Meditation: Made this chakra meditation poster for my living room. Hope you like it. |
- Made this chakra meditation poster for my living room. Hope you like it.
- Control and Release
- My neck is never in a comfortable position while meditating. Any advice?
- When my relationship with my mind changed (long post)
- After a few years of on and off meditating, I've realised one big thing!
- Meditative Approaches to Try
- I wanna learn the meditate
- Difficult Phase (maybe) and chasing anxious thoughts
- How do I switch my purpose for meditation?
- What is your motivation for meditation?
- The Catch and Release technique
- Transcendental Meditation - Is it worth it?
- i’m confused about the aim/goal of meditation
- Distorted bodily perception when meditating
- Getting in touch with your emotions
- Feeling stoned randomly
- Feelings Of Frustration during meditation
- What should I do to recover myself if I felt empty after a long period of tv watching or gaming?
- How meditation helps in social anxiety??
- After 30 minutes I can’t stand the pain.
- We all possess unlimited potential & meditation allows us to grow.
- Having a hard time meditating.
- Is it normal to physically feel nothing when you meditate the first few times?
| Made this chakra meditation poster for my living room. Hope you like it. Posted: 22 Jun 2021 07:46 PM PDT So I have been meditating for some time now and life has been good. I have been practicing chakra meditation and thought of creating a poster for my living room. I have created multiple sizes just in case you need to print and frame a big one. Hope you like it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 06:24 PM PDT Hey there, I use breathing to control Anxiety. This mostly occurs during the day and while I am in public, out running errands. [link] [comments] |
| My neck is never in a comfortable position while meditating. Any advice? Posted: 22 Jun 2021 10:08 PM PDT Does anyone else have this issue? I feel like every few seconds I need to tilt my head in a new position to prevent my neck from getting stiff or feeling uncomfortable. Often times it's easier for me to have my next tilted to the left or right rather than straight forward. I can't have my head tilted forward otherwise it creates an uncomfortable double chin situation. It really gets in the way of having a good meditation session. What is the proper way to hold your neck up? Any tips? TIA! [link] [comments] |
| When my relationship with my mind changed (long post) Posted: 22 Jun 2021 03:42 PM PDT I've tried meditation in various forms for pretty much my whole adult life. When I was a teen the popular thing going was "relaxation". I never took it too seriously, but it was something nice I tried from time to time. It was only when I went through a bit of mental and emotional trauma that I latched on the deeper idea of what I thought was "meditation" and since then it has been a strange on-and-off-again relationship. For the most part it has been quite fruitless, boring or just outright unpleasant. It's never "worked" for me, and by that I mean it has never given me any tangible change in my life that would motivate me to continue for longer than a few weeks at a time. I suppose, looking back, that I tried to meditate out of a sense of duty. I was doing it because it seemed like the right thing to do. I "should" do it. It would be "good for me". It would somehow transform me, make my life better, dig me out of what had become a lifelong struggle with anxiety, loneliness and general dissatisfaction. And so I never followed a practice because I liked it, I just went along with something for a while, trying it on, waiting to see if something would happen, if something would change. Nothing much ever did. And in retrospect I can see that I really didn't know what I was doing or why I was doing it. My goals and my motivations were vague and a bit misguided. I never stuck with anything for very long. This has gone on for a few decades and left me essentially frustrated and confused. I just didn't have an appetite for it. And much of the spiritual talk around it was intimidating to me. "Non-dual" and "no self" and "ego death" and similar ideas terrified me. I didn't want that. Why would I? It sounded horrible and inhuman. Like killing myself, but emotionally and intellectually. I understood it, I sometimes found it very compelling, but I did not like it. And so around I went, torn between these impulses and ideas, confused and scared and yet unable to tear myself away, to put it aside and just let it go and get on with my life. I felt drawn to these ideas, but at the same time repelled by them, and all the time whatever I tried never helped me actually feel remotely better. As a parent of two small children my stress levels have slowly ramped up over the past few years. I feel constantly over-stressed and anxious about even the simplest things. I have no time, I don't get enough sleep and most everything I do is for someone else, not myself. This culminated in a series of anxiety crises, based mostly around my health. I have dealt with anxiety my whole life, but that was something new. It was almost constant. Not quite panic attacks, just the ongoing sense of something awful that I could not shake. Every little thing that was