Meditation: Weekly Discussion February 15, 2021 |
- Weekly Discussion February 15, 2021
- Why is meditating so incredibly effective?
- I just realized why I have always failed to successfully meditate or calm my mind/body down. I'm always trying to change my thoughts not my state of being.
- Recommendation for Meditation Videos
- Mixing weed & meditation - what's your experience?
- You are you NOW
- Hi everyone, I made this website which plays relaxing sounds to help you fall asleep or meditate, it also has a page where you can try different forms of breathwork. I really hope you like it :)
- Yoga type for anxiety and mental health
- Self Love and Acceptance
- How do you cope when you realize you don’t know the truth?(read through) what do you feel when you realize your mind hides that fact by making up shit?
- Constant internal anger
- Why does my mind wander?
- Sensory deprivation
- how do i meditate ?
- Hi guys do you meditate with or without music i meditate in the sauna everyday with music is it good?
- Brain Hemisphere Synchronization - Binaural Beats - Meditation
- OMG WTF JUST HAPPENED. SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN.
- Pure awareness takes me deeper into Meditation
- New YouTube Channel for Meditation - Music For The Soun Channel
- Can we meditate while sleeping?
- What does releasing suppressed emotions feel like?
- Wonders of Saktipat
- Go straight to the Source
- Where do I start?
- Do you use your brain when you meditate?
| Weekly Discussion February 15, 2021 Posted: 15 Feb 2021 04:00 AM PST This is a reoccurring thread for questions relating to your practice and discussion around your experiences. Questions Ask questions relating to your practice, the theory of meditation, various traditions and lineages of thought, or practical tips. If you're new, please read our [FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/wiki/faq) before posting, as it contains a wealth of information that all of us should come back to occasionally. Discussion Also use this thread for a more free-form discussion of your experiences and other tidbits that might not warrant their own full post. Use this space to connect with the /r/meditation community, it won't be heavily moderated. [link] [comments] |
| Why is meditating so incredibly effective? Posted: 15 Feb 2021 10:16 AM PST I was in a very bad mood in the last few weeks, so it came to me I should try meditating. Since Saturday morning I have been meditating for about 5-10 minutes right after waking up! And WOW, after a few weeks of being depressed I feel like myself again. Full of energy and enthusiastic about my day! Just crazy. I didn't change anything else about my life, same diet same tasks. Why is meditating so incredibly effective? And why aren't we thought at early age how incredible it can be? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 02:56 PM PST I never try to change my breathing, focus, reactions, etc. I always try to find a new mindset to have towards life to fix my mental illnesses but if I want to become a new person who is social anxiety, depression, and insomnia free then I have to focus on changing my state of being. If I want to move beyond who I currently am, then I have to remove myself from my thought process, and the limitations that it has set. I need to become calmer in general. I think I figured it out this time. Let me know if I'm on the right track! [link] [comments] |
| Recommendation for Meditation Videos Posted: 15 Feb 2021 08:01 PM PST Hello! I am a new member of this community. I have some experience with meditation, but I want to ask good meditation related videos that I can learn from. I found a few below, and I would sincerely appreciate everyone's recommendations. How to reach enlightenment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT1E1wMD2hw How to clear your mind: https://youtu.be/Zwc0HaRZoGE [link] [comments] |
| Mixing weed & meditation - what's your experience? Posted: 15 Feb 2021 05:21 AM PST It hasn't been something I've been mixing before because they intuitively seem to not go together. But after meditating consistently for a while and noticing how the awareness is zipping into my everyday life more and more, I was surprised as I got stoned the other day when I noticed how easy it was to simply stay present. I decided to meditate and had an amazing experience where thinking and ruminating was almost none. (I did the Headless Way meditation, can highly recommend it!) But even more so, I've noticed how I naturally stay in meditate state when stoned (not always the case though, often depending no the weed I feel). What are your experiences and thoughts on mixing the two? P.S - I know some people might meditate to get away from smoking weed or other drugs and if that is you, I suggest staying away from it. You can get all the benefits without the weed obviously. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2021 12:17 AM PST You are you NOW this came to me while meditating and took me deeper. Just thought I'd share.. you are not your thoughts or past thoughts .. you are you NOW And the now forges who you are.
