Meditation: I saw me for the first time. |
- I saw me for the first time.
- Just had a breakthrough, I'm very happy with my progress.
- What's the consensus on Headspace?
- What to Do with Your Mind During Meditation?
- Dare to be rare! Shower thoughts?
- Small feelings of depresion after meditation
- Stressed out student
- The Power of Now
- Just sharing
- Experienced Meditators please advice.
- The goal of meditation
- Does anyone have any helpful beginner tips?
- Activity
- Everything is so temporary, and that's good
- How to quiet "undertone" chatter?
- Any books or resources to deal with the concept of impermanence?
- Just a thought
- Don't let thoughts disturb you.
- Isn't it profound how willing and able the mind is to have a sharp focus on random thoughts rather than what you ask it to?
- What are we letting go of?
- Where do you draw the line w/ internal compassion for others?
- Sweet Piano Music for Relaxing and Soft Uplifting
- Hola
- Dealing with perfectionism, judgement and competitiveness
| Posted: 26 May 2021 12:32 PM PDT After doing yin yoga practice , I transitioned into meditation. The calmness of my yoga practice helped me really eased me into my meditation practice so it didn't take much work to still my mind. I'm still relatively new to meditation and have been doing it on and off for the past 3 years, but today I saw "me". I understood what it means when people say your body is just a vessel for your soul. I saw and felt this energy of light and I instantly just knew it was me. My heart chakra began radiating light and a smile just appeared on my face without even trying or thinking to smile. I felt so connected to myself and after my mediation I just kept putting my hands on my heart, taking a deep breath, and smiling. I just had this warm, comforting feeling and reassurance. I would love to hear others experiences with this feeling! [link] [comments] |
| Just had a breakthrough, I'm very happy with my progress. Posted: 26 May 2021 06:34 PM PDT I've been meditating once or twice daily for a few weeks now with 5-10 minute sessions each time. I recently picked up the book "The inner game of Tennis" and it described the art of effortlessly allowing your brain to enter its peak performance state, how inside each of us is an inner analyst and an inner doer. About 3 minutes in (I'm guessing), I thought, why not apply this to my meditation? And sure enough, through effortlessness I was able to meditate for a solid 20 minutes (a feat I've never achieved), and instead of being discouraged by my wandering mind, I simply accepted it and the purpose of these thoughts. How can I focus on my breathing if focusing on other things is impossible? Only through having an active imagination can I quiet it; the two states are opposites yet allow the other to exist. The art of effortlessness is truly incredible, so is meditation. [link] [comments] |
| What's the consensus on Headspace? Posted: 26 May 2021 07:31 PM PDT Should i get a one year subscription,is it cost effective?. [link] [comments] |
| What to Do with Your Mind During Meditation? Posted: 26 May 2021 09:51 PM PDT One of the common mistakes people make when beginning a meditation practice is believing that it is simply a way to turn off your mind. Your mind is a radiant, brilliant, amazing thing and there is no off switch. Meditation is not about zoning out and becoming a vegetable. You can befriend yourself in meditation, use it to transcend your usual experience, even have a powerful realization depending on what technique you are doing, but let's be clear that your mind will remain "on." Many types of meditation are not about getting rid of thoughts but about establishing a healthier relationship with what is going on in the mind. One of my favorite words for meditation is the Tibetan term "gom," which can be translated as "become familiar with." In other words, meditation is a way to become more familiar with what is going on in your mind and more familiar with the types of thoughts that come up throughout your day. [link] [comments] |
| Dare to be rare! Shower thoughts? Posted: 26 May 2021 11:04 PM PDT Living in the past and future means that while you're taking a shower or bath, instead of enjoying the feel of the water on your skin and the slippery soap bubbles, the fresh soap smell of the present moment, instead of all that you occupy your mind with what happened at work, or with what you want to do tomorrow, or the chewing you got from your boss, or what am I going to get him (or her) for his birthday??? Present moment, folks! Keep that inner being awake and STOP... smell the flowers and that fresh, clean soap you wash with! [link] [comments] |
| Small feelings of depresion after meditation Posted: 26 May 2021 07:12 PM PDT I've been meditating on and off for the past 20 years. Although I would like to establish consistency, usually after couple of weeks I get depressed, so I quit. That feeling only comes when meditating. I feel good otherwise. Recently, even after 1 or 2 days of 20 minutes meditation the feeling comes back. Any advice or ideas on moving forward? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 May 2021 07:07 PM PDT Hi everyone, I'm new here and not sure if this is the right place to post this so bear with me. I'm a student right now. I wouldn't say that I'm stressed, more just anxious about all the things I have to do, and once I do it there's always something else to worry about. Will meditation help me? If so, how should I start? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 May 2021 07:46 AM PDT As someone who has been meditating since 2 years, I currently picked up The Power of Now by Eckhart and wow! The author has explained everything in such a simple yet accurate manner. Every question that arises in your mind, almost all of them are answered here. If you are someone who already believes in the power of meditation and wants to look at it from the enlightenment point of view, I would recommend you to read this book. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 May 2021 10:34 PM PDT Since I have begun meditating, I have had a lot of "issues" come up and along with them strong emotions. It can become rather overwhelming sometimes and just observing becomes extremely difficult. Although I understand the emotions must be felt and released. But sometimes it is a longer process because of its complexity. I would feel discomfort, but wouldn't be able to tell what was causing the discomfort. I wanted to know what the underlying issue was and get rid of it right there and then. I wouldn't even be able to identify what emotions I was feeling, leading to frustration and struggle and more frustration. However, what has helped me is to be patient with myself. Allowing it to rise at its own pace. Accepting that it will take time. I think it may have been one of Adyashanti's talks where he goes, "Stop struggling". [link] [comments] |
| Experienced Meditators please advice. Posted: 26 May 2021 09:05 PM PDT I have been always a Stoic but now the life situations that i exist amidst of have started overwhelming me in a very negative way. I wake up with migrain that goes on all day till i sleep. Sleep is the only escape for me. I have lost the ability to focus. I feel my mental capability is deteriorating. I mean my memory and logic. I used to meditate earlier but now i just cannot because of my migrains. I have'nt experienced peace since months. I am constantly agitated. Agitation is worse than depression because it makes one restless. Need serious advice. What can i do from today onwards inorder to become peaceful ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 May 2021 07:03 PM PDT I think most of the time people don't talk about this because meditation won't work if it becomes too goal oriented. You end up losing your meditative state once you become focused on an idea, so emphasis is always on the practice and not what it achieves. In my experience, if you achieve a state of mindfulness, you can then let your mind go blank. If your mind goes completely blank, you become like a vacuum, completely empty inside and very receptive. Once you enter this state of receptivity, you begin to pull in energy from the universe, which in my experience is the whole point of meditation practice. You imbibe the life force energy, or prana, or chi, which permeates all things, and this is what can eventually allow you to become one with the universe. By meditating, you completely set aside your body and mind to experience what is beyond you. Do you agree or disagree? How does your experience of meditation compare to mine? [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone have any helpful beginner tips? Posted: 26 May 2021 05:22 PM PDT I just started meditating, and I noticed how difficult it is to meditate. Is it just me? Going into meditating, I would never expect to be so tired so easily from sitting down with my eyes closed. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 May 2021 08:29 PM PDT Y'all ever sit in one place, close your eyes, focus on your breathing & try to think as little as possible ? 🤣🤣🤣 this shit crazy fr [link] [comments] |
| Everything is so temporary, and that's good Posted: 26 May 2021 09:57 PM PDT Had a few tough days recently, yesterday was especially worse. I was really talking myself down, in a way nobody should. Made myself feel terrible for the smallest mistakes, and things kind of just spiraled out of control. Finding myself in a position of low-self worth is not very rare, but I really tried to understand why it even happens because its so draining. The only thing I understood that can help with negative self-talk and poor self-worth is just recognizing that everything is temporary. It is often our thoughts that guide us into this state of being, but what the hell are our thoughts? We clearly do not think them (why would I intentionally put myself down?), we clearly have no control over them (they appear every now and then without warning), the only thing we can do is change how we react to them. Thoughts are like some of your everyday nuances - they're so temporary. You have as much control over your thoughts as you do the sounds around you. So don't think that every thought that pops into your head has to be attached to something, it'll pass all on its own. All you need to do is recognize when you're engaging with a thought, and giving it more power than it needs, and an anchor surely helps with this. [link] [comments] |
| How to quiet "undertone" chatter? Posted: 26 May 2021 08:12 PM PDT I've been attempting meditation for a few weeks now. I've been doing a mix of guided meditations and just using insight timer to track how long I'm meditating for. Often when I'm meditating I feel like I can quiet all the front brain thoughts, as in direct thoughts if that makes any sense. Its all the stuff underneath that I can't quite seem to calm. Most of the time I can't even get a grasp on what exactly those thoughts are, but I can feel that they're there. Does anyone else have any experience with this? Any tips for someone relatively new to meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Any books or resources to deal with the concept of impermanence? Posted: 27 May 2021 02:14 AM PDT I am particularly looking for any book recommendations or suggestions dealing with the concept of impermenance as l really want to understand this in depth and be liberated by the constant anxiety that drives me nuts with holding on to fleeting relationships, etc etc any recommendations? