Meditation: Anyone else notice a change in their face after a successful meditation practice? |
- Anyone else notice a change in their face after a successful meditation practice?
- does any body else get a swaying feeling when they meditate?
- Super smash brothers melee for the nintendo gamecube.
- 2 months of anxiety. I want to forgive myself
- I heard the classic "om" last night.
- 1h of meditation/day for 101days in a row!
- I'm realizing the more work I do just how unkind I have been to myself. And how alien it is to me to be so...
- I developed a mental health related app that may help you to be mindful of your actions!
- A few notes on breathing meditation
- Subtle but life changing results from my first silent Vipassana retreat. Plus some tips for others.
- Visual changes
- Going to my first 10 day vipassana retreat - got some questions!
- Emotional breakdown during meditation
- Has anyone tried Attention Training?
- Is this Normal???
- Explaining sukkah with emptiness ?
- Restless legs
- Worried about sleep issues regarding meditation
- 5 times 5 minutes meditation OR 25 minutes meditation
- So how exactly do you meditate?
- Being in pain
- I indulge in excessive overthinking. How do I meditate to calm myself?
- The principles for success in meditation are identical to those for success with exercise.
- What is Jon Kabat-Zinn's most secular, most practical and most accessible book to Buddhism skeptics?
| Anyone else notice a change in their face after a successful meditation practice? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 10:45 PM PDT After I have a successful mediation practice where I reach a couple seconds of bliss, I notice a change in my face. My face is more symmetrical. There is less tension around my eyes and forehead. My eyes seem more symmetrical and in sync (less lazy) . I have a "glow" in my face. And my mouth is relaxed in a neutral grin. I just meditated and my reflection caught me off guard! Try it next time :) [link] [comments] |
| does any body else get a swaying feeling when they meditate? Posted: 14 Jul 2021 12:28 AM PDT if feels like im rocking foward and backwards. or like I'm going up and down. or some kind of movement. but nothing is actually moving at all. and i can with my will, chose which way to go. it's actually quite pleasant. like an elevator feeling. does anyone know what this is called? [link] [comments] |
| Super smash brothers melee for the nintendo gamecube. Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:45 PM PDT With consistent mindfulness meditation, I was able to completely empty my mind today while playing my favorite game of all time, melee. It was one of the most incredible feelings I've ever felt, playing so in the zone. Not an ounce of frustration or excitement, just complete understanding of the game and a completely empty mind, it was like my hands were simply playing for me and I was merely an observer. Thank you r/meditation. [link] [comments] |
| 2 months of anxiety. I want to forgive myself Posted: 14 Jul 2021 01:49 AM PDT A small intro: I have a girlfriend (10 years together), we live together, soon to be married (proposed to her in April). Before we started dating, I was with a girl (let's call it girl B). It wasn't a serious relationship, just some fun moments. My girlfriend asked me about B when we started hanging out. I lied and told her I've never been with B. After 3 months, we broke up. After that I went back to the previous girl (B) and I was with her for a one-night thing. My girlfriend and I got back together and we still are together. 5 years ago, in a party, I was alone and I got very drunk (not an excuse, I know) and I cheated on her. I've never done this before that, neither after that. But it happened. I got over it. I've put it behind my back, and moved on. Everything was going pretty well until suddenly girl B sent me a message. I panicked. I couldn't sleep that night. I felt super anxious and stressed out the next day. But I told my girlfriend about her, but I didn't tell her everything. I didn't tell her about being with B after we broke up. The week after, my mind simply remembered that I didn't tell everything and I panicked again. Another sleepless night. I told my girlfriend the next day. She was mad at me (obviously). The week after, my brain simply remembered about the cheating. Another sleepless night, I was anxious for a week, and since then I'm not able to sleep properly. I'm getting better, I dont feel as anxious as I felt 1.5 months ago, but I'm still not ok. I'm afraid of not being able to sleep, and I feel remorse about cheating. My dilemma: I know I should tell my girlfriend, but that's not an option. We're getting married, we're thinking in buying a house and it was a one-time thing. My question is: Can I meditate for forgiveness? Will I be able to cope with these thoughts? Can I use self-hypnosis to "delete" these thoughts? Edit: I started meditating 2 weeks ago. I feel better during the day, 90% normal. At night, when i'm tired I feel anxious because I'm afraid of not being able to fall asleep. I feel sad for cheating, but the worst thing is the fear of not sleeping. Sorry for the long post. Thank you for your time. Cheers [link] [comments] |
