Meditation: seeing 'like a dog' and getting rid of prejudices |
- seeing 'like a dog' and getting rid of prejudices
- "It's happening! I'm meditating!!"
- AGAINST ALL ODDS I AM DOING IT! MOTIVATIONAL POST!
- Floating tank brought me a moment of bliss
- I did it guys. I meditated for 10 minutes for 10 days
- Sad about forgetting my life
- Which method of meditating is ‘correct’?
- Questions From a Beginner
- How do you know its working?
- Should I quit coffee and caffeine before doing a 10 day vipassana course?
- Qigong is perfect for any fitness addict who loves meditation too
- I’m on a 20 day streak ..
- Is anyone interested in joining me for a 30 Day Self Reflection Challenge? I've written out a series of questions, one for each day. =)
- Is there any type of meditation I can use for understanding myself/my personality, behaviours?
- Heavy/tight chest
- 432Hz - The Deepest Healing - Let Go Of All Negative Energy - Sleep Musi...
- Suffering is the express ticket to liberation, an easy life is the slow scenic route
- Techniques?
- Why am I, who's experiencing different sensations and thoughts, not in my head?
- Realization made me laugh during meditation
- Please Help!
- feeling hypomanic and overwhelmed after intense body scan meditation [x post from r/mindfulness]
- Energy can be locked in the body in many different ways. It can be locked in on a mental, physical, emotional, spiritual level, or in any combination of these levels.
- Epoché: suspension of judgement
- Recommend some good 5-10 minute meditations for being present
| seeing 'like a dog' and getting rid of prejudices Posted: 11 Jun 2021 12:41 PM PDT I'm usually very insecure about myself, I'm a girl,short, fat.And I know that we all have prejudices even when we don't realize it, even with the people we love the most, even with ourselves, without noticing, we already have prejudices about looks,body shape, gender, race... and this really gets to me sometimes, but today I cuddled my dog and went on a walk with her, and tried to empathize with her perspective about me, and realized she doesn't have this automatic response based on my gender or weight, she just sees me as a warm person that loves her and keeps her company, her feelings about me wouldn't change if I looked different than I am, and I'm trying to see myself and the world around me that way :-) most of us know that prejudice is bad, but don't understand how ingrained it is in our minds and that, sometimes, we're part of the problem too, and that's poison for your mind and for the world [link] [comments] |
| "It's happening! I'm meditating!!" Posted: 11 Jun 2021 08:13 AM PDT How common of a thought is this for y'all while practicing? I've been trying to recognize it as a thought and become aware of it, and then watch it disappear, but then it comes back 5 seconds later when I get back into things!! Not necessarily looking for advice... I just find this to be a very humorous thought and wanted to see how common it is :) [link] [comments] |
| AGAINST ALL ODDS I AM DOING IT! MOTIVATIONAL POST! Posted: 11 Jun 2021 02:08 PM PDT I struggled for a long time with serious DEPRESSION and SUICIDE. Being a young mom with three kids, in college, battling mental health. All of the trauma! So many people doubted me. I am in tears even writing this post. It was so any days I couldn't even bring myself to meditate. I finally started being consistent meditating. Every day I started using SmartAudio Meditation app. I challenged myself more than ever before. I had to push myself even days when I didn't feel like I could make it. YOU GUYS!! One more class and I graduate with my diploma. I can't wait to walk across the stage with my 3 babies PROUD! REGARDLESS OF MENTAL HEALTH YOU CAN DO IT! JUST KEEP GOING PLEASE. [link] [comments] |
| Floating tank brought me a moment of bliss Posted: 11 Jun 2021 10:08 AM PDT I was always interested in sensory deprivation tanks and the effects it had on people. Some time ago, maybe like three months back, i went for it and tried it out. Keep in mind, that I have never meditated before or done anything even remotly similar to this, but always wanted to try it. As I arrived, i talked for half an hour to the owner of the place. He almost went on a rant about how everything is connected and how life is about evolving your inner self to become a butterfly (methaphorically). He also told me, that no one knows where thougts come from, which I found intriguing. I never really thought about the things and beliefs he mentioned and for a little while I even thought that he was crazy. Later that day I started understanding what he was on about. After that I got naked and entered the floating tank. I didn't have any expectations for the experience. After some time (I don't quite know how much