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- My Friend Died Yesterday
- “The best ways to handle stress are meditation and masturbation.”
- This passage on meditation from The Way of Zen by Alan Watts just blew my Western brain
- I think I found peace with my sadness
- I dont understand how blocking thots is supposed to bring you peace and happiness.
- seeing green light glowing during throat chakra meditation
- What just happened in my head?
- How are you?
- Meditation brought my mensuration back
- Crying during meditation
- Tips on Metta meditation? Feelings of disgust and hatred
- Why do I yawn when taking deep breaths?
- Missed it
- I hear it can sometimes give you anxiety while meditating. I get panic attacks so should I avoid it for now or just begin and see what happens?
- Forehead Pain during meditation is from third eye or is it just pain from crossing your eyes?
- Need some advice!
- Y'all ever come up with wise quote during sessions?
- I had a strange experience after being told to meditate.
- Trouble describing myself
- CHALLENGE: I have been amazed how often the wisdom & philosophy of the Eastern World turns up in the West in literature, poetry and music. Please share those mirrored ideas and why they are important to you. Example below
- Anxiety following meditation
- How to become a meditation instructor?
- Yogic transmission transformed my practice y’all
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| Posted: 04 Aug 2021 09:24 AM PDT We were not very close but I had known him for over 20 years. He died of a heart attack without warning. Fortunately, he didn't suffer for very long. Yesterday was pretty intense for my family. 😢 Today I had a beautiful meditation in which I was able to relive the last moments in which I saw him. I was on a boat at his cabin. We were trying to leave but our boat wasn't working. We were close to shore and he waded out into the water to secure our boat so that we wouldn't drift into shore. It was a beautiful sunny day. The 3rd of July. Finally, we were able to repair the boat and we started driving away. I could see him on the beach getting smaller and smaller in the distance as we were heading back home. He was smiling and waving us goodbye. This didn't happen in real life, but in my meditation I said "I'll see you again someday old friend." I felt as though I was really speaking to him. This was perhaps the most beautiful and healing meditation that I've experienced. Just thought I'd share. I hope that you are well my friends. [link] [comments] | ||
| “The best ways to handle stress are meditation and masturbation.” Posted: 04 Aug 2021 06:24 PM PDT "The best ways to handle stress are meditation and masturbation." Love this quote so just thought I'd share! Is it true? [link] [comments] | ||
| This passage on meditation from The Way of Zen by Alan Watts just blew my Western brain Posted: 04 Aug 2021 01:23 PM PDT
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| I think I found peace with my sadness Posted: 04 Aug 2021 09:57 AM PDT I'm 16 and I've been meditating for 20-25 minutes every day since last year. So far, it's been helping me improve the way I react to certain situations. However, it took a long time for me to embrace my sadness. You see, I've been raised in a household that prioritizes the future more than the present. My dad constantly talks about the construction of his houses overseas as if they're finished. He talks about how he wants me to be a lawyer so I can support him. My mom is still traumatized by an event that happened over a decade ago. My sister and grandmother died due to homicide, so she is afraid to let me get out the house. I can't go to friend's houses, nor can I get a job. Because of that, I can't maintain strong relationships with people. I've talked about my loneliness with her before, but she always says the same thing: " don't be sad, things will get better in the future." Occasionally, my dad says things that makes me upset. Despite the fact he gave birth to a black girl, he constantly berates them. Since he sees me as the "smart one," whenever I articulate my emotions in a way that is sophisticated to him, he turns it into a discussion about college. My mom and my dad don't get along. My dad had been cheating on my mom for nearly 6 years before they got divorced last year. He even tried to have kids with the woman he was with. Aside from the mortgage, he barely supports the house financially. Even though they're divorced and my dad is married now, they still live in the same household. They sleep in the same bed, too. They constantly fight with each other. I've talked about my emotions with my mom more than my dad since I trust her more, but she would always repeat the same things. "You have no reason to be upset with that man," "Things will get better in the future." Whenever I meditated while sad, I always buried it deep within me and tried to reject it. Instead of finding peace with my emotions, I would repeat to myself "sadness is temporary, be happy about that." I would get frustrated with myself because no matter how many times I repeated that mantra, the sadness and loneliness wouldn't leave. But today, I didn't repeat that mantra. Instead, I let it come to the surface and told myself "I accept you." I started crying and it felt very therapeutic. I've been looking towards the future for so long, but I rarely acknowledged how I felt in the present. The moment I did, my sadness didn't go away, but my frustration has been released. Despite my circumstances, I can still live in the present. I don't have to look forward to doing that. [link] [comments] | ||
| I dont understand how blocking thots is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. Posted: 04 Aug 2021 12:13 PM PDT | ||