I hope this helps some people breakthrough the cycle of negative thoughts. [link] [comments] |
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| Yoga type for anxiety and mental health Posted: 16 Feb 2021 02:03 AM PST Hi everyone. After losing my brother i started having anxiety and fear, most of the times for no reason. Sometimes that fear makes me think that i am losing my mind. Can someone please suggest a yoga type for my situtation. I started doing kundalini yoga, but heard about its dangers and got scared a bit:) i just need a meditation that has calming effect and strengthen one's mental health. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 07:19 PM PST Hi! My name is Lucie, as part of my UX design studies, I am looking at creating an app to help people on their path to learning how to love and accept themselves. I hope you will be able to give me the best insight on your personal experience. All responses are anonymous. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2021 01:02 AM PST Okay I need to post this. I just come to a point in life, perhaps multiple of times in my lifetime, where I just does know what is true. Not that I cannot distinguish true from fake, but I simply just acknowledge that I don't know if my beliefs of life and if my analysis of life or of whatever analysis of anything is based on truth and thus don't know what is true. I don't know what is true or truth. That also my rational monkey mind is so easily tricking me making up stories about me and my life. That I don't know. Take up for example, the most standard believes you have. The most fundamental whatever, either mathematical, or spiritual, or anything. Anything of that context, ANY OF IT, is up to questioning. And since there is nothing that truly can be explained, only fake explained by the machine that gives meaning aka brain, what is there to be truth? I am not delusional, or at least I hope I am not losing my mind. I am only depressed with meaningless in my life. But does anyone understand what I am trying to say? The mind tricks us all the time that everything makes sense. There is no manual in life and yet things matter at times and other times it doesn't matter. What matters and what not? How do we know? Last bit: every neurotypical person has no problem with reality. Meaning that even if they question things, they still can feel content with their life experience. Even though the mind tricks. When I took psychs 4 years ago, I am left with this vibe that there is magic in anything. Don't be fast to criticize me.If anyone feels meaningless and that they don't know what is true, or true enough, how do you cope? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 03:06 PM PST Hi all, Wondering if anybody had any guidance or advice for dealing with a big lack of tolerance for the behaviour of those around me and the anger that is causes inside of me. Some of my family are genuinely infuriating with their ignorance and lack of tact in most situations, but obviously I can't control all of this, and know that I need to work on myself and how I deal with this. I get so wound up and angry from things people do, and spend hours and hours a day playing out conflicts that may never happen out in my head. I do mindfulness practices and Sam Harris' meditation on Waking Up, yet still suffer massively every single day. Time passes by and I realise that I've been playing these scenarios out in my head. I bring myself back to attention, but it just starts all over again. Thanks a lot in advance for any suggestions/tips on what works well for you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 09:00 PM PST I can focus on my breathing for a little, but then thoughts will pop up, or words will pop up, or a task I need to do afterwards... any tips to avoid a wandering mind? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 08:21 PM PST So I just started meditation not too long ago, I try to keep at it daily, and I have seen some benefits already. That being said I signed myself up for a 90 minute session for a sensory deprivation tank, and I'm curious if any of you had tried to meditate while in one, or any suggestions. While I'm not expecting to be able to attain full mindfulness mediation for the whole duration since I'm only able to fully around 10-20 minutes a session, any tips, tricks or experiences from those who had? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2021 02:10 AM PST it seems like my mind always wonders off and i just can't focus on anything and im not sure if i'm doing it right. when i try to meditate i listen to meditation music on youtube and i end up just getting sleepy so i don't think i'm doing it right at all [link] [comments] |
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| Brain Hemisphere Synchronization - Binaural Beats - Meditation Posted: 16 Feb 2021 02:04 AM PST |
| OMG WTF JUST HAPPENED. SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN. Posted: 16 Feb 2021 02:04 AM PST TL;DR - I started meditaion, something happened which is nothing less than a horror story. Please reply if you're experienced meditator So I have been doing breathing meditation regularly for the past couple of days. Primarily to get rid of bad habits and get better focus. I had plans to stop doing it once I am a better person/exams are over. Tonight was different. I had woken up ap 3 AM once as there was a party going in a neighbours house with noise, then slept again. I went in a dream. First of all it was a weird one. It was like a dream in a dream, something I don't usually get. In that (2nd level dream), I could hear someone brooming the floor. When I open eyes in the first level dream, the sound vanishes, It was enough to wake me up on the first level probably but I was half asleep. But I remember I heard people shouting from the party, they had turned off the music now due to the laws. So maybe it was just external noise which caused this. The next thing I am about to tell you is, pretty insane. So I am 17 right now and I play video games like everyone else. When I dozed off after the first dream, I had another one. One of the similar kind, a dream in a dream. PS - 1st Level dream - Dream, 2nd level dream = I am sleeping in 1st level and dreaming, so 2nd level dream. In this one, I see myself on my laptop searching something on google related to Minecraft. I come across a link, I click it and I see a minecraft video, which is 9-10 years old (I remember calculating this in my dream), then I see