Meditation: Weekly Discussion June 14, 2021 |
- Weekly Discussion June 14, 2021
- "Meditation is not self-improvement. Do not enter into it under any such delusions". - Alan Watts
- Changing your relationship with the "Background Chatter" is important
- After you discover the breath, hold onto it. And then, after a moment, let it go. Because, as you will soon discover, the moment refuses to be trapped and instead disappears into the past. You have no choice but to let it go, and that truth will set you free.
- A news app that only shows you good news! - it has made me a much calmer person!
- You're all love
- Balance a pillow on your head
- Is my meditation an escape?
- New to meditating. Have a few questions first.
- Dark side of meditation. My experience after advance level of meditating for more than 5 years.
- I think meditation helps me process emotions
- Stretching after meditating: something I noticed today
- Tip To End Suffering
- On emptiness
- 285, 528, 852 Hz Trio | Healing Is Believing - the Amazing Remedial Frequencies - Isochronic Tones
- Beginner: I found the void and the watcher
- Is vr meditation effective?
- If you knew then (i.e. in the past) what you know now, you wouldn't do then the action that you are ashamed of now. Have some compassion for yourself.
- Would “the process of watching your own thoughts” be a good description of meditation?
- Floating mind
- Grad Students Doing Research on Habit Formation and Meditation
- What is your personal definition of meditation?
- Never avoid a void. Every space has its freedom.
- What can I do in 90 seconds that will be useful for the rest of my life?
- Meditation is Like a Refresh Button.
| Weekly Discussion June 14, 2021 Posted: 14 Jun 2021 04:00 AM PDT This is a reoccurring thread for questions relating to your practice and discussion around your experiences. Questions Ask questions relating to your practice, the theory of meditation, various traditions and lineages of thought, or practical tips. If you're new, please read our [FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/wiki/faq) before posting, as it contains a wealth of information that all of us should come back to occasionally. Discussion Also use this thread for a more free-form discussion of your experiences and other tidbits that might not warrant their own full post. Use this space to connect with the /r/meditation community, it won't be heavily moderated. [link] [comments] |
| "Meditation is not self-improvement. Do not enter into it under any such delusions". - Alan Watts Posted: 14 Jun 2021 09:23 AM PDT There is nobody to be improved, that's what you'll find out if you go deep into it. The "you" you thought you were and which you thought needed to be improved was just a bundle of thoughts which the mind was conditioned to identify with. [link] [comments] |
| Changing your relationship with the "Background Chatter" is important Posted: 15 Jun 2021 12:19 AM PDT I was reading "The Mind Illuminated" and have found a para that helped me be more in the present and reduce the background chatter atleast by half. I'm more present now. I have been reducing the background chatter since days now and it feels so relieving. The summary is "Change your relationship with Mindwandering/Background Chatter - If you find yourself not in the present, you are wandering/daydreaming/mindvoice, do not curse yourself for not being mindful. Make that your "Aha" moment. You found your mind wandering or creating chatter, you found it, you pat yourself on the back, bring your attention back. That's it. Do not be hard on yourself for being "away" because that's very very natural and occurs to every one. If you are disappointed that you aren't "present", the results would be detrimental as you would feel sad and unmotivated to even try the next time". This changed the way I deal with the "things" in my mind and it began helping me in ways. [link] [comments] |
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| A news app that only shows you good news! - it has made me a much calmer person! Posted: 14 Jun 2021 11:18 PM PDT I recently developed an app that is based around happiness and only showing positive news, as well as jokes and cute videos of animals. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2021 03:32 PM PDT Just stopping through to say you're all love. We're all flowing down the river of consciousness together in this incarnation, we're all god. We all radiate cosmic love to one another and that love returns to us tenfold, we're all beautiful souls and beings of immense light and love. We're all consciousness. We're everything all at once. If you're suffering just know that it's not forever. It isn't wrong, it isn't right, it just is; suffering is just the souls way to make room for more love, so don't run from it. Embrace your suffering like you would an old friend, returned from a long journey abroad. "Oh hello, nice to see you again" You don't have to hide from sadness, you can feel it in it's entirety. You can mourn. You can feel pain. It's apart of you just as much as happiness, we elation, as love. You are love. Take a moment and sit, let you mind settle and focus on your breath. Let you thoughts enter you mind and exit as they will. They aren't wrong, they aren't right, they just are. Just be. There is no past, there is no future, just be here now. You are love. You are beautiful. You are enough. You are exactly as you are meant to be in this incarnation; you look exactly how you should, you feel exactly how you feel. You are cosmic love. Namaste and be love [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2021 12:29 PM PDT If you are having trouble maintaining your posture, balance a light pillow on your head while you meditate. I use my bed pillow and it works wonders. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2021 01:19 AM PDT I'm currently studying for a very tough exam. It involves studying for about 10-15 hours a day and I'm in the last leg of it. Meditation has helped me with studying in many ways - from staying focused to being emotionally stable. As I'm studying, I often find myself identifying heavily with what I am learning, personalizing especially hard when I make a mistake or slip up in a mock test. My mind runs to meditation as a "solution" but I don't meditate more than once a day for 20 minutes. I often think I want to because I will feel "better." My question is can meditation be an escape? When you are stressed, is it okay to go and meditate and make it better? Or is the whole idea of mindfulness to stay with the problem, and how? [link] [comments] |
| New to meditating. Have a few questions first. Posted: 14 Jun 2021 07:58 PM PDT 1.) What is the most basic meditation for begginers. 2.) I'm kind of a begginer but I stopped for multiple reasons. For example as shown below. 3.) I'm scared of what I'm going to see in my dreams and imagination when I do it. 4.) I'm also scared of change, perhaps is there a meditation for that? 5.) Third eye is it real or fake? Because I've heard really bad things about opening it. And seeing out of world things. Obviously it's bound to happen. But I would like some help on this. 6.) Also will music or headspace help?. [link] [comments] |
| Dark side of meditation. My experience after advance level of meditating for more than 5 years. Posted: 14 Jun 2021 10:37 PM PDT Side note: i am not tryna scare you and discouraging yall to stop it. Just sharing my experience and let you be more aware of it. Every thing has 2 side. There is no good without bad. I have also experience really posivtive stuff theough meditation which are way beyond my verbal context. I have quit meditation after experiencing negative side. I really dony know how to fix it. I am having hard time. Its been more than 3 months i havnt meditating. With meditationg your band width of consciousness increases. You are more aware that means subconscious thoughts which you wernt aware of, you become aware. Things which were submerged in your subconscious are coming to surface. So more thoughts will chatter in your head. Very chaotic mind. Every second your mind will chatter none stop. Which will disturb your sleep. It feels like honey comb of bees. Where bees just zzzzzz. Very very messy and chaotic. With mpre thoughts, which will eventually make you more anxious. You will be HELLA annoyed by simple things. A sound of face or even sound of your nose whistle when you exhale. Because you are more aware. Earlier you wernt aware of it so it wasnt annoying. You will be experience very very loneliness. Not alone, but lonliness. Your mind will be filled with thoughts, so you might feel like talking to someone, if you dont have anyone you can share you might even start talking to yourself alot. People will seem to become more more stupid and dumbass creatures. More annoyed by people. A smallest of smallest thing will be annoying. You will start to observe smallest bad thing of them and start to pick on them. Try to pull out the bad habit or behaviour. For example you might start to noticeing your spouse or parents ot friends talk to negative, over react to almost everything. You start to notice the behavious very deeply and in detail. If someone is behind your back, and watching you with some weird way. Meaning lesslife. Everything seems to be FAKE af. I am stuck at the place where i dont know how it will be fixed. [link] [comments] |
| I think meditation helps me process emotions Posted: 14 Jun 2021 04:42 PM PDT I also go to talk therapy and I talk things out with my friends. And I guess I journal and I do other things. But I just recognized this week that meditation allows me to somewhat 'passive process' tough emotions and feelings. I think about my mind and the thoughts loosening up thanks to meditation, and the thoughts pass through. So just wanted to share that. Hope everyone is having a good week so far. [link] [comments] |
| Stretching after meditating: something I noticed today Posted: 14 Jun 2021 04:04 PM PDT I've always stretched after meditating. I'm not sure why it started, it just seemed like a good idea I guess. I recommend it. It's like a cup of coffee or a finger of scotch after a good meal. But that's beside the point. Today I got distracted right after meditating and didn't think to stretch. 8 hours later and I'm wandering around and everything in my body just feels all tight and tense and uncomfortable. I realize: I didn't stretch this morning! So I stopped what I was doing and caught up on the morning stretch and oh boy does it make all the difference in the world. I didn't realize up until now how much of a difference it made in how I feel physically. Just wanted to share. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2021 03:46 PM PDT Through the proper practice of mindfulness, the gaining of certain properties or faculties becomes apparent. One of which being the quality of non reactive judgement. Some of the foundations of this notion is the understanding or awareness that this moment is just as perfect as the next. A moment where the ego is saying how bored or unpleasant a situation is, is just as perfect as a moment of ecstacy where you are having fun. The space within which all of these arise - your consciousness - is just as perfect no matter what is happening or arising within it. You don't have to "try" to see this. This awareness which can be practiced in daily life can be thought of as "non meditation". You're not sitting down and trying to be more focused, or develop your awareness. No matter what situation life throws at you, see if at times this awareness can be beneficial for you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2021 01:54 AM PDT If I am so is the air I'm breathing in and the air i breathe out; the water I secrete and the moisture I absorb; and your air is my air and I breathe you in as you do me and so it goes, so I might not be but perhaps WE are. Or are we? I couldn't really tell you who I am but someone else might think they can even though they'd only be partially right because what they think I am is also a part of me but not the whole as that's just 'what I am to them'. And their idea of me is a part of them so maybe we share things like air and water but also being. I'd say I'm the sum of my parts but some of those parts are physical and shared, so not mine and so I guess I'm not really the sum of my parts. I'd say I'm at least the sum of my other parts but those parts are ideas and they are mine and yours and one cannot be without the other and therefore I am not, and neither are we: IT just is. I could ask where or when IT is but those might be just fabrications to anchor the idea of me within this (it or that, or everything). But what if they aren't, and perceptions of when and where belong beyond the 'it'? Could the answer to where and when 'it' is be any other than here and now? [link] [comments] |
| 285, 528, 852 Hz Trio | Healing Is Believing - the Amazing Remedial Frequencies - Isochronic Tones Posted: 15 Jun 2021 01:08 AM PDT |
| Beginner: I found the void and the watcher Posted: 14 Jun 2021 09:04 PM PDT So I managed to calm my thoughts enough and took Nisargadatta Maharaj's advice to look between the thoughts as they come and go. Then I saw the intense black void. I tried to intensify the void by doing a beginner's khechari mudra by pressing the tip of my tongue against my soft palate and then I saw shapes and blue colors like a faint aurora borealis. And then I tried to go one level back to see who was watching all this happen and I saw the watcher, a person made of light who was dressed in a brown robe. Now I'm sure this conception of the watcher was conjured up by my own expectations of what a 'watcher' would look like...an otherworldly being dressed like gandalf the grey looking down at my mind doing its silly things. And then I didn't know what else to do. A few thoughts and questions: 1) My breathing becomes shallow the deeper I go. Is that normal? 2) I can't find that blissful sense of peace, only darkness and whirls of faint light. I keep wanting to 'come out of it' and move on with my day. I get restless. 3) Other than peace and a sense of grounding, is there anything else to look forward to as my practice deepens? Thanks and glad to be here. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2021 12:48 AM PDT If so, I would love to try it out as I feel it could be therapeutic and help me meditate more often. Thank you for your responses in advance👌 [link] [comments] |
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| Would “the process of watching your own thoughts” be a good description of meditation? Posted: 14 Jun 2021 04:18 PM PDT That's what it feels like to me at least. It's kind of like watching raindrops slide down a window pane. The window pane is what your looking at but these bubbles of though are also observable. Obviously you focus on your breath and try not to get tangled up in other thoughts. When those thoughts do pop up though, you interpret them as "Oh there's a thought," before going back to the breath. That's been my limited experience so far. Let me know if that sounds like what you've felt. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2021 11:21 PM PDT Hi there, I'm kinda new to meditation. I've benn practicing mindfulness meditation every morning for the last 6 month. Today i had a quite an interesting sensation: I started to feel like my body is stretching in my space. My head and stomach became distant from each other. My core "wanted" to fall backward while my head was kinda lifted upwards. It actually felt pretty good 😁 although I was shocked 😳 at start. Did anyone have any similar experience? [link] [comments] |
| Grad Students Doing Research on Habit Formation and Meditation Posted: 14 Jun 2021 07:18 PM PDT Hi All- A few friends and myself are grad students who are interested in habit formation and building a practice around meditation. We are trying to figure out what helps and why and are interested in building something new if we learn something interesting. So if you have a few minutes check out our survey. https://a4ohug4b7ru.typeform.com/to/DZlkMLWE [link] [comments] |
| What is your personal definition of meditation? Posted: 14 Jun 2021 10:28 PM PDT |
| Never avoid a void. Every space has its freedom. Posted: 14 Jun 2021 01:34 PM PDT |
| What can I do in 90 seconds that will be useful for the rest of my life? Posted: 14 Jun 2021 10:05 PM PDT Think about the last time you were angry? If you're like most, it probably went something like this… That's not right, how can they do that? You begin thinking about it. It makes you angry. You feel slighted, irritated and mad. Your heart rate rises, you begin feeling an impulse to yell or argue; you find yourself all wound up. Here is what really happened.
You think, feel and experience. How long does all of this take? 90 seconds. So, what can you do? https://kaushiksridhar.com/2021/06/12/what-can-i-do-in-90-seconds-that-will-be-useful-for-the-rest-of-my-life/ [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is Like a Refresh Button. Posted: 14 Jun 2021 09:59 PM PDT |
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