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- Smash mouth All Star keeps playing in my head, even during meditation. How do I stop this?
- I’m starting to notice a change in thinking��
- How can I bring the benefits of meditation into the rest of my day?
- Not listening to the story in my head
- Guided Meditation for the homeless?
- Hi there, started meditating again...wondering if someone can give me some advice about something...
- In dreams, we remember that the soul has wings!
- Tinnitus
- How short can meditation be?
- What are the pros and cons of different levels of effort in meditation practice?
- Meditation shattered my previously help beliefs and now I am without meaning & purpose. Help
- 7 Qualities of Attention - Tuning the Radio of Consciousness to its Qualia
- Should I think to myself "in when I breathe in, and "out" when I breathe out in meditation?
- Weird feelings
- Suggestions on guided meditation
- How much meditation is enough to avoid the dark night of the soul?
- Another tip to calm your mind : on your exhale , think the word calm and feel it in your body
- Sex get me distracted
- Greet your feelings
- Being in the Pain
- What does it mean during meditation when ur ears throb and feel full and your chest feels heavy and numb?
- Best meditation techniques for panic attacks/overthinking anxiety?
- Weird Experience Last Night
| Smash mouth All Star keeps playing in my head, even during meditation. How do I stop this? Posted: 13 Jun 2021 02:37 PM PDT |
| I’m starting to notice a change in thinking�� Posted: 13 Jun 2021 09:30 AM PDT My thoughts always got the best of me. My self-critical attitude and fast pace thinking were detrimental to my mental well-being during quarantine. Well after meditation, I actually realized it's been like this my whole life. I had an epiphany today that up to this point, I've always treated my life like a giant to-do list: I got a new job, new car, and even a nicer apartment and found myself ungrateful for any of that and just wanted to focus on the next item. Today I feel like I was finally able to let go of that mindset and focus on the present and appreciate what I have! That moment got a bit emotional. So thankful for this community and the insight I've gain from you all [link] [comments] |
| How can I bring the benefits of meditation into the rest of my day? Posted: 14 Jun 2021 01:26 AM PDT I've been on the 20 minutes a day train for a while now. Perhaps 2 months. And I definitely feel great - less anxious, able to look at problems constructively, thinking more before I speak, and more focused (which was the reason I started to meditate in the first place). I meditate just focusing on my breath and, everytime my mind wanders, trying to bring it back to my breath. But sometimes I feel like I am great during meditation and after, for about an hour, but forget the little lessons I learn during meditation the rest of the day. I'd like to be more present throughout my day. But I don't know how that feels and don't know if I'm getting that presence in my day to day life yet. Will it come with time? Or should I perhaps increase my meditation duration or to more than once a day? Am I getting too ahead of myself and should I just trust the process? I won't stop meditating, of course. But I'd like to know other's point of view or experience. [link] [comments] |
| Not listening to the story in my head Posted: 13 Jun 2021 06:02 PM PDT Hello, I noticed something after meditating today. I don't have to buy into the story in my head. The suffering my thoughts bring. I watched how judgmental I was being towards my thoughts. I was feeling sad. Until I realized I don't have to listen to it by watching. I had this idea in my head of having negative thinking patterns and beliefs that keep me stuck in fear and not able to move forward. So if I keep meditating will these negative thinking patterns and beliefs change in the deepest roots of my subconscious? [link] [comments] |
| Guided Meditation for the homeless? Posted: 13 Jun 2021 09:39 PM PDT Many recordings I come across make subtle assumptions about the audience. On one end that they're in a certain country wherein poverty is daily life and more accepted, on then other end that they live in a first world country, maybe have a family or at least are not in poverty. Could someone recommend some recordings that would be appropriate for someone living in a first world country that is homeless, without friends or family, and struggling to survive? Someone who struggles to properly eat, properly sleep, struggles to get and keep jobs or friends... [link] [comments] |
