Meditation: People who are at peace with themselves are bad for a consumerist society. |
- People who are at peace with themselves are bad for a consumerist society.
- I got into a car crash and the first thing I did was focus on my breathing.
- Meditation Challenge March 2021 ��
- I would like to share something
- My meditation flow chart. Hope this helps someone. Looking to improve
- Just woke up , bout to meditate, much much love to all those that need it as I dedicate my meditation to anyone that needs it as well.
- One breath work a day will keep the doctors away ��☀�� Namaste ��
- Things missed (major news, life events etc.) while on retreat?
- 2 tips to help you relax – the deeper your relaxation, the better your meditation!
- Reliving the past?
- First time meditating
- meditation to help quitting stimulants
- Meditation for Children advice
- Anecdotal Meditation Stories
- How to improve at meditating?
- Life and Meditation
- Calm or Headspace?
- I feel dumb in the present?
- Have you gained more from exercise or meditation?
- Healing?
- the greatest (spiritual/simulation) secret.... (?)
- There is literally nothing that is not an object of meditation.
- Involuntary movements post meditation
- Can monks/ high level meditators enter flow state at will?
- Happy to offer advice or guidance
| People who are at peace with themselves are bad for a consumerist society. Posted: 28 Feb 2021 04:59 AM PST The whole advertising and marketing industry is based on making you, as the consumer feel like you won't be happy until you buy whatever unnecessary product they're selling you or until you look a certain way using the latest make up they're selling. If women started accepting how they looked naturally and realised that they don't need make up, the make up industry would basically be over and a lot of people would lose a lot of money. The whole industry depends on making the consumer feel like they're not good enough if they don't have the latest iphone or whatever it is. And of course everything they sell us is designed to make us momentarily satisfied, so that we keep buying. But if someone is at peace with themselves they don't feel the need to buy unnecessary things to fill a void. I even wrote a song about this a while ago called 'We Want More' about our consumerist society. It's amazing how most people aren't even aware that the marketing and advertising industry depends on them being unhappy and then buying things to try and change that. [link] [comments] |
| I got into a car crash and the first thing I did was focus on my breathing. Posted: 28 Feb 2021 06:49 PM PST First I want to say everyone is fine and my car has minnimal damage. Right after the car behind me rear ended me with a deafaning bang! It took me a second to register what happened. Then the fear and adrenaline stated to kick in and I almost leapt out of my car to run and do something; maybe curse the driver who hit me or cry into the void how I just got this car a month ago. But a split second before I remembered how I sat down for a 10 minute sitting meditation this morning and reminded myself to calm down before doing anything. I focused on my breathing for a couple breaths. It made all the difference. After I was able to calmly talk to the people and even talk down someone else who was freaking out that someone rear ended them. And I felt sorry for the woman who caused the accident and realized that's what it was; an accident. At the end of the day our cars will get fixed and I'm really proud of myself for handling it this way and maybe this story will convey that it really is worth it to build a habit of meditating. Not only for yourself but for how you treat others in a moment of crisis. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation Challenge March 2021 �� Posted: 28 Feb 2021 01:19 PM PST Hi all! We all know that it can be hard to start and maintain a regular sitting practice. So I wondered if anyone would care to join me in a daily meditation challenge for March 2021? u/WCBH86 set up a monthly meditation challenge for the last 2 years or so, and it's really seemed to strike a chord here and received lots of engagement and positive feedback over that time. It provided a lovely sense of community and lots of encouragement. I'd like to continue his efforts. So, here's the deal: You choose how much time you want to spend meditating each day, and what sort of meditation you're going to practice. But you commit to practicing every day for the month of March, and maybe check in on here with others who are doing the same. The idea is to have some group support/accountability, to help you stick to daily practice all month long. If it goes well, then we rinse and repeat for the month of April. I'll make a new post for that when the time comes. Post a comment below if you'd like to take part. And if you'd like an accountability partner to really help see you through your daily practice, post a comment below that says "accountability partner needed". Then wait for someone else to reply to your comment, and say "I'll be your partner". You can help keep each other in check throughout the month. For those who use Insight Timer, there is a group for this called Meditation Month. Feel free to join up and find some extra accountability there. For those who use it, there is also a discord server for this : https://discord.gg/xcQAGNa Good luck folks. Hope this helps