Meditation: Meditation is not a cure. |
- Meditation is not a cure.
- If you ever see a stoner just smile
- The Best Meditation Anchor
- "Be an audience to your own mind's play, but don't spend too long in that cinema" - Mooji
- Green tea and meditation
- Nothing is better than starting your day with Meditation!
- Meditation is:
- Why do people ask this?
- ELI5: What is enlightenment?
- Self-compassion, acceptance and death
- Preferred meditation methods?
- Anyone else have super vivid visual imaginations whilst meditating?
- Why do you think humans evolved to feel constant and varying degrees of suffering?
- How to meditate with ADHD/autism and OCD?
- becoming sleepy during meditation
- Recommendation for noise-cancellation?
- Looking for some guidance here
- Focusing in two thinfs
- Meditation Mornings
- Naval Ravikant on the art of doing nothing
- 5 minute guided breathing animation
- Anyone else feel like they stop meditating when they know there's a stressful week ahead
- A Proof for the Soul & A Big Theory of Everything
- Strange sensation while meditating
| Posted: 29 Jul 2021 04:25 PM PDT It is a tool. (Edit: enjoying everyone's input and interpretation of this post. Great discussion folks). [link] [comments] |
| If you ever see a stoner just smile Posted: 30 Jul 2021 12:23 AM PDT Disclaimer: this is not related to weed or any substances. When I was young I would most of the time sit and stare into thin air. At a family dinner one of my cousins once said "oh, don't worry about Lars, he is temporary closed for construction" and people laughed. At boarding school I got one of the awards of the year. It was a stone with the writing "the stoner of the year". When they gave it to me it was because I was always sitting at a bench staring into thin air with big open eyes. It never actually bothered me. I was somewhat glad me looking like a clown could make other happy. I respect clowns. Either way I only realized I was doing this at the very end when getting the reward. Not that I could change the past stoner moments. Over the years I completely forgot about this. I was meditating a while ago and recognized this void space in the head of complete emptiness. I found my inner stoner once again. If you ever see a teenager, or anyone, "stoning out" - just smile. It is a beautiful thing. It is probably unintended meditation. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2021 01:04 PM PDT Hi. I just discovered something that has changed the way that I meditate and stay as awareness. So, you know about anchoring in meditation and if you don't, it's when you use something to keep bringing your attention back to the present moment when your mind drifts off into thought. The most popular anchor that people use is their breath. This works for some people but others have a difficult time bringing their attention back. Well, I just discovered a new anchor. Your teeth. Close your mouth and bring your upper and lower teeth together. Feel your teeth touch each other and hold it like that. Now, when you're noticing your teeth, are you thinking? No, you're not. So every time you drift into thought, bring your attention back to your teeth and you will automatically be back in the present moment. Right now, I am in bliss. I hope this has helped you. Let me know if it works for you. [link] [comments] |
| "Be an audience to your own mind's play, but don't spend too long in that cinema" - Mooji Posted: 29 Jul 2021 03:20 AM PDT |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2021 11:32 PM PDT Has anyone tried meditation using green tea ? Green tea has a compound l- theanine which produces alpha waves in the brain , which is the the same beainwave produced while meditating . I got successful using green tea and did real meditation for 15 minutes straight . [link] [comments] |
| Nothing is better than starting your day with Meditation! Posted: 29 Jul 2021 07:28 PM PDT Especially at 4 AM with a cup of green tea and watching the sunrise, enjoying the rest of the day :D 10 minutes or more is the sweetspot, just don't force it :) [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 29 Jul 2021 05:54 PM PDT I'm just chilling in my room atm, and my dad comes back from the store and asks me this, "are you feeling alright? You seem like you have low energy" and I replied with "I do?" He said "yeah, have you been feeling stressed?", I said "no, not at all". It seems to me like he's been feeling worried about me for the past few days, I have been picking up vibes from him, he's been trying to overwhelm me with chores, asking me the weirdest questions and all that, telling me I have to start thinking more out of the blue💀I don't smoke, I'm not involved in anything, Im just a 20 year old dude who works, meditates, writes and chills outside everyday. He also knows I meditate. And a few days ago at work I had an experience where I felt very non reactive, I have been detaching from a lot of unnecessary things in my life, but at the same time there has been things that I have began attaching to, like nice conversations with my coworkers, weird experiences with people that say and tell me things that relate to my current spiritual journey, I hear spiritual lyrics in songs, weird body movements during meditation. I am aware that I've been progressing in my mediation practice, I am getting better at observing my thoughts and let them flow, but at the same time I feel very disconnected with things. Is "detachment" a meditation benefit? And can it cause people to pick up negative vibes from me, even though I am aware of how I'm truly feeling? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:10 AM PDT What exactly is it and will I truly be more happy after being enlightened? [link] [comments] |
