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- I like to watch that video, when I don’t feel like to do my 1 hour seat.
- Importance of an erect spine , also please suggest books.
- If we rephrased 'absent-mindedness' as 'lack-of-mindfulness' then more people would probably get it
- You don't need a reason to be happy, but you always need a reason to be unhappy.
- I don't get the point of meditation (help)
- From Religion to Drug Addiction to Meditation to an Unwavering Belief in Humanity's Potential (and also STEM Theory)
- How do you guys remember to meditate everyday?
- What do y’all think of Taoist meditation water method “inner dissolving” taught by Bruce frantzis?
- Does anyone have any methods to prevent dissociation.
- How do I proceed from this state in deep meditation?
- Is it possible to have a setback so severe it reverses all your meditation progress?
- Feeling of body rotation to the left or right
- Easy and simple steps to reduce stress and lead a happier life
- I’ve been meditating for only a couple days and the area between my eyebrows is vibrating.. literally??
- How meditate with illness?
- What I want isn't always what other people need
- Karma and Meditation
- Difficulty with sight and spoken language
- What does anxiety worse after meditation actually mean?
- Meditating with open eyes seems harder, but more impactful
- best morning/night routine for meditation?
| I like to watch that video, when I don’t feel like to do my 1 hour seat. Posted: 08 Jul 2021 09:28 AM PDT
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| Importance of an erect spine , also please suggest books. Posted: 08 Jul 2021 06:39 PM PDT What is the importance of an erect spine during meditation? Because I can't keep mine erect without support beyond 2 minutes.I always get distracted by feelings around my throat and upper back and I try to find a better position, but to an avail. Also, please suggest books on Meditation! [link] [comments] | ||
| If we rephrased 'absent-mindedness' as 'lack-of-mindfulness' then more people would probably get it Posted: 08 Jul 2021 09:29 PM PDT Just a thought. Also on mobile the text prompt says 'Your text (optional)' but then underneath a red line in red writing it says 'This community requires body text.' But I ain't joining no tattoo cult [link] [comments] | ||
| You don't need a reason to be happy, but you always need a reason to be unhappy. Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:04 AM PDT Most times even when people are happy, it's almost always about something that happened. True happiness is uncaused, so the happiness we feel when we get a new job or a partner or whatever isn't true happiness because it's dependent on something external (like the new job). True happiness comes from within. People only suffer because they're identified with the mind, which basically feeds on negative emotions so the more you suffer, the more the ego is strengthened. You may have come across some people who complain about their lives but then when you try to give them advice, they never even give it a chance. This is because the ego doesn't want suffering to end.
Since realising this, there's no need to take life seriously anymore because it's all just a play that we're all acting in. " ...oddly enough, the very word 'Person' is in Latin 'Persona', that through which sound passes. It refers to the megaphone mask worn by actors in Greco Roman drama. The dramatis personae, the list of the characters to appear in the play, was originally the list of masks that were to be worn. Therefore your person, your personality, is your mask. So the question is, what is behind the mask?" ~Alan Watts. It's hard to put what's behind the mask into words because it is beyond words, but I let go of the ego and I watched what's behind the mask writing a song through this body and it's called 'Let Go' and I of course think you should listen to it. Life is much more enjoyable when you let go and it's such a simple thing that I just had to express it and share it in whatever way I can. The amazing thing is when you're just watching the ego instead of being identified with it and believing what it's saying, it doesn't take long for you to actually feel a shift in your state of consciousness right here and now. [link] [comments] | ||
| I don't get the point of meditation (help) Posted: 08 Jul 2021 09:51 AM PDT I don't get what meditation is supposed to do. I don't mean I don't see the benefit, I've heard people talk about how it helps with emotion control, helps clear your mind, and improves quality of life and emotions overall. But, I don't understand HOW it does that. Or even what the goal is when you meditate. I have no idea what meditation is supposed to be, everything I've ever found is just "close your eyes, focus on your breathing and calm your mind" or some vague "you just gotta sit and THINK man..." type answer and not only does that not help me AT ALL, if I'm being honest, I also don't understand how that's supposed to do anything for me? I'm not trying to be an asshole here, I genuinely want to add meditation to my daily routine, I genuinely WANT the benefits I hear about and I want to try it, it seems amazing. But I don't understand what I'm supposed to do. Can anyone here explain it to me so I can better understand it, and get started? I've tried meditating many, many times, but since I have absolutely no fucking clue what I'm supposed to do or what the short term goal is, it just ends up with me being confused, then frustrated, then pissed off because I feel completely lost, and then falling asleep. Help? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:32 PM PDT It only makes sense that a practice like meditation elicits a level of awe that is most often attributed to spirituality. My point here is that every time I went to the temple (which was a lot), I often fell into deep visionary states and would be overcome with a very intense "spiritual" sensation. In fact, the first time I went through the temple, I thought I was having an acid flashback. So I quickly began to associate this very specific mind-high with what I thought was the spirit of god. Whenever I felt this feeling, I simply believed it was god directing me or affirming one thing or another. After I served my mission and returned to the states (to make a very long story short), I had sex with a woman who, unbeknownst to me, was actually married (though they were, and had been for some time, separated). As the good Mormon boy that I was, I went to repent and ultimately was excommunicated over this little mishap. I quit going to church and my faith was quickly crumbling. I started to learn things about my faith which advanced the crumbling, and I fell head-first into an intense drug addiction with heroin, cocaine, and meth. I mean - when the entire belief structure you've spent every day since you were born building your entire life on top of is suddenly and quite violently pulled out from under you ... it's intense. The truth you were 1000% certain of vanishes before your eyes and the world you thought you knew gets pulled back like a giant curtain only to reveal a god-less, spirit-less void of nothing but matter, energy, and chance occurrence. It wrecked me. I was unplugged from the Matrix, and like Neo, I "popped". I lost it. I had to relearn what beauty was. I had to relearn what awe and inspiration was. But this time, it was built on something unassailable, something I could measure and interact with ... and it quickly became more beautiful and more mind-blowing than anything from when I was entranced with a foundation-less belief. All the same, I continued to wonder if there wasn't some sort of spiritual reality. Perhaps it's a reality without a god ... a sort of Darwinian spiritual reality. I figured if there was any way to figure this out, it would have to be through meditation. So I began to meditate several hours per day. In fact, my goal was to get so good at inducing what is known as an "out of body experience", that I could set up little tests to verify whether or not I was actually leaving my body. One day, as I was meditating, that same sensation I had experienced in the temple overcame me while I was in my living room. Just as intense - just as powerful ... but in the comfort of my own home. I quickly learned that I was able to induce this sensation at will. Surely, if god was real and the Mormon church was true; an excommunicated degenerate like me would not be capable of commanding god's powers like that. I could literally bring it on within five minutes of meditating. I loved it! I loved that I was now certain that "that" feeling was me all along. There was nothing directly divine or godly about it. It was me ... my mind ... my brain. I can't even explain how freeing that realization was for me. Anyway, it took me about five years of daily practice of at least 3 sessions (sometimes more - sometimes I would meditate the entire day) to get to the point to where I could achieve an "out of body exit". Even at that I was only able to do it about three times per week if I made two attempts per day. Then I began to set up the tests. I would select a random playing card from a deck. Without looking at it, I placed it facing outward in my kitchen window. At work, my co-workers would write a word on our whiteboard or draw a picture while I went to meditate for my lunch break. I must have executed hundreds of these experiments. I wish I could tell you that I was able to verify the reality of the exit, but I can't. Every time I had an exit and was able to get to the place where the card was, or the picture was, or the drawing ... the most bizarre experience would occur. The moment I looked at the face-card, it would explode into an intense array of kaleidoscopic tessellations and fractals of every possible combination of all the cards it could ever be. The visual explosion was so intense that it snapped me right back. I cannot even begin to explain how frustrating it was to have spent half of a decade just to have all of my work thrown right back in my face in a very DMT-esque sort of manner. But - I knew it was always a possibility that I wouldn't be able to verify it - so I accepted it as it was. Several different people had several different theories as to why this was occurring. Others were surprised by this and said that they were able to verify it almost every time. But that's them - and I can't take their word for it. Something that could be so incredibly life changing as verifying the possibility of a spiritual reality? That's something you need to verify and experience for yourself. Alas - to this day, I continue to meditate. It has been a core pillar in my life. I love it. It has allowed me to re-write myself to suit my aspirations and better help me fulfill and become the person I know I can become. There is no other practice that I know of that can, so dramatically and with such finesse, allow somebody to so radically change their life. Sure exercise is important (after all, in increases brain function and health), and sure diet is important (after all, if you eat crap - you're brain cannot function at the optimal level). But meditation ... I mean some good, solid, "push yourself to reach that next level" sort of meditation? There truly is nothing else that can even come close to the immense power that can flow from the simple idea of learning to control your own mind. Nothing ... So whether or not you associate any beliefs with your practice - ya know, that's your prerogative, your right, and if it suits you and helps you ... more power to you. But my point is that for those who don't have any particular belief-set - or those