| I heard the classic "om" last night. Posted: 14 Jul 2021 03:11 AM PDT As the tile states really, Not even during meditation too. I was meditating before bed as usual which ends with my thoughts still racing and just feeling like shit. I was/am in a low point so I essentially asked the universe for help (I am not really religious just desperate) . Then at some point I just kind of gave up and accepted how painful it all is and every feeling and thought crossing me. Even the fact that my thoughts wont stop coming. Then all of a sudden my mind was clear and I started hearing humming first in the right ear then both. I wasnt really sure what to do so I focused on it for a few minutes and it went away. curious whats the meaning behind the sound both scientifically and spiritually. thanks for reading. [link] [comments] |
| 1h of meditation/day for 101days in a row! Posted: 13 Jul 2021 05:17 AM PDT It has been a quite rough and intriguing journey. I've been sober for almost 7months. My younger brother died at the end of 2019 and I was shattered. But when I found my motivation to live a better life not just for my own sake but because of my brother, I sobered up, got a medication for my horrible depression, anxiety, ocd and add and then finding my meditation practice again. Started with just 10minutes a day to 1-6hours a day. Mostly about 2-3hours a day. I started to use my breathing for my anxiety attacks and cold showers for my depression. I'm finally feeling like I can come out of this crazy life I've had. Thank you for reading. If I can help you in some way regarding sobriety, meditation or mental health please ask me a question here. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:38 PM PDT Edit: Apologies this isn't so much about meditation so much as a painful awareness of the source of my life long depression and anxieties. The details of why aren't important, childhood, parents, some hurt etc. Boring, nothing amazing, nothing special. But. The weight I put upon myself to be perfect is so incredible, so crushing. And yet it's just my normal state of being I don't notice it accept for how horrendously difficult life is for me. I'm always an equation to be solved. A problem to be fixed. Never ever enough in the present moment. Even meditation which has done wonders to show me so much and given me so much has fallen to this perfectionist drive. And I'm so incredibly lonely and isolated in life, even with a few friends. I'm so afraid to live life. Of course I'm depressed and lonely. I'm terrified to actually get out there and make mistakes, get messy, do the wrong things, get hurt, hurt others, fail. I've taught myself I can't handle big emotions. I've tried to protect myself from pain. I realize all of this too but my solution instead of kindly pushing into uncomfortable territory has long been to be harder on myself. If my inner child could be depicted it would be a small child trying to bench press 400 lbs and a trainer standing over him constantly telling him how he's not doing it right while the child cries. Any mother would race to hug and hold the child and tell him he doesn't need to lift those weights right now. I'm learning to hold myself to love myself but it's such an alien process to me much of the time. So counter intuitive. Someties I think I'm doing it only to realize I'm hitting myself in the face with a hammer instead. Other times I think I'm doing it and instead I'm allowing myself not to face fears that would actually be the loving thing. [link] [comments] |
| I developed a mental health related app that may help you to be mindful of your actions! Posted: 13 Jul 2021 08:53 PM PDT So basically last year I was feeling a bit low. I really didn't know how to become better since I had never faced this before. I used to not get proper sleep and woke up after having dreams due to my anxiety. So I just started noting what activities I did and whom I did it with in a google doc. Slowly I also started rating how I felt about the interaction. Soon I started to notice a pattern that I felt better when I hung out with some people and when I did certain activities. This way I was able to feel much better than before and I gained confidence that I can control my own mental health. I stopped dreaming as frequently since then. I even built an app for this so that other people can do the same . The app is called Happyer which was made based on the above experience and provides insights into impact of a given activity or friend. The app also has a "Find Therapist" feature using which you can contact our therapists for help. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.happyer4life for android https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/happyer/id1537711110 for iOS. I have created a subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Happyer/ to help easily address issues/bugs & to allow users to share their happy experiences :) [link] [comments] |
| A few notes on breathing meditation Posted: 13 Jul 2021 02:48 PM PDT There are a lot of meditation techniques and this one is probably the most popular, so here are a couple tips I've learned over the years to make the whole process more enjoyable and effective.