| Self-compassion, acceptance and death Posted: 29 Jul 2021 04:45 PM PDT I just had a wonderful meditation session revolving around self-compassion and being in tune with my body. I was feeling into the somatic sensations of my emotions, which in turn evoked a memory ridden with guilt, shame and regret. But instead of defaulting to these energies, I was really able to settle into self-acceptance. For instance, one of the difficult memories that came up had to do with a difficult relationship in my life that I ended several years ago. But I had recently read about attachment theory in psychology, and I was able to amplify my sense of self-compassion and acceptance by knowing that my actions, no matter how regretable I may find them now, were my attachment system and body doing the very best they could. In conclusion, I rested in that amplified sense of understanding. Then, my mind went to another thought which had previously been a big source of grief, namely death. But instead of dreading death, or feeling overcome with a sense of missing out, I was able to envision my life across a time line, and I saw myself being somewhere in the middle of that time line. Then, I glimpsed towards the end and saw myself returning to earth and eventually decomposing. These thoughts which would've previously given me panic and fear felt perhaps a bit sad but peaceful nonetheless. I felt incredibly spiritually connected. It was wonderful. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2021 01:29 AM PDT Hi. Im sorry, I didn't know what flair to use, and hope this post is all good in the rules. I'm relatively new here and to most meditation practices. I've been doing my own meditations for a little bit now, off and on. My method has been to just sit, close my eyes, focus on the breath for a beginning period of time, and then let that focus on the breath fade out to nothing, the deep breaths fade into smaller less noticeable breaths, and while my mind doesn't stay void of thoughts for long periods, I can often enough reach a place of no thoughts. Usually accompanied by random waves or swirls of light. My sessions are usually 15-20 minutes. If I'm busy, I often take a period of just a few minutes of downtime to do a brief bit of meditation, and find it nice in some way. The lights happen anywhere from 3ish to 15 minutes in I think. I've also sat and just let my thoughts run and watched how it all behaves a bit, though less this way than the originally mentioned method. I'm here to ask what are all of your preferred and most used meditation methods/types, and why you favor it over others? As well as links or information on how to do/pursue it. I've never liked guided meditations. The astral projection sub may be a better place for this, but I would be especially interested in any meditations that maximally assist in out of body experiences such as AP. [link] [comments] |
| Anyone else have super vivid visual imaginations whilst meditating? Posted: 30 Jul 2021 01:14 AM PDT I've been meditating for a while but I changed how i do it. Now when meditating, my mind starts to sporadically jump from unrelated scene to scene in short bursts without my intent or me doing anything. Sometimes scenes/images, othertimes more like patterns or abstract things like a wormhole. Almost completely randomly, with no thread, no theme, and not really related to anything I'd recently been thinking about or even really much about me or my life. Without any meaning to them. They can get super vivid, almost as if my eyes are open and I'm watching something in front of me. Much more vivid than when i normally actively try to visualise something. I only have a small bit of control over what I'm seeing, and if i focus in on it too much the visualisations tend to stop until I've started to unfocus for a bit. It's actually an enjoyable experience and normally doesn't interrupt meditation much since it doesn't require thought, is random and meaningless so there is no attachment to anything I'm seeing, and normally happens towards the end when I switch up to a particular type of meditation which requires no focus/awareness (no focus on breath or resting awareness). Just wondering if anyone else has this? And no it's definitely not me slipping into dreaming. I'm fully awake. [link] [comments] |
| Why do you think humans evolved to feel constant and varying degrees of suffering? Posted: 29 Jul 2021 04:44 PM PDT Was something like anxiety just really useful for ancient humans? Also, sorry if this isn't the right subreddit. In Buddhism, one of the Noble Truths was that life is suffering. Another Noble Truth said the Eightfold Path was the cure. The Eightfold Path includes mindful meditation. [link] [comments] |
| How to meditate with ADHD/autism and OCD? Posted: 29 Jul 2021 08:12 PM PDT I am pagan and have been using "witchy" guided meditations but was told that I should engage in the basics of mediation without the specific religious tone towards it. I was thinking about going to classes so I can learn without having to rely on guided meditations but I'm a bit shy. I could keep doing guided meditations on YouTube but there's so many of them I wouldn't know where to start. Should I try to do meditation with those meditation music? Also some books have guided meditations in them but I never seem to be able to remember the entire thing to enact it. I'm an active/visual learner so I haven't really touched any books about mediation. I generally struggle to focus on things and get intrusive thoughts that can be distracting. I haven't meditated in a year bc of it and I want to do it at least once a week before bed. Any advice? [link] [comments] |
| becoming sleepy during meditation Posted: 29 Jul 2021 07:55 PM PDT I have a reoccurring problem where I become sleepy or fall asleep while meditating. how can I counteract this? [link] [comments] |