who've shy'ed away from trying meditation because it seems so intricately tied to beliefs they don't subscribe to ... you don't need that in order to garner the benefits from the practice. Anybody who is anybody can reap the benefits no matter what your beliefs are. Meditation is a tool; and the incredible benefits that come from it - those are your birth rights that you have access to simply because you were born a human with a human brain and a human mind that you are literally capable of training so that you can become your best possible self. It is your right to have access to those benefits; and I'd be damned if anybody felt like they couldn't - or shouldn't simply because of the spiritualized stigma associated with it. I love humanity - and while there are a lot of messed up things that happen every hour of every day - I have faith in humanity's capacity to overcome our weaknesses. I know we can come together and elevate one another. I know it. I mean, it's basic psychology 101 - we have the capacity to do so. Now I know that the rules here about self-promotion are strict. That being said, I believe this isn't so much "self-promotion" as it is promoting the betterment of humanity. I don't want money and I'm not trying to get anybody to do anything other than simply consider the possibility of a better world. For the past ten years I have been formulating a theory. For the past three years I have been actively pursuing the necessary research in order to discovery the validity of my theory; whether or not STEM Theory is a viable option for humanity. I just want you to know that I have been working tirelessly on this project because I am almost fully convinced (aside from the remaining research I need to conclude to at least get a paper published) that there is a very real and very possible method for instantiating such a world. Yes, I do have years of research left - and yes, it might actually turn out that my hypothesis is incorrect. But if you are interested in learning more about how I believe psychology, sociology, thermodynamics, and even machine learning; can all come together to help create a social structure from which such a community-based social structure can emerge - you are more than welcome to follow my research. I'm in the midst of wrapping up some of the final simulation studies before I move onto the second phase - so there hasn't been an entry since last year. But I suspect that I will have some new content to publish within the next several months, as I am getting very close to completing many of the phase I sims. You can find out more about STEM Theory, The AI STEM Drive, and The STEM Epiconomy here: STEMPrime Researchcast: https://stempri.me/ And I guess, if you're interested in hearing my personal rants and concerns about humanity's current craziness while the STEMPrime Researchcast is on hiatus, I spew out a lot of my frustrations and thoughts on "The Great Filter" podcast. Just so that's not taken as being too self-promoting, I'm not going to post a link. You can easily find it with a quick search on whatever podcast platform you use (hint: it's the one with the purple skull). Welp - if you have read this far - you're pretty hardcore; and I thank you for giving me your time. I hope somebody somewhere benefits from reading this. We are all awesome! Even those of us whom society condemns. The only difference between the condemned and everybody else is that the condemned were never given a proper chance. Some were born into a living hell that ultimately shaped them into monsters; but under all the scars and damage - they are still human - and there is still a living spark of their humanity in there somewhere. We truly are capable of building a world where we are all so connected and so intensely bonded with love and appreciation for each other that nobody has to go through such a living hell; and those who do suffer and are buried beneath years of scarring - are carefully and lovingly guided back to the fold. I know we can get there. I guess the real question is, will we be able to get there before we run out of time? Take care and let's all strive to love one another - especially those that are hardest to love <3 Rock TF on! ------------------- STEM Theory Dream "We dream of a world where everybody, without exception, has true equal opportunity. We are not speaking about our current, shallow, surface-etched, pseudo-equality in which we are utterly drenched. We all have an immense capacity to become something extraordinary; but our environment, this enclosure we have slowly constructed over the past several thousand years inherently opposes any attempt to do so. We are not in need of new laws or regulations in order to accomplish this. Our social ills are structural issues. What we need is a complete re-engineering of our social architecture; new laws and regulations will do nothing to accomplish this. This change must come from the ground up – from within each individual. Mission Statement: Our mission is to expand the capacity of human potential; To elicit personal autonomy, We aim to catalyze the ignition of a [link] [comments] | ||
| How do you guys remember to meditate everyday? Posted: 09 Jul 2021 03:05 AM PDT I am one of those people who always losing his streak over time. I am wondering how you guys do it? P.S. I am making an open source chrome extension that makes it easy to be consistent, for the first time ever I am able to remember to do it. I am currently on a 14 day streak (my longest ever) :) it is super simple and it is for those who use their desktop computer more than a phone and don't want all the fancy stuff that headspace provides... You can check out the source code here before I put it on the chrome store: https://github.com/James-Sangalli/DailyPause [link] [comments] | ||
