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- Are there studies/information which quantifiy the benefits of meditation in relation to its duration and frequency?
- I'm thinking about start to meditate tomorrow, any tips?
- Has meditation ever brought you to the realization that as much as your mind would like to be still, your body needs to be active?
- A naturally happy person - would meditation still help me?
- Whats the point of Non duality
- 5th day in a row trying mindfulness
- Getting a better understanding of non-judgemental awareness.
- The Common Link that Connects all Religions
- I need advice on how not to be so obsessive, regimented and strict with my meditation.
- I use an alarm to meditate. How do I not be scared when I anticipate the alarm alert is about to start?
- New to meditation
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- you won't have a lot of friends if you're spiritual
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- New to meditation still. At what point do you see change throughout your entire day?
- Can one explain Montras to me in depth?
- Newbie attempting mediation
- Meditation makes it easier to separate and identify my feelings
| My emotional eating is getting better! Posted: 18 Feb 2021 02:53 PM PST Although I still eat when I'm not hungry, my cravings for food like pizza and such have decreased. I seem to have better control over mindless eating. Just thought I'd share the good news that mediating has helped with. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:44 PM PST I've talked on here in the past about both my struggles with and progress with meditation and my mental health. I haven't found either of them to be easy or bump free roads to travel but I am very grateful for the journey so far. Despite meditation changing everything in my life in a way... I also still find myself still VERY fused with my thoughts and emotions. At least a lot of the time. I think perhaps if you have struggled with your mental health for a long time you might have more of an impetus to see the prison you have constructed for yourself. But it can also make getting out of the prison even more difficult ironically too. It's strange how the ego can be extremely possessive of a LOT of the negative narrative it has held onto for decades. This story of myself as broken, not loveable, a loser, hated, toxic, that I hurt people, that I'm weak, not wanted etc etc. It's all just so much garbage and 95% of it isn't even true. It's just so much trash my brain has cobbled together over the years in some desperate attempt to sooth and cope, and somehow sticking to it it's all gotten strangely twisted out of shape into this grotesque thing. But like a limb, it's difficult to willingly cut it off. There is a LOT of resistance to it. Thankfully as I move through all of this I see one of the more powerful things about meditation... its ability to actually transform thoughts and emotional states. I can't say I can do this often. I'm still very much a newb at meditating despite diligently plugging away at it over 2 years or more. But when I can, I can see that it very much is possible to actually invite an unpleasant experience and curiously examine it for what it is. I know that doing so eventually one hopes to transform it and or be able to entirely let it go which I have not achieved yet but I can see the possibility. For me this is often about shame, uncertainty over my value and worth, fears of judgment and such. It's quite fascinating to be able to sit with these and question them. It gives you something of a super power that many do not have which is to actually experience things like shame, fear, doubt, terror even, without immediately pushing them away. Or to even seek them out. And I think there is huge growth and learning to be found here. I have taken to calling myself an insecure and fear filled man for example in the past year or two. I say that with little judgment or shame really, it's just a truth. The experience of these emotions isn't any more pleasant either. If anything the intensity is magnified. But there is GREAT power in being able to choose to walk into fire. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:50 PM PST All my life Ive relied on weed and psychedelics to help expand my consciiusness. Psychedelics when used correctly actually are a very powerful and tool. Weed to be honest I just wanted to give myself excuses to get high 😂 Anyways. As far as psychedelics go, I have decided that theyre great tools for some people but not me. I want to expand my consciousness in a more natural way. Through meditation. Heres the deal though. Everytime I meditate I just feel worse afterwards. Way worse. Maybe Im doing it wrong? I usually try and go out to some isolated outdoorsy area (such as in the middle of the woods), set a 15 minute alarm, close my eyes and try not to think about anything other than my breathing. I truly want to get into meditating. My lufe sucks (not due to events but due to a bad mentality that I have thusfar been 100% unssucesful at changing). Meditation truly could help. Either Im doing something wrong or it just isnt for me. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2021 02:18 PM PST I dont know if it's just be but after meditating I notice people look at me more, say from just walking down the street or in the shops. Or maybe it's just me becoming more observant, anyone else experienced this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2021 03:57 PM PST I am looking for studies/information which quantifiy the benefits of meditation in relation to its duration and frequency? I do mindful meditation, but I am open to information about different styles. I hope to get information like e.g. 30 minutes a day gives the best price-performance. [link] [comments] |
