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- Meditation changed my view on Lust,Women and relationships
- I accepted my overthinking and said to myself I am unique about things I think. And i smiled.
- Meditation is not Rocket Science
- Your ego is the main reason you’re not as great as you wanna be
- Best way to start meditating to gain self love and self esteem and acceptance for who i am?
- Our eyes actually are not just seeing things, they also at times project a whole another film that is superimposed on what we actually see. The result of which is that it totally changes the dynamics of the situation. The good or the bad is all in the mind.
- Swaying, even when you are not!
- Looking to coach
- I just tried my first time and had euphoria?
- Tips on getting started?
- Any "Frats" or groups committed to self development post college?
- I can’t meditate when having negative emotions...
- I’ve fallen out of my habit of meditation and am struggling to get back into it
- I've been reading on how mindfulness meditation might help deal with discomfort and I don't fully understand it
- Tracking life VS living trackless - What do you prefer?
- Meditating in order to 'calm your mind' is a fool's errand -- it's impossible. Consciousness itself is already perfectly still - pristine and calm. That which seeks to calm it down -- what you call "I" -- is the very thing you are attempting to remove...
- Can I think of awareness, while being aware?
- I practiced the meditation ,,I am"
- Trance-like State
- To a few of you... cheers!
- I am new to meditation - but have been interested do a while. I had a podcast talk with Jefe Living on meditation for self development - and it was so inspiring! ��
- Thoughts on the book Effortless Mindfulness Now by Loch Kelly?
- Does meditation and mindfulness give you more control over your emotions?
| Meditation changed my view on Lust,Women and relationships Posted: 10 Feb 2021 08:54 AM PST 25M here..I have been meditating for a while and until a few years back I wanted to sleep with as many hot girls as possible(which never happened luckily), was very materialistic, used to envy people like Dan Bilzerian and was sucked by peer pressure. After an incident of self realization, I turned to meditation and learnt to let go of all things I considered was successful in the materialistic world. When I look back, turns out I pursued all of them to satisfy my ego and didn't truly, soulfully desire it. Meditation has helped me to find what my soul truly needs. I no longer objectify women,I have begun to love and respect the feminity in every female and wish to marry someone I can connect with emotionally and have a soulful connection. I don't desire lustful sex but I want to connect with my future wife soulfully and have a meaningful sex, the true mix of feminine and masculine, that's where a powerful love connection is born. An unconditional love where there is no question of loyalty or trust, it all flows naturally and strongly. Sending love to all💕 [link] [comments] |
| I accepted my overthinking and said to myself I am unique about things I think. And i smiled. Posted: 10 Feb 2021 07:34 PM PST |
| Meditation is not Rocket Science Posted: 10 Feb 2021 01:51 PM PST All you have to do is sit there in a comfortable position and pay attention to your breathing, or perhaps focus on a mantra. How hard is that? Those of us who learned to meditate long ago might make it look easier than it really is. Awhile back, I had lunch with friends at a restaurant in Sausalito, California. We were able to look down on the San Francisco Bay and see dozens of sailboats docked and in use. Just below us were two young boys with a sailboard. One of the boys was able to stand up on the board and sail all around, while the other, a novice, could barely stand up on the board before falling with a splash. The other boy made it look so easy, but the novice showed that it wasn't so easy and would take awhile to learn. Meditation is easier even than that. And yet it might take awhile before you're able to convince your mind to stop distracting you with thoughts, feelings, stress, anxiety and even pain. You have been living in the past and future your whole life, and that is what your mind is used to. Over time, you will train yourself using meditation to live and be in the present moment. You will become more and more aware of both your self and of your surroundings. So keep at it, keep meditating, and remember that it is not so difficult. It is not Rocket Science. – Paine 🙏🏻 [link] [comments] |
| Your ego is the main reason you’re not as great as you wanna be Posted: 10 Feb 2021 08:12 PM PST If any new meditators are here I wanna say mediation can help you so much because it eliminates some of your ego and gives you very powerful realizations Here's my reasoning here, I meditated correctly for 15 minutes my very first time not too long ago and I realized, if your comfortable with who you are but you have that voice in the back of your head, man you could be stronger, skinnier, or even too skinny and you ignore that voice and go on with your everyday life that's your ego overpowering your subconscious, because that's your everyday life and you know you can live without working out, working harder etc. imagine you wake up and are 600 pounds and a whole new life, after you realize it's not a dream and you get out of denial then the first thing you're gonna do is fix it because your not use to being 600 pounds, and the reason you change it is because the pain of living a whole life of being 600 pounds to the mind of a 3rd person POV is way worse than going to the gym for a couple years, but if you already live a 600 pound life then your ego gets in the way of trying to improve, you know being 600 pounds is stressful but because thats been your new norm for the past 10 years you don't know anything else and your motivation depletes, meditation gives you realizations which are things you already knew but forgot about, the ego is very powerful, ego has things like insecurities, anxiety, etc and it pushes the motivation to improve away. And until you make those improvements and actions your new norm your never going to improve because the ego will just keep going down the same path, like how a 2nd teardrop follows the same stream of the first teardrop [link] [comments] |