some of you start a meditation habit and others get back into one. TLDR: Encouragement and support for people trying to make daily meditation stick! NOTE: I like to encourage everyone who wants to take part and who leaves a comment below by wishing them luck and other little things in response. But I don't reply to people who have asked for an accountability partner in their comment because I don't want them to get a little "new message" icon and get hopeful only to find it's me saying "good luck!", and also because I think people scanning comments to see if anyone needs a partner might more easily look past those that already have a reply, even if the reply is just from me and isn't actually an offer to be a partner. Just wanted to let those folks who don't get a reply from me know that it's nothing personal! I wish you luck too, and am pleased you're taking part! :) NOTE 2: Since starting these monthly challenges, the Insight Timer group has grown to 900+ members, and the Discord even more than that! So join in and help make meditation a regular part of your life! [link] [comments] |
| I would like to share something Posted: 28 Feb 2021 06:05 PM PST I've been meditating daily for a while now but it hadn't really clicked until today. Something I realised was that what I had been trying to do was what I call "active acceptance", where I sat down and tried to quiet my mind and enter a meditative state. This doesn't really work because by trying to accept, you are not accepting that you don't accept. A more effective meditation is "passive acceptance", accepting how things are without trying, even accepting that you can't accept how things are. This can be practiced at any time and in any situation. Become love and flow with whatever happens. You are perfect just how you are, even if you don't realise it. [link] [comments] |
| My meditation flow chart. Hope this helps someone. Looking to improve Posted: 28 Feb 2021 01:14 PM PST My process - https://imgur.com/iYyJVgQ I started meditating in mid-2019. I use the basic mindfulness technique to focus on breathing. Meditation has not been a habit for me. But usually, I end up meditating a couple of times a week. Sometimes there has been a 15-day streak and sometimes there has been a break of 15 days as well. As I am more of a visual person, I wanted to create a flowchart of what I do currently and wanted your thoughts on it. This process is evolving and something that works for me. This subreddit and r/Mindfulness have been super useful for me to reach this point. Benefits i notice:
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| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:04 PM PST |
| One breath work a day will keep the doctors away ��☀�� Namaste �� Posted: 28 Feb 2021 03:30 PM PST |
| Things missed (major news, life events etc.) while on retreat? Posted: 28 Feb 2021 06:50 PM PST I just finished up a 10 day vipasanna, and the entire time I kept thinking "what in the world am I going to miss?"... It turns out, next to nothing. This got me thinking. What have other folks missed during a retreat? If anything. I'd love to hear it. [link] [comments] |
| 2 tips to help you relax – the deeper your relaxation, the better your meditation! Posted: 28 Feb 2021 02:41 PM PST 1) Be sure to take four or five full, deep and slow breaths just before each and every meditation to help calm and relax your self. Then breathe normally and begin to focus on your object of meditation. You know how important it is for us to be relaxed and calm for a better, deeper experience. 2) Another procedure I've learned worked so well for me that I rarely even need to do it anymore. It seems to become a part of you and very relaxing just to think about it. The procedure involves tensing and then relaxing small parts of your body. I would begin with my toes and feet, and I would tense and relax, tense and relax, three times. Each time, you relax a little more. I would work up my body, ankles and lower legs, upper legs, thighs, waist, belly, and on up until I reached my neck and head muscles. Tense and relax x3. The first time I tried this I was so relaxed, more relaxed than I could ever remember being before! – Paine 🙏🏻 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2021 02:24 AM PST Has anyone else experienced this? I've started properly meditating and have been meditating 30 minutes x2 a day for the past, nearly 3 weeks. I'm getting aloooot of vivid memories and flashbacks to times I thought I had completely forgotten, but recently it feels like I'm being led to these things. It feels like I'm sort of reliving the past differently - for example the first lockdown, everything that happened then seems to be happening now, I've started talking to certain people who I spoke to a lot in the first lockdown, I've been led to places which I went to in the first lockdown and I feel exactly like I did when that time happened. Certain mini things are just happening all over again. I also keep getting coincidentally led to certain feelings which I haven't felt in a while, including thoughts of when that feeling happened. I also got led to a conversation which made me feel exactly like I did for a while in the first lockdown (was a bit traumatic). It's mostly stuff from the first lockdown which was a very bad time for me and it's like I'm almost reliving it. It's so strange. Another thing is dissociation, I've noticed