wrong with me was potentially life threatening. As a middle aged man I did have things that needed medical attention but it was never as bad as I thought. The pain in my groin turned out to be a hernia, not bowel cancer. Mild chest pains had me in the ER twice and terrified of heart disease but it seems my heart is fine. Most recently I have some low blood counts and it's near impossible for me to not imagine that I have some form of cancer in my bone marrow. This anxiety was almost crippling. It's been destroying me. I'm miserable in my otherwise quite comfortable middle-class life. It could well turn out that I don't have a single serious thing wrong with me and yet I cannot stop that gnawing fear from eating away at my sanity. But then, it was this very realisation that changed my relationship with my mind. What if it turns out that I'm actually OK? Sure, I've got a few medical issues, but there is no actual terminal diagnosis. What if every doctor I see tells me that I'm actually in quite good health and these past few months have been just a fabrication of my over-active imagination? It's possible that I'm just fine and it is in fact my own mind that is making me miserable. And honestly, I have logically known this for a long time already. I knew it, and yet somehow I didn't. I didn't truly get it. And in finally getting it I can see how totally absurd, pointless and idiotic that is. I mean … I was kind of blown away. What a waste. Now, it's different. I see what's happening. I see quite plainly that the cause of so much of my discomfort is not life and its endless threat of loss, pain and suffering. It's my own mind, and my addiction to it's never ending stream of thoughts. When things are actually just fine and yet I am still terrified then what else could it be? And truly, for the first time, I have come to understand that my mind cannot always be trusted. I don't have to believe everything it comes up with. I don't have to follow every random train of thought. That surge of fear could be just as much from something that I've invented, something with absolutely no substance or reality. Which means that not only can my mind be wrong, so can my feelings. So can my anxiety. It's compelling, for sure, and I still feel that pull, but just like when I quite smoking I have simply come to see the truth: that it's not good for me. This has completely transformed my approach to meditation. Now I have a genuine strong reason to practice: to see a reality past my own mind. The idea of being in the present moment, gently disconnecting from those thoughts sounds quite wonderful. There is something there in the every changing "now" that is different from the noise of my mind, something calmer and more peaceful. In only a few weeks of practicing with this new understanding I can finally say that I enjoy meditating. Not only that, but being able to disconnect from my thoughts doesn't drive me into some weird existential crisis. I am able now to say that those thoughts are not fundamentally me, they do not define me, and that's OK. After 20-30 years of struggling and fighting, I believe I am now on a journey to relaxing. Funny that it would come back to such a simple idea. But now I am learning to relax into life. Relax into this moment. Relax into my fear and let it be there, but without automatically believing it and needing to do something about it. Relax into whatever might happen, because of course I can't really control any of it, and that's OK. It could be that everything is, in fact, OK. [link] [comments] |
| After a few years of on and off meditating, I've realised one big thing! Posted: 22 Jun 2021 11:37 PM PDT Tension. It's my main obstacle to meditating. I am using a guided meditation at the moment, which takes 30+ mins before you get to the breath at the nose. And that has been a game changer. It's uncomfortable in the sense that I have to really slow down. And it's made me realise how much tension I hold. I find it hard to surrender to the breath. My legs hold tension. My shoulders rise up and round forward. I hold tension in my brow. The tension actually makes it harder to sense the breath. I would go so far as saying releasing tension will be the primary goal of my meditation for a while. I've spent too long going at meditation haphazardly. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 09:31 PM PDT Cara Bradley: There are times in life, during a busy workday or after watching the news, when you can feel that your mind has gotten very small and fixed. One of my favorite, super-simple practices is called Tibetan sky-gazing. Go outside or look out your window and look up into the sky. Use your inhale to help you expand your breath, but also your mind; allow your mind and your eyes to widen to the peripheral, and as you exhale, you just let go of any fear, worry or control. Inhale—expand up and out; exhale, let something go—tension, struggle, expectation. Evelyn Hall: Close your eyes, take a couple of nice belly breaths and relax. Send waves of relaxation through your entire body, from the top of your head to the soles of your feet. As you do this, just listen to the sounds around you, both near and far. Then notice what you smell, both near and far. How does the air feel on your skin? Expand all your senses to experience what is present in this moment. Once you are deeply relaxed, just rest within the present environment, doing nothing. Unplug, reset. Try three to five minutes to reboot. Tip: It's helpful to remember a time when you were totally relaxed—in nature or on vacation. The mind and body love to work together; think it and the body will respond. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 08:14 PM PDT Can anyone give me any advice i wanna meditate to see who i am yk and to see if i can see lost relatives :/ [link] [comments] |