| Best way to start meditating to gain self love and self esteem and acceptance for who i am? Posted: 10 Feb 2021 04:52 PM PST Tell me anything i want to turn my life around [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:26 PM PST Understanding concepts like these are the real essence of meditation. To develop a deeper ground for understanding life in a better way. [link] [comments] |
| Swaying, even when you are not! Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:20 PM PST Hi fellow meditators. Just wanted to share an experience i have been having for a few times in my last week of meditation practice. After about 5-10 mins into the meditation, i feel as if i am swaying around. I am seated firmly but my body is moving with head swaying the most. Like how buildings do during an earthquake. It not a violent sway just minor but noticeable. However, i reality, am as still as i can be. I tried recording myself once and my body was absolutely still when i was actually experiencing swaying. Anybody else has experienced this? Would love to read your thoughts and views. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:05 AM PST I can teach you dualism, non-dualism and give you insight in to the illusion of self, at a price we'll both agree on. [link] [comments] |
| I just tried my first time and had euphoria? Posted: 10 Feb 2021 06:27 PM PST I've wanted to try meditation for awhile but thought I would be terrible at it because I can't sit still. I constantly overthink. I tried a simple focus on breath method. "In and out in and out" I was able to push a negative thought I had away and come back to breathing. I just had some crazy euphoria! I thought I was just making myself think that but I stopped and it was still there. It's still slightly here now! It was amazing! Is this normal? I don't understand what's happening. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Feb 2021 12:50 AM PST I have always wanted to start meditating but never did. I would like to start now and get the habit but I don't really know what to do. Can anyone give me any tips to getting started? [link] [comments] |
| Any "Frats" or groups committed to self development post college? Posted: 10 Feb 2021 11:29 AM PST Is there anything like this? I want that brotherhood thing except I'm not too focused on the party aspect. I want it to be completely focused on becoming better strong whether that's mentally or physically (but I care about mental more). Stuff like engaging in group reflection, introspection, becoming better meditators stuff, becoming better socially etc. Maybe freemasons is like this? [link] [comments] |
| I can’t meditate when having negative emotions... Posted: 10 Feb 2021 04:31 PM PST Recently I wanted to start meditate more consistently and for a longer period of time without breaks. But unfortunately I recognised after a few days that I can't meditate when I am emotionally in a more negative state. Did some of you guys had the same or a similar problem and could give some advices? I would appreciate it! [link] [comments] |
| I’ve fallen out of my habit of meditation and am struggling to get back into it Posted: 10 Feb 2021 06:34 PM PST I tried meditation about a year ago and got really into it and made it apart of my daily habit. I would meditate once/twice a day for 15-30 minutes a session. I felt spiritual connections for the first time in my life. I got more into spirituality and started listening to a variety of individuals such as Allen Watts, as well as reading some more philosophy. I furthered basic medication tactics into every day life. At work I would just listen to my surroundings while doing menial office job work, while in a meditative state just observing my thoughts and letting sounds tickle my ear drums. It was very nice having this mindset and I felt better with every day. Less anxious, calm, and generally better at everything from video games to exercise, to work even. I also found I enjoyed movies and TV shows much more and felt more in-tuned than I ever have before. Probably my last time really meditating I was very deep, felt like I was going to fall out of something and did not let it happen. Almost scared me to a degree. This minor situation that occurred kind of threw me off my habit of meditation. I feel as though I am slipping into generally sadder moods, I can't pay attention, and am generally struggling with motivation while constantly thinking. Whenever I try to just listen or be aware, I struggle, and I can't really get myself to sit down and meditate as I am just mentally not in it. Has anyone else experienced times when it was difficult to get back into meditation? What got you back in? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Feb 2021 02:45 PM PST I'm looking for ways to make me more resilient to discomfort and I think meditation very well might be able to help me with that. Apparently there's been research done suggesting that mindfulness indeed helps but they never go in details on what exactly the patients were doing. Is the act of meditating itself that helps? Are you suppose to focus on your meditation object or does your meditation object becomes the pain/discomfort itself? Or is it just a passive thing where your brain just gets more resilient on its own over time? [link] [comments] |
| Tracking life VS living trackless - What do you prefer? Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:16 PM PST Tracking (keeping track of how often & how long etc) my meditation and other habits has helped me greatly throughout the years by supporting me to stay consistent over longer periods of time. It has helped shape my identity as someone with self-discipline. Through tracking my workouts, I've managed to get physically stronger. And all this has greatly improved my self-esteem and made me feel like I can rely on myself. And most importantly, it has helped me build a meditation habit. But the more I meditate, the more the importance of tracking evaporates. The more silly I feel for obsessing about it. Because what is it about really? What I've noticed recently is that it makes me feel good about myself when I do all my habits in a day. But if I don't do it, there's a sense of discontentment. Do my habits = Good human. Don't do my habits = not so good human. From what I've understood from studying the ancient eastern mystics and Zen Buddhism, part of the goal with mediation is to realize that your ego is an illusion and that you aren't your thoughts, beliefs, ideas, and whatnot, but something different entirely. By tracking my habits daily and connecting