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- I just meditated for 30 minutes!
- Meditation while having spicy poop
- Can meditation repair brain after a messed up childhood?
- Crying during meditation?
- I thought you guys would like this
- When u think u reach the point of blessing and you return back to a cup of dog shit cuz you react to environment.
- Lonely peeps join me for Meditation
- meditation has eliminated my frustration... and my motivation
- When you realise your mind is quiet - advice
- Entropy in Nature and the Meaning of Life
- some music/audio speaks in tongue during a 'zen' state
- Accepting/Allowing/Acknowledging/Letting Go/etc. What do these things actually mean?
- Dear Guilt...
- How do I stop the music?
- How does conscious breathing change your thinking?
- I've just gotten into mediation but I want to talk about something. Your body releasing DMT during breathing meditations.
- Seeing single white light while mediating?
- Herbal teas and meditation
- what do u use in in your mediation set up (ie Chair or pillow) (and mediation techniques)
- Live Week-end relaxing music for morning yoga and meditation routine
- Live Week-end relaxing music for morning yoga and meditation routine
- Do Nothing: A guided meditation by DJKR
- Which one is more important for mental health Meditation or _______
| I just meditated for 30 minutes! Posted: 26 Mar 2021 02:29 PM PDT I kinda feel too relaxed haha didn't know my adhd brain was capable of this, haven't even meditated in over a month or something, not the best at keeping up the habit. When i did meditate, i never really did it for longer than 12 minutes but i just set the timer for 30 minutes and it went pretty okay. I'm planning on doing 30 minutes every morning and evening for the next 30 days and i'll see where it takes me. I've realized a lot of my problems (porn addiction, and my negative thinking towards certain aspects of my life) stem from clinging to negative thought, i often do the opposite of what i actually want and i feel like there might be a deeper cause to it. Maybe it has to do with my self image and mindset, i don't know but i might be able to find out once i get better at distancing myself from my thoughts. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation while having spicy poop Posted: 26 Mar 2021 03:06 PM PDT I ate hella spicy food yesterday, and rn my asshole is burning from the acidic poop. I have been also practicing meditation the last year and it just hit me, I can just meditate on this pain. All poops are temporary. Pain is eternal. Thank you for coming to my pooptalk. [link] [comments] |
| Can meditation repair brain after a messed up childhood? Posted: 26 Mar 2021 05:44 AM PDT Basically, my parents managed to wreak the natural evolution within me. I was homeschooled from 8 to 11, playing on my computer over 10 hours a day, many times 12+, without any friend, was antisocial and suffered bullying till 14 or something. My summers were all spent alone. My mother always told be "I didn't need any friends" which I always found ridiculous (even as a very young kid) and has a incredibly stupid way of dealing with problems my father got hooked on heroin and did a lot of messed shit, resulting on daily arguing where I was always nearby. They're immature as fuck. When I was 16, for example, my mother got mad because "I wasn't giving the meds (to cure heroin addiction) to my dad" because he would take them and spit out, made a turmoil because of that, went out (she's basically a hermit, unless working), and returned after making a tantrum. A year ago my trauma ressurfaced agressively, due to the fact there was Covid and I was forced to be with my parents 24/7. My brain was injected with strong intrusive thoughts of automutilation and homicide. I got paranoid and delusional, did stupid shit which ended up making me more paranoid. I've been meditating the last month and all the trauma appeared more visible (I had it already). I decided to accept it. It didn't cause me any physical reaction, but a mental disconfort, a kind of unresponsive agony. How could I win over my trauma if not with acceptance? How could I be happy if not destroying the neural pathways that were creating pain? I understood my suffering as a adaptation of my behaviour (epigenetics) not being compatible with my genetics. My brain created a way of liking pain and seeing violence as a way of coping - which didn't make any sense to my own self because I'm not violent on any way. The same thing with worrying, my epigenetics made me learn that worrying is needed, whilst my genetics told me that's stupid (so much, at least). Everytime I was violent, then, was because a external stimulus corrupted my mind. Intrusive thoughts were my mind fighting with what seemed correct and what it felt. Meditating has created a kind of.... positive brain-fog. My mind is focused on the immediate, not past, not future. There's a kind of sweet tranquility, as if my body lost it's capsule and transformed into the environment - wind on my skin makes me feel the wind. Seems like a afterglow of weed, just