Meditation: Meditation Challenge June 2021 �� |
- Meditation Challenge June 2021 ��
- How to stop ruminating...
- Meditation worsen my Depression
- A tidbit from Helen Keller
- I was under the impression that paying attention to your breathe was only a beginner thing
- Anyone else get stuck "on", like I know I should stop trying but I bloody well cant stop trying. Im OCD so giving up is harder for me than others. Any advice or tips for when this happens?
- Will you meditate for her today?
- You should not have any regrets.
- Meditation hasn't been benefitting me. To quit or not to quit?
- Meditation after Psychedelics
- meditation
- What are the alternatives to focusing on the breath? Or does anyone have any tips on how to focus on the breath without making me feel like I'm having an anxiety attack?
- Looking for a specific mantra i heard years ago
- DAE get brief, long term memory flashbacks outside of meditation for Vipassana?
- Seeing flashes of scenery or other places in my vision during meditation.
- I tend to unknowingly furrow my brows a lot especially when I'm reading or thinking. I've been doing it even more now that I'm under a lot of stress and it's giving me constant headaches everyday.
- Has meditation actually calmed down your stress and anxiety or do you believe that you needed medication to supplement it?
- How has it helped?
- Has meditation actually produced material change in anyone's life?
- Yawning during meditation
- Am I doing it wrong?
- Trouble wanting to stay focused during meditation
- As a student doing meditation for 2 hr a day, is productive?
- Coursera - De-Mystifying Mindfulness, starts June 7
- Entering meditation way faster than I used to.
| Meditation Challenge June 2021 �� Posted: 31 May 2021 03:02 AM PDT Hi all! We all know that it can be hard to start and maintain a regular sitting practice. So I wondered if anyone would care to join me in a daily meditation challenge for June 2021? u/WCBH86 set up a monthly meditation challenge for the last 2 years or so, and it's really seemed to strike a chord here and received lots of engagement and positive feedback over that time. It provided a lovely sense of community and lots of encouragement. I'd like to continue his efforts. So, here's the deal: You choose how much time you want to spend meditating each day, and what sort of meditation you're going to practice. But you commit to practicing every day for the month of June, and maybe check in on here with others who are doing the same. The idea is to have some group support/accountability, to help you stick to daily practice all month long. If it goes well, then we rinse and repeat for the month of July. I'll make a new post for that when the time comes. Post a comment below if you'd like to take part. And if you'd like an accountability partner to really help see you through your daily practice, post a comment below that says "accountability partner needed". Then wait for someone else to reply to your comment, and say "I'll be your partner". You can help keep each other in check throughout the month. For those who use Insight Timer, there is a group for this called Meditation Month. Feel free to join up and find some extra accountability there. For those who use it, there is also a discord server for this : https://discord.gg/meditationmind Good luck folks. Hope this helps some of you start a meditation habit and others get back into one. TLDR: Encouragement and support for people trying to make daily meditation stick! NOTE: I like to encourage everyone who wants to take part and who leaves a comment below by wishing them luck and other little things in response. But I don't reply to people who have asked for an accountability partner in their comment because I don't want them to get a little "new message" icon and get hopeful only to find it's me saying "good luck!", and also because I think people scanning comments to see if anyone needs a partner might more easily look past those that already have a reply, even if the reply is just from me and isn't actually an offer to be a partner. Just wanted to let those folks who don't get a reply from me know that it's nothing personal! I wish you luck too, and am pleased you're taking part! :) NOTE 2: Since starting these monthly challenges, the Insight Timer group has grown to 1000+ members, and the Discord even more than that! So join in and help make meditation a regular part of your life! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2021 07:32 PM PDT I read this quote today by Pia Callesen, a therapist, and I thought it was such a great way to describe our thoughts, so I just had to share. "Picture your thoughts as someone calling you on the phone. Of course, you don't decide whether the phone rings, who calls or when it rings. But you do choose whether to answer the phone or just let it ring and turn your attention back to whatever you were doing. The sound of the phone might be loud, annoying and attract your attention, but what happens if you just leave it be? Eventually it stops ringing." [link] [comments] |
