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- Old guy's meditation history
- During meditation I realized that I attribute my self worth to my thoughts. Does anyone else do this?
- When we are suffering, we feel trapped. Focusing on our breath frees us from that trap.
- A Great Deal of Our Adult Emotional Reactions come from an Innocent Child-like Place.
- Everyone is a buddha/ christ/ any "prophet", only pretending you're not.
- Let your mind say whatever it wants, just don't identify with it.
- How do I start meditation
- Why am I so resistant?
- Temptation..
- I just love to meditate to music like this. Does anyone know similar music?
- Meditating on a problem
- Looking from the Heart.
- How do you explain the tingling/twitching sensations throughout the body during meditation?
- Avoidance to stressful stuffs
- Very intense altered states of consciousness after two weeks of meditation.
- I just meditated for the first time, It was a trip.
- Holding mudras during meditation?
- I feel being watched during meditation
- Zen Story - "Maybe "
- Heavenly Voices Meditation Music| Relaxing sounds
- Why does about half of our worlds population draw conclusions based on no factual evidence?
- Tips for meditating if you have hard time letting go of control and have usually though OCD?
- Relax
- Question about what may lay ahead of me in my meditation journey.
| Posted: 16 May 2021 11:29 PM PDT Long before I started meditating I was in a students university building lstening to a Moody Blues album on headphones (don't laugh) and I was tired and not really focused and suddenly totally out of the blue a surge of energy moved up my spine and exploded in my brain. Kundalini maybe. Several years later, now not a short hair university student but a long haired dude living in Toronto (maybe 24 years old), I was meditating focusing on long breaths. The surge of energy up my spine to my brain happened again. This occured one more time during this period in my life. Off and on I meditated over the years , but sadly the off years were more frequent than the on years. And mostly the sessions showed that my monkey mind was firmly in charge. As a 71 year old male, I did an unusual thing during the last year. I got hold of some magic mushrooms, and did a number of trips over a number of months. I experienced some clear cut benefits from these trips which I won't get into here. But the benefit that I think is relevant here is that my meditation deepened right after I completed my mushroom adventures. Meditation and hallucinagenics both seem to encourage neural plasticity, and so I believe that meditation has likely helped to maintain the improvement in both my cognitive function and my overall mood. Will I need to revisit the mushroom experience in the future? Maybe. But meditation for me is the practice that will be there every day as long as I can sit. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 May 2021 08:27 AM PDT I tend to value my thoughts a bit too much. I identify with them and also believe everything that I think is true. Does anyone else does this and what can be a step beyond this? [link] [comments] |
| When we are suffering, we feel trapped. Focusing on our breath frees us from that trap. Posted: 16 May 2021 10:13 PM PDT You know the feeling. When the walls feel like they are caving in around you. When you are overwhelmed by the sheer weight of it. When no one understands, and you are completely alone... It's easy to feel lost and helpless, but you are never hopeless. Our breath is our hope. The ability to recognize when we're in a bad spot, and choose to bring our attention away from our suffering, this is the miracle of meditation. Whoever you are, wherever you are, you are not alone in your suffering. Choose hope, remember to breathe [link] [comments] |
| A Great Deal of Our Adult Emotional Reactions come from an Innocent Child-like Place. Posted: 16 May 2021 10:03 AM PDT Inner-child work is an amazing parts-oriented therapeutic approach for people to explore the psychodynamics of their childhood relationships to their caregivers. This approach allows us to examine the emotional responses that often drive our decisions in important areas of our life such as: work, relationships, mental health, and more. The way we respond to stress and uncertainty has been a developmental process since childhood. Poor coping creates poor self-awareness for us today. An example of this would be a child who gets accustomed to "mentally tuning out" the arguments of their parents, may find it difficult to be attentive, regulated, and empathetic whenever their partner may bring conflict, disagreement, or tension to their adult relationship. Many times, our "adult" reactions to stressful situations may be child like in nature i.e., tantrums, avoidance, self-destruction, etc. Some of us may not be ready to rewind our mind and take the hard steps towards untwisting poor ways of thinking in therapy. At the bare minimum, if you can see that a problem exists with you and your relationship to your childhood years, then its okay to offer that little person some comfort, compassion, and strength. Take a short moment today to dive into a guided meditation dedicated to helping you care for your inner child. As you live your life with awareness and tact, may this day grant you gains. Stay Mindful. [link] [comments] |