an amorphous peace, as if I had a home on every star of the universe. I'm worrying less and less, my past seems an unfortunate result of cause and effect - nothing to worry too much. My intrusive thoughts are dissapearing slowly, turning into a cloud of possible realizations which I don't care. I feel like I could do anything, and I'm preparing to make the best of my existence. During meditation I kinda stop feeling my body, as if my mind wandered. I turn into the senses that surround me: smell, phosphenes, sounds, etc. What is within me is a simple awareness, the only thing needed to thrive and be happy. Sometimes I'll feel a wave of energy which makes me remember certain drugs, which is built of a genuine joy. I hope whatever is happening will keep like this. I'm 19 now btw. EDIT: thank you all for your advice! It's very valuable! I want to share how I've been trying to cope with everything: from 11 to 14 I was obese because I ate a stupid ammount of junk food and didn't move my ass. My mother had the weird delusion that people would "magically get thin and elegant" at their teenage year. I was 165cm or so and weighted 85kg. I understood that I was incredibly unfit, started dieting, running, working out, lost 20kg, regained some 15kg in muscle - always thriving for activity. Started reading and writting at around 15, got substantially better at school. I've tried LSD as some have suggested with psychadelics, but not with a "healing mindset", more of a "let's see crazy shit" mindset: (https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/m6o9de/being_on_a_trip_is_like_a_poem/ (. I gained some insights about the nature of mind, but I still yearn for having a more organized and well-directed experience. Started too learning a instrument seriously. Stopped porn 2 months ago, as I've been addicted to it since I first saw it at 8. Got stupid fetishes, including BSDM, which I don't even like now and are subsiding a lot, which were reinforcing my pain-pleasure response (and driving me nuts, anchoring me to a sick past, as well corrupting my social capabilities). Meditation this month has been incredible: finally faced my most profound problems, the edge of my insanity, the constitution of mind. I've been asking this: Is there any difference between memories and thoughts? I would say it is only due to intensity. What is going on of so different between recalling a moment of your childhood or a love story you've read? I see no boundaries between reality and imagination: the majority of things we interpret as being x or y is due to imagination. Fearing one's reality is fearing one's own thoughts, as there is no other thing than awareness. Reality is like a dream, just a more vivid one [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 06:53 PM PDT Okay, this is weird but at least it's anonymous. When I meditate and start to hit the "empty zone", tears start to roll down my face and I feel elation. This happens when my mind is at its stillest. It feels amazing, like better than orgasm amazing, and last for about 10 to 20 seconds, but the problem is the sensation is so strong it actually takes me out of the meditation because I become so enveloped by it. It's like a damn breaks and emotion floods me; good, bad and ambiguous all at once. It's release. It's like stress crying which I've only experience once in a non-meditative state after a very traumatic event - though I've experienced the sensation during meditation before that event as well. I've been meditating for a several years, and I wont lie, sometimes I meditate to get to this point because of how light I feel afterwards. But now it's become something I think I should try to not be obstructed by. Any ideas on how to let these feeling pass and not be carried away by them? It's weird because I feel the objective is to have no objective and just be present and open - but when something like this intrudes on that space when I'm in a vulnerable state, it catches me off balance. Like my subconscious says "oh look the guard is asleep, time to invade!". [link] [comments] |
| I thought you guys would like this Posted: 26 Mar 2021 07:18 PM PDT I kept making excuses not to sit so I made a smart meditation cushion and set it up to only let me unlock my computer in the morning if I sit for 15 minutes. It also only lets me open my mini fridge if I sit for 30 minutes. I call it my Sitbit 😁 Video: https://youtu.be/DqqA2LnY55c [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2021 12:34 AM PDT Does it happen to you people, that you have days so amazing that you are like amazed how good life is like you are talking to yourself wow this is it, i reached to point of happiness, life is just amazing, how the heck even was I at the place that was anxious and depressed and basically horrible. But then you lose it, you react to something even though u shouldn't to some no sense in your environment, something pisses you off, and instead of ignoring it you react negatively, then all of the sudden before even realizing you get few other bad thoughts, moments continue, and then days can take again to reach where you were at this point of extreme happiness. Living happy and good life is actually about simple things, but those simple things are actually the hardest ones to manage imo. I hope you all have a good day, and beware of your reacting to the environment, it's just not worth it, if something sounds unbelievable stupid or negative just ignore it, let people be, you are not in charge of changing others:) PS: How long do you people meditate per day? Do you see big difference between 30 minutes and 1 hour for e.g.? [link] [comments] |
