Meditation: I enjoy meditating. So, why do I so strongly resist doing it? |
- I enjoy meditating. So, why do I so strongly resist doing it?
- 2 years of daily practice. Experience, advice.
- Any one seeing a white star during meditation?
- Has meditation stopped you obsessing over certain ideas?
- Is it possible to meditate when the room you meditate isn't organise as you want it to?
- After 2 years of practice, with multiple techniques, I’m going back to the pure basics
- Can I find meaning and purpose in my life through mediation? If yes. How?
- My experience after 1 year of meditating
- Self Hypnosis
- How can I stay in the present and “have faith”? I feel like time just passes by and nothing ever gets done or achieved and I feel like I’m digging a bigger hole for myself.
- Cannot find a comfortable sitting position
- I found my despair during meditation
- Need help Conquering stress response with Meditation
- How to see or experience chakras?
- The Practice of Smiling. How deciding to Smile can be a Key to Mindfulness.
- Has daily meditation made you a more happy/peaceful person?
- This world is many worlds at once
- Any tips for overexcitability?
- Focus on your breath
- How do we "choose" which thoughts to internalize?
- How do I deal with too many intruding thoughts while I meditate?
- I can only meditate at night
- Shakiness after meditation ( energy )throughout your body
- Meditation and Shaking Off the Covid-19 "curse".
| I enjoy meditating. So, why do I so strongly resist doing it? Posted: 20 Jul 2021 07:04 AM PDT Every time I meditate, I am glad I did. I think, "I should do this more, why did I even put it off?" Then the next day comes and I again experience some kind of strong aversion to meditation. I can't put my finger on it. I like doing it + I want to do more of it = in reality, I avoid doing it? Doesn't add up. Anyone have first hand experience with this? [link] [comments] |
| 2 years of daily practice. Experience, advice. Posted: 20 Jul 2021 12:55 PM PDT It's crazy to think it's been this long. Ive stuck with meditation religiously for the past 2 (2 and a half? years). It's been nothing short of life changing. I'm more present. Happier. Emotional pain and stress isn't as strong as it was. I tolerate negative emotions much better. Anxiety is lessened significantly and I'm more present in my body. My focus/concentration is much better and more sustained. I started meditating once a day (morning) for usually 15-20 minutes at a time. As I progressed, I started sitting 30 minutes a day. Now, I sit for 40-60 minutes a day. Regardless, I still think I can dive deeper with the practice. I think meditation for me is a spiritual path. It's very meaningful and I hold it very dear. If your a beginner my best advice would be to not be afraid to sit longer. The deeper you go the more you'll be rewarded. The insights you'll get can be very powerful. Any questions are welcome. When you connect to source energy you connect to the strongest frequency: love. And there's an unconditional, unwavering supply. ☮️ And ❤️ friends. [link] [comments] |
| Any one seeing a white star during meditation? Posted: 20 Jul 2021 10:14 PM PDT A white star appear/shinny dot from time to time during my meditation. When I pay attention to it, it will disappear? Or anyone seeing a silver ring moving/ turning circle in the dark when eyes close along with sensation in the third eye? [link] [comments] |
| Has meditation stopped you obsessing over certain ideas? Posted: 21 Jul 2021 01:50 AM PDT I've always had a tendency to obsess over certain things in such a way that it affects my mental health. As a typical example, one theme that regularly recurs is that I'm in the wrong type of job, what I do isn't suited to me, and I should start my career again in a different profession. Over the past couple of years, I've considered a ridiculous number of potential careers, from video editor, to lawyer, to air traffic controller. I become convinced that this is the 'thing for me'. This then leads to thoughts around whether it's too late to make the career switch, how I should leave my current profession as soon as possible, and so on. I think myself in circles and circles, constantly considering things from different angles, in a manner that is just exhausting and often self-critical. I feel like I waste so much energy and emotion on a constant series of hypothetical scenarios. The problem is, these thoughts and themes often seem like very rational things. What starts off as 'this is potentially an issue that I should consider' quickly transforms into 'oh my God, what am I doing, I'm going to spend the rest of my life working in this boring job that I'm ill-suited for'. The job/career example is just one of many. However, I was wondering whether this is a similar issue others in this sub have experiences, and whether you have found meditation helpful, or have any other advice. Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Is it possible to meditate when the room you meditate isn't organise as you want it to? Posted: 20 Jul 2021 04:00 PM PDT I still live with my parent so i can't move or the declutter the things that I want to declutter makes me lose focus whenever I meditate. Any tips or piece of advice? [link] [comments] |