| I'm thinking about start to meditate tomorrow, any tips? Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:51 PM PST I tried some years ago and it didn't work for me, I started having a panic attack and never tried anymore. But right now I'm having a need to take care of my body, can anyone help me to have a better experience this time? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2021 06:53 PM PST I'm wondering cause I feel that with ever mindfulness/meditation session but I never can bring myself to exercise with the same ease that I bring myself to meditate. [link] [comments] |
| A naturally happy person - would meditation still help me? Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:09 PM PST I'm naturally a happy, positive person, never put myself in very stressful situations (maybe I just don't use my brain enough) would meditation do anything to me? [link] [comments] |
| Whats the point of Non duality Posted: 19 Feb 2021 01:55 AM PST I've been practicing for over a year now with some gaps, not sure if I'm getting anyway. Sam always tries to introduce the concept of non duality. I theoretically understand it, but definitely don't feel it. But my question is what is even if I were to experience non duality so what? How does that make any difference to day to day life? I still have to work, shop, clean the house, pay the bills etc. How does experiencing non duality affect this. [link] [comments] |
| 5th day in a row trying mindfulness Posted: 18 Feb 2021 07:39 PM PST I just finished my fifth consecutive day of an 11 minute mindfulness meditation. The first four days were in a chair with my back somewhat supported by the back of the chair and I counted in and out breaths to ten and started over when I hit 10. These sits have been fine but I cnat help but feel I'm not doing it right. I desperately want my practice to develop. So, tonight I tried to sit on the floor with two pillows and my legs crossed as close to burmese as I could. I also tried eyes open as I keep reading it suggested in mindfulness resources. I continued with the count as well but eventually eschewed that to try and observe the breathe rather than focus on the count. My mind was everywhere. Thinking about buddhism, am I doing this right, damn my back hurts, especially on the in breath, am I breathing too deeply, am I modifying this breath or is it natural... and I would just label thinking, usually quickly and almost panicked and try to focus on my breath again. A lot of times I wouldn't even get a full breath with my entire attention on it. And I guess I am frustrated and discouraged, but have no intention of quitting. I have been on again off again with meditation for years and have always gotten mad and given up just shy of establishing a regular practice. I am committed to keep going - just tonight was a sit that I always hear about: scattered, uncomfortable, and frustrating. Someone tell me it won't always be this way. [link] [comments] |
| Getting a better understanding of non-judgemental awareness. Posted: 19 Feb 2021 01:34 AM PST This phrase 'non-judgemental' always left me feeling a little perplexed, which was unfortunate because I came across it a lot. I was so entrenched in the mire of my thoughts that I didn't have the space required to have the objectivity needed to grasp the value of this non-discriminatory awareness. In all likelihood, it was being described perfectly by the people that taught me, however. I wasn't at a point along the journey to grasp it. Actual Advice Begins here! When you sit down to meditate, your mind will naturally race because it has been running at 100% all day. Between checking your phone, playing games, flicking through youtube and doing your job, there's no space for you to realise how noisy it is. However, when it's just you and your stream of consciousness, it becomes deafening, just how loud this stream can get. Now, the problem with trying to watch this stream 'non-judgmentally is that you will attempt to do so with more thought! A real key here that I'm almost sure would have helped me is that you can be aware of the judgements themselves. So, when the mind starts running into overdrive you'll be aware of it. What you might not be cognizant of is when the judgement: "I can't do this, I'm not cut out for meditation, I'm bored, I'm in pain, my legs hurt". You get the picture. All of these 'judgements' are more things