time). I just passed out and awoke after the hour was up. I have no recollection of the time I spent in that tank. My mind was just blank and I felt weird. As the day went on, I realised that I wasn't sleeping in the tank. I think that I was in a deep meditative state - something I haven't experienced before. I just felt at ease with myself and I even got a glimpse of true peace of mind (as far as I know it). For the whole day I was just content with myself and with life. Nothing could've brought me out of this state of mind. Since then I picked up meditation as a daily habit and even used the tank again, this time with no such results. My mindset has changed a lot since then and I have to say it changed for the better. Has anyone else had such a deep experience the first time they did something "spiritual" like this? [link] [comments] |
| I did it guys. I meditated for 10 minutes for 10 days Posted: 10 Jun 2021 02:04 PM PDT I'm really proud of myself because I finally started meditating at the start of summer. Will try to keep this up all summer and hopefully for the rest of my life. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2021 05:44 PM PDT Im new here. I love mindfulness, being in the present is truly amazing. I am Living a good life that i love full of great times But I am having a problem I am getting sad about all these great memories that i am starting to forget. I Can barely recall my life in middle school (I am now in the beginig of College) and it really makes me sad that in a few years i might forget all these good times. Not to mention the good times of my past I now seem to have trouble recalling It might seem like a problem thats good to have. And yes I know living in the past is now a part of being mindful. But it really saddens me that all these people and the experiences I have had with them will just disappear. How do i deal with this? And have any of you had a similar experience. [link] [comments] |
| Which method of meditating is ‘correct’? Posted: 11 Jun 2021 04:40 PM PDT Most of the time I meditate by trying to follow my breath. I notice thoughts come up and try to ignore them and come back to the breath. Typically while I'm doing this it feels like a normal activity, like there's a goal in mind. The goal? Become more calm, peaceful, etc. At one point I had a short moment of "no-thought" and felt absolute bliss. Watching my breath feels like a way to achieve that bliss again. However, I meditated differently today. This time I just sat there and tried to allow everything to just be. I noticed things and that's it. Like, everything, not only the breath. I went from sound, to body-scanning, to breath, to smell, back to sound, etc. And it felt great during and afterwards whereas breathing feels frustrating during and okay after. If I'm going by pure feeling, then I'd just go with the second way I meditated, but I want to know what you guys think. Am I doing the breathing meditation wrong? It feels that way. Is the other way I meditated wrong? Idk, but please enlighten me :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2021 09:49 PM PDT I just recently started meditating and I have a few questions (some of them might be no brainers but this seems like the place to ask) 1.) if i'm meditating and my nose itches do i break the meditation to itch it? 2.) is it better to meditate with or without music (ik it's different for everyone but will it distract me) 3.) how much time is a good length of meditation too much seems forced but not enough seems pointless 4.) what is the goal? am i trying to clear my head entirely or focus on one thing? am i going about this all wrong? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2021 01:28 PM PDT I've been at it for a couple of weeks now and I'm starting to wonder if I am doing it right. My Routine is 20 minutes every evening and I am just focusing on my breath. A couple of times it felt like I lost conciousnes, but I think I just fell asleep for a moment.I definitely feel more relaxed afterwards, but I don't think I've really reached the meditated state, as I heard others describe it. Sometimes I get a feeling, like I'm on the edge of something, like almost there, but then the thoughts come back. How do you guys know it's working?Maybe I'm just overthinking it? [link] [comments] |
| Should I quit coffee and caffeine before doing a 10 day vipassana course? Posted: 11 Jun 2021 07:45 PM PDT |
| Qigong is perfect for any fitness addict who loves meditation too Posted: 12 Jun 2021 01:38 AM PDT |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2021 01:28 AM PDT For someone like myself with ADD to be able to sit down to meditate 10-15 minutes is a big deal for me. I know 20 days isn't a big deal but it's a small milestone for me. Today I did my first silent not guided meditation and I felt like I could've gone longer. Is this a good start ? What do you guys think? Suggestions are welcome 🙏🏼 [link] [comments] |