| seeing green light glowing during throat chakra meditation Posted: 05 Aug 2021 01:39 AM PDT hi, I've been doing meditation since april and only recently started to do chakra cleansing guided meditation. today, while I was doing my throat chakra meditation, I saw glowing green light (there were moments when it faded to blue, but it was fleeting). would love to hear your thoughts about this ☺️🙏 [link] [comments] | ||
| What just happened in my head? Posted: 04 Aug 2021 05:45 PM PDT I had a strange experience while meditating last night and I have some questions. I've been practicing 10 minutes a day, on and off for a few months now. Normally I'll put some headphones on, fire up the Medito app and just observe my breathing and passing thoughts. This works fine, I'm just a guy trying to develop a healthier relationship with his thoughts and emotions, I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel here. Last night I was exhausted, I've got a sore neck and I hadnt slept properly the night before, so I laid down in bed and listened to a 13 minute Medito guided meditation for going to sleep. My dog kept jumping on and off the bed, so I shooed her out of the room and restarted the meditation in peace. Observing the breathing, and passing thoughts while the sounds of rain played in the background. Generally I can't impartially observe my breathing completely, it always takes a little bit of my attention. About halfway through my breathing kindve faded away, like it was being pushed to the back of my mind, as was the sound of rain and everything else. There were no stray thoughts, and then I had a massive rush of energy in my head, and a feeling like the spins, almost as if I was on drugs or I'd drank too much. It was somewhat overwhelming, but I never really worried I couldn't handle it. It continued on this way for several minutes and then faded away when my wife checked in on me. I was wide awake for about a half an hour afterwards,my body tingling with energy, after sleeping about an hour the night before and then working an 11 hour day. I then fell asleep. Was this headrush some mix of overtiredness and some robax for my back, or part of the meditation? What am I supposed to do with it and why did it occur while I was trying to wind down for sleep? It seriously felt like I was on some cocktail of MDMA and cocaine for 3 to 4 minutes there, but then it sort of disappeared with just the alertness remaining afterwards. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments] | ||
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| Meditation brought my mensuration back Posted: 04 Aug 2021 07:01 PM PDT I have not had my period for over 6 months. I had bad depression from a way I was communicating. Now I've had it twice since I've been "recognizing" the meditations benefits (emotionally). I am so happy 😁😁😁 [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2021 04:29 PM PDT So a little background ….. I have practiced Relaxation for many years and found it very helpful for anxiety (of which I have battled most of my life). But the downside is I found I would fall asleep during the session. Hence meditation was mentioned to me as a possible other pathway to follow. I haven't just dived into mediation but I have done a bit of reading, purchased a simple book on meditation, joined this group and did a bit of homework. Anyway to the nuts and bolts of the post, today I meditated for the first time using a guided recording which was based on self compassion. I found myself crying and feeling downright sorry for myself. I'm still feeling a little teary and fragile a few hours later. No negative thoughts but it is like the dam has burst and I can't stop crying. Is this normal? Is it healthy? Should I be worried and maybe return to relaxation? Any advice would be appreciated. [link] [comments] | ||
| Tips on Metta meditation? Feelings of disgust and hatred Posted: 04 Aug 2021 08:12 AM PDT Hi everyone! I've been struggling with self compassion. I used to feel all this love for myself and for others but I feel like I've lost it. I don't love life anymore. I was reading about metta meditation which I didn't know it existed. I've been trying it out but I get the weirdest feelings. When I try to speak to myself in a loving, caring way, I feel disgusted. I feel like I'm faking everything and that I truly hate myself. I tried talking to me as if I was my best friend but it feels wrong as well. I even get nauseous from the thought of being loved and wanting to live again. It's always been hard for me to meditate. It's hard for me to let go of my obsessive and hurtful thoughts. I feel like I have a lot yet to heal and it's weighting me down and pulling me away from my path. Everyday I find it harder to love other people as well and it saddens me a lot. I don't want to hurt anybody but I feel like I'm starting to hurt people around me that I deeply love. Any advice is much appreciated! (I've been trying therapy as well and it's been working on a small scale but it's not helping me with this deeper feeling of self hate) [link] [comments] | ||