That's it! Hope this helps [link] [comments] |
| Subtle but life changing results from my first silent Vipassana retreat. Plus some tips for others. Posted: 13 Jul 2021 08:56 AM PDT I hope that this post will encourage people who are dabbling in meditation to really pursue this incredibly valuable practice. Ive put a brief summary of things learnt at the bottom. I should say before I get into this that you should try not to draw any expectations for your own retreat from this, it is different for everyone. As I discovered we have very limited control over the mind and its expectations, so for this reason I wont go in to detail on any moments of insight, ill just give a general overview of the two weeks. I'd heard from Sam Harris that he had his own practice at home, but it wasnt until he sat a retreat that he really engaged with the practice. I can now attest to this, after having my own small practice at home for a few years and reading many of the popular books related to mindfulness and insight, I finally got the chance to sit my first two week silent retreat in mid June. First week: At first I often felt like a pressure cooker as opposed to a relaxed being just sat there breathing. What I was quite shocked by was just how much desire and aversion was present in my thought process. Even with a relatively quiet lifestyle, my mind is so used to wanting, getting, wanting getting, whats next, whats next. From the moment I wake up to the moment I fall asleep i'm fulfilling my desires. This keeps the mind in such a turbulent state, where it cant come to rest and settle into whats actually happening. Lots of hinderances arise for this reason, and it felt like less of a retreat and more of a confrontation. It seemed restlessness, impatience, frustration, and doubt were the main things I was going to have to learn to sit with, at least at first. This was one of the biggest lessons from the retreat. In the first few days I felt as if the meditation was making me crazier, but it was actually just the increasing awareness of just how much thought was colouring my experience. As I understand it this is quite a common experience, your thoughts can begin to seem louder and concentration can seem non existent. I ended up crying just from the shock of realising how my thoughts were so incessant, and realising i'd gone through life like this without ever realising. And I hadn't cried in years. Thoughts seemingly getting louder is actually a good sign that the mind is beginning to settle, though. As for moods and emotions, the first five days or so were an absolute rollercoaster. My mood and energy levels would change drastically from one hour to the next. This, as I slowly realised, was the mind trying to exert some sort of control over the situation. Constantly creating its own realities and wholeheartedly believing them. As the days went by and I had some guidance from my teacher, I learnt it was utterly pointless and frustrating to battle with anything, and to just watch these states as if they were shifting weather patterns. Just bearing witness to the shifts, aided by greater concentration, lead to quite an amazing moment and realisation of the selfness nature."Im so tired" became "tiredness is present", "this is so stupid, its been 5 days and I feel no better" became "frustration is present". The most amazing thing was that bringing this kind of attention to mind states causes them to burn themselves out or dissipate, sometimes without me even realising they had gone. A jack kornfield quote came up in one of the evening talks that really helped me "Through meditation our life becomes not a struggle between success and failure, but a dance of the heart". By the end of the first week my mind had quietened down significantly, and there were consistent energy levels. I only needed five hours of sleep a night and I was actively pulling myself out of dreams in the final stages of sleep, reminding myself somehow that I was just lying there sleeping. When I woke up there was usually a clean energy, almost like caffeine but without the shakiness or racing mind. It was quite easy to achieve a decent state of concentration in the meditation sittings, and I would come out of the sittings often in a state of contentment (usually followed by excitement about how nice the concentrated state felt, which itself undermined the concentration). Second Week The second week was mainly just the hammering home of the teachings learnt in the first week. My concentration levels were pretty consistent although not without lapses of course. I was beginning to witness just how beautiful mindfulness can be as a refuge. I went through many deeply pleasurable states. All of my doubts about buddhist meditation disappeared, especially during moments of tranquility, where I felt huge appreciation that the Buddha had discovered these methods. The was one moment of complete tranquility that I experienced after a sitting. I left the meditation hall to go and sit in the sunshine and just observe nature. As soon as I sat I felt this wave of relaxation of the mind and body, I could hear things that my mind would usually react to and inspect, for example an unusual bird call. Normally I would turn my head to see if I could see the bird, but instead just the hearing was known. And that was enough. There was no reactivity or striving for more, just peace. This lasted about 15 minutes. Afterwards, when the tranquil feeling subsided and I felt my mind and body go back to the usual way of being, I realised that i'm actually carrying around an amazing amount of anxiety related tension in my body. It was only because it had gone and come back again that I felt its presence, whereas before it just felt normal. The mind and body are deeply intertwined, and this body awareness was an unexpected benefit of the