that you can be aware of! This 'non-judgemental' awareness is already there - just use the force. So, the next time you think you're doing this wrong, just be aware of that, when you think: "yes, I've nailed this meditation thing" - be aware of that! Everything that I could possibly discuss here is the contents of awareness. Whereas, you are the ever-present self-luminous awareness that holds all of this dance within its gaze. You already have the treasure of 'non-judgemental' awareness well within your grasps - notice it. You don't need to be hyper-alert, watching every single thought. You certainly don't want to be like a cat watching a mouse hole; instead, just relax then the meditation takes care of itself. Even being alert or being relaxed is simply more contents for you to be aware of, all of this is within the stream of consciousness. You are whatever is conscious of all of this. Truly then, resting as this 'non-judgemental' awareness is not something you have to struggle toward or even develop. It's what remains when you're no longer attached to the stream of conscious thought but stand apart from it - aloof. When you get a handle on resting in or as this spacious awareness the next step is to see thoughts so vividly that they are eviscerated the moment they enter the room, you begin to live in the silence more and more. At first, you're unaware, then aware of the noise, you begin to realise you are not this noise. Then, those small gaps of silence where that narrator falls away grow wider and wider and you can start to rest in the gaps. I liken it to the noise of an extractor fan humming away in the background, it takes a moment of genuine presence to notice what real quiet actually is. The only thing you need to do to generate this presence is to clearly watch. Shine the full beam of awareness on discursive thought, it will be completely obliterated. The very second you notice discursive thinking it vanishes entirely. What remains is present moment awareness free from any chirping narrator. [link] [comments] |
| The Common Link that Connects all Religions Posted: 18 Feb 2021 03:50 PM PST Hello r/meditation! I've been in the field of meditation and spirituality for many years now and have thoroughly immersed myself in the practices of many different schools and religions. As time passed by, it became clear to me that most people I encountered all shared the same feeling. That each religion or school, while different, were all talking about roughly the same thing. So, decided to create a simple visual to act as a modern Rosetta Stone for religion itself. Please check it out! [link] [comments] |
| I need advice on how not to be so obsessive, regimented and strict with my meditation. Posted: 19 Feb 2021 01:16 AM PST I'm having a rather ironic issue, an ironic issue to have with meditation anyway. It is that I am obsessed with getting it right every time. Going through particular motions, in a particular way, to achieve a particular result. That means keeping to a schedule, and a pattern. Really all this does it set up extra stresses for me to get it right. I am putting too much expectation on the experience, and too many requirements, rules, and restrictions on the experience. As a result, when it doesn't go according to plan, I consider the entire experience ruined. Even though I know it isn't. I'm neurotic and obsessive, so I think things need to be in certain patterns to be correct. I know I want to meditate, and I know it is best for me to meditate in the morning. So I say, OK, I will only meditate in the morning. I know morning meditation works. So I will only meditate, once. In the morning. No earlier, no later. No flexibility. So when moments arise when I think it would be pleasant to meditate, suddenly I tell myself "No. It isn't time yet. If you meditate now, you wont meditate so well later" or "But you've already meditated today?" "But you're about to have a nap?" "But you've already done the stressful thing". I find reasons why meditation might, for whatever reason, have an adverse effect on the flow of my day and my inner peace. Theres this idea that if the conditions aren't exactly a certain way, the meditation will not achieve what I had hoped. In my heart of hearts I know that this is probably not a healthy way to look at meditation. There are some quotes I recall reading recently, along the lines of "The best time to meditate is when you dont have time to meditate" or "If you only have 5 minutes, meditate for an hour". They really speak to the easygoing nature of meditation but i'm afraid that isn't enough for me. What i'm really asking here, after that ramble, is to hear it from someone else. I'm obviously not listening to what I already know right now, so I ask if others could just share how they schedule, or dont schedule, or deal with how and when they decide to meditate? Does meditating earlier in the day ever have any bearing on your later meditations? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2021 06:37 PM PST I feel like the alarm will alert me when I am deep into my meditation. So I open my eyes to check if it reaches 10 minutes. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:37 PM PST Hi, I'm starting with meditation and want to make it a regular habit. What I realised is that it's much easier for me to follow along a guided meditation instead of starting on my own. I know I stick to routine if it's well defined sort of like a follow along app or 30 day program or something like that. If someone here knows of a good source that I can get started with, a YouTube playlist, an app to follow along, any program. Please do share. Thanks. Hoping to inculcate mindfulness :) [link] [comments] |
