Meditation: This message came to me during my practice today and I wanted to share: |
- This message came to me during my practice today and I wanted to share:
- Here is an amazing quote by Richard Dawkins
- Just finished my daily meditation session and I want to scream how much I love everyone and everything
- Isn't it amazing ?
- Recently came across this beautiful quote by Fred Rogers and i think it's worth sharing.
- Click away monkey mind
- Full body awareness
- I meditate for understanding .
- Is Instant gratification (Instagram netflix) Reversing my Meditation Practice?
- Any good spotify stuff?
- I find it agreeable on so many levels. Couldn't help but, share. A quote by Albert Camus
- Racing thoughts while trying to sleep
- Meditation not working for me, feeling frustrated
- Accountability Partner
- Deepening your practice
- mysticism and Consciousness - Alan Watts - States of consciousness
- How long do you manage to be present?
- My healing techniques throughout COViD ����♂️
- meditation to me has been a phenomenal life changing journey, spiritually, mentally and physically just absolutely unreal, it saved my life and im forever grateful..
- What do you need help with? No need to bear the burden alone.
- I had a moment...
- Looking for advice to motivate me to meditate more
- #meditation Relaxing music
- Is it ok to prefer shallow breathing
| This message came to me during my practice today and I wanted to share: Posted: 06 Feb 2021 03:54 PM PST Move because you want to, not because you need to. There are good things to come, but only you get to decide if and how and when. Taking care of yourself, healing, and staying still are all parts of the process. Trust that you will know when you are ready. [link] [comments] |
| Here is an amazing quote by Richard Dawkins Posted: 06 Feb 2021 04:40 AM PST There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. The truly adult view is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2021 11:03 PM PST I just wanted to share this with people who would understand. Now I'm off to have my cold shower. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2021 08:49 PM PST Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. [link] [comments] |
| Recently came across this beautiful quote by Fred Rogers and i think it's worth sharing. Posted: 06 Feb 2021 10:08 AM PST When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2021 08:54 PM PST So I have meditated every night now for a few years and have noticed something. During these cold times I have an extra heating fan on. When it is night, this is all I can hear. Its not very noisy in any way, though. So sometimes im feeling anxious when I wanna meditate. This led me to come up with a practice. I noticed I was very tense so I started doing relaxation practices, trying to relax every muscle in my body even in the face. After being able to do this, when I was feeling anxious before meditation, I pretended I could press a button and I would just immediately relax all muscles. So I did this for a while, sometimes I had to remind myself about the face muscles. Some time went by when I did this so I did the same practice with my mind. Trying to accept but leave my thoughts for a bit. When I could do this I could implement the click technique where sometimes I might have a lot of thoughts, so I could just "press the button" and the thoughts would go away. This is where the fan comes in. I decided to use that as a guideline to listen to, only use this sense when I "press the button", just to keep my mind active and not falling asleep. This has helped me a lot recently, not sure why though. And also I noticed I have an easier time feeling my third-eye pressure when doing that kind of meditation. Not sure if I am on to something with this, though. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2021 08:09 PM PST I've been using the technique that was explained in The Midnight Gospel; the one where starting with your finger, feeling the inside of the body. Feeling the energy within. It's been a fantastic way of focusing my attention. Even better it's been an incredible way to stay grounded and have an awareness of my full body. I'm fairly new to a more structured meditation and mindfulness in general so this has been such an amazing sensation and experience. Not too much to this I just wanted to share my experience. [link] [comments] |
| I meditate for understanding . Posted: 07 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST My philosophy is that a good life is that which is lived for greater understanding. Anything that promotes it is good. I define below "two minds", please don't take it seriously, it is just an analogy to explain my inner workings. I have two modes of thinking. The rational mind, the one that needs to put everything into words. This mind "understands" by putting thoughts into it's individual pieces, going over them sentence by sentence, argument by argument, into it's microdetails. It takes a lot of time for the rational mind to come to am "understanding". The "other mind", this mind can grasp concepts in an instant without needing to communicate with the rational mind. It is lightning fast, can see the whole picture without seeing its individual pieces. No it's not intuition, intuition is simply the associative machinery, this is