recently that I forget/supress so many thoughts and feelings and times that have happened in my life, I literally can't remember how that time affected me or what really happened until I started getting memories recently. I don't even remember this dissociation ever being a thing until now. I seem to just completely zone out and feel completely tired throughout the day no matter how much sleep I get, staring blankly at a wall unable to process anything that has ever happened. This has been a very common reoccurrence throughout my life and is definitely a coping mechanism which kind of bothers me since there may be a lot of trauma to process :/ [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2021 02:16 AM PST And I fell asleep right before work OOPS! Gonna keep doing it though, somthing feels different now that I mediate and I like it a lot :) [link] [comments] |
| meditation to help quitting stimulants Posted: 01 Mar 2021 02:13 AM PST So I heard that meditation can help when recovering from drugs. I read that John Lennon was doing TM meditation when he was quitting heroin but I'm quitting stimulants so don't know if that's the best. What do you guys think I should do? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation for Children advice Posted: 28 Feb 2021 06:10 PM PST Hey, my 9 year old brother has been told by a neurologist to begin meditation. Now, I have severe ADHD, and have off and on been meditating using a guided meditation app called Headspace, as it sorta cut a lot of the bull-shit of "meditation" for me and made it far more accessible. But honestly, I can only really meditate usually on a full, or close enough to full dose of Adderall for me; otherwise I get annoyed at my hyperactivity and can't sit still when my restless leg syndrome starts every 15-30 seconds after stopping and it pisses me off. He was told by a neurologist to begin meditating as a behavioral intervention for general stress relief after he was diagnosed with Tourette's (think just more of a childhood tic syndrome, he does not have very severe Tourette's in the slightest, in fact I wouldn't even really call it Tourette's because it'd be misleading to people, he has no verbal tics (which is the more rare form of Tourette's anyway) but he only has one motor tic, a twitching in his eyes, but that's it so far for 1-2 years and no sign of exacerbation or newly developed tics.) It's pretty likely he'll outgrow it on the prognosis so far, but she thought the meditation would help prevent exacerbation. She also noted, that it was important that my family is like the posterchild for ADHD... (We have a lot of it, in fact I'm the worst demographic diagnoseable of ADHD, I have it as severely as it gets...) Which was a little odd, because it was unprompted, like we didn't mention ADHD or anything, she just asked if it was in our family or who has it in our family, and my mother said it was easier to list the people who don't have it in our family (although I did know of some of the similarities between Tourette's and ADHD in the neural anatomy, specifically the Dorsal Striatum inside the PFC). I tried explaining meditation to my younger brother and encouraging him to use headspace for kids. As my mom had him doing some mindful workbook, which was just bad, it was poorly designed... She said he was acting like me... (I have comorbid oppositional defiant disorder). The was a thing, that had a block chain of 2 pathways of boxes that said, "a worrying thought" and options left or right to either, "keep it" or "let it go". My brother did something, that honestly reminded me of myself so much it was uncanny, he drew a series of new boxes with different options which I gave praise for as I explained the various flaws with demonstrations of the boxes, (reminds me of all the times on tests, I had PTA meetings, because on far too many multiple choice options, I would just create a new option, or select one, then write next to it, and explanation on why I selected the choice bc I knew it was what the teacher wanted, but I'd also then offer unprovoked paragraphs refuting why another option was actually better despite me knowing the one was "correct".) I showed him the TED talk, and a commercial of the dark side of the mind from headspace which is the one that got me into it in the 1st place. He's not diagnosed with ADHD, although he had a heap of problems watching both videos, even the 1 minute one, he didn't sit still, kept resting his head on his arm but then moving it, was moving his legs alot, or tapping, etc. I'm not diagnosing him at all with ADHD, but I'm saying does anyone have recommendations for meditations and mindfulness that would work well with introducing a child with ADHD into meditating. I think he does get, understimulated generally speaking in a sort of ADHD way, I can't say that he has it, but at least demonstrates a lot of symptoms but I can't say if it's frequently enough. Like, since school from home, I've seen him watching his IPAD at the table, but instead of sitting, he kneels on the chair or just stands, with one leg tapping etc. But this could be understimulation since it's online schooling and not in person, (Sure has messed me up with ADHD not gonna lie, in person is day and night with ADHD.) It sorta reminded me, because I never sat still or even sat in my seat a lot of the time throughout elementary to middleschool. I on multiple