Meditation: Weekly Discussion April 26, 2021 |
- Weekly Discussion April 26, 2021
- There are 2,240,543,592 seconds in a lifespan but only one matters, the one happening now
- You ever notice how the times when we need to meditate the most are when we meditate the least?
- Excessive analysis perpetuates emotional paralysis...
- I prefer to meditate with distractions?
- Mindfulness Meditation vs. Sudden Realization
- Is it possible that someone people focus on the moment naturally and don't need meditation?
- When you are meditating, and noting distractions as thinking or feeling, is there a certain phrasing that you find useful? For example, “hello thinking”, “aha, thinking”.
- Uncontrollable Involuntary Movements During Meditation
- Effexor/Venlafaxine Memory Loss
- About to start ADHD meds but don't feel like I need it anymore, what should I do?
- Romantic Piano Music With HD Waterfall Sound, Meditation Piano Music, Re...
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- How do I meditate?
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- People with social anxiety has meditation helped not to give fuck to others ???
- It’s crazy how we’re all technically present, but not everyone is truly grounded in the moment... aware of the moment.
- The absence of desire that any given moment be other than it turns out to be is liberation ��
- Meditation has made my experience in life much less jagged.
- Letting go of steam
- Simple idea of meditation
- Is meditation backed by science? If so, please post your best sources.
- THE SILVA ULTRAMIND SYSTEM
- Does anyone else do open eyed meditation?
| Weekly Discussion April 26, 2021 Posted: 26 Apr 2021 04:00 AM PDT 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] |
| There are 2,240,543,592 seconds in a lifespan but only one matters, the one happening now Posted: 26 Apr 2021 05:52 AM PDT |
| You ever notice how the times when we need to meditate the most are when we meditate the least? Posted: 26 Apr 2021 10:50 AM PDT |
| Excessive analysis perpetuates emotional paralysis... Posted: 26 Apr 2021 11:08 PM PDT Excessive analysis perpetuates emotional paralysis. Knowing our issues is not the same as healing our issues. In fact, knowing is often a willful act, entirely incongruent with the experience of surrender required to heal. I have known many who could name their patterns and issues—almost like they had done a science experiment on their own consciousness- but nothing changed because they refused to come back down into their bodies and move their feelings through to transformation. It's safe up there, above the fray, witnessing the pain-body without actually engaging it. The key to the transformation of challenging patterns and wounds is to heal them from the inside out. Not to analyze them, not to watch them like an astronomer staring at a faraway planet through a telescope, but to jump right into the heart of them, encouraging their expression and release, stitching them into new possibilities with the thread of love. You want to become a holy patchwork? Heal your heart. — Jeff Brown in Spiritual Graffiti [link] [comments] |
| I prefer to meditate with distractions? Posted: 26 Apr 2021 04:33 PM PDT I like to meditate when there are people talking loudly, or when there's a lot of traffic noise, etc. I feel like it helps me focus on my breath more. The distractions help me remember to only focus on my breath, and I get to the point where I'm so focused that I couldn't tell you what the people around me were talking about to save my life. What do you think? Is this okay? I'm fairly new to meditation.. I meditate so I can relax when my mood swings get to me. I try to only focus on my breath and just let my thoughts go by without my intervention as if it's just noise from another room. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Oh, I almost forgot - is it normal to feel dizzy after meditating? I only meditate for 10 to 40 minutes a day btw [link] [comments] |
| Mindfulness Meditation vs. Sudden Realization Posted: 26 Apr 2021 07:03 PM PDT The pervading view in the meditation community is that in order to get to a place where you feel free and liberated from afflictive thought, interconnected, loving and present, as your normal state of being, you must spend many years meditating to reach that point. But actually it's been my experience that it only takes many years when your practice is concentration-focused. For example the typical mindfulness meditation instruction, "focus on your breath", is telling the "person" - the web of thoughts, associations & stories in the brain that we think is "us", to take on the task of finding the breath as an object and then keeping its focus on it while repeatedly moving that focus away from distractions. The person temporarily takes on another role - "the meditator". This isn't bad. It still reduces ruminating thought and calms the body, helping many people feel better. In non-dual pointing instructions however, "The person" is seen through completely within minutes, and no meditator role is created. Instead, there is a direct entry into an unconditioned, encompassing Now in which all experience flows seamlessly. Rather than an eyes-closed pointed focus on a single object (like the breath), the awareness is instantly expanded outside the constraints of any "focuser" or "meditator" perspective, into the vibrant spaciousness that all of experience is arising within, including the subtle energy of the body, and everything in the space. Think of the experience standing at the top of a mountain with a beautiful view, feeling infinitely wide open and connected to everything. Now take that same feeling, but simply sitting in your living room. Such instant recognition often comes paired with the rapid reprogramming of the brain and nervous system in the form of spontaneous energetic releases (surges of bliss shooting up the spine or filling the body, instances of faster or deeper breathing, crying, laughter, spontaneous stretching, trembling or contorting of the body, even vocalizations). In buddhism these are called piti, in Yogic traditions they are called kriyas. In my modern view, it's simply the body rapidly reversing and unraveling the various tensions from the old conditioning that was stored throughout in the nerves and muscles. Some people experience small amounts of this energy-release with mindfulness meditation (there have been posts in this sub talking about it), which shows that they're seeing tiny glimpses of that unconditioned awareness. But nondual pointing instructions can give very "wow"-inducing, big glimpses of it. And it's very transformative to the nervous system. Now you're probably wondering "if it's so powerful why doesn't anyone know about it???" Well the reason such instructions aren't so well known is because traditionally they have been kept