I cannot move forward unless I start taking the time to meditate. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| I had a lot of work to do, so I meditated instead Posted: 04 Feb 2021 10:14 AM PST Yea basically the title. There came a notification saying 'meditation for positive thinking' and seemed like the exact thing what I needed. I am almost always pessimistic about everything. Over it I get anxious. I fear what would it be like losing in a competition, not making a project good enough. Yep. Basically my concerns are that trivial but I spend hours crying and imagining the worst case scenario. It was day 1 of meditation, and I want to stick to it because I definitely could use something that helps me get my nerves in control. This voiceover meditation had a few affirmations at the end. And even listening to them I cried because I realised how 'I believe in myself' is something which is not true for me right now. 'I am enough' is not true for me. The only one which I was convinced of was 'I am resilient and brave' I want to keep that thought with myself, till the time the other affirmations are true too. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2021 01:07 PM PST first of all im very sorry that my English is not good, it's not my native language . [link] [comments] |
| After a month of meditation, I am feeling more detached. Am I doing this right? Posted: 04 Feb 2021 03:09 PM PST I have been following the headspace basics course on meditation and have been meditating every morning for the past month for about 20 mins each session. My concern is that meditation focuses on the idea of awareness, but I feel more detached than aware. During meditation, I focus on things like my breath and let thoughts and feelings come and go. I have been told that it is best to practice to carry on this state of awareness outside of the meditation session, but instead of awareness, I feel more detached like I am watching my body, thoughts, and feelings as an observer rather than experiencing them. It is a noticeable change for me in my lifestyle, and quite frankly I am a little scared and nervous about this change. There is less mind chatter and rumination (which is good) because most of the time I observe the thoughts and feelings and let them go. Similarly, on the other hand, I experience fewer feelings of joy and excitement (which concerns me, is this normal?) probably because of the same reason: observing and letting thoughts and feelings go, but it is not as if I am doing it on purpose. I would rather hold on to those feelings of enjoyment and excitement and experience them. Most of the time, I am calm and neutral. I am a beginner at meditating, and wanted to ask for your advice. Am I doing this meditation thing right? [link] [comments] |
| Just sitting with myself. Not fixing how I feel, not trying to fight it or ignore it. Posted: 04 Feb 2021 10:13 AM PST Recently I've been quite agitated by work and wanting to use my meditation to help me explore it. I found it hard to settle, either trying to use mediation as a distraction or a fix. It didn't work but that made me realise. To stop trying. Stop trying to fix it. Stop trying to fix my feelings, my mindset. Stop trying to ignore it or distract myself or even rationalise it away. Just sit with it. Don't actively engage, just sit and let it be. Meditation got a lot easier! [link] [comments] |
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