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| Is there any type of meditation I can use for understanding myself/my personality, behaviours? Posted: 11 Jun 2021 08:30 PM PDT Please help? I am practicing mantra meditation. Now I am searching something different. Is there such thing? For understanding myself, my personality behaviour. [link] [comments] |
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| 432Hz - The Deepest Healing - Let Go Of All Negative Energy - Sleep Musi... Posted: 11 Jun 2021 11:41 PM PDT |
| Suffering is the express ticket to liberation, an easy life is the slow scenic route Posted: 11 Jun 2021 09:08 AM PDT People could happily live hundreds of lifetimes if they had very few problems. But a person with depression or anxiety has the need to stop and question everything going on inside them. Would love to hear your thoughts on this idea! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2021 04:42 PM PDT Hey, My name is Aaron Elliott. I am very excited that I joined this group with you all! What are some current techniques that you all are using for meditation? Can you kindly drop some links for me? I do have one that I am using now, but I want to see what you all are using. Like [link] [comments] |
| Why am I, who's experiencing different sensations and thoughts, not in my head? Posted: 11 Jun 2021 10:08 PM PDT The head, the portion of your body above the neck, is responsible for more than 80% of the types of sensations that you can experience. The sense of sight, smell, taste and sound are all exclusively located in the head. Even the thoughts that arise, we know that they do so in our brains, so even all our thoughts reside in the head. So, when source of all these sensations and thoughts is actually my head then why is it wrong to say that I, who's receiving all of these, reside in my head? Why is it wrong to say that my toes are farther from me (the I) than my nose? Of course, these thoughts and sensations themselves aren't in the head. They exist in the field of consciousness and we can't locate them. But we can certainly locate the sources of these sensations and thoughts, and if we can link the sensations to their sources, can't 'I' be defined w.r.t. these sources? Why does 'I' not exist then? Why is it called an illusion? Why can't my nervous system, with its sensory receptors and the brain at the centre, be the 'I'? [link] [comments] |
| Realization made me laugh during meditation Posted: 11 Jun 2021 01:03 AM PDT So I have been meditation for one month, not every day but I'm trying. 10 minutes every session with a timer and I notice that it gets a bit easier every time. Today I didn't use a timer for the first time and it was a totally different experience, I meditated for 25 minutes and it was so much easier, 25 minutes felt like 5 minutes. During the mediation I constantly told myself that I am not my body or my mind (which I always do) but this time I think I somewhat actually came to the realization that this is true and I just started laughing for like a minute. It felt great lol. I have a long way to go but meditation is growing on me more and more every time. Just wanted to share :)) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2021 09:34 PM PDT Can someone tell me how mindfulness has an effect on your imagination? Or vice versa? My intuition tells me that mindfulness is the opposite of imagination, which is producing things in your mind that are UNRELATED to external stimulus. However, improvements in imagination are linked to cognitive problem solving, memory, and creativity. How can these two polar opposites have such similar effects? I ask because I've tried mindfulness for sometime now to help with my memory and cognitive skills. I'm 24 and have horrible ADHD and also have such horrible memory, short and long term. Its become a huge hinderance in my life. My imagination is lackluster. So is my ability to stay mindful. [link] [comments] |