secret, reserved for monks and serious meditation practitioners who have studied under particular teachers for years (in the places where mindfulness meditation was originally developed like Tibet). However there are some western teachers who were able to get the pointing instructions and now teach them to westerners who desire to be shown. I personally am not one of those teachers but I do have my favorites. They're all on Youtube: Loch Kelly Joan Tollifson Alan Wallace Eckhart Tolle Rupert Spira I personally find Loch Kelly to be by far the most clear, thorough and easy to follow without being too esoteric (his pointers are also on Sam Harris's app). Personally working with his particular instructions for a while, made the teachings of Eckhart Tolle and other more well known teachers resonate so much more, like I truly "get it" now. But the other teachers are also very good and some people may very well resonate more with them instead, perhaps the language certain teachers use clicks better for some than others. Anyway, I just wanted to offer this for anyone who's been doing mindfulness meditation for a while and would like to explore the next level of realization. If anyone has any questions, or nondual practice experience to share, feel free. Thanks for reading and have a joyful day. [link] [comments] |
| Is it possible that someone people focus on the moment naturally and don't need meditation? Posted: 26 Apr 2021 06:45 PM PDT They might not even know what meditation is or the fact that they focus on the moment day by day, it just comes naturally. [link] [comments] |
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| Uncontrollable Involuntary Movements During Meditation Posted: 26 Apr 2021 10:33 PM PDT Does anyone else experience spontaneous movements during meditation? If so what kind? [link] [comments] |
| Effexor/Venlafaxine Memory Loss Posted: 26 Apr 2021 10:51 PM PDT Can this medicine cause memory loss? I have switched medications from 75mg of Sertraline because it was not working for me to 75mg of Effexor. Since being on Effexor I cannot remember everyday things or things that may have happened earlier that day. It has gotten so bad that I have started to journal my thoughts to remember them. I plan on seeing my doctor, I'm just wondering if this has happened with anyone else. [link] [comments] |
| About to start ADHD meds but don't feel like I need it anymore, what should I do? Posted: 27 Apr 2021 02:08 AM PDT I was set to try ritalin, but I had a breakthrough with meditation and my emotions are much calmer, my attention much better, and my sense of empathy with others vastly improved. I am not sure that I need ritalin anymore, but I will be offered it in 2 weeks. I am seeking advice, because I do not know if it may still benefit me? Thank you for the advice ahead of time. I will also post to r/ADHD for other side of the argument and see what happens there. [link] [comments] |
| Romantic Piano Music With HD Waterfall Sound, Meditation Piano Music, Re... Posted: 27 Apr 2021 01:21 AM PDT |
| Manifest What You Want in 2021 - Join The Free Group If You Want An Easier Life Posted: 27 Apr 2021 12:50 AM PDT Hello my fellow medities. I just found out about this great facebook group where you can literally change your life within HOURS and manifest ANYTHING you could ever want! It helped me alot and so if you're interested, shoot me a DM and I'll get you the link ASAP! love ya, Yogi [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2021 02:08 PM PDT I was an alcoholic for quite sometime. I stopped when my family stopped talking to me. I am going through withdrawals and cannot sleep, eat, etc. my wife suggested meditation and prayers. But I don't know how. Can anyone help? Thank you Edit: Thank you so much for your wonderful advices and love. I'll do my best to follow through and will come back with an update on physical and mental health next time when I am healed from this terrible addiction and lifestyle. [link] [comments] |
| Attract Prosperity and Abundance | 432 Hz Frequency ✨���� Posted: 27 Apr 2021 12:30 AM PDT |
| People with social anxiety has meditation helped not to give fuck to others ??? Posted: 26 Apr 2021 09:29 AM PDT I am a beginner and can already feel little differences in myself with meditation ..but those of you who are doing it for long time have you noticed changes like not overthinking much about what others say or caring less about others opinion [link] [comments] |
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| The absence of desire that any given moment be other than it turns out to be is liberation �� Posted: 26 Apr 2021 07:51 AM PDT From the point of view of consciousness, everything is okay. The judging or berating thought is just a piece of language in the brain, just let it vanish like vapor in the space of the mind, for there is no thinker apart from the thought, the thinker is the thought. 🙏 [link] [comments] |
| Meditation has made my experience in life much less jagged. Posted: 26 Apr 2021 10:26 AM PDT Realized this at work. Kinda snuck up on me, so gradual I almost didn't notice. Hope everyone is having a good day. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2021 09:33 PM PDT Anyone have good strategies to incorporate mindfulness when they let go of steam. I know it's available but i feel it takes a level of patience and will power to do. Sometimes I'm so emotional that I discharge my feelings into undesirable actions and after exploring the action I eventually feel fine again. Can someone offer some insight snd strategy to get around this [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2021 09:15 PM PDT You're always contemplating something, but this time you're contemplating the source of consciousness. This is true meditation. True meditation is beyond the act of simple, one pointed concentration. For the deepest meditation, you must not only have the ability to focus your consciousness completely on one object, you must also have the ability to make awareness itself be that object (the one you're going to focus on). In the highest state, the focus of consciousness is turned back to the self. These are some lines from the book "The untethered soul" by Michael A Singer [link] [comments] |
| Is meditation backed by science? If so, please post your best sources. Posted: 26 Apr 2021 09:09 PM PDT |
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| Does anyone else do open eyed meditation? Posted: 26 Apr 2021 11:15 AM PDT I have been practicing open eyed meditation where I would hike up to a viewpoint, walk to the park, or drive to the beach, etc. find myself a spot to sit down and meditate with my eyes open taking in the beautiful scenery. Was wondering if anyone else does this or am I just weird like that? xD [link] [comments] |
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