| Meditation worsen my Depression Posted: 03 Jun 2021 07:11 AM PDT I start to do mindfulness meditation every day But I feel more depressed than before Do u have and Idea why [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2021 08:23 PM PDT Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. I cannot hope to describe adequately that unconscious, yet conscious time of nothingness…. Since I had no power of thought, I did not compare one mental state with another. — HELEN KELLER, 1908 [link] [comments] |
| I was under the impression that paying attention to your breathe was only a beginner thing Posted: 03 Jun 2021 08:54 AM PDT I always see people here describe meditation as just focusing on the breath as if that's the end goal, to just have intense concentration on the breathe, but I thought the goal was to attempt to view all stream of consciousness at once and try and fail to find the self in this state, destroying the illusion of ego. A lot of people here talk about maybe a step 1 to get there, but I rarely hear about anything beyond "breath for 10 minutes a day". [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2021 01:07 AM PDT So I know I should stop trying to be mindful but I cant stop trying. I cant even give up, im just stuck on "keep trying" even if I have decided not to keep trying knowing full well keep trying is the worst thing I can possibly do. I cant stop the grip of the mind (like the monkey, hand, food, trap analogy ) [link] [comments] |
| Will you meditate for her today? Posted: 04 Jun 2021 12:07 AM PDT Every time I see a tall tree 🌳 with branches spread out I feel inspired. To me, a tree is someone who grew strong and tall just not brave weather and survive but to give all through its life. They provide habitat in forests.🐒 , a place for birds to build nests 🕊 gives cool shade below, a few provide fruits medicines 🍒. and nearly all of them clean the air we breathe 🌎 . And all this in silence! a true representation of selfless love without ever seeking appreciation or love.... I find them as a true representation of loving-kindness meditation 🥰 and when we humans chop them off they fall silently and yet providing wood for furniture, for fuel, for paper and more 😢 I have planted many trees but I know it's not possible to make up for the loss ... nearly 48% of the forest are already destroyed and every 1.2 seconds we destroy green the size of a football field 😓 Whenever I plant trees, I plant them in someone's name - a friend, a known person or even a pet. And I try to remember or tag them. I also speak to trees - sounds weird? maybe but they can feel - will discuss this some other day. As of now, most of the world is stressed with the pandemic 😷 but I believe mother earth is more stressed. How cool it would be if we all can meditate and make her better? Let's meditate for her today 🧘♂️ Peace, Love and Light 🤲 [link] [comments] |
| You should not have any regrets. Posted: 04 Jun 2021 12:56 AM PDT If you think about it, there isn't anything, what is a bad move. Every choice you make, every challenge of your life is there for a reason. If you would not experience these little steps of your life, you would not be here today. These events are making you the person you really are, who you have to be. So take it easy, sit back, and experience the eternal now without any second thoughts. Have a nice day:) [link] [comments] |
| Meditation hasn't been benefitting me. To quit or not to quit? Posted: 03 Jun 2021 02:24 PM PDT I've been meditating consistently the last 6 months My meditations have increased to 30+ minutes a day I'm working with visual and breathing techniques. Frequently my mind is distracted. No matter how hard I try to concentrate the 'monkey mind' just keeps coming back. In fact sometimes when I finish meditation I feel more stressed as old memories come bubbling into my consciousness. I don't see any improvement, I'm still just as distracted. I feel like I've given it my best shot. I don't believe in the philosophy that meditation should have 'no goal', that's silly. Everything in life has a reason. I could be using those 30 minutes in my day for something else. Why should I continue if it doesn't help? Should I quit? Advice? Halp. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2021 08:09 PM PDT Hello friends. I'm curious if anyone has any insight on the relationship between meditation and psychedelic drugs. Long story short took more acid than I could chew a few years ago and promptly shattered my ego and perception of reality and I remember one moment of just consciousness. No body, no thoughts, just... Being I suppose. At the time this shook me to my core and thus I found meditation in search of understanding of this experience. Since then my dilemma has seemed to be that I feel like I never got to really make it back to the same.... Level? Sober. I feel like I never got to revisit and understand such an enlightening experience in safety (as before I was freaking out thinking I ODd). I don't think that I'll never do so... But it's also my understanding that meditation is the "slow" path and drugs are the shortcut to such a state of consciousness. So sometimes I feel like I'm not sure how to heal from this event. On a similar note through research I feel like I understand a lot of meditation /enlightening/self realization topics and ideas on an intellectual level but I don't "feel" that I know them. Maybe I'm just rambling. I'd be wrong to say it keeps me up at night, but everytime I sit to meditate I feel like I'm not going neaely as deep as I know the potential to be. TIA for any and all feedback! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2021 07:47 PM PDT its funny when people say stop thinking so much Like U know that you cannot control thinking right? its trying that causes thinking to become excessive LooL you gon switch off thinking? you going to turn off your breathing too? how about your digestive system, you gon supress that as well? U got no control over what happens, what you think, how you think. One may observe it though. no fault in observation. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2021 12:18 PM PDT Hello kind folk, I started meditating last week and the first few days were amazing. I genuinely felt clearer and more in control, I noticed I wasn't getting annoyed at things as often and I could focus better. So I'm sold on the benefits of meditation! But the last three days have been tough for some reason. I don't know what changed but I stopped observing the breath and started controlling it and now I'm trapped in my head during the meditation sessions because I'm manually breathing, which breeds anxiety which creates this unwelcoming space in my head. I actually stopped halfway through today because it was getting so disturbing and weird, I felt like I was going to throw up my lunch. But I really don't want to stop, I feel like there is something here that I want. So I was wondering -- can I just focus on something else? Temperature of my hands? My sense of gravity? My heartbeat is a no-go because I've had heart problems all my life and that's a one way ticket to anxiety town. Any advice, wise ones? Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Looking for a specific mantra i heard years ago Posted: 04 Jun 2021 02:19 AM PDT Hello, it was something like hoo-ra-nah and you said hoo when breathing in, ra when you have that slight part in between and nah when you're breathing out. It sounded like that, but I could be way off. All i remember is it was a beginners class around 5 years ago at the brooklyn meditation centre. I was only visiting. Its a buddhist mantra I think Thanks for any help [link] [comments] |
| DAE get brief, long term memory flashbacks outside of meditation for Vipassana? Posted: 03 Jun 2021 05:09 PM PDT I don't always succeed at sticking with the habit. But on occasions where I start it up again, after a few days I start getting a couple of mini flashbacks a day of completely mundane things. I have ADHD and a poor memory in general, but the stuff my brain is digging up is stuff I might not have even paid attention to at the time, but somehow it's still somewhere deep in the synapses, like a pressed flower. Completely banal things. Last night I had a flashback of the inside locks of a car my parents traded in when I was six or seven. Just what they looked like and felt like to use was suddenly in my head, absolutely vividly. There's no particular reason - the locks didn't stab my parents, I never experienced any trauma or anything notable. But suddenly I remember that they had a sort of hook like shape. I'm baffled I remember that level of detail for something so mundane. Also suddenly remembered another manual lock from the same age, differently shaped, but I don't remember whose car it belonged to this time. Black plastic, circular, with concentric circles, less stiff. The hire car we used on a couple of occasions? Possibly, but the Vipassana hasn't dug deep enough for me to know yet. Normally even important memories are so vague I can barely remember anything, but I'll suddenly get swamped with random, tiny details of completely mundane things. A shopping centre I visited only once when I was ten. A banal comment a teacher made when I was four. The name of someone that I'd forgotten existed years ago, who - if you'd asked me to name them before I started meditating - I'd swear up and down I'd remember their face but not their name, but it'll just come to me out of the blue when I didn't even know I'd forgotten their name to begin with. What have your experiences been? [link] [comments] |