| What do y’all think of Taoist meditation water method “inner dissolving” taught by Bruce frantzis? Posted: 09 Jul 2021 02:35 AM PDT I've been doing it for months and enjoy it. However I have gotten many releases. Thanks [link] [comments] | ||
| Does anyone have any methods to prevent dissociation. Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:17 PM PDT I have the disorder and sometimes meditating worsens the dissociation & Id like to know if anyone has any advice or links/videos that are not concentration based maybe? Thx [link] [comments] | ||
| How do I proceed from this state in deep meditation? Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:49 PM PDT I have been meditating pretty regularly for a year now and I am able to meditate for considerable time . I do however find I am stuck at a particular stage in meditation and I am looking for guidance from those who have walked this path . There comes a time in meditation that the mind is clear and I am able to watch thoughts and I feel great calm . However at this time , I don't know what I should be looking for or how to even determine if this is not just sloth making me feel rested and peaceful as opposed to observing .in observing , how do I deepen my ability to observe ? I know this is a tough question to understand but I am hoping those who have been here can guide me on how to proceed from here . Thank you for taking the time to read this ! [link] [comments] | ||
| Is it possible to have a setback so severe it reverses all your meditation progress? Posted: 08 Jul 2021 09:29 PM PDT Been meditating daily for 3 years (took breaks for a while at the advice of a therapist due to hallucinations) but today I had a complete and utter breakdown which led to the loss of my job and continued well beyond that, and it seems like all of the progress (which really wasn't much) that I've built up over those years completely disappeared. The breakdown built slowly over the course of 12 hours, included several verbal lashing out incidents and for part of it I was in a state of physical paralysis (possibly psychogenic/pseudoseizure) for over an hour. I couldn't even move enough to wipe my own nose. It was extremely out of character and the antithesis of how a meditator needs to act. Did this reverse everything? I feel like every fundamental of my life has changed because I've never acted this way before. I have autism and am very newly diagnosed with schizophrenia if that's relevant [link] [comments] | ||
| Feeling of body rotation to the left or right Posted: 08 Jul 2021 12:07 PM PDT have a couple of different experiences which I had during meditation and I'm seeking answers to those one by one. One of which is the sensation of body rotating around either to the left or right and sometimes both directions at the same time? ANY similar experiences? How to understand and move on? [link] [comments] | ||
| Easy and simple steps to reduce stress and lead a happier life Posted: 08 Jul 2021 12:43 PM PDT So you're stuck and home and finally decided to embrace the beautiful art that is Meditation? Or did your friends suggest you try meditation but work and life got in the way? Either way, with the pandemic and everything else going on, Now is probably the perfect time to start meditating. Reduce stress and anxiety: Studies show that mindfulness meditation can help decrease the stress hormone cortisol, and thus reduce symptoms of stress-related issues As a result, this can also lead to less anxiety. Improve sleep: Another related benefit to all of the above? Better sleep: Since high stress disrupts sleep, meditation can help you get relief and make you have more control of your pre-snoozing thoughts. Boost creativity: One study also found that meditation can help inspire more divergent thinking, which leads to more creativity and creative problem-solving. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Jul 2021 07:08 AM PDT I'm confused .. idk what's going on. I don't want to believe my third eye is opening all of a sudden especially since I've only been meditating for a couple days ans only 10 mins at a time. Could this be happening? Literally the middle of my eyebrows are twitching! [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Jul 2021 06:13 PM PDT I suffer from different chronic illnesses, mostly in my lower back and legs, meaning uncontrollable cramps and pain flares that require me to take strong medications and don't know how I can meditate in a good way? Whenever I try different methods (most successful so far is the "blank mind" or meditating into nothingness) I get, after some time, those cramps and flare ups and have to end the meditation process, it really annoys me, because I just want to escape my suffering. A few times I tried pushing through the pain, but couldn't manage to relax again… Any help is much appreciated ! [link] [comments] | ||
| What I want isn't always what other people need Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:15 PM PDT I'm not the most emotional, empathetic person. Sometimes I'm on, sometimes I'm off, but when I actually do care about people and I see that they're struggling, they're feeling down, they're going through a tough time––I feel this compulsion to fix things. Some people let me help, some people don't, others leave the door open but never seem to need it. And that's the thing. I've realized that sometimes, to my great surprise, I worry, and I stress out over other people's lives, and I just want them to go better as soon as possible, because I want to see them smile again. That's a nice proof of personal growth for me in the level of care I extend to other people. In fact this level of care seems so new that I'm not sure how to handle it. I just really really want everyone to be okay, and happy. And I'm trying to live their lives, because I foolishly think I can make things better. I realized that something