something deeper, it is only achieved through meditation. These two minds are always active, but the rational mind takes all the space usually. When the other mind picks at a new concepts my rational mind pesters it for access, tries to take apart the concept into it's arguments to understand it. I meditate to turn off this process, so that I can listen to "the other mind" without having it disturbed.; When the rational mind is not disturbing the other, the other is able to arrive at such conclusions within few minutes that leaves my rational mind in disbelief. It often takes hours for the rational mind to process, after a 10 minute meditation, the new '"understanding". Hence, as per my definition of a good life, meditation is essential for a meaningful life. Ironically this post was the rational mind writing down what has always been apparent to my other mind . [link] [comments] |
| Is Instant gratification (Instagram netflix) Reversing my Meditation Practice? Posted: 07 Feb 2021 12:56 AM PST I feel like i have reversed the benefits i have gotten from my Meditation i have been doing 15 Minutes 2 Times every single day now and it feels like iam at the start again even through i never stopped my Practice. I used to feel so much clearer a week ago when i didnt binge as much. Is anyone more woke on this issue and can explain to me why this is happening and what to do about it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Feb 2021 02:46 AM PST My sis is a big spotify user and want to use it for meditation (speaking preferred stories allowed) [link] [comments] |
| I find it agreeable on so many levels. Couldn't help but, share. A quote by Albert Camus Posted: 06 Feb 2021 09:42 PM PST You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. [link] [comments] |
| Racing thoughts while trying to sleep Posted: 07 Feb 2021 01:35 AM PST I try and lay in bed and go to sleep and I try and calm my mind but then 3 minutes later I end up thinking about random things without even realizing that I was supposed to be going to sleep. Then I try and calm my mind again and it works until I inevitably have more thoughts. The weird thing about these thoughts is that I seem to forget that I was trying to go to sleep before and just end up thinking too much. Is there something I can do to fix this? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation not working for me, feeling frustrated Posted: 06 Feb 2021 09:43 PM PST I've been meditating for quite a few years now using Insight Timer. My practice has mostly been an on-and-off effort (I'm SO bad at sticking with stuff) but it's been fairly consistent. Despite my best efforts however, I've continued to struggle with certain bad habits and just being aware of my thoughts and emotions. I was recently diagnosed with ADD back in 2019. The psychiatrist who diagnosed me strongly suggested I continue to meditate at least 20 minutes a day. I've been doing that fairly consistently since then, yet I don't feel like it's helped at all. I feel just as mindless and emotionally messy as I was then. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is it because I'm not meditating every single day? Do I need to do a different kind of meditation? I would join a meditation group but the pandemic is still going and there's no meditation group anywhere where I live. What do I do? I want this to work for me but it just isn't. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2021 09:17 PM PST Hello, looking for an accountability partner to do a daily meditation at a convenient time for both of us. I'm 29 M living in California, United States. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Feb 2021 03:05 AM PST I've used Headspace for 3 years now, just doing 10-15 minute meditation everyday (ish) - it's been great and I've really enjoyed this process, but I just wondering how I can take it further? Just feel like I've hit a bit of brickwall [link] [comments] |
| mysticism and Consciousness - Alan Watts - States of consciousness Posted: 07 Feb 2021 02:54 AM PST |
| How long do you manage to be present? Posted: 06 Feb 2021 09:58 PM PST Every master from thousands of years to now, they talk about a single thing: the presence, be in the present! But how long do you manage to be in the present moment and from how long do you try(how many days, months, years)? [link] [comments] |
| My healing techniques throughout COViD ����♂️ Posted: 06 Feb 2021 01:55 PM PST Since Covid, eye as a musician in all realms of creativity, have learned multiple healing techniques! When it all began in 2020 eye felt as if the world stopped breathing and my natural instinct growing up in Switzerland was to escape into nature! Eye did so and encountered many male and female healers on my journey in this new Covid Life (To me that means people, like-minds, brothers and sisters that eye can learn something healthy from to then apply that information and knowledge to my life) Some of the amazing souls are Erik Casano who is a Breathwork coach and taught me a "Bastrika Pranayama" where you first exhale all of what isn't yours then while sitting on your knees with a straight back, you in and exhale 10 times and on your 11th inhale you hold your breath for as long as you can. That's a quick balancer to help you STAY PRESENT at all times. So if there are any negative thoughts