| feeling hypomanic and overwhelmed after intense body scan meditation [x post from r/mindfulness] Posted: 11 Jun 2021 03:30 PM PDT hey everyone, i could really use some guidance on this, tbh i am panicking a bit at the moment. i'm sorry it's so long. so for the past month or so i have been making a concentrated effort to address my mental health issues through mindfulness meditation and yoga. i have borderline PD, PTSD, and intense anxiety and these affect my mood patterns in a very bipolar sort of way. i've been struggling really hard the past two months with emergency abdominal surgery, moving myself and my partner into a newly combined household, and a very intense mixed sort of bipolar episode that was brought on by the stress of those two things combined. i was put on a few different mood stabilizers, everything that was tried disregulated me more, now i'm on klonopin and propanalol for anxiety while we figure out what to do. so out of desperation i have thrown myself into mindfulness and yoga pretty hard, i've been practicing yoga my entire adult life and i have a great relationship with it but i am very new to a sustained mindfulness meditation regimen. i read about the MBSR and felt very hopeful about it, so i've been doing the jon kabat zinn 45 minute body scan like 6 days out of the week and it has been helpful (until now). i also use yoga with adriene's videos on alternate nostril breathing and the 4-7-8 pranayama breath to practice those techniques, those are also helpful. at the moment i am coming off of a very bad spell of insomnia caused by one of said mood stabilizers where i was sleeping like 2-3 hours a night for a week (and my sleep was bad before that as well). The past two nights have been a relief in that i've gotten between 5-6 hours but that is obviously still not enough and i'm still feeling pretty strung out and unstable emotionally. so today after i get up and eat some food i go back to the bedroom to lay down and do the zinn body scan. i am determined to make it all the way through without drifting off (which is usually a struggle for me) because 1) i feel a migraine coming on and i know from experience that if i can relax enough using the body scan it will head off the worst of it and 2) i also know from experience that in my sleep deprived state if i nod off really hard and unexpectedly i will jerk awake with a "fight or flight" bodily rush of adrenaline and this is very unpleasant. so we start out, i'm feeling more relaxed which is pleasant but i'm getting those fuzzy spells in my brain that say im about to fall asleep. i'm able to fight it off by focusing extra hard on his voice and just kinda letting my body become one with the instructions. it's going well, i'm going deeper and deeper into what i believe was the kind of "relaxed and aware" state that he describes. at the end the visualization became VERY strong for me, esp when he describes breathing through your entire body and fully inhabiting your body. by the end i was in what i can honestly describe was an altered state of consciousness where my body and its sensations occupied my entire range of consciousness. i wasn't conscious of the bed i was laying on, my internal monologue had ceased, all that existed for me was my body and the way i was fully inhabiting it (i should probably add that i was listening with headphones, had a weighted blanket over me, and had a mask over my eyes blocking out light so the sensory deprivation probably helped me achieve this). i wouldn't call it relaxing really, it honestly felt rather mystical and transcendent, like my body was a container full of light and energy. a part of my brain was aware and marveling at the transcendence at the time, like "wow we have never experienced this before!" and then...zinn started the last bit about how the recording was coming to an end and to start wiggling your fingers and toes. at this point, and this is what i'm hoping to get an explanation for if anyones made it this far lol, i felt a HUGE wave of anxiety crash over me. there were no conscious thoughts to the anxiety but subconsciously it had something to do with breaking the trance-like state i was in. but for lack of knowing what else to do i duly started gently moving my fingers and toes and as i started moving i immediately felt insanely agitated and full of adrenaline, like i'd been shoved off a cliff. it was disturbing af. i got up and felt like i needed to ground myself because i was vibrating with a very manic, nervous energy. that was a few hours ago and i've been eating food, drinking water, and doing stuff around the house to get myself out of my head ever since. i'm very anxious, fearful, and upset because 1) i'm terrified i won't be able to sleep tonight, which will make it more likely that 2) the experience is going to kick off another highly unstable mood episode, and 3) i'm scared of doing the zinn scan now and that is a loss because it has otherwise been very helpful in getting me out of my head and stabilizing me. i guess i just got a little TOO out of my head this time lol :[ does anyone have any advice or perspective? please tell me that this is within the range of "normal" and that it will pass relatively quickly. i plan to go out and buy some epsom salts and do a salt bath because this has helped to ground me in the past. i found this comment by u/wollff (i'm sorry im blowing you