| Everyone is a buddha/ christ/ any "prophet", only pretending you're not. Posted: 16 May 2021 10:20 AM PDT Prophets didn't want followers or to be called lord. They wanted others to be like them, to reach the higher/divine consciousness and see god within you. I'm not religious nor raised with any, rather I was an atheist for most of my life. However through a couple of years of research, and questioning everything, I realised we've been living in a anti-christ world for the past 2000 years, since the roman empire or even longer. I haven't reach this enlightenment yet, however I truly believe these prophets were ordinary humans who reached this higher consciousness, and every person has the same capability to do so. Below a video of a very passionate man, who teaches the true meanings of the symbolic texts of the bible. The bible is not a religious book, but a psychology book that has been intentionally teached wrong for thousands of years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMZGzIQw92E&list=PL6C33CDD58B2E4705 [link] [comments] |
| Let your mind say whatever it wants, just don't identify with it. Posted: 16 May 2021 02:52 AM PDT One of the things that used to bother me when I started meditating and consciously living in the present was my mind. I knew that the key was just to observe my thoughts in a detached way but still, this awareness wasn't pure because underneath it was also the desire for my mind to be quiet and I was always trying in subtle ways to stop my thoughts. But then I realised that I don't need to stop my thoughts, it's also impossible to stop them because the one who wants to stop them is also just another thought. The reality is the mind becomes quiet by itself. I realised that I can just let the mind say whatever it wants to say, all I have have to "do" is just stay as the awareness behind the thoughts. The mind can judge people, can say negative things, can complain or whatever, but this has no impact on me because I am the space in which these thoughts arise. They can't stop me from being myself or from being at peace, just like the clouds can't stop the sun from shining. The interesting part is once I gave my thoughts free rein and stopped trying to stop them, the mind slowed down and I became more present. It's just like when you turn off the ceiling fan, it'll keep spinning for a while but you don't have to wait for it to stop because you know it's slowing down and it'll stop eventually. It's same with the mind, once you stop giving the mind attention and stop getting involved in thoughts, you've switched off the power because the mind is powered by attention. I wrote a song about meditation called the art of watching before I realised all this, but when I listen to it now it's almost like I knew this on some level, or at-least I had a glimpse of it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 May 2021 02:21 AM PDT Do I just sit down on the floor and let my thoughts fly ?(first time discovering this subreddit) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 May 2021 01:23 PM PDT For the last 2 months I've been reading about meditation daily. But beside some attempts to be conscious throughout the whole day, "being aware on the go", "meditating while doing things", I am super hesitant to sit down and meditate. Every day I think that today is a good day for meditation and then I let the whole day pass and again I didn't meditate. All over again. I will be thankful for any suggestions [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 May 2021 01:19 AM PDT There are always an infinite number of "other things" I could have been doing. The modern world has a never-ending supply distractions and temptations. I don't believe we were made for this amount of opportunities. In order to stay here; to do this; a decision that has to be made again and again and again. I must admit that it exhausts me. But it is the only way I have found to feel at home in my life. Often I cannot resist. When I give in to temptations, I end up being scatterminded and distant, and feel like I'm not doing anything properly or worthwhile. I lose energy, presence, connection with loved ones and Nature. My creativity and follow-through disappears. And all those little things add up, and I get into the habit of indulging every temptation. Opening Facebook immediately when I'm bored, snacking when I'm stuck at work, watching TV when I run out of conversation topics with my girlfriend... I guess I'm trying to remind myself that being here, with exactly this, is a decision that has to be made all the time. It means saying No to everything else. Staying with what is uncomfortable. Again and again. And it is becoming more challenging than ever, in a world that always tries to sell you "something better, somewhere else". But through our practice, we can - at least parts of the time - get into the habit of saying no, staying here. [link] [comments] |
| I just love to meditate to music like this. Does anyone know similar music? Posted: 17 May 2021 12:31 AM PDT |
| Posted: 16 May 2021 07:10 PM PDT How can i meditate to get a solution of any problem ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT Recently I've been using my heart instead of my mind to look at things. I am able to drop my awareness from my mind and allow it to flow into my heart. What I discovered is that I have more space to process the intruding thoughts that my mind usually magnifies. When I drop awareness down to my heart I become curious about the experience I am having in the present moment. It is quite difficult for awareness to remain in the heart but that's only because of years and years of conditioning and thinking that awareness is only in the mind. When I drop down into the heart, nothing seems to matter except this present moment. It's true and it's what's real. My problem was that I was always focusing on what is false. When doubt comes into play and you start questioning yourself - where do thoughts of doubt even come from? What's it like to experience the feeling of doubt? It's strange really. [link] [comments] |