| Seeing flashes of scenery or other places in my vision during meditation. Posted: 03 Jun 2021 09:50 PM PDT |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2021 08:46 AM PDT I don't know where else to ask this but are there any methods to stop this? I try to be mindful about it to no avail. There are also times when I can't relax my brows without massaging them. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 03 Jun 2021 07:06 PM PDT How has meditation improved your life? Where were you before you began practicing? [link] [comments] |
| Has meditation actually produced material change in anyone's life? Posted: 03 Jun 2021 06:46 PM PDT I've been in therapy for a little more than a year now and my therapist is a meditation believer. She seems convinced that concentrating on random background noise and breathing will result in some kind of actual change in my life. I've told her that that sounds like magical thinking, but I will give it a try since I'm not a doctor. So far I haven't observed a single change. I sit, I breathe, I focus on my hands and feet, and whenever I catch myself having something like an inner monologue or really any verbal thought I silence it and refocus on the (usually absent) physical sensations. Can someone explain how this is supposed to help me earn more money? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2021 02:30 PM PDT Hi, so I've been meditating daily for a while now, and it doesn't matter if it's in the morning, in the afternoon or at night, I can't help but yawn often while I meditate. It's usually when I observe my breath, maybe it's linked. Anyone has experiences this? Knows if it's fine? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2021 04:02 PM PDT Whether I am trying to meditate while sitting down, or whether I am trying to be present during some activity, it feels like it's hurting my brain cells. It's the similar feeling you get when you have to force yourself to study even though you don't want to. It seems difficult and it makes my brain exhausted the same way as studying does. Am I doing it wrong or is this suppose to be like that? [link] [comments] |
| Trouble wanting to stay focused during meditation Posted: 03 Jun 2021 12:09 PM PDT I have started the practice of mindfulness at the beginning of the pandemic. However, whenever I start I always get lost in my thoughts, but even when I realize I'm lost in my thoughts I don't want to come back to the present. Has anyone had trouble with this before? I really want to get better at meditating and being present in general and wanted to see if anyone had any tips to help stay focused during meditation. [link] [comments] |
| As a student doing meditation for 2 hr a day, is productive? Posted: 03 Jun 2021 09:28 PM PDT I had joined a 10 day of vipassana meditation course. And I had a selfish reason for attending the course, "That it will calm my mind, & my effectiveness in the study will increase significantly as well as a better no PMO life". I was going through youtube interviews of many vipassana meditators, and one thing common from their interview was that "Vipassana made their life 100times better. The doubt I'm having now is " Is it a good idea to spend doing meditation for 2 hours a day" or I'll do meditation for 10-20 minutes a day?. Your suggestion will be highly appreciated. Especially if you are a Vipassana meditator, Please share your experience regarding Time management. [link] [comments] |
| Coursera - De-Mystifying Mindfulness, starts June 7 Posted: 03 Jun 2021 04:14 PM PDT Is anyone else taking the course? https://www.coursera.org/learn/mindfulness I have been practicing for some time now but feel I want to start learning more of the history and scholarship along with the experiential. I may also do the certification. [link] [comments] |
| Entering meditation way faster than I used to. Posted: 03 Jun 2021 06:35 PM PDT I'm currently 32yo cis man living in the US. I did mindfulness meditation years ago and I always found it hard to get in the headspace because thoughts would flood my mind. From age 25 to 29 I used recreational drugs monthly (lsd, mdma, ketamine mostly). I did meditation infrequently during this time but would still do it 3-5 times a month. I stopped using recreational drugs as often about two years ago. I've been trying to incorporate meditation into my daily routine. I've fiddled around with guided and unguided meditation, sitting and laying. I've found that I enter the meditation headspace way faster (1-2 minutes) than I used to and can stay there almost indefinitely. I don't think I melted my brain or anything because I'm still as competent as I was before. Did recreational drugs accidentally make me a Buddha / guru? Or is this something that becomes easier as you get older? My life is way less chaotic than it was at 25 but I recently went through a rough break up which still causes me stress. I welcome all advice on the topic both in the comments or DMs if you prefer. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
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