retreat. The Metta (loving kindness) meditation we were doing each morning and evening was having a great effect on my anxiety levels, which I will go through in the notes below. Things learnt from the retreat (written in note form to myself): -Focus on working with what IS. Keep practising daily not to become more peaceful or less anxious. These things will happen indirectly, but the main purpose should be to get better at handling everyday aversions and desires. If you're tired, observe it. Restless? Observe it. By working with these states, we begin to think of meditation as preparation for when things do go wrong and reality isn't to your liking. Just by observing reality each morning and evening, you will become less aversive to tiredness, restlessness, work, stress, negative emotions. And you will cultivate more patience and equanimity as a result of this, which allow you to slowly let go of trying to manipulate the world to suit you. -Become interested in what it is to be a human. There is so much going on in every moment. The mind and body are intertwined and strongly connected. Learning to observe all the constant changes in your own nature is deeply rewarding and can be an amazing relief from the feeling of a solid "I" or "me" behind life to whom its all happening. -Common habits of western culture keep the mind in such a busy, restless state of desire. Porn and masturbation, excessive food consumption and snacking, intense stimulation from TV and internet browsing. These things are all satisfying in the moment, but keep the mind from coming to rest. This was a huge lesson for me. Letting go of or at least greatly reducing these pleasures lead to greater peace of mind and equanimity. Ask yourself: What is the purpose of fulfilling this desire? If the answer is to get a momentary sense of pleasure with no lasting benefit to you or others, it may not be worth doing. It will just come back stronger again and again and again. After the momentary glimpses of contentment and peace I achieved on retreat, non of these things really seem worth it anymore. Kornfield was right when he said "there is no higher happiness than peace". -The mind is constantly creating new realities. Just remind yourself throughout the day that you are likely in one of these realities right now. You can then search for the related thoughts or physiological signature behind any given mood and observe with interest. If a mood is good or neutral, enjoy it without clinging. If its bad, never try to improve anything, just bring awareness to it. -The best help for your own anxiety and those around you is to practice Metta. This helps massively to become less concerned with self obsessed worries and become more other oriented. Wish strangers well, and try to break the habit of judging people (eg He/She is weird). - Use noting words during periods of the day when it is easy for the mind to wonder. When driving or walking just make light mental notes of "going, going" or "step, step". The same goes for eating, showering, brushing teeth etc. Bringing mindfulness to these 'in between' moments can really help with concentration in daily sittings. Tips I would give to anyone going on their first retreat: - Give at least a week before the retreat to cut out entertainment from TV/phone/computer. As mentioned, this can keep the mind in quite a turbulent state. The advice to me was to cut it out the night before, but if i were to go back and do it again id definitely allow my mind adjust to the lack of stimulation earlier. Spend the week reading some spiritual material, going on walks, meditating and just doing nothing at all. Try to slow down as much as you can. -Spend a couple of weeks getting your knees used to sitting and a good posture. Pain can be a good object of mindfulness, but it can also lead to a lot of shifting in posture and restlessness if its too much in the retreat. This may undermine concentration. In the weeks leading up, look up meditation postures and sit cross legged as much as possible to help the knees to adjust. Dont try to force some crazy lotus or half lotus if you dont have the flexibility as this can lead to lasting knee damage. -Only read beginner books if youre still relatively new to the practice. As i discovered, getting ahead of yourself and reading all about special insights and advanced methods can lead to a lot of expectation which can be a big mental hurdle. Just make sure you have a good basic understanding of practice without going too far into things. As my teacher said "expectation can be a dangerous poison". Of course there will be some expectation, and good intellectual knowledge of Vipassana can help a lot. But just make sure not to get too ahead of yourself like I did. Thats all, hope this helps some people! To sum up what ive learnt in one quote, I would have to say "you cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf". [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jul 2021 04:46 AM PDT Hello lovely people. I am a beginner at meditating been doing it for a couple of months and I'm trying to stay consistent. I wanted to share/ ask about my experience. every time after my meditation is finished, When I open my eyes (I meditate with my eyes shut) I experience a change in the "tint" of my vision, or at least this is my perception of it. Everything I see has this blueish tint the closest thing I can compare it to is when you set your tv's color scheme to a cold one. Anyway, this blue tint for some reason brings me calmness although it disappears after a few minutes once I go back to my other daily activities. Have any of you experienced this or know what is it? [link] [comments] |
