Meditation: For those like me, who struggle with anger, my reminder to myself is: "You don't have to forgive. You don't have to forget. You just have to let it go." |
- For those like me, who struggle with anger, my reminder to myself is: "You don't have to forgive. You don't have to forget. You just have to let it go."
- Ego death?
- Relationship with boredom.
- How meditation might be experienced differently depending on your mental health
- In need of advice on how to deal with the constant narrating in my head.
- I tear up every time I meditate
- Strange “meditation” I did when I was younger
- Breathing techniques to stay calm?
- Every time I meditate I feel restless
- A feeling I've never felt before and never felt since
- Darkness retreat
- Sit and don't do anything.
- Favorite types of meditation?
- How long to meditate
- Good feelings
- How do i know if my meditation sessions is producing any benefits?
- I plan on meditating tonight, as part of a mass meditation from home. I have never done this before and I am kind of nervous and excited.
- Meditation is a journey of uncovering the self and embracing all aspects of you
- going to a new school
- Do you have codes you live by?
- Break
- How to just be in the moment?
- Maintaining the calm
- Seeing colors
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 08:48 AM PDT I find that when I get angry, I don't want to stop being angry. I want to be vicious, self-righteous, and overpowering. Softening myself often feels equivalent to letting whatever has angered me win. Reminding myself that I don't have to resolve the anger, nor do I have to decide how to approach the object of my anger, makes it easier to let it pass. I haven't "given in", and that makes it easier to relax. I thought the insight was worth sharing. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 08:44 PM PDT Hey reddit, so basically I've been on a self discovery path for the past year on and off and what I realized is that my ego and a overblown sense of self was holding me back from being myself ironically, in every aspect of my life. Something I'm sure we all strugle with. I'm not the ayahuasca kind of guy so did anyone manage to figure the whole ego thing out through mediation? How can I distance myself from myself? Sorry if it doesn't fit the thread reddit is the place I come to when I need answers like this. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 05:24 AM PDT I'm on day 30 meditating everyday for 30 minutes. I've noticed my relationship with boredom has changed a lot. I've known for a while that I'm extremely avoidant of anything boring, which is why I always procrastinate from meditating and couldn't do it for more than a few days in a row. Its so simple yet emotionally I have a strong need to avoid it. Now in lectures I'm able to avoid picking up my phone... for longer. Still not perfect but it's gone from about 2-3 minutes of attention to 15-20 min. This might also have something to do with my ADHD though. Has anyone else experienced this? Any tips to further my journey? Thanks for listening. [link] [comments] |
| How meditation might be experienced differently depending on your mental health Posted: 05 Aug 2021 06:39 PM PDT I was just thinking how it's interesting to think about how meditation may be experienced by people with different mental health issues in many different ways. For example, when I was depressed, I would constantly have thoughts like "I don't deserve to do this for myself" or "I don't matter enough to try" while meditating. My general perspective & difficulty with meditating at that time was that I'm not enough to do it or it doesn't matter or why try. Once I got treatment for depression, my anxiety & ADHD started to come out again & I became afraid of meditating sometimes, since it would allow intrusive thoughts to come in easier. When meditating while anxious my biggest difficulty was relaxing & not being afraid of my thoughts. Also my mind would be all over the place (as usual) and my biggest issue was focusing & not getting frustrated when I couldn't. I just thought this was interesting comparing my meditation experience depending on my mental health during the time. Im wondering what other people find their biggest challenge to be while meditating? And does this change based off your mental health? Also, wondering what some peoples experiences meditating are like in general, what are thoughts you often have? [link] [comments] |
| In need of advice on how to deal with the constant narrating in my head. Posted: 05 Aug 2021 05:13 PM PDT My brain constantly keeps narrating almost everything happening around me. When im walking, when im eating, when im showering... There is this inner voice that thinks out loud inside of my brain and cant switch it off. It wasn't like this before I used to be in the moment, now I sometimes detach from the moment and trail off. I think meditation would be a good place to begin with, but I don't know how or where to start. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! [link] [comments] |
| I tear up every time I meditate Posted: 05 Aug 2021 09:00 PM PDT Does anyone have any information as to why this is happening? [link] [comments] |
| Strange “meditation” I did when I was younger Posted: 06 Aug 2021 02:08 AM PDT Apologies if this is the wrong subreddit, if it is please guide me to the right one, I just wanted to share a very strange "state of mind.?" That I could have when younger. So. When I was younger (maybe about 9 and under) I sometimes would have times, usually when going to bed, where I would start… like… feeling, displaced? Like it was strange imaging that it was me who was breathing, me who controlled my body, me who was in this life. I know it sounds weird, and the more I type the more I think it might just have been stress when I was younger? But it's so weird, I could do this fully awake in bed, anyways at the end of all of it, I would usually start feeling more and more detached from.. myself? And obviously was slightly scared, like I remember every single time at the end I would stop before going to far and coming back to reality, I've tried to go back to this strange state that I seemed to have gone to so easily when younger but I just cannot for the life of me get anywhere close. It seems like I'm apart of this life now and I can no longer interact with that state anymore. I know this looks bizarre, and it may have just been my young mind trying to figure out things, but it still comes up every once and a while when I'm in bed, i just wanted to share since I've never in my life talked about it, I just can't help but wonder what that was? [link] [comments] |