| After 2 years of practice, with multiple techniques, I’m going back to the pure basics Posted: 20 Jul 2021 10:51 AM PDT Been trying to learn more about meditation so I've exposed myself to some new teachings. These have been stressing me out recently, because I've just been thinking about them a lot more in my daily routine. To be fair I have also tried to rush the learning process and fallen into the trap of conceptual thinking Anyway, after all this I'm just going back to spending 10 mins a day observing my breathing. I started meditation because of my inability to stay grounded in the present moment which made me a victim of my thoughts. All I want to now do is strengthen my prefrontal cortex (center of the brain responsible for rational thinking) so that I can work through each day with some stability. Had a very rough day today and had my first panic attack. Luckily it lasted only 15-20 minutes and I have a very trustworthy friend. [link] [comments] |
| Can I find meaning and purpose in my life through mediation? If yes. How? Posted: 21 Jul 2021 02:02 AM PDT Is it possible to find the meaning and purpose through constant mediation practices? [link] [comments] |
| My experience after 1 year of meditating Posted: 20 Jul 2021 01:43 PM PDT Hey guys - I just wanted to share why I got into meditation and what I've gotten out of it thus far. I'd love to hear if you've all taken away similar things from your practice, and please correct me if I'm wrong about my understanding of certain topics (especially the parts about the self). Why did I start to meditate?
Lessons Learned - The Self
- Thoughts
- We have the ability to "choose" our own mood. Can always begin again. I can be having an awful morning, that doesn't mean I have to let it cloud the rest of the day. Just imagine a smile in my mind and begin again, letting go of any negative feelings in the body. - Life has ups and downs, important to remember that everything is temporary. Knowing this makes hard times and bad feelings fade away faster (also aided by learning to detach from/ignore unwanted thoughts). - Training the mind to focus on the present (whether it's the breath or any other sensory information). Accept that thoughts/distractions will come, but accept them and gently redirect attention without trying to fight the thoughts. - Everything is found in consciousness, there is no other "space" where we can feel anything. Anxiety, knee pain, and an uneasy stomach all within the same realm. [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 20 Jul 2021 04:30 PM PDT It's like I'm stuck in limbo and I just want a change already. [link] [comments] |
| Cannot find a comfortable sitting position Posted: 20 Jul 2021 12:24 PM PDT I am really trying to get back into meditation. When I was in college I did it multiple times a day and loved it. It really helped me out. Now about 5 years later I just can't for the life of me get comfortable. If I sit cross legged and keep my back straight my pelvis feels pressure and if I let go of that my back rounds to relive the pressure on my lower half of my body. Also pressure on either ankle depending on which on is sitting under my leg is quite painful. I used to be able to get comfortable in like 5 seconds. This is after doing a variety of body stretches as well [link] [comments] |
| I found my despair during meditation Posted: 20 Jul 2021 08:02 AM PDT I had such a remarkable experience this morning during meditation. I was feeling my body and my emotions during my breaths, and I discovered that I have concentrated a lifetime of despair deep in my gut. It feels like a sticky black tar dredging all over the white flame of positive energy deep in my gut. I've never experienced anything like this and I know in my heart it's the key to healing my body and my soul. Through a lifetime of trauma I learned to disassociate from my body. I've separated my physical self from my mind and soul as a defense mechanism. I think that's why my despair lives in my gut. It's far from my mind and my heart, which I have guarded my whole life. I cried through my entire session to purge this poison from my body. I moved and swayed to allow my body to expell it bit by bit. I felt so much better after, but now I'm feeling badly. Now that I've found it, I know it's there. I can't ignore it anymore and I know it's going to take so many sessions to rid it from my body. I feel poisoned and tainted. It's hard to accept this. I know it takes time. It's like trying to lose weight. You can't drop 10lbs overnight no matter how much you want to. But it makes me feel sad. [link] [comments] |
