Meditation: Weekly Discussion July 19, 2021 |
- Weekly Discussion July 19, 2021
- Six little words to calm an over-active mind
- How to get into meditation?
- Strange Méditation ! Need an explication
- Do you act upon the realisations you get while meditating?
- Why meditate
- Weird experience first time meditating
- Head heavy while meditating?
- how to get deeper meditations?
- 1st time meditating gone wonderful!
- Bang
- Clinging to thoughts
- My zen meditation
- does anyone else find themselves feeling like they’re tilting or spinning during meditation?
- Off the cushion - negative and obsessive thinking
- Thinking about the negativity from your past, you unintentional create a future of the same
- Social anxiety & meditation
- Can we meditate while lying on bed ??
- Having some issues
- hypervigilance keeping me from feeling safe enough to meditate
- Are Medito and Atom good alternatives to paid meditation apps? Which one is better in your opinion?
- Handling rejection
- Transcendental meditation while sitting
- Meditation and conversation/social anxiety advice
| Weekly Discussion July 19, 2021 Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:00 AM PDT This is a reoccurring thread for questions relating to your practice and discussion around your experiences. Questions Ask questions relating to your practice, the theory of meditation, various traditions and lineages of thought, or practical tips. If you're new, please read our [FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/wiki/faq) before posting, as it contains a wealth of information that all of us should come back to occasionally. Discussion Also use this thread for a more free-form discussion of your experiences and other tidbits that might not warrant their own full post. Use this space to connect with the /r/meditation community, it won't be heavily moderated. [link] [comments] |
| Six little words to calm an over-active mind Posted: 19 Jul 2021 09:11 AM PDT I have always struggled with concentration and it's no different 'on the cushion'. Something that helped me massively is this little mantra. As I notice the inhalation I say to myself 'let it in'. As I breathe out I say 'let it go'. It's ambiguous for a reason - you can be 'letting in' the air, the calming benefits of oxygen or simply accepting your physical and mental state at that moment. Then you can be' letting go' of the breath, the tension in your body or whatever is on your mind. Try this for ten minutes and see if your concentration improves. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 05:17 PM PDT I'm a 15 year old boy with a very hyperactive mind, like seriously, I cannot stop thinking all the time, and it's affecting my sleep. What are some ways to get into meditation, or what are some free apps that have meditation soundtracks for guided stuff. Thanks, and first post here btw! [link] [comments] |
| Strange Méditation ! Need an explication Posted: 20 Jul 2021 02:12 AM PDT 16 years ago, i was 21, just lost my dad, at the time i was following a heavy karate training, running, not smoking : very healthy lifestyle. I decided to engage myself into méditation. Couple of days later i had a weird experience wich i have never talked about. In this meditation i saw a gold triangle with an eye in it and inside the reflect of this eye i saw myself all white dressed and happy ! I saw it as clearly as i see my keyboard !!! I know nowadays this triangle and the eye is well famous (illuminati stuff blabla) 16years ago we havent youtube and the internet was as dense as today. So its a noway thing i saw somewhere that presents to me in my méditation; i know it have some kind of divine source or something in this extend I would like to know if some people has already had the same experience and what does this gold triangle seeing in meditation means? If you guys have some interisting links about that i would greatly appriciated as well [link] [comments] |
| Do you act upon the realisations you get while meditating? Posted: 19 Jul 2021 07:57 PM PDT I've been getting various urges while meditating. For example I very strongly felt I should talk to my school teacher with whom I haven't talked for 10 years And I got a strong urge to message my best friend from undergrad with whom I stopped talking due to a fight Strangely these urges disappear immediately after meditation and it also feels silly to act on these sometimes [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:20 PM PDT The skills we gain in meditation are also life skills Why do we meditate? Because it teaches us how to live, skillfully,,, Kindness, persistance, patience,,, to name a few,,, Kind of unintuitive,, but turns out if you master meditation,, you simply arent as bothered by life's stuff,,, [link] [comments] |
| Weird experience first time meditating Posted: 19 Jul 2021 08:14 AM PDT So I have tried meditating briefly before from YouTube videos and whatnot. It has helped me calm down and sleep. I'm trying to fix my sleeping pattern and I began to fantasise about being out of the universe and in a beautiful place while trying to sleep. I'm a scientist so anything "supernatural" is usually not something I'm invested in. I will preface by saying I have undergone a lot of stress in life and am at a particularly tense phase. In my "mediation", which I was deeply in, something put its hand over my heart to heal it. I felt it curing the tension in my heart I was unaware I had. Like a strong, warm push into my heart as if someone was healing me. My chest began to expand in a way that is unfamiliar and I just felt it keep on expanding - on the inside. Like my heart was growing. I'm telling you I physically feel this. It felt amazing like I was reaching something - a complete heal but I started to feel like I was sweating and my eyelids were shaking. I got a little scared of what would happen if I went the whole way so I stopped. It felt amazing like the anxiety/tension/pain in my heart was disappearing and I was on my way to experiencing total bliss. Like the "thing" was trying to completely heal me. I still feel an immense relaxing feeling in my head. This is really bizarre to me as it's a regular night and I just wanted to sleep. I wonder what would happened if I kept going. That brings me to my question, can mediation be harmful? Is this a common experience? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2021 02:24 AM PDT I have been having issues with my head feeling 'heavy' during meditation, feeling like I can't keep it upright and I am struggling to sit for longer than 15 minutes because of it. It's like a pressure that builds up and stays for a while after meditating. I am a relatively experienced meditator (been doing it for 3 years now) so I am not sure why this is coming up now. I also feel a bit unstable while meditating, like I am going to fall down. Does anyone know why this might be happening? [link] [comments] |