| Breathing techniques to stay calm? Posted: 05 Aug 2021 09:08 PM PDT Being calm and collected is one of the best powers to obtain so, if I'm ever in a stressful situation are there any breathing exercises or techniques I can have in my back pocket to use to calm my stress, nervousness, or anxiety? [link] [comments] |
| Every time I meditate I feel restless Posted: 06 Aug 2021 02:43 AM PDT I've been trying several types of meditation - most recently Mantra Meditation and Mindfulness. I noticed that every time I close my eyes and start becoming aware of the sensations of my body, I start feeling an uneasy sensation of general restlessness. It then stays with me even after the practice. It kinda reminds me of the feeling of nicotine withdrawals (I've been a happy non smokers for years, with no desire to go back, by the way). It may have to do with the fact that "I don't know what I'm supposed what to do" / "am I wasting my time?", and I'm just trying to trust the long term process. However, it's very physical. I can feel it in my stomach. Maybe this is my natural state when I'm paying attention? I'll be happy to read any of your thoughts or related experiences! [link] [comments] |
| A feeling I've never felt before and never felt since Posted: 05 Aug 2021 02:45 PM PDT Alright this will need a short backstory: To the end of 2019 I wasn't doing very well. Struggled in school, suffered from depression etc. Anyways...one day I felt the need to put on some calming music and meditate as it always helped me a lot. The reason I'm writing this is that what ever happened then never really let go of me. I now wonder if anyone ever felt something similar. As I stated I've never managed to feel the same thing again...as much as I'd sometimes still be in need of feeling something like that again. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Aug 2021 02:06 AM PDT Hey, Been searching around for darkness retreats in Europe but there doesn't seem to be many. At least solitary ones. Anyone here got experience from a good center? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 02:55 PM PDT Don't observe. Don't watch. Even don't feel. It will observe. It will watch. It will feel. It is awareness. Give way to awareness with non-doing. You don't need more words or instructions. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 09:31 PM PDT Mine are following the wondering thoughts and working through issues on a base level and bigger chakra meditations, I even had a vision of 2 hindu gods who turned out to be real. Well one of them atleast hanuman, the other I'm not sure of because their face was made of light and they were androgynous. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 01:17 PM PDT I'm kinda new to this so I wanna find out how much y'all meditate/ how much you'd recommend. I currently meditate once or twice a day for 10 mins [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 03:23 PM PDT Does anyone else, during the day, feel this good vibe. It's almost like you can taste it and smell it at the same time. Perhaps like something sweet or aromatic, on the tongue, lips and nose. A good feeling you could almost eat if it wasn't so ethereal [link] [comments] |
| How do i know if my meditation sessions is producing any benefits? Posted: 05 Aug 2021 04:57 PM PDT I often feel like i am doing it wrong and thus wasting time and effort. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 02:34 PM PDT Have you ever participated in a mass meditation? Do you have any advice for me? [link] [comments] |
| Meditation is a journey of uncovering the self and embracing all aspects of you Posted: 05 Aug 2021 05:58 PM PDT You are in the mind way way way too much and there is an experience of emotion inside of you that hasn't been uncovered yet. Meditation is simply a tool of self discovery and recentring. "How" "I don't understand" "I'm stuck" are all aspects of going back to the brain out of fear. I've seen it time and time again, both from beginners and long term meditators A great way to start is with breathwork https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLErDy9DW4cqFNXAE1VD-Ng3o-x2P0caBa So I'll get the practical elements out of the way first for you to enact immediately. If you're straight up struggling to meditate no matter what. *Visualise with emotion, that includes creating smell/touch/taste etc. if you can't create a feeling with the visualisation then move on to the next *Verbalise with each exhale whatever sound you want, the more primal/raw the better * Use the phrase "unearthing" to bring to the surface the answers or emotions you seek like a mantra "unearthing peace, unearthing rage etc" * The OPPOSITE of what you want is often the reason why you are not obtaining what you want. I have men who are perpetually single and want a partner, when we get to the source of it, they have a subconscious belief that they don't want to be with someone and/or that they are disgusting and undeserving of love. That negative subconscious belief wipes out their conscious positive belief. They MUST go through the feeling of self-disgust/not deserving of love to shift it and then be able to consciously/subconsciously be receiving of that. It's not your damn looks. The subconscious negative belief will continue to create scenarios to reinforce that it is true. It believes it's 100% accurate. Hence self-sabotage, saying the wrong thing, stuffing up at the pivotal moment, always losing keys etc. Whether money, friends, jobs etc. There is a negative pleasure in fucking up. So go through the journey of equal opposites and see how that feels. Also bring up your parents beliefs because I've seen people not know why they have such strong emotions to something where they have no life experience in it, it's because their parents have embodied their beliefs into them. Separating it like oil and water WITH EMOTION is such a eureka moment for many. If your parents treat you unfairly in an extreme way it is because you represent a part of themselves that they haven't resolved and are acting out the self-rejection/self-hate