| Lonely peeps join me for Meditation Posted: 26 Mar 2021 06:01 PM PDT Reddit Friends, I would like to help my depressed friends by creating a follow along meditation. Just for a few minutes once a day. Please let me know if there's interest. [link] [comments] |
| meditation has eliminated my frustration... and my motivation Posted: 26 Mar 2021 04:14 PM PDT I used to be an angry person. I was hilarious and cynical and used this as fuel for productivity. After meditating for a long time, I'm no longer angry. But, I have barely any motivation to do anything, to create anything. My motivation WAS my anger. I used it to feed whatever I was working on. I'm not frustrated anymore. Nevertheless, now that the anger is gone, I don't know what to replace it with. When I read a post by Tucker Max, I figured this out because he said after doing mushroom therapy or something, his anger was gone, and there was a hole there, and he didn't know how to fill it. [link] [comments] |
| When you realise your mind is quiet - advice Posted: 27 Mar 2021 01:40 AM PDT Does anyone else have moments when you panic when you realise that your mind has been very quiet and that there haven't been thoughts for a while? I've been meditating fairly consistently for the last few years, a daily practise of 25-30 minutes meditation and also daily yoga. I was watching a movie the other night and my brain was still. There was nothing passing through, other than what needs to in order for me to concentrate and absorb the film I was watching. When my mind realised that this was happening it made me feel anxious, and I presume this is because my ego was trying to grasp and hold on because it realised it wasn't the centre of attention? I guess what I'm asking is how I can help myself embrace the stillness more rather than have my ego jump in and yell and freak out and think it dangerous because it realised in that moment it had no power or presence. Thanks for reading, and I hope this made some sense? [link] [comments] |
| Entropy in Nature and the Meaning of Life Posted: 26 Mar 2021 07:11 PM PDT I got a question recently asking if entropy is healthy. This question could not have come at a better time since I have recently been contemplating this concept of entropy. According to the second law of thermodynamics, in a natural thermodynamic process, the sum of the entropies of the interacting thermodynamic systems never decreases. Well, we can think about anything as a thermodynamic system even the universe itself and if the entropy of the universe is always net increasing then what does that mean for us. Well for one it means that whether or not entropy is healthy, it is natural and for two, maybe part of our goal in life on Earth should be to simply add a little bit of order, leave this universe a little nicer, a little neater, and a bit more ordered than we found it . If new entropy will never decrease then why not make something that never existed before or at least make your environment better than it was before. We have this life force that we were all lucky enough to be given. We could not choose where we were born, or to which parents, or our financial situation, race, or anything, but we can choose what we do with whatever life we were given. I made the decision a while back to use my energy to bring a positivity to the lives of everyone around me, to see a need - fill a need, and if I am going to put effort into anything it should be helping others and brightening their time here on Earth. Stuff is fucked. Chaos is all around us. In the words of Joan Rivers, "Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better." So, all we can do is our best to make some order out of the chaos. We can learn to deal with the chaos of life and even to thrive in it. We can all get better to the point where we can reach out of our own situations and bring love and compassion to others. We can spend our time and energy to leave a little order, a little sanity, and a little kindness in our wake if only to serve as our short lived legacy because why not, its just going to get more and more disordered on it's own anyway. I hope you're having a great week. I love you, Cass. [link] [comments] |
