Meditation: Anyone else find themselves avoiding meditation because they know it will be emotional? |
- Anyone else find themselves avoiding meditation because they know it will be emotional?
- I am not the body. I am not the mind. I am not the costume. I am not the script.
- I just need someone to explain this to me as if I'm a 10 year old.
- How to Prepare for Deeper Experiences during Meditations
- Any tips for starting meditation?
- What to do when you can't remember what to do
- Getting back into meditation
- How do I accept? I can’t grasp the concept of acceptance
- Practical Applications Of Awareness
- My meditation experiences
- The Trap of Progress in Meditation
- Joe Dispenza Meditations vs Mindfulness?
- [QUESTION] What is this technique before meditation?
- Meditation duration
- Biokinesis
- I am ready to take my meditation into next level - need advice
- Best methods for developing the ability to visualize...
- Does anyone else try to 'catch up' on their meditation practice?
- Meditation with anhedonia/depression
- Numb face and chest while meditating
- Long time meditators suffering from social anxiety , do you still feel anxious in social situations??
- Selective thinking in the present
| Anyone else find themselves avoiding meditation because they know it will be emotional? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 09:09 PM PDT There are many times I've sat to mediate after not having done so in a while and find tears streaming down my face for no particular reason. Just, weight and stress that's been sitting on my heart but I've pushed down in order to get through my day/to-do list. It's a huge barrier to me starting again, and I really want to make it a part of my daily practice. It's just...sometimes I'm afraid of the pain I'll uncover, and I make an excuse not to meditate. I'm afraid it'll overwhelm me again. I know there is peace on the other side but...it's so hard to take that leap sometimes, I just put it aside until I forget about it... Just the thought of letting myself sit still tonight is...terrifying. There's a lot of stress I've shoved down. I used to meditate regularly, but I would always just forget it or let it slip. Meditation has helped me a lot, I just...when I let it lapse, I come across this barrier over and over. If anyone else has experienced this, how did you move past this and what are some ways you've learned to make meditation a part of your daily routine? Please and thank-you in advance. :) [link] [comments] | ||
| I am not the body. I am not the mind. I am not the costume. I am not the script. Posted: 26 Jun 2021 01:32 PM PDT | ||
| I just need someone to explain this to me as if I'm a 10 year old. Posted: 27 Jun 2021 01:50 AM PDT I've read on the internet about the benefits of meditation but what I don't understand is how does one carry out the act of meditation. I want to be in that state. So may someone please explain to me the basics, do's and don'ts of meditation. [link] [comments] | ||
| How to Prepare for Deeper Experiences during Meditations Posted: 27 Jun 2021 12:01 AM PDT Meditation in itself is a very simple activity. Simply close your eyes and sit. Observe your thoughts and feelings. Witness your breath, going in and coming out. Witness it without judgement. There you go. You are meditating. And you can meditate anywhere you like. Whether you are on a bus, travelling to work, talking to someone over call, walking your dog, resting on the couch, washing the dishes. No matter what you are involved in, you can turn it into meditation. Simply by becoming mindful of everything that you do, you can access that meditative state of mind. This is one of the simplest of meditations. Simply being mindful. However it will be shallow to think that this is the only method. While this technique of mindfulness is a great way to start on the path of meditation, there are deeper and often unknown aspects that are revealed to the practitioner. Also, a few minutes of meditation is better than sitting for an hour thinking about your day to day life. So, a few minutes of preparation can transform your actual sitting. Always remember that meditation is about quality. Here's a few quick things you can do. Prepare your space. Turn off your cell phone. Clear yourself off all possible distractions and notifications. Once this becomes a habit, you will be subconsciously ready for meditation. Your brain will know what's coming next. It's like a habit loop. Preparation makes you ready for the actual thing. You can decide what you would like to do during meditation. Your intention matters. Are you doing this to calm yourself down after a stressful day at work; or are you doing it to achieve a deeper spiritual experience; or is it because you simply want to enjoy the vibrations you feel throughout the body after a session? Whatever you wish to achieve through meditation, whether it is relaxation for manifestation, you should have a clear intention. Decide on it. Clearing distractions and calming the mind happens to be the number one thing during your preparation. If you are already overwhelmed by thoughts, why not list them down on a piece of paper? Keep