How do you feel about meditation?

[mingsoykitty]

Have you ever had an enlightenment? This is a very strong sense of motivation, which has long been gone. I will be glad to listen to your experience of concentration on one thought. Tell us the process of concentration. Does it help you in life?

Meditation can give a positive outcome to our mind it's like we exercise our mind for making it relax while our body relaxing also. It can helps bad things happened turn into positive.  this is a kind of activity that help to calm our mental and emotional feelings. It will helps us also to reduce pain, stress, depression, anxiety,etc. So let's do it often guy's we need it for our mind, body, and soul  to relax.

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[kikuka]

Meditation is a tool, a means to achieve other goals. Therefore, like any other tool, it is certainly needed. But the tool can do harm, if you do not know how to use it, you can hit your finger with a hammer, cut yourself with a knife. And inept meditation can do much harm. But proper meditation can help a lot. After all, in principle, meditation, as I understand it, is a way out of the habitual thought process and a transition to a mindless level of perception. This, of course, sometimes, it is necessary periodically. As Osho put it (quoting from memory, approximately), "I do not call to go without clothes, but from time to time it needs to be removed" (under clothing, he meant the usual mental level of perception of the world).

[FlightyPouch]

I did try to meditate one time and that did not end well. I am the type of person who can't focus on one thing, whenever I clear my mind another thing pops up and it will be a domino effect in the end.

I don't meditate but sometimes when I am alone I do talk to myself, not literally but asking myself what am I doing my whole life, what is my goal in life. That alone can motivate me to do things and to make things right, it can also help me when I am depressed.

[crwth]

Yes. Concentration has helped me in my life numerous times, especially at work. I tend to overthink everything, from emotions, thoughts, opinions, and actions towards me. It used to affect me so much; I've been doing bad at work. One day, I decided to have a catch-up with our HR Manager, and she gave me a lot of advice, listened to me for at least 4 hours straight. After that talk, I was enlightened. I realized, I just needed to blurt everything out. So far, I've never been better. I got promoted, and I'm up to date on my tasks. Maybe we all need someone to talk to about our enlightenment. It's a good start for better concentration.

[PlayUp]

As someone with a very active mind, I cannot say that meditation has brought me any level of deep enlightenment that I know many have claimed to experience.

However, I can say without doubt that meditation has helped me practice gratitude, increased my patience, extended my compassion and understanding and let go of the past.

I hope one day to experience more profound enlightenment, however if it never happens I won't be upset about it. Meditation has already given me untold benefits and made me appreciate myself a lot more.

For getting started I'd really recommend the headspace app. It really helps with the process and helps establish a routine.

Meditation is exercise for your mind (although it's super relaxing exercise!)

[El_rancho]

Meditation brings us closer to enlightenment, it's supposed to reach out
to our inner self and calms us. A realization and a greater sense of this
is supposed to be attained. I feel meditation clears our minds and hopefully
our hearts and soul. It gives us clarity during contemplation. It's the best
method to combat stress and bring in tranquility.

[CaptainKrypto255]

There is action in non-action. Not acting on one's thoughts does not make one lazy. Rather, observing and accepting one's thoughts and things that just happen is more difficult than continuously thinking. This is exactly the ideology of Tao, which practices the art of meditation.

[Sithara007]

I did try to meditate one time and that did not end well. I am the type of person who can't focus on one thing, whenever I clear my mind another thing pops up and it will be a domino effect in the end.

I am facing the same problem. These mediation sessions usually last for 1-2 hours and I have found it extremely difficult to concentrate on it for so long. That is one of the reasons why I gave up meditation and yoga. There is no doubt that it is good for the mind and body. But meditation is not meant for people like me.

[mackhoy]

It's really helping a person to refresh the mind from this world's toxic. Meditation allows the person to think without feeling any pressure in time, work or any disturbances in mind. In this way the are starting to feel relaxed and comfortable which makes us think better and productive with refreshed minds.

[kiumilo0o]

Meditation is about oneself, focusing on each breath. You can meditate when standing, sitting on a chair or even with eyes wide open at traffic jams. It does not matter if your surroundings are noisy because the inside is the most important thing.

[criza]

The world is full of chaos and violence. People nowadays are not in peace since everyday, what is happening in the society gets worst. Other people are toxic and what they say is not helping at all. They speak of a bluff and of a negative words. Thus, people needs to find ways to manage things. And one way is meditation. Meditation is a manner in which you are trying to make a relaxation from concentration. What does it mean? It means that you are finding and applying your own way of concentration process by process. You have steps to follow, however, it does not necessarily mean that you have to follow one's standard because the truth is, what works for them differs what works for you. We have different way of coping up. Jist like me, my way is very simple. I just go to a quiet place, close my eyes, and remember something we should be grateful of, think of positive thoughts, and looking back onto the good memories you have shared with your loved ones.
 