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 May 2021 05:35 AM PDT I started meditating on a daily basis about 6-7 months ago. Like many others who start meditating on a daily basis I wanted to see results and got frustrated when I didn't see any results. Anyways, the other day I was sitting in my living room and I looked at a plant I have had for about a year and I though "that plant has gotten bigger..... I have no idea how it looked before but it have definitely grown... I haven't seen it grow it just looks bigger" This may sound corny or banal but I think it is like that with the effects on meditation. I should say that I haven't been able to work for the past 9 months because I have a condition called MUS (medically unexplained symptoms). Basically it is a bunch of physical symptoms with no physical explanation. But now after 6-7 months of daily meditation I am starting to work again, my sleep has improved A LOT, and the best part is that I am so much more calm in social settings. It is like my mind is finally resting and I feel this peace within my body that is hard to describe. I think it is like the plant. You don't see the changes because it is a slow process but one day it is just there. It makes sense to me and maybe it will make sense to someone else who is new to meditation. [link] [comments] |
| Don't let thoughts disturb you. Posted: 26 May 2021 04:00 AM PDT Thoughts by themselves have no power over you, they only disturb you once you identify or engage with them. Literally the instant you identify with any particular thought, you take on it's particular shape. For example, if you identify with a sad thought you will instantly start experiencing sadness and so on. Identifying with thoughts is actually what causes people to be violent, greedy and all those other unpleasant things, but if a thought comes and you don't identify with it then it can have no power over you. The only power it has is the one you give it through identifying with it. Basically what thoughts want is your attention, it's like food to them; the more food (attention) you give a thought the more it grows and has power over you. We have more than 3000 thoughts a day and most of those thoughts are repetitive mostly because whenever they come you give them good reception, meaning you give them attention. It's like feeding pigeons, if you feed them they'll keep coming because you're giving them what they want. So stop feeding your pigeon thoughts and they won't disturb you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 May 2021 09:35 AM PDT I've begun meditating again after taking a long break and my goodness how much the mind does wander. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 May 2021 04:22 PM PDT I often hear that in meditation, we are not trying to "get" anything. Instead, we are letting go. In your experience/opinion, what are we trying to let go of as practitioners? Posting this in two places because I get excellent answers from both subreddits :) Thanks everyone. [link] [comments] |
| Where do you draw the line w/ internal compassion for others? Posted: 26 May 2021 02:55 PM PDT When someone is a jerk, many mediators would prefer that rather than be angry, that they react w internal compassion towards the individual. Maybe the person had a terrible day or a rough life, and they're probably doing the best they can. But when it comes to sociopaths/psychopaths, all the way up the spectrum to the Hitlers of the world, where do you draw the line and kind of turn off that internal compassion for them? Or do you never turn it off at all? And why? [link] [comments] |
| Sweet Piano Music for Relaxing and Soft Uplifting Posted: 26 May 2021 10:22 PM PDT |
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| Dealing with perfectionism, judgement and competitiveness Posted: 26 May 2021 08:38 AM PDT So, somehow during my meditation time (been at it for a few months regularly, dabbled for some more time) it's become obvious to me that pretty much 90% of my own problems come from an extreme perfectionism that leads me to judge myself and others harshly, and to be competitive about anything - I'm aware of several things I've done just to be "better than" someone else, e.g. looking to form huge group of friends because social status, even though I'm actually an introverted, small groups of people type. Lately it's become pretty much unbearable - a friend tells me they've passed an exam? I get depressed about my (good, but not as good) studying situation and want to start studying much harder to get an even better grade. Someone I know gets into a relationship? I become very depressed about being single (even though I have actively chosen to stay so because I'll be moving far away very soon). Someone else gets to organize a small party? Quick, I need to gather people too (even though I don't really care about parties). I'm using "depressed" in a "ouch that stung and will sting for some days" way, not in the clinical depression way. I didn't have a better word, sorry. It's exhausting. I've talked about it extensively with my therapist and, while we've explored the causes of this, I feel this didn't give me a "solution". Most meditation advice I've heard is "just sit with it", but I don't understand how to do this. I either engage these thoughts (which bring me no good) or try to ignore them/suppress them, which only causes them to resurface later. What is the good way to do that? Thank you if you've read so far, looking forward to any advice. [link] [comments] |
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