a diary nearby. Note down the date, your state of mind, what's distracting you, and also note your experiences after meditation. For most people, choosing the perfect guided meditation is enough. If you like, choose one teacher that you feel connected to. If you use apps like Headspace or Insight Timer, you will be able to access a database of hundreds of experienced teachers. You shouldn't meditate with them all. Choose one, or a few, and practice with those teachers only. In fact, connect with them, message them, and tell them about your meditation sessions. The next thing is to release all tension. In Pranava Sadhana Meditations, you will find that for the first two weeks, you will be simply preparing your mind and body for deeper levels of meditation. This includes exercises to release tension. Do some stretches or yoga asanas. In the program, there are advanced prana kriyas, or breathing exercises. But you don't need them in the beginning. Simply practice three basic pranayamas; Bhastrika, Kapalbhati, and Anulom Vilom, for 5-10 minutes each before meditation. Some people like to have a timer set before they start meditating, but I wouldn't recommend that. Let your mind count the time. Let's say you are going into a deeper meditative experience and the timer goes off. For beginners, a timer might be a great tool, but for advanced practitioners, please avoid it. After you are physically ready for your meditation session, start working on calming your mind. Consciously focus on your breathing. Take some deep breaths if you are still tired. Keep consciously witnessing the breath. The way it goes in and comes out. If you still feel distracted, try to chant AUM loudly. Chanting AUM is a very potent tool for preparation. In Pranava Sadhana Meditations, it is one of the first things you will learn as a preparation process for meditation. With each session, you will be able to experience deeper levels of consciousness. It will be like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, you will experience deeper levels of your age old subconscious programs. The point is, you can't prepare for everything. You might experience unexpected sounds, thoughts or sensations throughout your body. Be prepared for such an experience. Don't expect it deliberately, but be prepared. If you plan to meditate early in the morning, make sure you are refreshed and out of bed. Don't meditate on bed, except when you are offering gratitude right after waking up. By the way, there is a morning meditation technique that can transform your day, which should be done right after waking up, without even going out of bed, but about that we'll talk some other time. So, there you have it. A basic process for preparing for meditation. For experiencing deeper levels of bliss and joy, you can adapt the sound of AUM, and I assure you with my experience of teaching hundreds of students, you will not be deceived. Different types of meditation will require different types of preparation. But generally, this is enough to get you started. You will need an anchor to hold you on to your meditations, and a mantra can also be a very good option. Let me know if you would like to know more about mantra meditations. Meanwhile, try this process of preparing for your everyday meditations and see the difference for yourself. If you are meditating for spiritual upliftment, keep your spine erect. Do some basic spinal exercises before you start (more on that as well soon). Hope this helps. I think I'll write more about different meditations and techniques here regularly. I would like to write and journal my experiences and share it with you all. This is my first post here. Let me know how it goes. God bless you. [link] [comments] | ||
| Any tips for starting meditation? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 09:48 PM PDT I want to start doing it for sports and as a way to relieve anxiety for anything. I don't have any knowledge of meditation as of right now so any tips would help. [link] [comments] | ||
| What to do when you can't remember what to do Posted: 27 Jun 2021 12:16 AM PDT I'm sure many can empathize with the experience of knowing something needs to be done, but finding it hard to remember what. I'm sure many people know what it's like to be depressed or in pain. How the ruminations catch you, absorb you. Or the brain-fog sets in and clouds awareness. Or hyper-awareness kicks in and dissociation blooms. Or insidious suicidal rationale creeps in. I have ADHD, I get so confused sometimes, and it can last for such a long time. I have depression, I dissociate. I'm on medication, I go to therapy. I spend what attention I can doing my therapy exercises, both mental and physical. Sometimes I try meditating and can't even remember what to do, I just know it's a thing that's not what is happening. Sometimes I do start meditating, and immediately depersonalization kicks in, and then I can't remember what I could be doing that isn't depersonalization or distraction. It's particularly hard to remember things or do things when I'm alone, and I'm alone a lot. I think to ask for help, and no one's around. That sets a new