| Need help Conquering stress response with Meditation Posted: 20 Jul 2021 06:23 PM PDT [link] [comments] |
| How to see or experience chakras? Posted: 20 Jul 2021 02:12 PM PDT Hi, I've been reading and watching videos about chakras: there's a lot of material out there on how to open them, how to activate them, how to balance them, and general info. What I haven't been able to find is: how can one "see" the chakras, or at least experience them? I come from a "spiritual" school where we try to the best of our capabilities to not "believe" in anything: either you experience something for yourself, firsthand, and then you simply know it is true, or you just say "for now, I don't know" and move on. In this field, believing is making an assumption and I personally don't feel comfortable just trusting people who tell me what color a certain chakra is and what functions it accomplishes, just out of a simple an act of faith. Trusting things that might not be true leads, in my experience, to delusion. All the materials on the chakras I reviewed go into great length describing every single specific characteristic of the chakras, but none, among the ones I found, is saying anything about how to "see for yourself". So, I'm wondering, what is the way to do so? I've never seen or experienced chakras while meditating (mainly satipatthana, vipassana, zen), so I'm suspecting there's another way (or, maybe, I just have to go deeper into my meditation, not sure : ) ) Anyway, thanks in advance for the guidance. [link] [comments] |
| The Practice of Smiling. How deciding to Smile can be a Key to Mindfulness. Posted: 20 Jul 2021 05:18 AM PDT Have you smiled today? Could you smile right now? :) I decided to make this post to encourage all of us, myself included, to smile a bit more.
So smiling is generally the reaction to or the result of something. If I practice meditation and become meditative I eventually start to smile, if I see something beautiful I start to smile. But why don't we just start smiling, for no reason? Could it be useful? I think as well as we can watch our breath, repeat mantras, go for a walk or relax our body, we can practice smiling in order to become meditative. But why does it work? Because the brain does not know the difference between a fake and real smile. From a biological point of view, simply lifting our cheeks triggers our brain to release neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin and endorphins, even if our smile is there for "no reason".
So when you are going to work, when you sit down to meditate or when you are meeting strangers in the streets, why don't you smile a bit and see how it feels. [link] [comments] |
| Has daily meditation made you a more happy/peaceful person? Posted: 20 Jul 2021 06:16 AM PDT I'm wondering what others experience in terms of peace/happiness when it comes to meditation. [link] [comments] |
| This world is many worlds at once Posted: 20 Jul 2021 09:08 AM PDT This I've seen, and now I share with you: The web of causations that constitute objective reality are way beyond the cognitive scope of any individual. First hand experiences on all areas of life are just tips of the iceberg, and any notions of continuity and completeness we impose over them are based on shared narratives we adopt to close the gaps between ourselves and the world around us. Thus, many worldviews emerge, each more or less validated (in the perspective of individuals) by how many others subscribe to them, but all those constructs ultimately dwell the same material baseline. This is how many differents realms of existence exist all at once in the same space: the realms of gods, demigods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts and hells, for instance, as presented in buddhist ontology, are all here and now, within the minds of each individual. The same for all other models one might adhere to. Worldviews are worlds in themselves. And that's why you can't and won't change anyone's differing opinion through rational discourse: you might be at the same place as someone else at any given time, but you may also be inhabiting completely differents planets, with radically different rules, structures and institutions. Consider this when you meet a stranger and look at the alien worlds they are presenting to you as a respectful diplomat from your own homeworld. That will save you a lot of strife and suffering. [link] [comments] |
| Any tips for overexcitability? Posted: 20 Jul 2021 08:24 PM PDT I most likely have adhd and I have this problem where when something good happens I get super over excited and jumpy and it then quickly turns into anxiety. And I get really tired and sleepy afterwards and I am not able to enjoy whatever good event or thing I am at. I get really overstimulated. I was wondering how meditation might help with this. What sorts of things could I try? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2021 09:21 AM PDT I don't want to sound dumb, but what exactly does this mean? Especially when you have a thought and you have to go back to focus on breathing. You label the though and go back to focusing on your breath. What are you suppose to do? What do you feel? Just feel your breathing? [link] [comments] |
