Meditation: Being in nature reduces stress and blood pressure - but crucially also stops us ruminating on the past and future |
- Being in nature reduces stress and blood pressure - but crucially also stops us ruminating on the past and future
- A Gentle Reminder...
- Trying to meditate but finding it difficult to actually remain still
- Rabbit meditation
- I keep falling into it a hypnagogic state in longer sessions...
- Breaking through to the tender Heart.
- Things aren’t happening to me, they’re just happening.
- Clear mind meditation
- Memories returning when entering deep meditation. Do you guys experience this too?
- Clearing the mind
- An interesting article I found when seeing if Freudian thinkers had anything to say about meditation.
- Mindfulness timer style app
- Meditation and repressed memories
- Could meditation help find your life purpose or passion ?
- Do i need to focus on breath or be aware of my breath?
- I've always meditated without knowing
- I practice well, but still drink. Why?
- How do you guys deal with an anxious mind that can't accept answers that are already there?
- Pranayama techniques as a meditation booster
- Powerful buzzing almost fried my brain. What happened?
| Posted: 26 Jun 2021 04:44 AM PDT Spending time in nature makes a huge difference to our mental health; research has shown it can decrease our stress levels, reduce our heart rate and reduce our blood pressure - but one of the most interesting effects it has is to reduce how much we ruminate, how much we attach ourselves to our thoughts. When we get swept away by our thoughts and lose touch with the present moment, suffering isn't far behind. Being lost in the past and future drives a great deal of our sadness and anxiety. Where nature is incredibly powerful is in its ability to focus our attention, taking us out of our heads and into our surroundings via our senses. And aside from all that, it takes us away from the information bombardment for a little while, away from our work and our phone and the TV. So when we give our full attention to a bird that's landed on a tree or take the time to look at the different parts of a flower we're giving a minds a break and bringing ourselves back to the only place we can be happy - here and now. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2021 07:03 AM PDT I just want to remind everyone that in the times of when we are afraid of deep fakes and hacks that it is just a gentle reminder that everything that is really true in your life is what you see, how your life has shaped what you believe, how they come together as your experience, and (most importantly) what you choose do with it. Go ahead and try to take me; I love you all gracefully. XO P.s. it's still me 🥸 [link] [comments] | ||
| Trying to meditate but finding it difficult to actually remain still Posted: 25 Jun 2021 11:43 PM PDT Admittedly I've only tried meditating about five times in my life, but I'm looking to really commit to it now. This year has probably been the most stressful year of my life, and I believe mediating would help me control my thoughts. The problem with all my other experiences was that I could not seem to just sit still. I did not have the attention span for it, and I was not able to tame my mind in the slightest. Does this anxiousness while mediating get better overtime? Does anyone have any tricks to train my body to actually sit down and surrender to mediating without the anxiety? Thank you for reading ❤️ [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:53 AM PDT Yesterday when i was outside on my deck, i saw this wild rabbit that sometimes comes near my grass. We stared at each other for almost 15 mins. During that time, i only focused on its eyes and it was a beautiful moment. You can practice mindfulness anywhere! [link] [comments] | ||
| I keep falling into it a hypnagogic state in longer sessions... Posted: 26 Jun 2021 04:34 AM PDT This happens every time. I try and control for every other variable to stop this from happening. I try and remain alert, with an upright posture. I try and get enough sleep.... it becomes very difficult to meditate when I'm having Hypnagogic hallucinations, I eventually end up just giving into them despite trying my best to retain a calm alertness, and it just feels like the session was wasted. [link] [comments] | ||
| Breaking through to the tender Heart. Posted: 25 Jun 2021 04:51 PM PDT One cannot force their way into the Heart. That will cause it to close and tighten up all the more. A tenderness is needed. A kind spaciousness. An ability to hold without holding, to let it bleed. To let it envelope you. To judge not of any sensation, but to be there fully to experience it. No need to label, no need to pin. Because how can one pin which is like the sky, anyway? It flows and it gushes. Its bliss-filled nature is sure to leave one in rapture if broken through. Left in a state of surrender. Left in a state not in time, but in eternity. Untouchable, but can be touched, not with hands but with heart. To try and break in is a futile effort. To try and rationalize into it will leave you conversing with empty thoughts. Ideas and Concepts fall away when it comes through. All that is left is the Heart. It is a kind of purity that cannot be muddied. It is a kind of knowing that cannot be known by the conceptual mind, but by your own heart. It is your Heart. It is Our Heart. [link] [comments] | ||