occasions had teachers get pissed off or otherwise bothered by my restlessness and 1st threatened but then did, take away my chair as some sort of punishment because if I was told to sit down in my seat, if I tried focusing on something like a worksheet, I would somehow become standing again or something and wouldn't notice I was doing it again. I still can't begin to comprehend, why some teacher thought, threatening, or actually taking, away my chair was a punishment/deterrent while I was standing? What's even the point in that? Make me stand more, as I was already clearly okay with standing since I did it on my own accord? I never understood as a child, how it was surprising to teachers who threatened this to me, that they would get shocked when they said they we're going to take my chair away, and I responded "go ahead"; like I'm clearly standing, which means i'm not using it... Do you think it's providing me with moral support or something? I actually had a really cool teacher, who would actually let me straight up pace around in the back of the classroom with a clip board, because I would straight up start walking if I go too bored, we found out the clipboard idea worked after tutoring to prevent me to fail and I started just doing it because I got bored from math. Shout out to Mrs.H in middle school. Even in highschool and I had a teacher in highschool, Mr.F, who if he got too annoyed of my hyperactivity, or to sometimes prevent it prior to a section that needed focus. Would just go send me into the halls to roam the school for awhile, and if I got stopped by anyone, he just told me to make up lies and say the he sent me to do something important, sometimes he would send me in another class room just to mess with people, I was a freshmen, so sometimes he would tell me to sneak into a senior classroom, either pretend to be a new student, or just not say a word no matter what just because, or sometimes he sent me to another class room for a bit, with some of his idk "Teacher friends", and have me watch a bit of a movie before we did something and had me tell him stuff about the movie and like review it. He was a great teacher! None the less, he may have ADHD, and he has the same tendency of mine, to offer a rebuttal for everything... And his Dad's against medication, etc. doesn't believe in ADHD type thing. So, what are some good ways to a get a 9 year old with possibly unmedicated ADHD, and a motor tic which could disrupt meditation, but what are some ways around this to introduce meditation/mindfulness? Sorry about the ADHD, being ADHD here, I kinda went on a bit of a hiatus, thanks for reading, Toodles! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 03:39 PM PST This sub is my absolute favorite. Every morning I read something that seems to speak directly to me and what I'm going through at the moment with my meditation practice. I particularly enjoy the anecdotal stories about students/monks, etc. What are some of your favorite anecdotal stories or general meditation advice that you like? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 04:20 PM PST Hi, I'm going through a lot of mental stress right now and need to get better at meditation. I'm struggling to sit still for 10 minutes. I have been trying for 2 weeks, the other day I managed to sit still for 10 minutes and I came out of the meditation feeling much more relaxed, so I really want to make meditation apart of my daily routine forever. Does anyone have any advice? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2021 12:55 AM PST Life and meditation go hand in hand. But if the purpose and idea of life is not clear then meditation becomes an opposing force to the normal current of life. This happened with me for a long time. I was torn between the desirous & outward nature of my mind which was always in lookout for a state of "becoming", and the inner quietude of my heart brought forth by meditation, where I just wanted to be. I kept rejecting that state of being by telling myself that I was not being practical in life. And to that end meditation just became something to cling to when I was anxious and restless. However, that idea of complete freedom never left me and with Divine's grace I persisted with my meditation practice. With time, it dawned upon me that the process of life and meditation are not at opposing ends. As the purpose of life became more clear, the conflict started to resolve and meditation deepened. Our life is meant to be an inner journey, an endeavor to turn away from the unreal and move towards the real, an attempt to reject the pull of darkness and seek light and light alone, a constant opening of ourselves to the Divine by stilling our minds, a process of rejecting our lower nature and raising our awareness to the higher Self within. And meditation is the same process canalized in a systematic and deliberate way. It is an intensified process of letting go of our lower self, which is always drawn by the vagaries of the world, and becoming one with the Divine – our higher Self, which is Complete (Poorna) As long as the realization that we are the lower self exists, we will find that our practice of meditation and our daily life activities keep on playing a tiring tug-of-war - one part of the mind contradicting the other with much drain of essential energy. There will be a constant conflict within. The harmony, peace, and joy that meditation can fill us with will be lacking in our expression & our lives. But if the purpose of life is clear meditation can become the source of dynamism for our living. It can act as the re-charging of our life battery in an intense manner. Meditation can be the spiritualizing force for all our thoughts, feelings, ideas, sentiments, and aspirations - for all our life and dealings with the world. When this inner secret is recognized, life and meditation go hand-in-hand, as if in a beautiful rhythmic dance. 