and emotions like anxiety, fears or third party drama that you absorbed through the wrong conversations or surroundings then the Breathwork will help you cancel it out and slowly you will become emotionless to the BS! Then we have, Mercy Magdalene who is a powerful female spirit that works with rewiring the genetic codes we are programmed to think we have to walk. She triggered the human design, gene keys and astrology interest in me and I've learned how to be more in tune with my feminine side through spending time with her! A lot of males and females tend to lean on the masculine side these days because we've been in survival mode so long and most will refuse ANY help! Initially an Ayahuasca retreat in Colombia already activated my overall balance in 2019 but there will always be people that will come into your journey to remind you what is and how powerful you are! Also Anthony Powers who embodies the spirit of music showed me how to vocalize and express myself better through words because he bundles it all beautifully in this poetic way that sparked my interest to expand and here eye go a few months later reading tons of books that I NOW channel through the music and art eye create! That's just to name a few souls eye've encountered but that literally triggered me in so many good ways that eye now can be highly productive no matter where eye travel to! In short, within a year of Covid journeying! Those are my personal healing techniques eye apply daily to keep my immune system strong enough against any Covid that will form in the future NOWs 1) Breathwork (Bastrika Pranayama) Wim Hof methods etc. (unlimited amounts of breathing methods) 2) Icebaths (one or few times a week is fine) 3) SunGazing on sunrise AND/OR sunset! Extremists can tune into SunBoofing LoL 🍑☀️ 4) Stretching and Dancing (YOGA) 30min minimum 5) Creating art for a minimum of 30min (For me it's creating music on all levels with no limitations, for others it's drawing, writing out what is in your mind, filming, editing, expressing etc.) 6) Running (fast walking/jogging) while listening to tribal and spiritual sometime intense progressive trance music that can be the power source or the running/walking or any activity of choice! 7) One hour away from collective stories in nature to know what is healthy for my journey! (Walk on the Beach, star gazing, Beach running, mountain climbing, etc.) 8) How would YOU live your dream day everyday? DO iT!!! The moral of this Covid story is that we are all feeding the monster! The question is 👀 Do you have a QUALITY CONNECTION with everyone that is currently part of your personal reality? If yes great! Keep crushing it!!! if NO start building QUALITY CONNECTIONS with EVERY ENCOUNTER and you will manifest all you desires and wantings! Let's start picking our desires wisely in a healthy and mindful manner on a collective scale! Eye personally think Covid is here to teach humanity how to humble down and start becoming nice people again with no jealousy towards others, no greed to have it all, no fears to control ones path! Only loving beings will survive and remain. It's all about HOW we move forward NOW! Covid is like the Karma reaction of how we have been living as a collective in this world! Meditation is key to seeing the bigger picture! We got this!!! Journey ON and embrace the love and light within by expressing it through the creative world!!! ~ LeRome Swiss [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2021 04:22 AM PST ill try to keep it short and sweet. so i mainly practice awareness for those who dont know, it's basically just staying consistently present/aware in the moment and observing what comes and goes and so on basically your true form of being imo, i began about two months ago after a looooong deep and very dark battle with depression, severe crippling anxiety and poor mental health in general. as most people are i was pretty skeptical & doubtful it would help the slightest but that changed way faster than i expected i could feel the effects after the first session but it wasnt lasting the real benefits for me took around a week or maybe two before i could finally start to feel the effects, my thoughts slowed down dramatically and became more precise and conscientious. waking up in a positive mood was big one, no better way to start the day. best part was learning that i didn't have to sit still to do it, once i got the hang of it, i realised i can take it with me anywhere and also practice while physically doing things, that was a game changer. ive been unemployed for over two years and have no real obligations, so i have a lot of time on my hands and after noticing the effects of meditation alone i decided to dedicate nearly every waking minute to gaining better health and for the past three weeks and for the first time in over 10 years i havent felt depressed! not even the slightest, never felt so consistently confident and good about myself, being able to catch and overcome my emotions/thoughts and refocusing my attention is just insane its been life changing, also having the first hand experience of depression etc is enough to scare me straight again, i never thought id get through it and now i cant wait to see what the future throws at me cause im swinging for the fences bby. thankyou meditation 🧘♂️ 🖤 i really just needed