trap, just a different, social fuel for ruminations. I'm an adult, no one will look after me like a child in need... But I feel like a child in need, so often. I can't just try to remember how to meditate all day, it's not much different than waiting around, which is what I feel like doing sometimes, hoping someone or something will miraculously intervene in my life... Unlikely. Sometimes I'll peruse for guided meditations, but I'm yet to find one that makes me feel understood, or, perhaps, one that makes me understand. Sometimes I remember there's a list of things... Things to do, ways to think, stuff that might help. If I find a list and look at it, often its content is intangible. I can meditate on that, but the way I do it by myself doesn't often change my emotions or lack of behavior. What to do, when one can't grasp the what to do... And no one's there to change the pattern. They say hell is other people, but so is being alone, for some. And yet, other people are but filtered through one's self, and self is filtered through collectively constructed delusion... amplified by seclusion. What to do, I can't remember. Maybe hell is just forgetting, no experiential access to one's Hell's alternatives. Hell is in the moment, is just is, without vision to change. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2021 09:24 PM PDT How should I approach meditation safely I started meditating around January started with 10 minutes and got up to 30 minutes and I just stopped I noticed every since I started thinking about meditation I feel some kind of fear I'm afraid to close my eyes every time I do I constantly open them and look around the reason I want to get past this is because I've been listening to an Dr Joe Dispenza book breaking the habit of being yourself and I'm at the meditation part I'm just afraid . [link] [comments] | ||
| How do I accept? I can’t grasp the concept of acceptance Posted: 26 Jun 2021 11:52 AM PDT How do I accept what I can't control, social anxiety, negative thoughts, fear of failure, fear of the unknown, opinions of others, impermanence, temporary friendship and bonds how do I learn to accept what is and accept the moment fully. It's annoying me and driving me crazy because I can't grasp or understand this concept. [link] [comments] | ||
| Practical Applications Of Awareness Posted: 27 Jun 2021 02:26 AM PDT | ||
| Posted: 27 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT In initial days of practice I got tingling sensations in various parts of body, jerking, sometimes I got experience like current shock. After few months light pressure started in forehead and after minutes of meditation some colors are visible in forehead. I have experienced few times no body state. Dreams becomes more vivid and some times that dreams becomes true in tomorrow or few days. [link] [comments] | ||
| The Trap of Progress in Meditation Posted: 26 Jun 2021 02:56 PM PDT OK so I've gotten caught in this just about every time I start making progress, but I'm also a meditation teacher (and therapist) and found this coming up a lot lately with my clients. Essentially we work at meditation and eventually we get somewhere that feels good. And of course that's a huge win. The trap is that this rarely lasts... After a breakthrough there's this glow for a while, and then at some point it wears off and we come back to our struggles. But this isn't bad. This is the process. Meditation isn't about feeling good, it's about accepting our experience fully and completely. It's about not being attached to feeling good, or any way at all. So instead of looking at the difficult times as bad, look at them as opportunities to practice equanimity. This is where the real progress happens. I made a video about this here. Also I originally encountered this concept from two close friends of mine who are also mentors to me, Jeff Warren and Avi Craimer, who authored an article on it that goes much more in depth here. (great article I highly recommend reading it) [link] [comments] | ||
| Joe Dispenza Meditations vs Mindfulness? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 05:43 PM PDT There isn't much about his work on here and I'm wondering if any of you have done his meditations long enough to see results. I've read a bit on his work and I've done some meditations but it's odd. He talks a lot about space, the space around, the space within. Then there is the visualization of the future, mostly associating good feelings with the future. I'm confused because Joe talks a lot about the present moment but also the future. Any experiences? [link] [comments] | ||
| [QUESTION] What is this technique before meditation? Posted: 27 Jun 2021 12:24 AM PDT
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| Posted: 27 Jun 2021 12:05 AM PDT How long do you guys meditate for? On scale of 1 to 10, how zoned out or in a trance like state would you say you become while meditating? But how much did you increase your meditation times while starting out? Thanks for the replies [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 27 Jun 2021 12:02 AM PDT Has anyone here attempted biokinesis. Like most people I'm extremely skeptical of the practice but I am looking for some anecdotal evidence/reports if possible. Is there anyone on here who was managed to change their physical appearance through meditation? For example eye color, hair color etc. [link] [comments] | ||