| Hi there, started meditating again...wondering if someone can give me some advice about something... Posted: 13 Jun 2021 09:47 PM PDT So I've been meditating for a while now, and decided to start up again tonight. It went great, no real issues other than a familiar one that I have been wondering has a solution or not. Just for reference, I sit in an Indian style pose on a pillow and meditate. The thing is my left foot (always my left foot because I rest my right foot on top of my left foot) falls asleep and it always gets quite uncomfortable to switch focus to something else. So I'm just curious, is there any way to circumvent this? I was wondering if learning to teach myself the full lotus position might work? Would that be a possible solution? Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| In dreams, we remember that the soul has wings! Posted: 14 Jun 2021 01:17 AM PDT Let your dreams be your wings, let your wings be your dreams. Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly. You were born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings. You were born with great potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with greatness. You were born with Wings. You are not meant for crawling, so dont. You have wings, learn to use them and fly. We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them. When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly! Celebrate your own special spirit, fly on the wings of your secret dreams. The man who has no imagination has no wings. Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies. Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ~ Paths of Ascension https://www.facebook.com/groups/pathsofascension/ [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2021 01:08 AM PDT Ever since I developed tinnitus from hearing damage it's become harder for me to do meditations because I could no longer hear how beautiful silence was. All I can hear now is the contant sharp ringing that is so loud and distracting Take care of your ears, you never realize the value in what you have until you lose them [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2021 07:48 PM PDT Usually when I ask people, "How short can a meditation be?" they typically laugh because they think I'm making a joke, and so I'll chuckle along and play it off as a joke too. but really, I know there are quick meditations people can do throughout the day. I suppose taking a pause and counting down from ten to clear your head & emotions. But what about just a deep breath... I suppose embedded in my question is 'the definition of meditation' in which case maybe I don't need others to define it for me. [link] [comments] |
| What are the pros and cons of different levels of effort in meditation practice? Posted: 13 Jun 2021 09:53 PM PDT I hope this question has not been asked in this form before. I've tried many different practices, and some of them involve a fair amount of effort in constantly directing attention back to a meditative object, while some of them emphasize that meditation should not be an effortful experience. What would you say the pros and cons are of more effort vs less effort in meditation? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Meditation shattered my previously help beliefs and now I am without meaning & purpose. Help Posted: 13 Jun 2021 03:07 PM PDT So I am just pasting my stream of thoughts here. Have been practicing a mix of concentration & vipassana(noting) practice (30minute-1hr/day) for the past 1 year and have been feeling the angst as previous beliefs and perceptions of what I wanted to do are broken and my mind is struggling to find meaning and purpose in day to day existence. I feel somewhat better knowing that I can face these questions head on versus suppressing them earlier. Maybe I just wanted to vent. Any help in confronting this? Maybe a book which helped you when you were in a similar situation? Or just continuing the practice with these thoughts is the way? So I learnt there is awareness That awareness is aware of everything It encompasses everything we experience Even time & space are inside it But what to do with this awareness? Back to the same existential question What to do with consciousness? Is it an act of non-doing? Like achieving inaction by action The way these words are flowing But where are they flowing from? Are they flowing out of nothingness? Like the way a tree flows out of a seed But why does this happen? Is this question absurd? Or is my mind absurd? We don't know why the cosmos keeps flowing It just flows And consciousness is just a witness to that flow The observers are not there It's just the observed Consciousness observes If the observer is not there Then what can we say about the observed It's just a stream of events happening And consciousness is a witness But let's assume for an instant subjects exists Subjects can change the objects by actions Where does the decision of actions come from? From the conscious? Or the subconscious? Or does that come from nothingness as well? If the actions come from nothingness, then is the subject doing anything? If the subject is not doing anything, does it even exist? Or it exists just as a witness to actions coming out of nothingness? Does it make the subject equivalent to awareness? Back to nothingness are we? unfolding moment to moment [link] [comments] |
| 7 Qualities of Attention - Tuning the Radio of Consciousness to its Qualia Posted: 14 Jun 2021 03:10 AM PDT |