| How do you explain the tingling/twitching sensations throughout the body during meditation? Posted: 16 May 2021 04:09 PM PDT I sometimes experience a random jerk in a random part of my body, like a muscle might twitch out of nowhere and for no reason as my body is completely relaxed. Not that it is causing any problems, it's just I'm curious as to what exactly causes that as I do not experience it during the day. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 May 2021 02:25 AM PDT PS. Sorry for my bad english I've been meditating for almost a year, the benefits are so much good. anxiety gone, stress gone. Before, i was a self help geek and tbh i just got worse, until i got into meditating. I praised the benefits soo much that i dont want to learn or need any help or any tips any more. But now i end up very very passive And i just let the present do itself. But as i see myself now yes i have less stress and anxiety, im not doing things anymore. as much i want to learn things. The thing is every self help or tips or whatever i come into there is this anxiety that just paralyzes me and now i just dont know how to improve myself, My grades are very poor. my habits are very bad., I wanted to improve but i dont know where to start,Ive been traumatized with the self help industry and i know meditation is just a tool and cant help me with everything. Any tips ? [link] [comments] |
| Very intense altered states of consciousness after two weeks of meditation. Posted: 16 May 2021 04:18 PM PDT I used to meditate quite regularly around 3-4 years ago, but nothing too extreme. My sessions would range between 1-2 times a day, 40 minutes each. I just recently started getting back into it, doing two sessions a day only 10-20 minutes each. And just in the last two days of doing 20 minute sessions again, I've been experiencing very psychedelic like states. On one occasion my experience was so intense I had to cut the session short, only being able to meditate for 10 minutes out of a 20 minute session. If anyone has done psilocybin mushrooms, the experience was similar to that of a mushroom trip. I was experiencing great anticipation and anxiety. The same exact feeling I have when I'm about to lift off on a very intense psychedelic trip. Just 30 minutes before writing this I had another very intense meditation session, only twenty minutes. As I focused heavily on the arising and passing of sensations that entered my awareness, I would do the same with the sensations on my face. The formation of my head, the weight of my face, and the overall feeling of my body. My body soon enough (more so my face) began to dissolve into the sea of other sensations separate from my body in my field of awareness. As this experience began to become much more apparent my heart rate sky rocketed. Immediately my heart just starts pounding out of my chest. I eventually calmed down and so did the experience, and I was able to fully get through the twenty minute session. Has anyone experienced shit like this within such a short time of meditating? Why am I experiencing such intense states of consciousness when, for one, this hasn't happened ever before in my short time of meditating, and two, idk its mindfuckey [link] [comments] |
| I just meditated for the first time, It was a trip. Posted: 16 May 2021 09:53 PM PDT |
| Holding mudras during meditation? Posted: 17 May 2021 01:10 AM PDT |
| I feel being watched during meditation Posted: 16 May 2021 11:44 PM PDT Not only during meditation tho. Sometimes when I'm alone I feel like something/one is there watching me so I need to turn around and check a few times. Due to that feeling I sometimes cant meditate cause I KNOW something/one there. I really dont know what that means. (Indeed I dont feel, I know) (Lately I've been doing manifestation meditations (third eye portal) and sleep meditations) If you have any advice or knowledge about that please let me know Thank you [link] [comments] |
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| Heavenly Voices Meditation Music| Relaxing sounds Posted: 16 May 2021 10:31 PM PDT |
| Why does about half of our worlds population draw conclusions based on no factual evidence? Posted: 16 May 2021 08:43 AM PDT When I see an adult assuming it brings me back memories of my angry and depressed everyday 13 year old self. When I started doing mindfulness meditation daily I stopped drawing conclusions. So maybe it's because their not very mindful? Or is there other reasons? This scares me for the future of humanity. Humanity needs to get our stuff together and be kinder to each other. [link] [comments] |
| Tips for meditating if you have hard time letting go of control and have usually though OCD? Posted: 16 May 2021 08:57 PM PDT Because its really hard to do without force to me and often times I noticed much later that it has been very subtle force / some sort of spiritual bypass [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 May 2021 07:57 AM PDT your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. so relax. [link] [comments] |
| Question about what may lay ahead of me in my meditation journey. Posted: 16 May 2021 04:28 PM PDT So I have had a lot of success since meditating an hour everyday. However is there a dark side of meditation? I have read about the death of the ego and that sounds terrifying. Or will I turn into someone I won't recognize? This may be my anxiety talking but I just want to know. Thanks [link] [comments] |
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