| Why do I yawn when taking deep breaths? Posted: 04 Aug 2021 07:38 AM PDT I continuously yawn and feel my chest and neck muscles tighten when I focus on my breathing and cannot take deep breaths. Happen to anyone else? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 05 Aug 2021 01:14 AM PDT First, the context, and then the main thing. I got my first job. I've been working as an instructor in, what we call it, a rope park. Basically, it's an area of a larger park of our town where kids and their parents can have fun climbing ropes and pieces of wood that are hanging between trees. So, they get on a route and complete 4 stages of climbing various obstacles until getting to the final stage of sliding down on their safety rope, and then the route is over. My job consists of supervising them as they're completing a route and catching them when they slide down so that they don't hit themselves on the way down. I've been an instructor there for a week now, and this is my first day off. We are lacking instructors majorly. Right now there's only 6 of us, including our manager, and a girl who has already submitted the papers saying she wants to quit. And there's supposed to be 10 of us. This is why we work 11.5 hours a day with a 25 minute break 6 days a week. Of course, all of those hours count as overtime and are paid at the same rate but still, I would prefer working 8 hours a day 5 days a week and getting less money but not sacrificing my life to this job. I get home, I rest from this job, and the next morning I spend the most of my time getting ready for the job, and then doing the job. No more me. I don't fucking exist anymore, I am only a representative of this business company. It's been such an embarrassment for me working there. Nobody was supervising me or helping me the way you need it when you start working the way you haven't ever been working before. There were only some scraps of information, and generally I was learning by looking at what others were doing and asking them questions sometimes. Our manager is a 34 years old woman who behaves like a teenager, running around playing with other instructors (when they have spare time), cussing and swearing constantly as if she can't express herself differently. She answers my questions reluctantly, and sometimes doesn't even answer them, and just looks at one of the other instructors suggestively, implying that they answer my question. I just feel out of place. Today I woke up at 4 am and had a striking realization. I missed a meditation yesterday. I didn't do anything, not even a breathing exercise. I remember clearly that as I was walking home at night I was thinking about eating, taking a bath, and then doing at least 5 minutes of a breathing exercise. Even though usually I meditate in a lotus position for 20 minutes, 5 minutes of a breathing exercise sitting on a bed would do. However, I didn't do shit, and I'm ashamed of it. I've been practicing for 7 fucking months straight, without missing a day. I've never forgotten about it this year, and there were extremely stressful situations in my life this year. Still, I practiced every day, even if I started practicing at 23:56 and finished at 00:16, I still considered that meditation to count as I had started it the previous day. The app that I use wouldn't count it this way, but I would. But it has never happened to me this way - just to forget. What a fucking nuisance. Can you relate? What do you do in such situations if there are any? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2021 05:09 PM PDT I heard that it can also cause psychosis. I also hear people talking about strange experiences with the sub-conscious, and OOBE and similar things like that. For now I personally want to avoid those experiences when I first begin. Is there a way I can avoid this before I am ready, and are there ways I can cope with these experiences if they do happen? [link] [comments] | ||
| Forehead Pain during meditation is from third eye or is it just pain from crossing your eyes? Posted: 04 Aug 2021 04:05 PM PDT Everyone says it's the third eye. Is that proven? Seeing as how so many people pray and mistake adrenaline for feeling their god, maybe the third eye pain is really just pain from crossing your eyes? Your eyes do go crossed I notice. So why do people say it's the third eye? Is that a real thing? And how do you know it's not from eye crossing? Cross your eyes when not meditating and you get a similar pain… [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2021 04:02 PM PDT Hi there! I'm 17 years old and I've been meditating for 5 months every single day. I have seen amazing changes within myself and my behaviour with the help of meditation. I find meditation incredibly important in my life and try to get 40 minutes of meditation done in a day (20 minutes in the morning, 20 minutes in the evening) I've had my struggles in meditation though. I suffered with a pain in my back for a week or two which was really interrupting my meditation but eventually the pain subsided after about two weeks, I pushed through my meditations without giving up. Then I began to get a very stuffy nose whenever I meditated, i began to think I had hay-fever seeing as this was month where you would usually see symptoms, but the stuffy nose disappeared and forgot all about it after a week of pushing through my meditations. But about two weeks ago someone pointed out the fact that there seemed to be a whistle coming from my nose everytime I exhaled. I began to blow my nose but it did nothing to stop it, it seemed like my nose was just always stuffy and I only realised. I got hay fever tablets and a saline spray to see if it would stop the whistle. It didn't. I've been trying not to focus on the sound of it while meditating but its incredibly difficult. I can't seem to go intro a deep relaxing meditation because I can't stop focusing on it. I eventually decided to use it as a lesson of patience and calmness, by just accepting it. Even still I feel a little upset when I finish a session, I don't get angry or react to it externally but I just feel really disappointed. I usually listen to some meditation music during a session with ear phones, I ordered a pair of in ear ear buds as I wouldn't be able to hear the whistle with them in, is this a bad thing to do? Should I just push through the irritation of the sound until I eventually stop focusing on it? When I did have in ear ear buds a few months ago I would go into deep meditation which would make me feel amazing so I guess there is a benefit to them for me anyway. I could have a session in the morning with ear buds in and then a session in the evening without any music and just accepting the sounds that come at me without reacting. Eventually this whistle may go just like my other struggles in meditation have. What do you guys think? Any advice would be much appreciated! [link] [comments] | ||
