It’s hard to find people who do. There isn’t a meditation community here so I made one ( !meditation@leminal.space )
Meditation is pretty great.
I’d love to keep doing so, but never found a quiet place to do so on a regular basis. My new house is too noisy at all times.
And I cannot meditate with neighbors noise.
When I used to do I did before sleeping and greatly improved sleep quality for me.
I’ve tried, and weirdly it made me feel rage. I was really surprised but most times I’ve tried meditation it ends in rage or a weird feeling of grief. I don’t know what that’s about but no thanks!
Yeah, I prefer guided meditations.
I don’t meditate as a regular practice, but I do try to catch myself if my brain’s getting extra buzzy so I can stop and try to centre myself again. I have ADHD, so it can be difficult.
So far as I understand it, meditation isn’t literally emptying your mind, but trying hard to focus on one thing, then coming back to it when you realise you’ve slipped away. On that basis, I might do it for a few minutes a couple of times a week. Any longer than a few minutes and I get sleepy.
I like to say I try to meditate at times. Worse case I occasionally relax with deep breaths. I think its a good thing to do when opportunities come. Any time im not doing anything in particular I tray. Riding a train, waiting rooms, etc. I don’t use a smartphone so likely more opportunities for me than most these days. I don’t do it or anything in a disciplined structural way.
Trying to meditate is meditating. Meditating is trying to empty your mind, in the same way doing pushups is trying to do 1000 pushups.
Trying is meditation, and meditation is trying. In the same way that trying is lifting weights, and lifting weights is trying. The effort is the meditation.
You don’t use a smartphone? What do your friends say? What about maps? What weirdness do you encounter by taking this course?
Im from a time before them. I don’t need maps to get around day to day as I know my local area. I do have a tablet when going somewhere strange instead of using a paper map although I still often just look at it before I leave and remember. My family and friends know the best way to contact me is email or voice call. The wierdness I encounter is corps and businesses in general. From banks to doctors offices to rewards programs they all try to shove apps down your throat which ticks me off pretty highly.
If lighting up a red candle dedicated to Lilith and focusedly look at its flame count as form of meditation, then yes I do, although not for the purpose of meditation, bc I sometimes do it more for invocation/inspirational purposes. It’s good to see occult/esoteric communities, though, because I’m new to Lemmy and I couldn’t find any communities dedicated to esoteric/occult/mystical concepts (such as Hermeticism) nor communities dedicated to entities and deities such as Lilith and Lucifer.
Meditation is when you deliberately control the activity of your own mind, as such. So as long as you’re focusing your attention on the flame and not just externally pretending to look, it’s meditation.
I pray instead: I prefer praying over meditating.
Unless I were meditating on God’s Word.
When you lift weights do you prefer to lift heavy bundles of bibles?
I kid :)
thanks
Just crossposted this for your community’s first post.
Yes, I do. As well as Tai chi and yoga.
Me too. I usually get up, stumble towards the kitchen and boop open the fridge with my rear, and finally actually wake up once I’m sitting there sipping my chai tea and eating my yoghurt.
It’s been on the back seat for a couple of years due to life. Denial and dissociation remain my friends for now. I’ve missed it greatly.
But, I’m taking it seriously and sowing the seeds so to speak.
Yes. I find it helpful.
I do a lot of concentration meditation. Sometimes I start to feel a bit “raw” if I do too many heavy sessions very close to each other, and so I take a break. It’s a great tool :)
I relate. I used to do it so much that I got a bit crazy. But it was a good crazy.
In the drive through line
I do, but not as frequently as I used to. I think it is helpful though, and I wish I’d do it more often.
I hate being trapped alone with my mind so no
That discomfort controls you whether you’re conscious of it or not. Only conscious awareness of it actually heals it though.
Meditation is choosing to face that discomfort in order to heal it.