| Things aren’t happening to me, they’re just happening. Posted: 25 Jun 2021 06:43 AM PDT An ego breaking revelation I had during this morning's mediation. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 25 Jun 2021 08:27 PM PDT Hello everybody. I plan on switching my meditation up. Previously, I was doing present moment meditation, but now I'm switching to clear mind meditation. I hear people say clear mind meditation is not healthy, but with no worries of failure, I feel I perform best. What do you guys think. [link] [comments] | ||
| Memories returning when entering deep meditation. Do you guys experience this too? Posted: 25 Jun 2021 12:16 PM PDT I get seemingly random images of places I haven't thought of in years come back to me.. Like stuff from decades ago. Any of you get this too? I wonder why and how this happens? It's like "oh bloody hell yeah!". Like flashes of old long term memories. I often forget all this after though. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 25 Jun 2021 07:48 PM PDT I am in need of some advice. If anyone would be willing to help me I would be eternally grateful. I have never meditated before, well in a traditional sense. I have thought deeply on particular topics but I have never cleared my mind, used a mantra, crossed my legs, utilized breathing techniques ect. I also have a bit of a dilema, this may or may not be the correct subreddit. I would like to let go of all romantic feelings and lust. I was wondering if serious meditation could help relinquish romantic thoughts and inclination? Hopefully it can reduce them at the very least. [link] [comments] | ||
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| Posted: 25 Jun 2021 09:16 PM PDT Hey everyone. One of my goals has been to improve my moment to moment mindfulness when i'm not in a meditation session. This is definitely a struggle for me, because often times i'll get consumed with work or school and hours will go by before i realize I haven't been living in the present moment at all. I'm looking for a very specific type of app to help out with this, with a noise cue I can program to every half hour or hour to remind me to take a few moments and reorientate myself to the present. I thought about just setting alarms but wanted to see if there was a better option out there. Google hasn't given me much to go off of, however this could be because I didn't quite know what to search. Does anyone have any recommendations for an app or technique that's worked for them? [link] [comments] | ||
| Meditation and repressed memories Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:44 PM PDT So, I've been trying to get into meditation recently, though it has been quite hard. The reason I'm making this post is that I have (always had) a feeling that there was something bad that happened in my early childhood that my mind has repressed. I have a therapist, but we haven't really made significant progress regarding this issue. So I was wondering if any of you guys have had similiar experiences, and if it is possible to discover these repressed memories through meditation? Obviously I would talk to my therapist about it as well. Guided meditations seem to really work for me the best, I have big troubles trying to just sit in complete silence and meditate. Would anyone have any experiences or links to guided meditations to help discover repressed memories? [link] [comments] | ||
| Could meditation help find your life purpose or passion ? Posted: 25 Jun 2021 10:06 PM PDT Im in a weird spot, i have no interest in anything to base a career off of. I had a number of different jobs and I always end up back to square one trying to figure out what would be fulfilling and pay well. I have become depressed over putting time into certain fields and it not panning out. Its like a weird cycle. I would love to manifest an abundance of money to be honest. [link] [comments] | ||
| Do i need to focus on breath or be aware of my breath? Posted: 25 Jun 2021 11:23 AM PDT | ||
| I've always meditated without knowing Posted: 25 Jun 2021 10:48 AM PDT Only lately, as a hardcore meditation practicioner and neuroscience enthusiast (and a lecture from a monk) i realized I meditated without knowing since i can remember. I had some experiences I tried to explain friends and mom but I gave up when i was about 11. I used to look at the lamp from my bed and hum. I lied hours on end like that, feeling the sound and how it travelled through my skull and trying to get the feeling of sound from ear to brain. There were completely travels and feelings so amazing that for a while I thought with certainty my reality was a tv show like Truman, but I'm aware, and who's watching is my 70-year old myself. I used to talk to the roof and thank him for the shelter. Then I got depression and forget that. But I'm back again [link] [comments] | ||