they subconsciously feel to themselves or was inflicted upon them. I've lost count how many times I've seen that. So the way to shift the negative self belief is to say in your mind or make a sound of the opposite of what you want with 100% emotion behind it, just own it and let the emotions ride out, consciously enjoy your negative pleasures. Eventually it'll subside and then you do the opposite again (the positive intention) and see what comes up. Back and forth until real clarity comes through. What you resist WILL persist. What you deny in yourself will be represented in people around you e.g the work bully, the boss who puts you down, needless arguments with your partner. Your inner turmoil is reflected in the outer world. For example "Nice guys" are males who are deeply disgusted by their sexual desires and escape reality by being "holier than thou" which leads to this gross or toxic response. Also can come from their mum emotionally cutting their balls off or shaming them for being a male. Not feeling manly enough during development aswell or traumatic experiences during growth. By embracing their pain they become real humans. Not just saying out loud what they want to do, but rather making peace with themselves which actually reduces the toxicity/intensity, reduces the need for extreme sexual acts and realigns them in a healthier heart/pelvis connection. They're just a guy that requires someone to give them an embrace at their darkest self and be willing to let it rest. I quite liked Like Stories of Old analysis of Character types because it really clarifies and simplifies our inner world. ------ Yet even then breathwork is a tool. It is NOT the be all end all. Eventually one has to go through experiences that break them out of the struggle that is felt within. Of course all the examples I give are generally speaking, there ARE exceptions and/or people with chemical imbalances/medical conditions that cause their suffering. People with anxiety is a withheld form of frozen fear/terror of the future when they were much younger. e.g a child worried about tomorrow because daddy might get aggressive. It's also passed on from the parents if they carry unresolved fears also. Depression is suppression of the self with the emotions unable to come out. Hence the messy rooms, weight gaining, lack of joy. There is so much intensity being repressed. That's the biggest problem we have from tribe's to modern age is that we've sanitised the rawness of humans so there isn't opportunities to healthy discharge it in a way that settles it. The thing most often not spoken about meditation and these tools is the absolute NEED to go into the darkest part of the self. Going down to the source of the unresolved emotions. Gradually through layers. That's why many people start crying so hard or freaking out during meditation because they're accessing the subconscious parts of themselves that hasn't been let out in a long time. There is too much emphasis put onto the mind or enlightenment and too many questions. The cause of trauma/anxiety/depression etc is by experiences, thus one must experience to resolve that. Which means getting into the body and out of the head. Your body already has all the answers. Emotions have been tossed aside in favour of the mind/thinking. Especially by modern wellness which is ridiculous because it doesn't prepare people to go through the unresolved self. Thoughts without emotions are empty. Thinking happy thoughts without the emotion has no effect. That's why advice is often returned with "I know" because the mind gets it. The body hasn't gone through the process to embdoy it. Thus going into the emotions, especially the extremities of them discharges the pain and the harmonious mind/body connection can be restored. Emotional pain is the representation of you at the age where you froze because it wasn't safe to let it all out. Which Peter Levine speaks of in Waking The Tiger where a deer that has to shake to discharge the escape from the predator. Same thing. I've done so much breathwork, so much meditation. I've attended, facilitated and been on teams where we've taken people through deep work. So seeing this sub going on an endless cycle of the same beginner questions simply makes me want to give something of value to empower the journey. Hope that helps, I'm cross posting this to /r/breathwork and /r/anxiety [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 11:45 PM PDT so tomorrow i'm going to a new a school and i've been forgetting to meditate a lot i'm going to tonight and tommorow morning. Any tips on what to do and not be anxious when i get there. [link] [comments] |
| Do you have codes you live by? Posted: 05 Aug 2021 07:57 PM PDT I've been creating a short list of personal codes/checklists to be mindful of day to day. These include: I'm responsible for my own feelings Listen more Be mindful of mind-reading Be mindful of my judgements Laugh more Do you have your own codes/checklists you live by? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 05:31 PM PDT I want to take a week break from meditation. I feel like I'm not doing it properly and it's doing more worse then good. I need to recooperate, then start meditation again. What's the healthiest way of unfocusing without overthinking and being in your thoughts. I thought of just day dreaming so my mind can wander, what do you guys think? [link] [comments] |
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| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 06:45 PM PDT Right after meditation, I am always calm. Then when I come out, I start to think how I maintain then calm then my peace slowly starts to get worse. What's the best way to maintain the meditation calm [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 09:49 PM PDT Does anyone else see colors when they meditate? When I am really zoned in and I close my eyes, my visual field is faintly taken over by colors. The colors ebb and flow kind of like a lava lamp. Generally if I am calm the colors are calming blues or violet, and if I am stressed they are more intense like red or orange. It doesn't happen every time, and I can't force it to happen. Like I said, it's usually when I'm into a very deep meditation. Does anyone have any explanation as to what this may be? [link] [comments] |
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