| Going to my first 10 day vipassana retreat - got some questions! Posted: 13 Jul 2021 02:00 PM PDT I've been accepted to one of Goenka's vipassana 10 day retreats. I'm excited but also would like some info from people who have experience with these already. Sitting poses: In my private meditation practice I pretty much only sit on a chair. How difficult is it going to be for me to spend hours in some non-chair sitting pose at the retreat? Do you have any recommendations for the best positions with the equipment that they provide me? Clothes: In the rules they say that we should cover both our knees and elbows. I'll have my knees covered, I'll be in sweatpants but what about the covering your elbows part? Is it really that strict, can I be there in a T shirt? I'm a male if it matters. 4 am wakeups: I've been told that it's not mandatory and that a decent amount of people slept through the first 4:30 session and would just wake up for breakfast and make the post breakfast session their first of the day. Is this true? How many people would sleep through it in your experience? Donation: If I end up enjoying my experience, what's an ok amount of money to donate? Is there anything I didn't mention that you feel I should know? Perhaps something you wish you knew before heading into your first retreat? [link] [comments] |
| Emotional breakdown during meditation Posted: 13 Jul 2021 10:19 PM PDT I've been meditating daily for the last month(skipped only 3 days) and today I had a really bad breakdown during it after that I cried for around half an hour and now I feel a little bit better but really really empty... I do usually get one or two tears in my eyes when I regularly meditate but never had such a bad feeling during it ... I'm getting worried now [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone tried Attention Training? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 07:57 PM PDT Title. You listen to multiple different sounds and shift attention from one to the other. Like mindfulness, you take control of what you pay attention to and let the rest remain. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 07:45 PM PDT I have had chronic tension headaches in the past but not sure if this is related to my meditation. I consistently do mindfulness meditation and it seems to increase my awareness of the feeling of tension. I feel the tension in my temples and can feel it throughout much of the day. Is this just me becoming more aware of the feeling of stress because of meditation? My mind goes to that tension feeling instead of thinking what I was stressed about. But it is almost more annoying and uncomfortable to be aware of the tension. Would love some advice or if any one has input. [link] [comments] |
| Explaining sukkah with emptiness ? Posted: 14 Jul 2021 01:40 AM PDT Iam writing a Masterthesis about Buddhism and Psychology. Currently Iam with the secound noble truth, in which I try to explain how dukkha is arising. I want to use concepts of fabrication and emptiness to explain this. in short i want to make this part of the thesis as particular "intense" to the western reader, that there is no solid self, and that emptiness penetrates all objects. Iam using at the moment the shape of suffering and seeing that frees for this endevour. is there any other literature or can anybody give me adive or point me to adive, how to do this most elegant? metta, [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 03:39 PM PDT I recently started meditating, but I struggle a little with restless legs as I meditate, and I eventually have to move them. This is a pretty big problem, and I wondered if anyone has any tips to deal with this issue. Ty:) Edit: I also have some anxiety, and I don't know if the restless legs may be caused by this [link] [comments] |
| Worried about sleep issues regarding meditation Posted: 14 Jul 2021 01:20 AM PDT Ive been practicing mindful meditation for about a week now (i know its very short but please hear me). Only spending 5-10 minutes at best per session, sometimes 2 sessions per day, ive noticed some fast drastic changes, more difficulties falling asleep (ive always had some difficulties, but since i started they only feel more exacerbated), drop in sleep time (from 7-9 to 6-7), and i am just very unsure of this being an issue or not. Ive known before about people who are sleep deprived for long periods of time getting used to it and being unable to see their decreased function in their day to day life, and ive even seen it in fact, people sacrificing sleep to work 10 hours a day saying it works good for them. I wish to catch myself in case i could be slipping into that. For most of the days ive been decently rested, but recently im starting to feel more tired during the day Ive checked the subreddit as well in search for answers but couldnt really find something satisfying. Some affirmations about the knowledge i already had, people praising meditation for letting them sleep only 4 hours a day, others saying too much caused them to wake up after only a few hours and feel terrible. I really am not sure at this point, i dont really have much to say other than what was laid out already due to priorly stated lack of experience with meditation, i just hope i can get a concise answer for my situation and worries. If meditation has this power of increasing deep sleep allowing full rest from such little time of sleep how is it not some incredible productivity hack in every self help video ive watched? Reminder, i dont want to judge the practice or call it a waste, i wish to look at it with an open mind to understand the effects it has on me and why they are so. [link] [comments] |