| Should I think to myself "in when I breathe in, and "out" when I breathe out in meditation? Posted: 13 Jun 2021 08:13 PM PDT I find I can focus better when I silently think "in" and "out" when I'm breathing in and out (mindfulness meditation) Thank you in adavance. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2021 07:46 PM PDT While meditating today I started crying, I wasn't feeling sad but tears started pouring out... Why did this happen and is it normal? I have meditated before and nothing like this happened. Before meditating I had a good morning. I wasn't feeling sad when crying kind of void but not sad. [link] [comments] |
| Suggestions on guided meditation Posted: 13 Jun 2021 04:07 PM PDT Hello people, hope you're all safe and sound. I'm just here to ask you for your opinions on guided meditation apps. In your experience, do they work? And if they do, which ones have you used and can recommend? Thank you in advance. [link] [comments] |
| How much meditation is enough to avoid the dark night of the soul? Posted: 14 Jun 2021 12:31 AM PDT Hi! I started meditating 2 years ago averaging 12-15 minutes a day but i was thinking about meditating more but at the same time i do not want to meditate too much and risk being confronted with the dark night of the soul or something similar. I have read some terrible stories about people that got rid of the depression caused by this after a few years. So what is your take on this? 30, 40,70 minutes? What is the safe number? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Another tip to calm your mind : on your exhale , think the word calm and feel it in your body Posted: 13 Jun 2021 08:12 AM PDT |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2021 12:07 AM PDT When I started meditation I had any sex distraction. Everything was fine and beautiful. Now I've got in touch with an old "friend". And my mind is playing and has lost the interest to meditate. Don't get me wrong, I WANT TO, BUT CAN'T STOP THINKING SEX, WANTING... Some tips so I can get laid and meditate without getting distracted, or absorbed with sex. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2021 11:45 AM PDT Some days I struggle with meditating and calming my mind. I noticed I started by trying to calm my find, to focus my thoughts, and I was not always successful. I have recently started by greeting my feelings. "Hello anxiety. I feel you tensing my jaws, flexing my stomach muscles, and making me nervous." Just by listing what I'm feeling, I can already let go of those side effects. "Hello anger. I see you making me imagine confrontations, tighten my shoulders, and making me breather faster. Not today though. This feeling, like everything else, will pass." [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2021 10:51 PM PDT How can you lessen or eliminate your pain? You can't. While medical technology helps you cope with the pain to a certain extent, it cannot remove the pain wholly and forever. It is possible, however, to be with your pain. You can live with it, accept the existence of it, and be in the pain. That is the essence of meditation, the awareness. Meditation is not a difficult exercise. How can you not dislike the pain when pain is too painful? This book introduces how you can willingly be with pain in a systematic way. Free (The same as Amazon): https://www.dropbox.com/s/y69agnuaekvr3n8/Being%20in%20the%20Pain.pdf?dl=0 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2021 10:29 PM PDT I did meditation laying down and I'm new to it and i'm not very good yet but what could this mean? Is it a sign I am releasing the stress in those areas? [link] [comments] |
| Best meditation techniques for panic attacks/overthinking anxiety? Posted: 13 Jun 2021 02:43 PM PDT I got off anxiety meds and my brain is running on all cylinders with health anxiety and irrational thoughts. Are there any specific techniques for meditating that can make my anxious and negative mindset better as well as prevent panic attacks? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2021 05:48 PM PDT I tried meditating after awhile of not meditating and it was around 1:00 in the morning or so... I noticed a few instances that concerned me and I wanted to write about it to see if anyone knows / can give me an explanation The first thing I noticed, I was feeling super dizzy. I had a hard time concentrating. It felt like I was spinning 360 which is completely different than my normal meditation sessions when I was doing it regularly. I normally feel much more grounded and can zone out, but it felt like I was out of control and spinning I felt fear as well, which was completely new during meditation. I'm not sure where that came from. Usually I either feel calm or nothing at all, but last night I felt fear. Then halfway through, I felt aroused and then suddenly it went away. I've never gotten aroused during meditation before either, so that was strange for me to experience. I haven't changed my seating position since all the times I meditated before and it was just completely different that I got aroused yet it felt completely non-sexual(?) which I don't know if that makes sense or is even possible. And lastly, many times it felt like I didn't have eyes at a certain point and it was just darkness... like I could open some other kind of eyes but when I tried to, it was just my normal eyes that opened if that makes any sense. [link] [comments] |
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