| Difficult Phase (maybe) and chasing anxious thoughts Posted: 23 Jun 2021 12:05 AM PDT Hello. I've been meditating regularly for over hundred days. It's been quite amazing honestly. However, in the last few weeks, I've been finding it a little difficult. The entire day I'm thinking if I'm aware or not, and I try a lot at each moment to know what's going on in my head. So much so that in the last few days, I've been feeling quite overwhelmed with thoughts about meditation, mindfulness, awareness, etc. What would be your suggestions? I know they too are thoughts and are to be treated as such. But still, I'd like to get a different perspective. Another thing is, I've realised during my meditations that I sometimes chase frequent anxious thoughts. Their absence makes me wonder where did they do, will they be back again at a worse time, am I over them, etc. Any thoughts to share on this? Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| How do I switch my purpose for meditation? Posted: 22 Jun 2021 04:30 PM PDT I was watching a video by a guy called Cole Hastings on meditation. He said you aren't actually meditating if you are doing it with a purpose. He said you should meditate because you want to meditate, not for any other reason. But this confused me because I thought either way you don't think while you meditate so no matter the purpose you will still experience the same benefits. I am doing it to get rid of my anxiety. Will this work? [link] [comments] |
| What is your motivation for meditation? Posted: 22 Jun 2021 11:34 PM PDT Why do you meditate? What is your main motivation? [link] [comments] |
| The Catch and Release technique Posted: 22 Jun 2021 11:11 PM PDT How does this one work? Do you catch them then release them? Or just release them? Will you go home "empty handed" if you let too many go? Or is going home "empty handed" the whole point? Do you get it? [link] [comments] |
| Transcendental Meditation - Is it worth it? Posted: 22 Jun 2021 08:57 PM PDT Hey Reddit! I am a college student who has dealt with anxiety my entire life and am searching for meditation to take my power back when it comes to my mind. I've had friends recommend TM to me, but the price tag has got me thinking twice. Can anyone vouch for TM being worth the price tag, or recommend similar options? I would love to pay for it however as a student it's a bit tough right now. Thanks for any thoughts and recommendations you may have! :) [link] [comments] |
| i’m confused about the aim/goal of meditation Posted: 22 Jun 2021 07:09 PM PDT the FAQ didn't quite answer this, i did look over it! unsure what exactly i'm having trouble grasping lol. i hear a lot of talk (not necessarily from this sub) about accepting negative thoughts and letting them go but negative emotions are just as real and important as positive ones. is the goal to simply not dwell on the negative thoughts? am i supposed to just never act on anger (or strive not to)? i'm just confused and unsure if i want to begin/continue practicing. [link] [comments] |
| Distorted bodily perception when meditating Posted: 22 Jun 2021 10:54 PM PDT So I've been meditating for a couple years now, but occasionally I get into what I can only describe as an almost psychedelic state. First I get overwhelming sensations throughout my body. These feel kind of like non sexual orgasms if that makes sense. Like when you "feel the energy " on an acid trip. Then, it goes deeper. As I'm sitting with my eyes closed I can feel my perception of my body becoming wildly distorted. Like it's as though I can feel my hands, feet, and head all growing and shrinking. I know that I probably sound insane but I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced anything like this. [link] [comments] |
| Getting in touch with your emotions Posted: 23 Jun 2021 01:48 AM PDT I've led a happy life, but lately I've discovered that I'm not really in touch with my emotions. It's like there's a wall around my heart that prevents me to really feel what I feel. It's hard to word it, like I know I'm sad and I want to cry, but something blocks to feel really that. So I just power through. I am very sensitive for other peoples emotions though. And I've heard some good stories about meditations that open your heart, that allows one to really feel and see their feelings. But with the FAQ I couldn't figure out in which direction to go, so I hope it's okay I ask this question in a post. I've meditated before, mostly using apps like Headspace. I've done it for a long time, every morning, outside for 10 minutes. And I've done an (online) sitting retreat weekend once. The retreat was nice, because I didn't know that I was able to sit and just think/not think for a long time, but I really missed the guidance. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 03:17 AM PDT Yesterday I had a great day. I was present almost all day and was walking around through a nature reserve. I was practicing much more gratitude than usual. when I went to a gathering at my friends house I felt completely stoned! Even everyone else thought I was high. Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know why this happened? [link] [comments] |