| I am ready to take my meditation into next level - need advice Posted: 26 Jun 2021 11:34 PM PDT Do you have any books of masters you can recommend? How can I find my guru which is accessible for guidance? Which ones did you follow or what helped you? [link] [comments] | ||
| Best methods for developing the ability to visualize... Posted: 26 Jun 2021 03:08 PM PDT Hey everyone. First off, happy Saturday! I love this community! Hope you are all doing very well! I have meditated on and off for years. Never very consistently. I am currently on my longest streak (just 31 days). Just about 10 days ago I moved from guided to unguided meditations. Something I struggle a lot with is visualizations. I have read a few people here talking about having some very intense and amazing experiences by being able to visualize themselves above the being in the chair (themselves) when meditating... and then visualizing themselves above the being observing the being in the chair. I am not even trying for the being observing the being observing the being in the chair yet lol But I have been trying to work on the first one. Visualizing myself from above. I find it very difficult. I also find other more "basic" visualizations very difficult. Sometimes I work on visualizing a small candle flame in front of me. It kind of works in my "minds eye" but then I lose it quickly. One thing I have noticed is that I can't seem to detach my brain from the idea or necessity for my eyes to need to move to "see" these things. If that makes sense? Even though my eyes are closed? Like I will briefly visualize the candle flame in my brain but then my eyes will move behind my eyelids and I lose it as though it is no longer in my line of site... but that is silly because there is no line of site and my eyes are not necessary at the point. Same with trying to observe myself meditating... I can't seen to do it because my eyes/brain are like "We are sitting up looking forward.... so.... what?" but I understand how it would work... but I keep being overridden! Anyways, hopefully this isn't too ridiculous sounding. Basically, I would love some resources/pod casts/readings anyone could suggest to help me maybe open my mind to this more. I find it incredibly interesting and really want to practice so I can get there at some point. Thank you all!! :) :) Edit: I do have ADD and have gone through some pretty intense depression. Not sure if those can affect how your brain processes visualization. [link] [comments] | ||
| Does anyone else try to 'catch up' on their meditation practice? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 06:52 PM PDT I usually Meditate for 10 minutes everyday at varying times of day. I sometimes miss a few days here and there, then when it's a Sunday, I find myself wanting to meditate multiple times a day to sort of make up for the days I missed. Well, that's partly the reason. I also feel like I just want to do it more today. It's a beautiful sunny Sunday, I might Meditate in the morning then go for a nice mindful stroll in the afternoon and Meditate in the park aswell. Is mediation something that must be done consistently and not all over the place like I'm doing it? [link] [comments] | ||
| Meditation with anhedonia/depression Posted: 26 Jun 2021 06:13 PM PDT Is it possible to feel pleasure through meditation with anhedonia/depression (inability to feel pleasure) I've meditated for years on and off and I just dont really feel pleasure from it. I know the goal of meditation is not pleasure, but to be more aware of your thoughts/breath and internal self. but I just feel like im missing out. I can go up to an hour but then it feels so intense for me, ever since i did pyschedelics it screwed my head up and i cant meditate long anymore [link] [comments] | ||
| Numb face and chest while meditating Posted: 26 Jun 2021 11:47 AM PDT Starting from the bridge of my nose out to my cheeks start to get numb and tingly when I'm meditating and taking deep slow breaths. Then my chest starting from the center spreading out into my chest starts to get numb and tingly. It doesn't matter what position I'm in and I haven't gone any deeper than 10 minutes into meditating so idk what else would happen. Has anyone else experienced this and can explain? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:17 PM PDT How much and in what way has meditation has helped from overcoming social phobia [link] [comments] | ||
| Selective thinking in the present Posted: 26 Jun 2021 07:08 PM PDT Hello redditors. I have been practicing meditation for a good time now. I just have a quick question. If I'm present, can I selectively think? For example, maybe I want to think about me being successful in the future or something like "never give up" "positive thoughts only", would you guys say that is acceptable? Thank you. [link] [comments] |
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