| I practice well, but still drink. Why? Posted: 25 Jun 2021 04:33 PM PDT One of the reasons I started a serious sitting practice was my relationship with alcohol. I've been meditating irregularly for about 20 years, but only started a regular practice about three years ago. After alcohol caused some problems in my life, I hoped that sitting practice would make me immune somehow to the desire to drink. What has actually happened is that practice has relaxed me, made me a more calm and collected person, made me more able to exit cycles of rumination and mentation. But it has done nothing in terms of my desire to drink. If anything, now I enjoy drinking more. I feel relaxed when I drink, and I don't judge myself as harshly. When I wake up hungover, I'm not overwhelmed by anxiety, I just get up and get on with it. But I still drink a lot, which can't be good for my health. And yet, I can peacefully sink a lot of beer, wake up in the morning, and practice sitting. I'm aware of some highly experienced meditators who were alcoholic, e.g. Trungpa. Does anyone have a point of view on this? Maybe it doesn't matter if we drink? Or maybe my practice is flawed? [link] [comments] | ||
| How do you guys deal with an anxious mind that can't accept answers that are already there? Posted: 25 Jun 2021 11:30 AM PDT The anxiety I'm talking about is worrying about something that's not gonna happen. You use logic and evidence and sometimes use compulsive rituals to try to give yourself reassurance only to have temporary relief. Then the next day you're back obsessing/worrying about whatever it is and not only does your compulsive rituals don't work but now you're trying to predict the future or already living in the future when in reality its in your mind, yet you don't believe. [link] [comments] | ||
| Pranayama techniques as a meditation booster Posted: 25 Jun 2021 12:42 PM PDT Intermediate meditator here, who tried some stuff and got far enough to really enjoy doing it seriously 2-3 times every single day. Decided to just stick to TMI (the concepts of the book "The Mind Illuminated") now in terms of conceptualizing my progress. When I get up in the morning and meditate my mind is still pretty sluggish. Not much comes up. Little distraction. Good. But at the same time my dullness levels are still super high. I don't experience much inside. Everything is hazy and numb. Bad. If I meditate later, a lot of real-life stuff has already happened and it's the other way around. Somehow I see no good sweet spot in the middle. Then I tried to do some Pranayama right after getting up. A little 5-Minute series of energizing techniques (Bhastrika, Kapalabhati and so on with some nice looong breath holds and Bhanda work in between (think Wim Hof/Tummo)). It totally energizes my entire system. It's absolutely real and there is no way of denying it: I feel energy flowing in my body. There are millions of subtle perceptions and it feels incredibly real and beyond words. Then I just meditate. And it feels awesome. It's not just less dullness, it's like the opposite of dullness was actively added. It really feels like experiencing my whole body with my breath. My breath and the sensations it causes in my body are one. It's much more than breath. It's raw, sensitive awareness of what's going on. The conceptualizing mind is tuned way down. It feels like being really in the now. Just like described in TMI I can't even tell whether I'm breathing in or out. I could, but that would be thinking and why bother with it - just leave the mind alone. For some days now, I'm doing this right before every sitting. I think I'm addicted. It feels like a real booster. What do you think of mixing&matching systems, techniques, ideas, cultures and paradigms? I mean at some point on the journey we have to drop all concepts right? Whatever helps us to see and feel for ourselves should be good, shouldn't it? Does it work for you? What do you do? [link] [comments] | ||
| Powerful buzzing almost fried my brain. What happened? Posted: 25 Jun 2021 09:21 AM PDT I'll try to keep my description brief. I'm not a very experienced meditator, but every once in a while I try it while under the influence of cannabis. I find it helps tune out distractions and go deep into myself. A few times I've had an experience of an intense buzzing sound/ feeling that I get when I try to focus on my own consciousness. The harder I look, the more intense it gets. I've never looked as hard as I can at it because my brain gets sort of tingly and feels like it's going to burn out. Afterwards my brain feels a little fried. I'd like to look harder but it feels too powerful and I'm scared of hurting myself. This probably isn't the best description but I used the best words I could Has anyone else had this experience or know what it is? [link] [comments] |
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