| Recommendation for noise-cancellation? Posted: 30 Jul 2021 01:15 AM PDT Hello fellow meditators of reddit, do you have recommendations of any headphones or other tools for noise-cancellation? Sometimes I can hear the wind outside or some cars, trains etc and I'd like to completely block them off too, so any help would be appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Looking for some guidance here Posted: 29 Jul 2021 03:55 PM PDT So I am learning to be present and notice my mind patterns. I feel like I keep getting caught up in analyzing how mindful I am. It's been a really frustrating process where I can achieve silence and peace for 45 seconds, but then struggle through the next two weeks, stuck in my mind because I am aware I am not at peace. Then I get retaken over by the unconscious mind for a bit until something pulls me back out. I tried to go on a walk in nature to see if there was something for me to learn there. I hated every second of it. I noticed how the trees could just be. It was like they were taunting me because they knew I couldn't separate from this mind I am burdened with. I want to just be. Then, mosquitoes attacked me. I kept getting bit and just hearing them buzz around me. How could I ever be present while fighting off these mosquitoes? So theres a few questions I have from these experiences. How can I learn how to be mindful when mosquitoes surround me? (Both literally and metaphorically haha) Where am I stuck? I think I am trying too hard, but I don't know how to let go. Feel free to ask any questions [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2021 07:42 PM PDT In my guided meditation, I focus on the breathe. Then they say to expand my awareness to my body to be fully present. I have two questions. First, I find it hard to focus on both my body and the present, so any tips on that. And secondly, does this apply outside of meditation? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:57 PM PDT Goodmorning. #meditation #yoga #love #mindfulness #spirituality #healing #peace #spiritual #motivation #selflove #life #inspiration #nature #selfcare #happiness #spiritualawakening #wellness #believe #health #art #energy #quotes #positivevibes #mentalhealth #wisdom #fitness #soul #consciousness #meditate #bhfyp https://www.instagram.com/p/CR8Ih_NH7aA/?utm_medium=share_sheet [link] [comments] |
| Naval Ravikant on the art of doing nothing Posted: 29 Jul 2021 12:08 PM PDT I think when we grow up, all this stuff happens to you in your life. And some of it you're processing, some of it you're absorbing, and some of it you should probably think a little bit more about and work through, but you don't, you don't have time. So it gets buried in you. It's all these preferences and judgments and unresolved situations and issues. And it's like your e-mail inbox. It's just piling up, e-mail after e-mail after e-mail that's not answered, going back 10, 20, 30, 40 years. And then when you sit down to meditate, those e-mails start coming back at you. "Hey, what about this issue? What about that issue? Have you solved this? Do you think about that? You have regrets there? You have issues there?" And that gets scary. People don't want to do that. "It's not working. I can't clear my mind. I better get up and not do this." But really what's happening is it's self therapy. It's just that, instead of paying a therapist to sit there and listen to you, you're listening to yourself. And you just have to sit there as those e-mails go through one by one, you work through each of them until you get to the magical inbox zero. And there comes a day when you sit down, you realize the only things you're thinking about are the things that happened yesterday, because you've processed everything else. Not necessarily even resolved it, but at least listened to yourself, and that's when meditation starts. And I think it's a very powerful thing that everybody should experience and that's when you arrive upon the art of doing nothing. Source: Naval Ravikant on the Joe Rogan Experience https://www.wisdomblog.co/self-therapy/ The full interview here, well worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44 [link] [comments] |
| 5 minute guided breathing animation Posted: 29 Jul 2021 06:34 PM PDT |
| Anyone else feel like they stop meditating when they know there's a stressful week ahead Posted: 29 Jul 2021 09:40 PM PDT I'm rather new to meditation and have been doing it pretty consistently for the past 3 months. Ive seen great changes in the way I deal with stress and my general mindset about things. My usual routine is to do 20 to 30 mins of yoga and finish it up with breathing exercises and meditation for about 15 mins. For some reason I've been unable to bring myself to mediate for the past few days and I can see myself being more stressed. I have a very important exam next week and find myself being worried about it and unable to commit to meditating this past week. Any tips would be highly appreciated! [link] [comments] |
| A Proof for the Soul & A Big Theory of Everything Posted: 29 Jul 2021 04:33 PM PDT One exists (proven by virtue of one's awareness of reality.) Two consequences, One must exist in reality & there must be a reality (otherwise, one could not exist.) There must be matter, otherwise reality is not composed of anything. & there must be a smallest unit of matter, otherwise there is no smallest unit. Consider the touching of two units of matter, there would always be a smaller unit at the face, the limit of the series would be nothing. (a big point, thanks to the Abhidharma school.) One can isomorphically link an abstract algebraic permutation with the smallest unit & reverse derive all of reality. [link] [comments] |
| Strange sensation while meditating Posted: 29 Jul 2021 04:11 PM PDT I'm a beginner in meditation, and last night I was meditating and I had this strange feeling of being big and small, at the same time. I'm not exactly sure how to explain it. Almost as if I (my consciousness(?)) were growing and shrinking simultaneously. It was also really strange because it felt extremely familiar, as if it were something I had experienced for long periods of time as a child or perhaps an infant. Any ideas or thoughts? Edit: I should've mentioned I am currently practicing void meditation [link] [comments] |
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