| Y'all ever come up with wise quote during sessions? Posted: 04 Aug 2021 01:04 PM PDT Mine today was: No tree was ever taken down in one hit. Few with a dozen. But after a thousand hits all trees fall. Rather motivational, but it stemmed from how years changed me day by day, for better or worse. [link] [comments] | ||
| I had a strange experience after being told to meditate. Posted: 04 Aug 2021 09:37 AM PDT I don't really meditate but my mom and a couple of friends do and they have told me to start meditating. I think this experience may be related to that but I don't know. Lately I've been waking up around 3AM to 5AM. I usually try to wake up at 8AM. Waking up extra early is completely unintentional. Sometimes I fall back asleep and sometimes it's a struggle to fall back asleep. I have tinnitus so the wee hours of the morning suck when I wanna fall back asleep. This morning, I woke up around 5AM. I tried falling back asleep but couldn't. I felt a low frequency vibration nearby. Like if a car was playing some booming music or something like that. But it was more of a pulsing effect. Like a booming/vibrating heartbeat. It wasn't moving, just sitting still, coming from the same direction. I was too tired to get up to look outside and I also didn't bother to put in any earplugs. Not even 20 minutes later I'm so close to falling asleep but I had a weird vision… My entire body felt like it was vibrating, maybe even levitating. My tinnitus got super loud and higher pitched than anything I usually hear. A white light was flashing in my eyes really quickly (my blackout curtains were shut and I was faced away from the window.) Then I saw a white hand reach out to me (all in my mind. My eyes were shut.) I was reaching out to it too but the whole sensation was really overwhelming and I got really scared so I pulled my hand away and got out of bed instead. I didn't meditate before bed or when I was trying to fall back asleep. I didn't have any alcohol or any kind of drugs. Nothing at all that would've altered my perception of reality. Has anyone experienced anything like this? Was this because of others trying to convince me to meditate? Or was it some weird lucid type dream? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2021 12:15 PM PDT So this may sound like a complete joke, but I'm actually lost here. I'm trying to write a bio for dating apps, but by meditating for the last year and a half through COVID, I literally have no idea what to say about myself anymore. There's like a million things I can say, but none of them seem significant or important. I've lost interest in defining myself but society still seems to require that of me. I'm just curious to hear from people who may have navigated this situation before. I know I can just say what people want to hear, but I'm more interested in authentically communicating my experience at this point. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2021 03:49 PM PDT You cannot find peace by avoiding life. —Virginia Woolf We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. —Dali Lama The concept of Inner Peace and the relationship to the outer world [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2021 08:57 AM PDT I have tried many times to maintain a regular meditation practice but have to stop every time. As my meditation deepens I get increased anxiety after each session. I have tried different forms of meditation and they all do it. Basically if my mind is quiet for a period this is always followed by anxiety that can last hours or sometimes days. It's usually a general feeling of foreboding, like some bad, unspecified thing is going to happen. It feels like my amygdala is fired up and on overdrive ready for to meet some threat. While actually practicing the meditation I can feel great and very relaxed which is strange. It just seems to happen afterwards, within an hour or 2 of finishing. anyone else experienced this and found a way around it? I would love to be able to mediate to improve my poor attention span and relive stress. Thanks. [link] [comments] | ||
| How to become a meditation instructor? Posted: 04 Aug 2021 12:37 PM PDT Hello everyone, I've had a personal meditation practice for about 10 years, meditating almost daily for the last 2. I took a CE meditation certification to enhance my practice back in 2015. There don't seem to be clear steps on how to become a meditation instructor, at least none that I can find. Any recommendations are welcome, I just need somewhere to start. I don't intend to start teaching anytime soon, just want to begin the process of learning how to teach. At the moment I cannot afford a full retreat, is that necessary? If so I can go to one in the future. What is a good online course to take in the meantime? I'm currently looking into Suraflow. Is certification an unspoken requirement? What are reputable schools? TLDR: ANY advice or recommendations on how to become a meditation instructor would be greatly appreciated. I enjoy yoga as well but am not interested in teaching it. Please be respectful! If I am off-base or unrealistic you can let me know in a way that is not rude. Thank you in advance for your advice! :) [link] [comments] | ||
| Yogic transmission transformed my practice y’all Posted: 04 Aug 2021 02:38 PM PDT
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