| Feelings Of Frustration during meditation Posted: 23 Jun 2021 01:17 AM PDT I'm new to meditation ( began in February this year). Last week I got to a point where I was so peaceful. I noticed a change in my attitude towards life, I was feeling content and very open to change. It was absolute bliss. On Saturday all of the randomly changed. I woke up feeling frustrated and angry at everything. During meditation my mind is seldom in the present. I feel very disconnected from my self and the world. It's like I'm living in a different world and not in a good way. My focus is completely gone and I'm rushing through everything and feeling incredibly frustrated while I meditate and during the day. Two things that happened on the Friday were that I hung out with a friend who is fairly new but they've never made me feel bad before and I don't want to blame others to be honest. The other thing is I went to bed really late on Friday/Saturday morning because I was helping my relative out and it took ages. I'm not sure if these two things would contribute but, change shouldn't really bother me this much! That's not a good sign at all. Any advice as to how to manage this? It's almost been a week and I feel really uncomfortable in this energy [link] [comments] |
| What should I do to recover myself if I felt empty after a long period of tv watching or gaming? Posted: 22 Jun 2021 06:40 AM PDT Have you guys ever had an empty feeling after an hour of watch tv or gaming? Like something isn't quite right? What can I do to revert to normal state? [link] [comments] |
| How meditation helps in social anxiety?? Posted: 22 Jun 2021 10:55 PM PDT For people with social anxiety how meditation helped you out?? [link] [comments] |
| After 30 minutes I can’t stand the pain. Posted: 22 Jun 2021 06:18 AM PDT Hello meditators, I want to thank you in advance for reading this. I just want to ask for advice, because after 30 minutes sitting on a zafu I can't stand the pain on my lower back and coccyx. I sit on the regular half lotus flower. Do you have any advices? Will this improve over time? Thanks again. [link] [comments] |
| We all possess unlimited potential & meditation allows us to grow. Posted: 22 Jun 2021 06:44 AM PDT Meditation for me is the sunlight that allows us to truly blossom. Through meditation I have found myself more than ever being honest about my strengths and weaknesses and allowing myself to work on becoming a better version of me. After 5+ years of extensive and rigorous meditation practice and a Master qualification in Reiki. It is safe to say that the endless creative achievements and success I have had in my career is undeniably linked to the positive growth I have encountered through daily meditation. [link] [comments] |
| Having a hard time meditating. Posted: 22 Jun 2021 06:23 PM PDT I've been trying to keep at it with Meditating. At first, I was in the zone and fully into it when I first started. I was able to concentrate and follow the guided meditation. Now, I have some reoccurring issues where I can't seem to find that level of focus. Any tips on how I can fix this? Or any tips on being able to get the most out of my meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Is it normal to physically feel nothing when you meditate the first few times? Posted: 22 Jun 2021 04:52 AM PDT Hi everyone, hope you're all well. I'm in my late 30s now but I had tried meditation a few times before, ever since junior high. But I'm a person with chronic anxiety and it never seemed to be going well. I had too many thoughts, stress level was going up, and even the feel of my clothes on my skin was bothering me. So I stopped and have picked up meditation again. There are better tools nowadays and I've found some good apps I feel comfortable with. One of them is Medito and I've done only the introdcutory lessons really lol. I feel more relaxed and the thoughts although there, don't bother me and come one at a time. I guess I'm also in a better period in my life. But I have noticed I tend to not feel my body anymore. As if there are no arms, legs, face etc. This feeling stays for some seconds until I'm aware of not feeling anything so I'm not sure it's normal and I come out of it in a bit of shock. I've felt like this before when young, but without intentionally getting into a state of meditation. I remember once I was just sitting, looking at the yellow pollen falling from a beautiful tree we had at school and was so happy I forgot I.. existed. Sounds dumb but to this day it's my "go to" place when someone asks "think of a happy place". But what is this feeling? I'm practically a noob and I fear I don't do it right, again! Isnit normal to feel nothing? I get it every time I try to meditate. Thank you for your time reading this! [link] [comments] |
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