maladaptive was developing here, and so, I slowed down and tried to understand what was happening. I love that I can care now. I will never criticize myself for caring. What I will note, however, is that I'm really crossing over into invasive, domineering territory with the way that I care, even if it's all in my mind. I want people to be happy. Okay, good. They're not happy right now so they should do xyz. Have they done xyz? Are they happier now? What about now? I'm worried about them. I really need them to be happy again now. That's what I want. But you know what? That's not always what people need. It's good to live your emotions, to take some time to process everything, to reflect. It's necessary. It's how people overcome things and grow. And I want to take this away from them, this healing space, because I want them to be okay now? Who am I to do that? Where's the trust? Sometimes trust and respect is just that, letting go, because you have faith that they can sort their own emotions out and come back to you when they're ready. I've honestly never related to my mom so much, because I'm exactly the type to shutdown and isolate myself when I'm upset, and now I understand why she would constantly "pester" me to ask me to tell her what was wrong and ask if I was okay. I understand why she gets so stressed out when I'm down, and I understand how much love she must have for me, to relent and give me space when I need it. I feel like I've grown a lot during this past year. I've learned a lot about myself, and I'm learning increasingly more about others. And this is part of the process. Learning how to care the right way. Being there, supporting, but not trying to live their lives, not confusing my wants for their needs. It's not about me. And that's perfectly fine. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 08 Jul 2021 11:28 AM PDT We often wonder why when we meditate and enter this form of spiritual path, and our lives don't seem to get any easier.Our life's problems persist, and if anything they seem to get worse, rather than better.Meditation creates the relaxation required to handle this stress, in most cases, but anxiety persists despite our efforts.When we place ourselves in a spiritual path connecting with the divine, we also speed up the dissolution of our Karmic debts.We can go from lifetime to lifetime and little Karma gets used up, until we become on the spiritual path.We can open up the floodgates to past life Karma, and other forms of energetic upheaval.Karma Yoga attempts to resolve this by creating an attitude of joy in everything we do, and not put too much negative energy into anything. Quote for Sadgurus book on Karma Yoga: "We act in order to celebrate our inner completeness, not to pursue it. For most people, however, this simple equation is reversed. Most people do in order to be. they act because they feel incomplete.their action is prompted by a desire to acquire something or to enhance their identity in some way. is is the ancient hunter-gatherer impulse, which still endures in human beings. It is the need to act in order to accumulate—whether it is physical, emotional, or intellectual satisfaction. It is action impelled by a desire to augment themselves, to become more than what they are. they act in order to have; they have in order to be. "....."However profound it is, all that comes from memory spells karmic bondage. I do not come from a place of karma, so I do not breed karma. It is as simple as that. What I say comes from inner experience, from a state of knowing, not from previously acquired knowledge. is is chitta, contentless intelligence." end quote... Meditation creates this type of "contentless 'awareness and is our best method of ending our Karmic cycle. [link] [comments] | ||
| Difficulty with sight and spoken language Posted: 08 Jul 2021 11:08 AM PDT Firstly, when I bring awereness to things, I tend to move my eyes in the direction of that object. Even when becoming aware of my thoughts, I look up as if to search my brain for those thoughts. When I look down and try to notice a thought, it rises from my mouth up to my head. When I open my eyes, meditation becomes almost impossible. I'm constantly identifying everything I see. It makes it hard to focus on anything else. Also when I hear people speaking, it's hard to let it just be sound. I grab onto the words and they become my thoughts or I start deriving thoughts from them and it's really difficult to shift my focus back on anything else. It's constantly fighting for my attention. Is this something that will come naturally or do I have to focus on these particular parts of my meditation practice to improve them? [link] [comments] | ||
| What does anxiety worse after meditation actually mean? Posted: 08 Jul 2021 04:42 PM PDT I hear... You aren't doing it right, or it's not good for you then. Or It's okay, it's just a process of releasing bad things buried deep inside of you. Sticking to it will eventually completely remove it from you. Which one is it? I meditated today and I feel even more anxious right now. If it's the 2nd one I'm okay with it, if it's the first one I hope it's not. [link] [comments] | ||
| Meditating with open eyes seems harder, but more impactful Posted: 08 Jul 2021 08:06 AM PDT After meditating with my eyes closed since day 1, I recently started to do it with my eyes open, softly gazing to the ground 45 degrees in front of me, un-focussing everything (easy without glasses). I have observed two things:
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| best morning/night routine for meditation? Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:42 PM PDT i want to try meditation, as i need to clear my head, but i dont know where to start. what are the best recommendations? [link] [comments] |
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