🙏🏻 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2021 12:50 AM PST Which one do you prefer if you use one? I'd appreciate if you could get a detailed overview of why you prefer one or the other or suggest the other app that you use. About me in case app preference is subject to specific concerns: Relatively new to meditation, have hard time falling asleep in spite of waking up at 6 am everyday and feel very anxious before sleep. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2021 12:27 AM PST When I meditate and I have moments of being in the present, I just feel dumb. For context, I'm usually in my head all day with a constant internal monologue. So when I get in a meditative state where I'm just in the present, I feel like I'm not thinking about anything but it makes me feel dumb. Can anyone relate and is this normal? [link] [comments] |
| Have you gained more from exercise or meditation? Posted: 28 Feb 2021 08:00 PM PST For those who have both an exercise & meditation practice, what would you say has benefited you more (esp in terms of mental health)? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 07:39 PM PST Has anyone here ever personally healed themselves physically through meditation? (Ex. Cancer, improved hearing, chronic body pain, etc.) I would love to hear your success stories, if any. ☺️ [link] [comments] |
| the greatest (spiritual/simulation) secret.... (?) Posted: 28 Feb 2021 01:20 PM PST Hey everyone. I had no intention of buying this book at all (The Greatest Secret by Rhonda Byrne) - I showed up to Chapters bookstore looking for Alan Watts books and stumbled upon this... (out of curiosity of the name). Coincidentally ended up being about ideas Alan Watts also expresses and emphasizes in his own books..... and his quotes even appear in the greatest secret it speaks to: - the "infinite awareness" that we truly are - how dreams are made of the same substance that reality is made of... (pure illusion) - reality as an illusion/simulation *- "some traditions tell us that in our human life we also get a new body every time we die, until we "finish the game" by waking up and fully realizing who we are - awareness" - dissolving limiting beliefs and attachments - our true nature is happiness.... - the end of suffering through practicing being present/aware of each and every moment - the book is full of quotes from spiritual sages dating back to 2500 years ago saying the same thing that the "current sages" are saying today.... and that's not even the half of it.... this book is just something else... lately I have found this sudden urge to just share everything ive been finding out and learning because of the substance it holds and how phenomenal it all is... ideas that I would push aside and deem as "crazy" are somehow making full on sense to me..... its absurd how my thought process on the subject matter has changed completely. From calling it bullshit to hearing it out... and since my mom won't listen to my craziness (lol) I needed another way to express myself... no better way right now like the internet... thought I'd start a dialogue on here lol i also made a YouTube video about it pinned to my profile... its nice to speak things out loud to fully understand these concepts, for myself anyway haha. cheers [link] [comments] |
| There is literally nothing that is not an object of meditation. Posted: 28 Feb 2021 03:01 AM PST There is not one experience, sensation or event that cannot be meditated upon. Mediation is the space of awareness and you can find this meta-awareness in anything. There does not have to be silence, your eyes do not have to be closed, you don't have to be warm, sat down, happy, sad. Non of this matters. Simply pay attention to what arises in consciousness. Much love <3 [link] [comments] |
| Involuntary movements post meditation Posted: 28 Feb 2021 08:56 PM PST I m a regular meditator and meditate on average 2 hours per day. 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening. On weekends, it can last 3-4 hours. Today something unusual happened A) during meditation.
B) after meditation
It's been more than 4 hours since I have finished meditation but it's still continuing. There is no pain or u comfort as such , but on the contrary I feel quite relaxed. Please advise Edit: My stomach is getting pulled inwards [link] [comments] |
| Can monks/ high level meditators enter flow state at will? Posted: 28 Feb 2021 02:37 PM PST |
| Happy to offer advice or guidance Posted: 28 Feb 2021 04:47 PM PST Hello all, I'm not a expert by any means. It is just my hope that sharing what I've learned through 6 years of meditation might benefit others with their practice. So feel free to ask whatever questions you might want and I'll try my best to offer advice, practical meditation tips, or anything else you might be wondering. [link] [comments] |
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