| how to get deeper meditations? Posted: 19 Jul 2021 06:22 PM PDT so ive been meditation for around 8 months now and i can rarely get a good mediation where my attention isn't scattered, any tips :/? [link] [comments] |
| 1st time meditating gone wonderful! Posted: 19 Jul 2021 02:28 PM PDT Never believed it. Always struggled with anxiety since I was 16, and yesterday was the day I hit rock bottom, I was feeling so tense that I finally decided to try mediation and let go of all the bs of life and see through it. That happened at 5PM. Well, it was more like mindful meditating but it worked so well when I just said "fuck it, I just want peace at this point", and so, just like that, I had it. At that moment I felt so relieved like I never did before, it was like I was 100 pounds lighter, like my ears popped and when I let go I JUST felt so free, I felt straight up HIGH, like warm and fuzzy or whatever, and the feeling was so good that even though I had a lot of things to worry about, nothing mattered at that moment than the well being and freedom, or even happiness I was feeling like I never had before, so I just decided to block anything and stay meditating and being mindful up until I feel asleep at 11PM. Needless to say it was the best night sleep I've gotten in a while! It is hard at first, but once I let go, it comes naturally, my new life resolution is to master this new super power, and gift I've been given. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 11:50 PM PDT Im keeping this short. I was laying in my bed meditating for a bit over 30 minutes, and I always have these on and off moments, my body and mind feels light but ends shortly quickly. During one of those moments I something like a vision. I saw dim stars, and in the center was a larger but very dark one that imploded in on itself then exploded out. I don't think there's a deeper meaning to this. I did find it very fascinating though. Did anyone else experience something like this, and what are your thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 11:04 PM PDT I cling to thoughts too much. After starting mindfulness practice i started noticing and noticed the benefits i read after only practicing for a little while (days). So what i noticed is my mind cling to good thoughts, or i am not sure they are (good) but it make me feel good, maybe it's my ego, i am not sure. But my question is why is it bad to cling to comforting thoughts when it achieve the purpose of making me happy, or is it really happiness, at least at that moment it feels like it. By the way deep down i think it's not healthy to do so i just couldn't find a good reason. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:46 PM PDT The human being is an "unknown" By acknowledging this unknown, trusting it, and resting in it,, we find openness, peace,, and love I encourage you to give this a try,,
20 min or more,, [link] [comments] |
| does anyone else find themselves feeling like they’re tilting or spinning during meditation? Posted: 19 Jul 2021 12:34 PM PDT over the past few days i've found myself feeling like the world is tilting to one side or the other and it changes, like one minute it'll feel like i'm about to fall to my left, then forward, then my right. or the world feels like it's spinning. this only happens in pretty deep meditations, does this happen to anyone else? [link] [comments] |
| Off the cushion - negative and obsessive thinking Posted: 19 Jul 2021 01:22 PM PDT I have been making really good strides in my meditation. What a negative thought comes up I see it and I move my focus back to my breath. What would you recommend I do when I have negative thoughts in places like when driving or when walking or when watching TV? How can I apply the mindfulness techniques away from the cushion? Should I bring my attention to the nostrils when I notice the thousands of negative thoughts I have when not in formal meditation? Thank You [link] [comments] |
| Thinking about the negativity from your past, you unintentional create a future of the same Posted: 19 Jul 2021 10:51 AM PDT Negation: the absence or opposite of something actual or positive People keep living in their past. That is why your reality is the way it is. So, you ask, "what do you mean I keep living in my past?" Must of us as human beings go through something in life, and we had a negative experience. We tend to use that as a blueprint to create the future. That is wrong. You cannot use your past to create your future. Even worse, we don't know what we are doing and don't realize that wasn't our intention at all. This is something we are never taught in school. When you think about your past and a lot of memories come up of things not working out for you, one after another after another. Over the years you have built up momentum and conditioned yourself to feel that things will never change. You have no image no certainty to justify any positive outcome. Maybe it's not like this in all areas of your life, but certainly in key areas of your life, like relationships, work, school, becoming an entrepreneur. That's not all of you but it is a lot of you. You're not trying to self-sabotage; you have just made it habitual because of the many years of thinking this way. You also have people around you who think the same way you do. Let me give you one example and this example can translate into any area of your life. Ladies, have you every been in a relationship where your boyfriend was abusive towards you or cheated on you? You finally left the relationship because he hurt you so much. All this time goes by with you telling yourself I don't want to be hurt like that again; I don't want to be abused like that again. The problem with that is your mind has the ability to create your future. Whether you believe that or not its true. The brain does not recognize negations like don't. All it hears is "I want physical abuse" "I want emotional abuse". This is because that is what you focus on, and that is what is attracted to you, even when that is not what you want. You ever wonder why people don't take action in their life, it's because they focus on the past and the experience they didn't like and they say I don't