to share this somewhere and ill share more about the state of my depression and anxiety below and some of the main steps i took that helped me a lot if you're interested. drugs and alcohol took the wheel for the last 2 years of 5, i hit some highs i defined the lows, i lost my familys respect, friendships and the only person ill ever have that REAL connection with all gone in the blink of an eye Anxiety- i used to be quite the chatter box once upon a time confident and was generally well spoken, knew a fair few people and had a close circle of 4 and never experienced anything of this scale previously ive always had a healthy amount of anxiety up until around two years ago when it kicked into overdrive and stopped me from doing/saying virtually anything around anyone. the intensity of it was crippling. most confusing time of my life. it began when new people started to enter in to my life & for some unknown reason i wasn't really comfortable with and chose to go the wrong way about dealing with if dealing with it at all, when socialising around them or to them i would shake a little and feel extremely unbalanced when i got to close so i would try to keep as distant as possible thinking it would pass, then it went from that to my body completely seizing up voice shaking eyes began shaking and slurring my words, also the pitch of my voice changed completely almost sounded like i was trying not to cry whenever i spoke, quite embarrassing i became extremely incoherent and incapable of doing just about anything i could barley manage to walk around comfortably in my own house let alone leave the house without feeling like the ground was shaking beneath me, this got a lot worse over time along with the depression until i finally decided to do something about it not being able to speak your mind and say what you feel was the most terrifying experience of it all, felt like i didnt know who i was anymore constantly questioning my reality, Depression- tbc -my username is from a line/bar in a rap battle its has nothing to do with telling people how to be, just want that made clear because i've had people dm me about it, kinda wish i chose a different one in hindsight but yeah no hate [link] [comments] |
| What do you need help with? No need to bear the burden alone. Posted: 06 Feb 2021 08:23 AM PST |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2021 05:51 PM PST So I have been trying to meditate for years inconsistently and often have felt frustrated because I tend to judge my thoughts instead of just letting them go. I tend to push away thoughts and it's been a struggle. But today I had a very strange experience while I was meditating. For a few seconds I felt like I went to this space where my body felt like it just became one with everything else around me. I could notice my breath but it didn't feel like it was me breathing, I felt like I was noticing the breath from outside my body. Just hard to explain but it felt so great. I felt so calm, it's like I was just flowing with everything else. It last for maybe a few seconds and then I lost it. It was like a wave, it touched me and left. I sort of felt high for a few seconds. I tried meditating again because I wanted to stay in that zone for longer but I couldn't! I hope I can feel what I felt again! I'm thinking that maybe because now that I know how it felt, I might be forcing it. Thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Looking for advice to motivate me to meditate more Posted: 06 Feb 2021 05:40 PM PST I try to meditate every morning when I wake up, before I go to bed at night, and any other time I feel anxiety start to set in or need to refocus my mind. I usually start out really motivated to meditate at the beginning of the week, but it slowly deteriorates as the week goes on. I feel so much better during the day when I do meditate so idk why I can be so lazy with it. what are some things you do or thought processes you have to stay motivated to meditate consistently throughout the week? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2021 11:18 PM PST |
| Is it ok to prefer shallow breathing Posted: 06 Feb 2021 03:05 PM PST Hello all. I'm a fairly new meditator, inconsistently practicing for the past few months, consistently for the past month. One thing I'm noticing is that almost every time I try to use deep breathing, meaning long and slow breaths from the diaphragm, I find myself getting light-headed, then my heart starts pounding. It's all very uncomfortable and makes it difficult to concentrate. Recently, however, I've been making an effort to just let my breathing occur naturally, so that I don't feel like I'm forcing it. When I do this, I find that my breath is quite shallow, quick, comes more from the chest. Switching over to this style has already made my practice much better, and my concentration is improving a lot. I guess since it works for me, I should probably just keep doing it. But I'm a bit confused as almost every meditation resource is very clear that we should be breathing long, slow, deep diaphragm breaths. It's one of the few things that everyone can agree on. Yet it doesn't seem to apply to me. (I'm not out of shape btw, have decent fitness and barely noticeable asthma) Thank you for reading! [link] [comments] |
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