my self-worth to whether I do them or not, I feed my ego the cookies it needs each day. I'm reinforcing an idea of myself that I've come to see is not really me but who my ego wants me to be. And I am taken out of the moment by my mind constantly commenting in the background. "When will you meditate? Are you doing your kettlebell workout today? Better take time to read, got a streak of 16 days going." There is a story Buddha told about five men who were always carrying a heavy boat around on their heads. It was so heavy it was almost crushing them. People asked them "Why are you carrying that boat?" They answered, "We cannot leave this boat. This boat got us over the river and helped us escape the tiger. We will carry it on our heads for the rest of our life in sheer gratitude". If you're tracking your meditation each day (or anything else) and it helps you, for the love of Buddha stay in the boat! Just be aware that what gets you over the river won't necessarily get you across the field. I've loved the boat but it's more of a burden than a helper now, so time to put it down and live trackless. Living trackless means doing things out of a place of love, curiosity, spontaneity, and joy. My Ego is cringing writing this! But the true 'me' knows it's a better way to live now. It means not worrying if I don't do anything. The world, or what I am, is unaffected by these actions. Only the ego cares. So bye-bye obsessively tracking, and hello living trackless. I should say that it's not easy to let go of these things. A big part of my identity is tied up in it. If I don't track and do all these things, what am I? I'm not sure yet but I'm curious to explore it and experiment with an entirely different way of living. Do you track your meditation? What are your thoughts about it? ✌️ [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Feb 2021 06:31 AM PST Meditating in order to 'calm your mind' is a fool's errand -- it's impossible. Consciousness itself is already perfectly still - pristine and calm. Like a mirror -- reflecting everything, and holding onto nothing. That which seeks to calm it down -- what you call "I" -- is the very thing "you" are attempting to remove. Meditation is simply practicing awareness of the perfect stillness that you already are. Sort of like Alan Watts said ... "The you that seeks to be improved is the one that is doing the improving." [link] [comments] |
| Can I think of awareness, while being aware? Posted: 10 Feb 2021 05:45 PM PST Hey all, A few years ago, I used to be able to enter a very deep meditative state, and then life happened and I didn't meditate for a few years. Now I've been trying to get back into meditation on/off, the last few months, and it annoys the hell out of me, that I can't seem to find that consistent space or that deeper space, and I feel like I have a very hard time to observe my thoughts, I just dive right into them and entertain them, unconsciously of course. It often times feels like I don't even have thoughts, I am just stuck and it doesn't feel right, it's difficult to explain. But I've wondered if my thoughts maybe are SO loud and so active that I don't even recognize them, because they're so "up-in-my-face", like a fish in water, that don't see the water. It's just difficult for me to sort between am I thinking or not thinking. And I keep having this dialogue going about whether this is right or wrong I think. I'm making it way more complex than it should be. But I just can't find that simplicity in it anymore. I do sometimes have good meditation sessions, but it's mostly just what I am describing above, a lot of doubt and not even sure if I have thoughts or not lol. Hope you guys can give me some advice? [link] [comments] |
| I practiced the meditation ,,I am" Posted: 10 Feb 2021 12:41 PM PST It was this videos of Mooji in this morning that i watched and listened https://youtu.be/e-A0Q9ogrMw It give me a feeling that something cannot be taken away from me! That i can be present in this moment any time using this meditation! God bless you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Feb 2021 08:48 PM PST Hello! Over the months of self-realization I've developed a routine which I like to follow. I start my practice with a set of yoga/stretching poses and end in savasana to continue my meditation. I used to do 15-20 minutes per session and only started to get more deep into this state and now I'm comfortable at 30 minutes. I notice this deep relaxation where my mind starts to fade out, it could be that I'm tired too since I do it before bed (on my floor mat) but I haven't experienced this lightness before. Just now I was interrupted by someone and had a little jump-scare (more like a quick shudder), am I doing this right? From what I know meditation is supposed to be this intense awareness practice, if I were in this present moment would I have been scared by this external figure? It was like my mind was registering the noise outside, but my eyes were closed and when I heard the door open it was a slight shock to me and had to immediately open my eyes. Would love to hear some insight or your experience! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Feb 2021 09:25 AM PST There are a few of you who don't speak out about your experiences, because you have understood that words are not enough to render what you feel. You still need them though. You think that you're not quite there yet to leave them all and once forever. However, you know deeply inside of you that you are in the right path. To you, Buddha, Cheers! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Feb 2021 12:08 PM PST The podcast is on Apple Podcast if you search "Casper Bilton Podcast" - and it's also on YouTube. Love this group. [link] [comments] |
| Thoughts on the book Effortless Mindfulness Now by Loch Kelly? Posted: 10 Feb 2021 11:54 AM PST Is anyone familiar with Loch Kelly? I listened to the sample of the above audio book and it sounds interesting. But would like some feedback before taking the plunge. I've been doing Headspace for a while and would like to add some other approaches to my game. Many thanks. [link] [comments] |
| Does meditation and mindfulness give you more control over your emotions? Posted: 10 Feb 2021 06:22 AM PST For example, let's say someone insulted me and I got in a bad mood. Would I be able to just disregard it completely and leave it in the past? [link] [comments] |
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