| How do we "choose" which thoughts to internalize? Posted: 20 Jul 2021 08:30 AM PDT Hey everyone. I think I have a decent understanding of the idea of having no self, or at least no constant, unchanging self. I get that thoughts just arise on their own, without a "thinker" being necessary. We can only observe what is arising, and everything arises in the same space (consciousness). However, I also think that a major point of practicing mindfulness is understanding how the mind works. Once you notice that thoughts are just thoughts, that they aren't facts and don't necessarily have to be listened to, we can "choose" which thoughts to internalize and listen to. My confusion arises when trying to understand "who" / how we can "choose" which thoughts to focus on and give importance to and which to ignore. If there is no "I" and all we can do is observe what naturally arises, how are we able to listen to some thoughts but ignore others? Who is choosing which thoughts to ignore? It seems like a separate skill than to just observe. Please feel free to correct me if I'm misunderstanding something. Any other thoughts are welcome. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| How do I deal with too many intruding thoughts while I meditate? Posted: 20 Jul 2021 06:55 PM PDT Sometimes when I meditate, I get a whirlwind of random thoughts (memories, past conversations, scenes from TV shows or movies) popping into my head. Whenever I try to ignore these thoughts and refocus on my breath, new images and sounds keep playing in my head. Does anyone else experience this? How do I refocus? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2021 06:49 PM PDT Meditation makes me very sleepy for some reason. I get 9 hours of sleep consistently every night (20F here). But still, when I do my meditation in the morning, I feel exhausted ready to sleep. So I moved it to right before I go to bed, and I sleep like a baby. Any tips on how to stay awake during morning meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Shakiness after meditation ( energy )throughout your body Posted: 20 Jul 2021 06:22 PM PDT Hey just wanted to know how long does it take for energy to pass throughout your body .I did the Dr Joe Dispenza releasing meditation and I have shakiness it's eased up but I'm trying to not get in my head just need advice . I've been taking hot showers and doing deep breathing to help. [link] [comments] |
| Meditation and Shaking Off the Covid-19 "curse". Posted: 20 Jul 2021 01:28 PM PDT This may not belong in r/Meditation, but I suspect some of you will/are experiencing something similar so I thought I'd check-in to see how other people are dealing with this. First off, let me say that while the COVID-19 pandemic has not exactly been a "great time" for me, I realize I am very lucky and have been quite fortunate through this entire thing. My wife is a nurse who treats cancer patients so she's had to continue working on site, but as a data analyst, I've been fortunate enough to work from home for the past 16 months. Now, I work for a hospital as well so during a Pandemic it's fair to say we're under the gun to produce reports/data at a pace not experienced before. It's been a stressful period of work and I've had two kids home with me during "online learning" breaks for school. I live in Canada so it hasn't been horrible, but while working from home in May and June I had kids home with me also. It feels like I've been living the exact same day over and over and over again for a year. With cases in Canada finally improving and restrictions being lifted, we have been fortunate again and able to take a road trip to a beach about 15 hours from home in another province. It's sunny here, we're playing in the ocean, and I'm having a great time with the kids -- but the weight of the past 15 months has not shed as quickly as I thought it might. I figured I would get here, have a pint on the beach and the reset button will have been hit, returning me to pre-pandemic stress levels. Unfortunately that hasn't been the case. I've been here 3 days now and while it's certainly a welcome break, I find myself jonesing for the routine I had built at home where I'd work during the day, take a walk by myself etc etc. I'm going to meditate more regularly this week as sadly, I've let my practice slip a bit, but what are some ways or strategies to help "process" all this in a meaningful way? I feel like I just came off the line in 'Nam and now I'm back to civilian life but not able to adjust just yet. [link] [comments] |
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