| 5 times 5 minutes meditation OR 25 minutes meditation Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:12 PM PDT Hey! Please guide me in this I have started meditation for month now I was thinking to do it more frequently so can I do meditation 5 times in a day for 5 minutes or just at one time in 25 minutes. Also which one will be more beneficial and help me to explore more. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| So how exactly do you meditate? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 05:19 PM PDT Until recently, I've been meditating by forcing breath in and out of hole noticing when my thoughts would arise. When they did, I would almost forcefully bring back my attention to my breath. A book I just bought mentioned to notice the in breath and put breath instead of forcing it. And to observe the thoughts and then bring back attention to your breath. What's your take on it? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jul 2021 12:40 AM PDT You can be with your pain. You can live with it, accept the existence of it. That is the essence of meditation, the awareness. Meditation is not a difficult exercise. [link] [comments] |
| I indulge in excessive overthinking. How do I meditate to calm myself? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 10:42 AM PDT I have a habit of overthinking and thinking of unreasonable fears. I am a writer and right now, I am struggling with this fear that I won't be able to understand emotions of the characters that I create or the ones in the stories I read. It's completely absurd. Every month, I have such absurd thoughts. I want to control my thoughts. How should I start meditating? Also, is meditation really helpful with calming anxiety and stopping overthinking? I want to solve this issue without any medication. That leaves me with meditation and exercise. [link] [comments] |
| The principles for success in meditation are identical to those for success with exercise. Posted: 13 Jul 2021 05:51 AM PDT I've been meditating for 2 years. I've been a personal trainer and coach for almost 10 years. The more time I spend meditating, I realize that the two parallel each other in so many ways it is almost comical. To be successful and see results in either endeavor, you need consistency and structure. If one week you're training for a marathon, the next week you decide you want to be a power lifter, and the third week you decide to take a break, you'll quickly become a jack of all trades and a master of none. And you'll likely have minimal to no results. The same is true for meditation. There are many types with many goals and purposes. If you're one of those people who believe that there is no goal with meditation other than to just be, that's fine - there's meditations for that. There's also goal-oriented ones that seek to train attention, relieve stress, and so on. For best results, you need to find one consistent with what you want to obtain from you practice and stick to it. Schedule it and build the habit. With meditation, just with exercise, most days you probably won't feel like doing it. It's about discipline. There will always be something else in our busy lives that could be a good excuse to not meditate. But if it is important to you, it must become a priority. Results in meditation will be slow. In exercise, the progress is so gradual that as trainers we recommend the newspaper mirror selfie because the day-to-day changes are so minimal they're practically unknowable. The same is true for meditation. Sometimes you'll be wondering if it's doing anything at all for you. Then one day you realize you haven't had a panic attack in 6 months and realize consistent meditation has been the only factor in your life that has changed. Lastly, you need to become 100% about the process and not the gratification. There are a lot of people who go to the gym or a fitness class just to check the box and to be able to say "I worked out today." Their workouts often lack purpose and intensity. The same applies to meditation. If there is any part of the ego involved in doing meditation, work on letting it go. If meditation is only 50% about the process and 50% about some sort of gratification or feelings of superiority, this will reflect in your progress. It needs to be about the process and nothing else for best results. Even focusing on the goal of why you picked up meditation can be harmful because results are often so slow, focusing on the goal can cause frustration. Find your peace in simply sitting and practicing to the best of your ability and the rest will come. Finally, I will say that something is absolutely better than nothing in both instances. There are health benefits to sporadic, unfocused exercise routines just as there are with inconsistent meditation practices. And often that is a part of the process. But progress will be slow and limited. Once you find something that resonates, commit and enjoy the process and give the results time to manifest before writing it off. [link] [comments] |
| What is Jon Kabat-Zinn's most secular, most practical and most accessible book to Buddhism skeptics? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 11:52 PM PDT Even assuming, of course, that all might be secular, practical and accessible to Buddhism skeptics, I'm sure one stands out. I'm on a budget so I have to make one decision I won't regret. The Mind Illuminated by John Yates, for example, was particularly disappointing because it kept referencing Buddhism terminology, which made me read more about that religion that I'd have preferred. If you'd told me by the end of the book I should know what the 5 precepts, 4 noble truths and 8 what-what are, I wouldn't have bought the book. I know there's a tendency to convince someone like me that these things shouldn't matter. They do. I'm not shifting on that. If anything, it's that kind of persuasion that makes me doubtful meditation is even for me at the first place. Please bare with me and assist accordingly, if possible. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
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