a porno(weird). I am anti-porn so I wake up here in real world. IDK what time it was. Probably around 6:30 AM because my alarm went on soon after that, which was set at 6:30 AM. I wake up, brush my teeth etc and go out for 10 minutes to get some fresh air. Come inside and turn on my laptop to study. I start thinking about this dream. All I remember is porno and minecraft. Not the actual title of the minecraft video, though I remember seeing it in my dream. But a random name is popping in my head. Lets say the name is "John" (not telling the actual till I figure this out). My head says to me " search JOHN MINECRAFT". So I open google chrome and do that. And GUESS WHAT. The first result is a 9 YEAR OLD MINECRAFT VIDEO. I AM LIKE WTF IS HAPPENING. (Those who dont know, minecraft is a game). Note that I played minecraft a month ago, and didnt watch any videos related to it since a while. BUT A 9 YEAR OLD MINECRAFT VIDEO COMES IN MY DREAM. AND I GET A NAME IN MY HEAD, I SEARCH IT AND A 9 YEAR OLD MINECRAFT VIDEO IS THERE ON THE INTERNET. I HAD NEVER SEEN THAT VIDEO EVER IN MY LIFE. IT WAS A NORMAL GAMEPLAY VIDEO UPLOADED 9 YEARS AGO. IN 2012, TWO DAYS NEXT TO MY BIRTHDAY. WEIRD. SCARY. This isn't the end. It gets more weird. Being curious, I look throughout that youtube channel. Like his about section, other videos, subscribed channels etc. It is just an inactive gaming channel. But as I am looking through it, I find something even weird. So that channel "JOHN MINECRAFT" is subscribed to just 10 channels, and I visit all of them just to check. In one of those channels, I see a video uploaded which is about spirituality, universe, creation, and god. It is a 90 Minute long video with different lessons. It is pretty interesting and makes a lot of sense and a lot of spiritual/scientific facts about creation and God. I watched 20 minutes of it. As I go in the comments of the video, I see a comment "WHY DID I SEE (video) IN MY DREAM". To that comment, someone has replied " SOMETIMES SPIRITS TRY TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU LIKE THAT". BUT WAIT A SECOND. I realise that this video is a reupload. So I search for the original one. Found in one click. It is actually a video, coming from a channel with 1 Million subs. It was uploaded 6 Years ago. It doesn't end here. The original video had more views than the reupload and more comments. But this is what the pinned comment says.:- "It blows my mind that everything in this video, from the three forces, the law of duality, and infinite recycle of the universe were ideas put into my consciousness by transcendental meditation, much long before i even started reading up on this stuff. Has anyone else came to any divine revelation of wisdom through the medium of meditation ?" This was the third shock I felt. Someone got to learn all that scientific stuff about God and Creation through meditation. And meditation lead me to the same way. Indirectly. See, I certainly believe in God. But I never do meditation with mantra. I sit back, relax and breate, left nostril in, right nostril out, right in left out and repeat and sometimes do Yoga. I do prayers though as my parents put that into me as a habit, but I've been doing that since childhood, even before I knew what I am saying or whom I am praying to. And there is no hard and fast rule for that, I can pray whenever I want. Hence I dont do them regularly. Prayer = A poem kinda thing in my regional language praising GOD. So was it a spirit trying to communicate to me using my dreams ? Or it was merely a coincidence, which I think it isnt. I just wanted to do meditation to get rid of my bad habits like oversleeping, laziness and procrastination, get better focus and get high marks at exams. But this is what happened. Someone please explain. OMG You read till here, thanks a lot. [link] [comments] |
| Pure awareness takes me deeper into Meditation Posted: 15 Feb 2021 02:43 PM PST I have noticed that just being aware of my thoughts, feelings, breadth, body, surroundings helps me go deeper. When I try to force myself to observe my breadth, meditation isn't so good. But when I just sit without trying to do anything, I actually go deeper. I have noticed this earlier too when I exhausted all my trying and sat, I went deeper. Trying to meditate or trying to get a good experience of meditation actually spoils the experience. In my experience, meditation is best when its effortless. In-fact it is also true for life, when we just go with the flow life becomes so beautiful. [link] [comments] |
| New YouTube Channel for Meditation - Music For The Soun Channel Posted: 16 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Hi this is our new channel Music For The Soul Channel in YouTube. [link] [comments] |
| Can we meditate while sleeping? Posted: 15 Feb 2021 09:48 PM PST People always tends to sit straight and meditate can we meditate while lying down on bed? and then go to sleep and meditation get continue while sleeping? [link] [comments] |
| What does releasing suppressed emotions feel like? Posted: 15 Feb 2021 07:28 PM PST When you feel an emotional release of something that has been stuck for a long time, what does that feel like? I know I have a lot of suppressed stuff but I can never release anything. I had some trauma and afterwards my emotions got really numbed down and diluted. When I meditate I can feel vague sensations in my chest area but they aren't strong and I don't really know what they mean or if they are even emotions. I try to just sit with those sensations. They aren't unpleasant or anything, they just feel like a slight tightness or something I'm not sure how to describe it. But when I was younger I remember feeling really strong emotions that would like encapsulate my entire body. Now I just get these vague sensations but that's it. Maybe it's because of the suppressed emotions? [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 07:12 PM PST Nothing should stay between you and the Creator. No gods, no saints, no practices. Go straight to the Source. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 09:20 PM PST I've tried meditation a couple times and I have enjoyed it but I'm never really sure if I'm starting where I should be. I use the breathe app and I do enjoy guided meditations but there are just so many different options that idk what I'm doing. [link] [comments] |
| Do you use your brain when you meditate? Posted: 16 Feb 2021 12:51 AM PST |
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