[kiumilo0o]

You may think you can't meditate because the thoughts in your head continue. But in practice, meditation does not stop the thinking process from helping you observe it.

[icecube45]

How do I feel about meditation? be calm and open up thoughts or ways that have never been done when meditating and making fast to sleep and avoid insomnia, then how to just focus on one thought? In the beginning I will do my activities immediately or things (work) so that when our concentration (meditation) is not disturbed about it, usually I do meditation before going to bed.
 if my meditation usually do with (play) music especially smooth jazz music because I like and calm, does this help me in life? of course meditation keeps us calm and when we calm down we will not decide wrong decisions, then we will be able to control ourselves (especially angry), believe or not meditation will make us wiser, etc

[ololesia]

Meditation helped me with mindfulness. I really started concentrating on the small beautiful things of life and thinking positive in general.
It was difficult at first to concentrate while meditating. That is why I've started with concentrating on breathing. This is the easiest way to begin

[Chusnul]

It's problematic to expect meditation to feel "like" something. The goal is simply to pay attention to whatever is happening, albeit often with an object of concentration, such as the breath, as an anchor to which one returns when the attention wanders - as it invariably does. During meditation I've experienced states of deep relaxation in which I felt untroubled by mundane cares and concerns; I've also felt irritation, boredom, and anxiety. It's not that the deep relaxation was "good" meditating and the other states "bad"; it's simply that the mind is a machine that produces thoughts and emotions. Meditation is a process of becoming aware of those states without being carried away by them. That said, with practice this ability to be aware of one's inner states without being driven by them in itself produces feelings of calm, equanimity, and peace.

[grendel25]

meditation is great but sometimes I forget to do it.  It is important to be able to take a few minutes ever day and just stop your brain.  Sometimes if you can do this in a part of the day that is really busy and stressful it can help you cope better with what is going on and really improve your performance.

Here's two ways I meditate:

1. Eyes closed.  Deep breaths in and out.  All the way in, all the way out.  Don't worry too much about counting unless that helps you.  But eventually you just want to breath in and out.  And then just think about breathing...  in---and---out... nice and easy until you aren't even thinking about it.  You are thinking of nothing.  Your focus is nothing.  Everything is nothing at all.

2. Eyes open.  It's really the same as above but now your eyes are open.  Good for when you are in some office place and don't want people catching you with your eyes closed.  But you have to account for visual stimulus... so... just try to find some neutral point around your desk that you can mentally tune out.  The space under a monitor, the overhead bin, the space just above your monitor(s)... and then let your eyes go unfocused and then again.... Deep breaths in and out.  All the way in, all the way out.  Don't worry too much about counting unless that helps you.  But eventually you just want to breath in and out.  And then just think about breathing...  in---and---out... nice and easy until you aren't even thinking about it.  You are thinking of nothing.  Your focus is nothing.  Everything is nothing at all.

Do the above as long as you feel comfortable.

[Johnyjay]

I think it's something that should be done very often. It helps one reflect on the mistakes, errors, things you did right in this life. How to change from doing a particular thing, the next step to take on a certain matter, all these are my thoughts during meditation. I like to close my eyes while I meditate. Meditation helps me a lot.

[bernashka]

About "engaged in meditation, not knowing" - this really often happens. There is nothing dangerous, if you do not go too far and do not go into mystical teachings. A good way to relax, relax. Meditations are different - and contemplation, for example, look at fire, water, nature, listen to the singing of birds and so on, and relaxation and concentration on the sensations of the body ... I just like it. It helps to calm down and get pleasant sensations. And you can get stuck on anything, if a person is addicted to addictions, then it can hang even though on the Internet, at least go to the women / peasants, at least to smoke, and even drink and even add drugs, although not in the best move in the sport - in itself he is also useful, but they can also be driven to exhaustion and insanity. Everything is good in moderation! Well, a sound mind to have, to understand that this is no esotericism and not a way to approach any outsider and supreme, but simply to bring the body and thoughts in order.

[Johnzky]

Have you ever had an enlightenment? This is a very strong sense of motivation, which has long been gone. I will be glad to listen to your experience of concentration on one thought. Tell us the process of concentration. Does it help you in life?

Relaxation is one best thing that we need to do,and meditation has the same manners in which you're internalizing,all the feeling inside must be released so the negativity will gone.

But this helps me some while Yoga is making me alive and contended,it gives me the whole world become silent and only a heartbeat sounds like music around

[Sexteh]

Have you ever had an enlightenment? This is a very strong sense of motivation, which has long been gone. I will be glad to listen to your experience of concentration on one thought. Tell us the process of concentration. Does it help you in life?

it is relaxing and let you have a peaceful mind.  meditation helps you calm yourself and reflecting yourself from things you've been troubling in mind. Meditation is good when you have a question or some decisions that needs to be discern.