up): https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/62lks1/how_to_meditate_with_bipolaram_i_doing_it_wrong/dfnj2pd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 and the part where they say "Especially the awareness heavy techniques, where you note all sensations that happen, can cause both: Pretty heavy euphoria, as well as pretty uncomfortable episodes....When you have a brain that is predisposed to fall into heavy ecstatic or dark episodes on its own already, that might turn out to be a problem" really resonated with me because that is my brain exactly and i think that is exactly what happened today. so now i don't know how to proceed with my practice :( i'm thinking limiting myself to yoga for the foreseeable future is probably a good idea. tbh i'm really fucking frustrated that something that i've spent a lot of time and energy on because i thought it would help me has (at least for today) destabilized me more. THANK YOU for reading. i know i write novels, i'm sorry <3 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2021 08:02 PM PDT On a physical level, the body absorbs and retains chemicals and unresolved emotions in the cells, muscles, bones and organs. On a mental and emotional level, there are times when memories and emotions which were either suppressed or forgotten are re-experienced and remembered as an individual is receiving a healing. If you accept that the body, mind and spirit of a person are always seeking a return to wholeness, it is easier to understand how your own healing Spiritual energy can assist you in triggering and releasing these blockages. Your spiritual energy goes under many different names like Spiritual chills, Euphoria, Voluntary goosebumps, Ecstasy, Prana, Chi, Qi, Vayus, Aura, Mana, Life force, Pitī, Rapture, Ruah, Ether, Nephesch, Chills, Frissons, The Force and many more. This energy provided in a healing session can release trauma locked in the body from accidents, abuse, fear, or loss of a family member or pet. Consciously manipulating your own Spiritual chills to heal has tremendous benefits for your astral body, physical health and much more. If you are interested, techniques outlined in this YouTube video can help you get in touch with your spiritual power to unblock these energies. Also here's my Reddit community where you can share your own experiences, talk and ask questions about this energy! [link] [comments] |
| Epoché: suspension of judgement Posted: 11 Jun 2021 07:57 AM PDT Everyday, we get bombarded with internal and external stimuli that invite us to judge. When we judge, we simultaneously say something about ourselves. I believe this person is nice, this car is ugly, I don't want to go to the gym, I hate that I am tired. The problem is that these things often don't have anything to do with ourselves. Even if we are tired, we don't have to judge ourselves for it. But when we judge, we act as if they do. We act as if we 'know' the truth. This leads to mental disturbances, because we are trapping ourselves in our own beliefs. The Greek Pyrrhonists believed that the suspension of judgement is very important for mental stability and quietness. This mental stability is called Ataraxia, and is important for attaining Eudaimonia, which means happiness. The practice is as follows. As you go on about your day, catch yourself judging things. Catch yourself judging social media posts. People on the street. Ask yourself, does this judgement really matter to me? Is it important to me? Is it absolutely necessary to judge this right now? If the answer is no, let it go. The mind becomes quiet over time. Ever had a bad day due to something 'bad' that happened in the morning? That's because of just one judgement. One judgement that influenced a whole day negatively. If you practiced Epoché in that moment, you would've let it go. If you catch yourself judging yourself, let it go. If you made a mistake, don't judge yourself directly. Find out what happened, why it happened, and try to learn the lesson. When you judge, you won't learn. You won't learn because you assume the self judgement is the lesson, which it's not. The point of the exercise is this. People who are unhappy, often judge everything that stimulates them. They cannot help it. Their minds oscillates very hard between right and wrong, which they then also project on themselves. The weather is bad, the food is not good, politics sucks, neighbors suck. Everything happens 'to them'. When you practice Epoché often, you will become more wise. You understand that things are not as black and white. That you don't have to react. You will eventually be freed from mental disturbances. [link] [comments] |
| Recommend some good 5-10 minute meditations for being present Posted: 11 Jun 2021 06:50 AM PDT |
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