want this to happen, so let me take some time and make sure it's the right decision. What you don't realize is you are recreating more of the past because you are focusing on your past failure. This can apply if you are into meditation, or you just want to have a stronger mindset towards life. Think of your reality and how it is right now. First, know that your reality is just your perception of how you choose to see your life. Just as your perception can change your reality changes. You can reframe anything in your life and change your perception and reality in an instant. If you continue to focus, over time you circumstance and situations in your life will change, and you can create the life you want. But let's talk about why most people find it difficult to do that. The first step in creating your life is to be clear about what you want. Most people define what they want in the future by going to the past and making a list of what you don't want to happen to you again. That's wrong, never make a list of what you want by stating what you never want to experience again. Reframe it and be clear in what you want to experience in the future. I know this was a long post and I appreciate you reading this to the end thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:14 PM PDT Hello! I'm hoping someone can help me out with this. I experience a lot of social anxiety, and it's gotten especially bad this past year. Lately I've been analyzing it a bit and came to the conclusion that self-hate (which is at the root of social anxiety) & narcissism are basically the same thing, as they both involve obsession with yourself and your image; so I've been thinking that the way to tackle this for good is to get at the root of it, which I think requires creating some distance between myself & my ego. In the past I have used mindfulness with low-to-moderate success; I've been experimenting with meditation the past month or so, both guided and not, but it hasn't been working. It's even triggered a couple panic attacks. I get trapped in thought loops that seem to have worn grooves in my brain, and I can't get out of them. In my past experiences I can recall being able to distance myself from my thoughts and have them rush by me like a stream. But now they feel like baseballs being pelted at me, lol. Does anyone have any similar experiences, or suggestions for meditation techniques that can help me work through this? I just want to feel safe in my own head, in the absence of real danger <3 [link] [comments] |
| Can we meditate while lying on bed ?? Posted: 19 Jul 2021 11:35 AM PDT |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 07:04 PM PDT I've always been a little absent minded and I've been hoping meditation would help. I've been developing a practice for a year now and have clocked up over 100 hours. This year I've meditated daily, usually 25 minutes in the morning and again in the evening if I'm able to. I've found no real difference in my absent minded ness and it's really getting me down and I'm a little worried to be honest. I've had some great insights into my thoughts and feelings and feel better able to manage emotions which is handy as I'm trying to cope with frustratipn over still being absent minded. I guess I just need to keep trying. I'm a male in my 40s and have been sitting Zazen mostly. Any words of advice would be much appreciated. Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| hypervigilance keeping me from feeling safe enough to meditate Posted: 19 Jul 2021 08:40 AM PDT and also causes constant body tension. Does anyone have tips on this? Usually I can overcome but recently I have had many shifts and a part of me feels unsafe. [link] [comments] |
| Are Medito and Atom good alternatives to paid meditation apps? Which one is better in your opinion? Posted: 19 Jul 2021 09:11 AM PDT Hi, I have been interested in meditation for a while now but I won't be able to afford paying a subscription so I stumbled across Medito and Atom (both free). Have you guys used either of these? How are they? And which one is better? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 09:09 AM PDT Hey y'all, I just wanted to express a deep sadness I'm sitting with today around rejection. As a child I wasn't cared for very well and I didn't learn how to be a good friend or partner. This has lead to a lot of instability in relationships of all kinds. It's only in the past few years that I've developed friendships that feel like sisterhoods. Like family. In the most recent part of my path, I'm learning how to deal with rejection without being absolutely crippled by negative self-talk and sadness. Does anyone have any similar experience or advice? What can I learn from this? How can I reconcile having a big heart but not knowing how to use it? Warm regards to you all today xx [link] [comments] |
| Transcendental meditation while sitting Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:39 PM PDT When I mediate while sitting my neck keeps falling back as I get more and more induced [link] [comments] |
| Meditation and conversation/social anxiety advice Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:32 PM PDT Hi! With my social anxiety I tend to force interactions and for the longest time failed to make actual connections. I didn't notice it until I was aware I hadn't actually felt fulfilled by a social interaction in years and because I was really bad at expressing myself/true feelings. With meditation I found my conversations much more meaningful and I actually am expressing myself better and feeling more fulfilled. Before the meditation my way of conversing was starting a conversation in every situation. Pauses worried me. It wasn't from me though because I think it came from that place of anxiety. Now with the meditation I find me being able to express myself better. There's an issue though, if there's a silence I don't force myself to challenge it. This had been fine but in some cases I have prolonged periods. Like for example, I had a waxing appointment and I said nothing the entire session. I am actively being mindful but with the "do-nothing meditation." I didn't want to force myself to have a conversation possibly from that place of anxiety. So I just stayed silent. Just wanted to ask if this is an issue or should I continue doing it and let myself heal in a way where these "silence ahh" thoughts don't bother me. Basically continue meditating and eventually find clarity on this within. Thanks!! [link] [comments] |
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