Meditating simply

[Tigger]

Posted by lookbeyond (here)

Posted by Tigger (here)
For those of you who have 10 days to spare, I highly recommend attending a Vipassana Meditation course. They have centers all over the world. In OZ, there is a fantastic one in the Blue Mountains near Blackheath. It's very challenging, but highly rewarding and life changing, provided you can stay the full 10 days.

If you have trouble sitting for long periods, you can use a meditation stool (find one online) which makes a tremendous difference.

Oh, and lay off the sugar and coffee. You'll never shut your mind up if it's pinging around on caffeine or sugar highs.

Hi Tigger, what is the minimum number of days that one can attend ? thx lookbeyond

Hi Lookbeyond, just confirming what EmEx said - the first course is always 10 days. Once you finish a 10 day course you can do 3day courses. It's well worth the time spent!

[Anchor]

Here is a good spokesperson for why meditation is worthwhile (with yoga)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EfB6cVdzq5c

[lookbeyond]

10 days- well that counts me out for the next 10 years

[Arak]

I meditate almost daily, like 5/7 days per week for past 2-3 years now. Time is something between 10-60 minutes. I usually do guided meditations like chakra balancing, energy healing, meeting my Higher Self (Arak is his name btw) or doing body scans. I love the feeling while I get to the flow, and afterwards I feel always better than before meditation.

But still 75% of times I more or less need to force myself to stop and meditate.

I wonder why?

[Anchor]

Posted by Arak (here)
But still 75% of times I more or less need to force myself to stop and meditate.

I wonder why?

Well, my speculation is that our lives are one big psyop. We have been conditioned to certain priorities from birth; if the people making the most influence had their way, meditation would not even be on anyone's agenda. You are essentially reprogramming yourself from your true reality instead of one you inherited - and with the exception of a rare few, that is not a fast process.

[Arak]

Yes Anchor, your words do resonate. It is very hard to stop - and just be and feel - in modern society. TPTB want us be in constant move, consume and walk away from God. Yet I know this all, deep inside have always known, it seems to be terribly hard to reprogram self and get peace.

[Anchor]

This is a lovely 8m41s perspective on meditation from Krishna Das, please watch it all the way to the end.

Krishna Das on Meditating Like Christ

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DqjJBZIyqQ4

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Posted by Teakai (here)
Sometimes, when I meditate - I forget to breath.
Does this happen to anyone else?

Before, before, before trying to Meditate/focus/clear/power the mind first studies your Breathing, Very, very import to do first!

Do Breathing Exercises like:
1) Without breathing in make sure you clear out all stale breath from the very bottom of your system first, Just breath out fully from the base.
2) Now as the whole of your breath leaves your body gently lay down (So you don't fall down and so you can be in relaxed position)
3) Now just breath in normally for now, then carry on breathing normally

4) Just observe and studies your breathing, not forcing or changing it in any way, ok
Do that regularly day after day until you have found out how you breath in healthily!

#Doing the above first, means you will not forget how to breath, you will not stop breathing by accident, so no worries OK #

#Doing all the above you will actually start a type of basic Meditating without trying#

5) Now you can start to improve your breathing.
Breath like a Cat.
Breath in from the very bottom of your system first then fill the lungs, then make in one clean motion breath out from the very bottom of your system, then the lungs (Repeat this daily until it becomes your daily breathing ok! Natural Cyclic breathing!)

If you try meditating or concentrating on your breathing before you know how you breath you can get into problems.
Problems like miss tuned out of time breathing I.E you can by mistake cause your self to get out of control and need to mindfully force (labored) air in rather than naturally just breathing!!!

So now you know how to breath, do a few rotations of deep breathing then start your meditation session!

[Anchor]

Saw this on reddit today, might be a fun way to try: (even though it is probably a joke, whatever works!)