| some music/audio speaks in tongue during a 'zen' state Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:05 PM PDT recently i habe discovered that if you are in a meditative enough state or rather sublime, and you let go of any expectations, time and place of space, any song you listen to may or may not start speaking to you with different words, sounds, like tongues this has been happening to me recently and i was wondering if many people know what i mean, I think what has been happening is that my conscience or spirit is tailoring the experience to make it more personal..? clarified: the lyrics morph in a specific state. the best word I can think of is sublime, the bored state of the word with the definition makes a way.... content.. feeling like a cool fool i guess. its really really interesting for illuminating the mind, in how the choices we make just in thought can change the perception of the language/sound entirely hope this makes sense, i would love to know if others can or have done this, much love [link] [comments] |
| Accepting/Allowing/Acknowledging/Letting Go/etc. What do these things actually mean? Posted: 26 Mar 2021 01:49 PM PDT I just started meditating and I noticed both Sam Harris and Andy Puddicombe refer to things like "allowing thoughts," "acknowledging/accepting feelings," "letting go of thoughts," etc. What do these thing actually mean? I have no frame of reference other than what my brain has naturally done my entire life. Likewise, I don't really know what rejecting or ignoring thoughts and feelings would look like. Other than very purposeful self-intervention, i.e., "I don't like this thought so I will muscle it down and replace it with something else. Does any of my rambling make sense? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 04:09 AM PDT Dear guilt, I decided to write to you, because you occupy alot of space in my life. Sometimes...I think it is normal that you ruin alot of my days. After all maybe I shouldn't have behaved like that, so I probably so deserve you ! But still...other Times I think... This whole thing seems a bit excessive. Because in the end, if it doesn't help, what's the point of you being there with me at bedtime or when I am brushing my teeth, or just enjoying my Holiday ? Don't worry, I am not going to kick out your bestfriend called "responsibility", because he helps me alot. But you....agrhh, I still don't know. When you are alone why should I keep you by my side. You wouldn't happen to know where your cousin "forgiveness" is ? No, not the external one, but rather the internal one, I think it would sooth my heart... Anyways, that's enough chat, you and I will meet again, I know it. Sometimes you'll have gained weight and sometimes you'll be lighter... A bit like everyone else after all.. By petitbambou 😌 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:35 AM PDT I constantly, I mean absolutely constantly, have a song in my head. It normally doesn't bother me until I have to meditate and I usually get distracted to some extent. Anyone have tips on silencing this? [link] [comments] |
| How does conscious breathing change your thinking? Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:05 PM PDT I've noticed that when I meditate and focus on my breathing my thoughts seem to happen in a different way and the usual things I think about constantly also seem somehow different. I was wondering how does focusing on breathing do this? And why does does breathing differently change the way you think? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 09:41 PM PDT Your cells release DMT when they're low on oxygen. What if breathing meditations lowered your oxygen levels and caused dmt to be released? Causing the effects. [link] [comments] |
| Seeing single white light while mediating? Posted: 26 Mar 2021 03:32 PM PDT Hey folks! On my second session of Isha Kriya, I began to see this white light. Everything around it became extremely dark except for the light. I didn't know what it was, so I did a quick search online and now I'm even more confused/worried. ( mentions of evil astral influence, tinnitus, psychosis) Has anyone here experienced this or know anything about it? Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2021 01:15 AM PDT Wondered if anyone else had used Skullcap, Damiana or Valerian in conjunction with their practices. I've been using them a while and some of the profound chill they give feeds very well into meditation. Recommend them to anyone still struggling to quieten their mind. Really cheap to buy, and it adds a nice ritualistic element to your meditation, been coupling it with a singing bowl, nice to set the scene a little. [link] [comments] |
| what do u use in in your mediation set up (ie Chair or pillow) (and mediation techniques) Posted: 26 Mar 2021 04:29 PM PDT (despite my gaming user name i also do mediating bad nerves, i have very very high anxiety to the point it stops me going out side on bike and going to the store just got to unbearable even with mediation probly bc i dont know any good techniques ) I have a very hard time sitting on the floor with out my legs going numb and my back slouching or my head leaning back so i was looking intoZero Gravity chairs that i could get lost in my mediation with out having any seating dis-comfort that can handle 300. i find the light folding opt may not be that stable to long term daily and hourly useage 1-5 hrs. so what do u all use? (any mediation techniques been stuck like hitting into a brick wall at times when i do it or i cant get anywhere at other times..) anyway thanks for your help Erik [link] [comments] |