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| you won't have a lot of friends if you're spiritual Posted: 18 Feb 2021 10:56 PM PST eckhart tolle talks about how you want to raise your level of spiritual consciousness. eckhart's opinion on world change is that you effect the world not by focusing on politics or actions, but instead, his teaching is to focus on your internal state of consciousness. when you raise your state of spiritual awareness, that changes the collective level of presence. now, let's talk about friendships and popularity - when you become friends with someone, it's because you establish rapport with someone. rapport is a feeling of connection with someone else. you connect with people who are similar to you. you do NOT connect well with people who have very different values than you. my theory is that you can't be very spiritual if you're popular, because you have to be like other people to connect with them. my theory is that if you are popular, that means your state of consciousness is pretty medium or maybe even low (you would have the state of consciousness of most people). you must have a state of consciousness to where you can relate to most people to be popular. so my theory is that you won't be popular and you won't have a lot of friends if you have a high level of consciousness, because you can't establish rapport with people of middle to lower consciousness. i don't have any friends. i also have little or no interest in forming casual friendships. i want to make close friends. i've been meditating off and on for 21 years, but if you just count all the time i've been meditating, it would probably be around 15 years of steady meditation. currently, i meditate for 45 minutes a day. what do you think of my theory? do you have a lot of friends? do you have a lot of close friends? How long do you meditate every day? how many years have you been meditating? (i'm trying to use these stats about meditation as a metric to measure your level of consciousness to test my theory). [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2021 06:47 PM PST Hello There, i have some questions about Meditation, could you people help me? I practice meditation in a while but i dont know much things. I need a place (books, websites) to study about Meditation. Where i can find techniques, history, and others important things. Things like "whats important to know" Thank You! [link] [comments] |
| New to meditation still. At what point do you see change throughout your entire day? Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:43 PM PST After meditating I feel so much "lighter" and at peace. And It doesn't stick throughout the day or anything. I knew it wouldn't right away. But at one point it will right? You feeling more at peace with yourself. And at what point do you normally start seeing those benefits from meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Can one explain Montras to me in depth? Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:39 PM PST I am really interested in that area of meditation and I was wondering some more things about it. Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:30 PM PST Hey there! I'm super new to meditation, started a little after April 2020 and slowly started getting better. They're odd things that happen that I can't quite explain, maybe some of you guys can shine some light. There are a handful amount of times while around the 20 minute mark I slowly start rocking back and forth. I can easily stop it, but if I don't, it just happens without control, no clue what that means. And another thing too, while meditating, it almost feels as if I'm shrinking in size, almost as if I'm in a giant sphere and it just keeps growing in size. Quite a bizarre feeling. Lastly, for the first time, last night around the 30 min mark, I felt this sensation, I felt numb. Almost as if I was passing out, or sinking into my own body. I felt like as if my body had no will to maintain a posture. After that I just started talking to myself, but it didn't like it was me. It felt like me but... not me. Weird I know. I apologize for all the questions, I'm just clueless. Thank you in advance :) [link] [comments] |
| Meditation makes it easier to separate and identify my feelings Posted: 18 Feb 2021 05:40 AM PST For example anxiety and excitement are almost identical feelings IMO. Meditation allows me to separate and identify these feelings more clearly. [link] [comments] |
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