| Live Week-end relaxing music for morning yoga and meditation routine Posted: 27 Mar 2021 12:22 AM PDT |
| Live Week-end relaxing music for morning yoga and meditation routine Posted: 27 Mar 2021 12:21 AM PDT |
| Do Nothing: A guided meditation by DJKR Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:46 PM PDT I'm going to talk a little about shamatha meditation, and I thought it would be good to try and actually do the meditation as we go along. The actual technique is very simple. All the great meditators of the past advised us to sit up straight when we meditate. When we sit up straight, there is a sense of alertness, a sense of importance—it produces the right atmosphere. In this particular instruction, I'm going to suggest we don't use an external object, such as a flower, but instead follow the standard Theravada tradition of using our breath as the object. So we concentrate on our breathing: we simply follow our breath in and out. That's it. Our mind is focused on the breathing, our posture is straight, our eyes are open. That's the essential technique: basically doing nothing. Let's do that for a while. We simply sit straight and we watch our breathing. We are not concerned with distractions, with all the thoughts that occupy our mind. We just sit—alone, by ourselves, no reference at all. Us, the breathing, and the concentration. That's all we have. So we sit, we concentrate on the breathing, nothing else. Then some thoughts may come, and any number of distractions: things you talked about yesterday, movies you watched last week, a conversation you just had, things you need to do tomorrow, a sudden panic—did I switch off the gas in the kitchen this morning? All of this will come, and when it does, go back to the breathing. This is the slogan of shamatha instruction: just come back. Every time we notice that we've gotten distracted, we remember the instruction and we come back to the breath. Let's do this for a while. If we have ambitions—even if our aim is enlightenment— then there is no meditation, because we are thinking about it, craving it, fantasizing, imagining things. That is not meditation. This is why an important characteristic of shamatha meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else. It doesn't matter if we get enlightenment or not. It doesn't matter if our friends get enlightened faster. Who cares? We are just breathing. We just sit straight and watch the breath in and out. Nothing else. We let go of our ambitions. This includes trying to do a perfect shamatha meditation. We should get rid of even that. Just sit. The beautiful thing about having less obsessions and ambitions—and just sitting straight and watching the breathing—is that nothing will disturb us. Things only disturb us when we have an aim. When we have an aim, we become obsessed. Say our aim is to go somewhere, but somebody parks right in front of our car, blocking us. If something gets in the way of our aim, it becomes a terrible thing. If we don't have an aim, though, it doesn't matter. Meditators often have a strong ambition to achieve something with their meditation. But when meditators get distracted, they go through all kinds of hell: they lose their confidence, they get frustrated, they condemn themselves, they condemn the technique. This is why, at least during the first few moments of meditation, it doesn't matter whether we are getting enlightened or not, it doesn't matter whether the hot water is boiling in the kettle, it doesn't matter whether the telephone is ringing, and it doesn't matter whether it's one of our friends. For a few moments, things don't matter. You don't have to meditate for the sake of attaining enlightenment. If you are not interested in enlightenment, you can practice shamatha to be natural—to not be so swayed by circumstances. Most of the time we are not in control of ourselves; our mind is always attracted to, or distracted by, something—our enemies, our lovers, our friends, hope, fear, jealousy, pride, attachment, aggression. In other words, all these objects and these phenomena control our mind. Maybe we can control it for a split second, but when we are in an extreme emotional state, we lose it. Letting go of ambition is a bit like the renunciation that Buddhists talk about. The Buddha renounced his palace, his queen, his son, and his parents, and went out in search of enlightenment. You can say that the Buddha was trying to diminish his ambition. At least, he was trying to see the futility of it, and he was letting go. Letting go is quite important if you want to become a shamatha practitioner. We do shamatha meditation so we can achieve this power to let go. Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied. We get lost in millions of obsessions or fixations. But by meditating—by not doing anything—all these fixations are revealed. Beginners might find this a little frightening, but slowly they will gain inner confidence, and these fixations will automatically lessen. The classical meditationinstruction texts say our obsessions will undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself. Thoughts are coming and I'm telling you to go back to the breathing. You automatically interpret this as "We should stop the thoughts." This is not what I mean. I'm not saying you should stop thinking. All I'm saying is, concentrate on the breathing. When thoughts come, don't stop them, don't increase them, don't encourage them, don't discourage them. Your job is to concentrate on the breathing. That's it. Stopping the thoughts is not your job. It's important to understand the difference: thoughts are going to come; all you do is just concentrate on the breathing. That's it. Lord Maitreya has some really good advice for shamatha practice: When we are doing shamatha and the mind gets distracted, it is important that we remember the antidote. The antidote here is very simply to go back to the breath. We call this "Applying the antidote." But sometimes we apply the antidote too much, which can cause both dullness and agitation. You got that? If you keep applying the antidote—antidote, antidote, antidote—it's like applying the antidote when there's no poison. That becomes a problem. Always do short but frequent shamatha sessions. I'm talking especially to beginners. If you're going to meditate for fifteen minutes, start fresh at least thirty times. Over time we can start doing longer sessions—in a fifteenminute session, we can do it fifteen times with a break in between. And when you take a break, take a real break— walk, stand up, do something else. Don't just linger there half meditating, half not meditating. After a while, you can practice seven times within fifteen minutes. Keeping it short is important because if you do too much at the beginning, you'll get fed up with the technique. We are human beings—we don't like to get bored. We like to change what we eat, we like changing our clothes. We like change. Likewise, the spiritual path is a long process, and we need a lot of patience. We need to like the path, so keep the meditation short and precise and frequent. That way we develop strong habits. Later on, it becomes part of us. It's like drinking alcohol: when we first start drinking, we drink a little; we don't drink two or three bottles at one time. If we did, we'd get so sick we'd never touch it again. So practice shamatha for a short time but many times. That way you'll get habituated. This is necessary. Shamatha should become part of your life. And during the off sessions, also, if it's possible, remember you are breathing. We always forget that we are breathing. Also, you should not limit your meditation to only in the morning or only in the evening: you should do it any time, all the time. Practice time is always now—it's never in the future. Don't ever leave your shamatha thinking, "I'm going to do it next weekend, next month, or next year." Do it now. Anyway, you're only doing it for about forty-five seconds, if you're a beginner. It's easy. You can do it anywhere. It only requires this: to sit straight. As we meditate, we simply sit straight and watch the breath. So what does that do? It creates space. In fact, the technique itself is just a trick. The main point is to recognize all these thoughts and distractions that are constantly bombarding us. We still get angry, but we know that we are angry—this kind of anger has so much humor. We can actually drive it in certain directions—we have more control. The frustrating thing about our life is that there is no control over these emotions. That's why there's no fun. The whole purpose of Buddhism is to have fun, isn't it? And in order to have fun you have to have control. If someone else has control over you, that's it: there's no fun. Shamatha involves a lot of discipline. Lamas often advise us to do meditation in a group, because when we are doing meditation in a group, we want to be the best, the fastest; we have so much pride and ego, and we're so competitive—why not use this competitiveness as a tool on the path? It's like working out—if you buy the machines and bring them home, you do three or four days and the machines end up in the garage. But if you go to a gym, you see the other people who are diligently doing it, and all the other beautiful bodies, and it gives you inspiration. What a wrong motivation! But at least it will lead you somewhere. Keep it simple, don't make it complicated. Concentrate on the breathing, sit straight—that's all. Every day, do a few minutes, and, on top of that, do it spontaneously in different places—not just in front of the shrine, but everywhere. There's so much merit in just sitting there. [link] [comments] |
| Which one is more important for mental health Meditation or _______ Posted: 26 Mar 2021 02:54 PM PDT Right now i need to start as small as i can. Should i start doing meditation daily or Exercise daily?. I struggle with concentration problems and having no energy... I can do both but i will only do one [link] [comments] |
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