It was great. I could’ve sat longer but I had to be somewhere.

The rest of my day was great, as a result.

The experience of my thoughts, as ephemeral moments, that I could let pass by, as you might let waves crash onto the shore, only to experience that as water after all.

I’m going to catch an hour tomorrow morning.

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I'd really appreciate any personal or critical perspectives here : ) I'm a novice meditator trying to understand it and myself

I don't know much about meditation as other people practice it, but I do know it helps me ground my being and free it of the delusions of excessive thinking.

Sometimes I focus mostly on breath or physical sensations, sometimes it's just a very careful effort while I'm doing things to disidentify with my thoughts and their language. It's a relaxed effort to focus on what is real and what has meaning to me, not words and distant ideas. It's not freedom from my mind but light interaction with it.

It helps me break down my idea of what I'm 'supposed' to be doing, thinking or feeling, and gently put the things I care about in the context of my present being.

I'm torn here. I feel like this 'method' helps me frame my thinking as a very limited way of life and engage with it more healthily. But I also feel I'm still attached to all the ideas I built up. To my sense of self, my ideals, etc. My experiences are my reality. I use meditation to negotiate what I'm experiencing and have experienced. I try to make it as simplistic and free of construction as possible. But is it supposed to show me something completely different? This is what seems realistic to me right now but I want to be open to change if I can.

tldr; meditation helps me with not letting my thinking dominate me, but that seems mundane (if very helpful!) for what's a deep practice with a long history. can it help me in other ways?

I don't meditate often but I find that I can get easily lost and focused deep in it. Last night I was meditating right before I slept because I kept having racing thoughts, I laid completely still, didn't move a muscle, didn't scratch an itch or anything, after a few minutes I got so deep into meditation that I stopped feeling my body, I remember my arms were holding a pillow but I couldn't feel the pillow anymore, I couldn't feel the bed I was laying on. I also had a tingling sensation in my forehead and a feeling as if I was being slowly pulled away, this resulted in a semi panic attack that really shook me for a second. Why does this happen?

I’m not new to auto immune disease, but I am new to meditating. I’ve had auto immune disease the last 15 years and am determined to get better without adding more pills.

Since I’m new to meditating, I could use some advice. Does anyone have any specific apps—or better yet, specific meditations within apps—that you’d suggest which would be geared towards healing? I’m hoping to help heal via the mind-body connection.

Since I’m brand new to meditating, the guided meditations are really best for me and your um guidance is appreciated.

The existence of a person is explained by the Consciousness (Essence). The spiritual part of a person is incomprehensible to the mind. It continuously manifests itself in the Trinity (feelings, mind, body). It is a mysterious act of the emergence of everything out of nothing.

*In every moment of being, the infinite potentiality of the Consciousness is revealed in the form of sensations in the physical body and a figurative picture of the world freely interpreted by the mind. A person’s continuous awareness of their existence (life) causes the descent of the highest reward, for which they were created. The reward is feelings. Only feelings connect a person with Divinity.*

*Man is the totality of the Divine and the Earthly, being both at the same time. Comprehension of Divinity is the process of separation of the Divine from the Earthly. Separation is an act of will. In man, the Divine is closed by the Earthly. Only will can force a person to cast off the veil of ignorance and discover the Divine in themselves. Separation is an active act of will, forcing the Earthly to submit to the Divine.* 

*There is a special spiritual force in us, that can stop this chaotic world around ourselves and unlock access to the  Divine principle. This power is attention - the most powerful weapon against ignorance. The higher the power of concentration, the greater the chance to achieve the goal. Concentration develops with the constant right effort. Any such effort in our world is a reflection of the will of man. It requires time and persistence. If a person consistently develops their attention, then some day, they will certainly reach their goal.* 	

*Only under this condition, will a new reality reveal itself to them — the Divine “Conscious Nothingness.” Realizing themselves as “Nothing,” a person can return to their usual reality at any moment. However, their quality will be different, because now they not just believe, but also know that they are eternal and endless, and the world around them comes from emptiness, which they are a part of.*

*From the greatness and depth of comprehension of the truth, bliss — which has no end — arises. The practitioner understands — they have achieved the goal. This is their last incarnation here, on earth, and one last thing remains — to transfer their knowledge to those they love.

Hello all,

I felt it was important to post about this topic, as many have asked about it. In 2014, I began working as an energetic surgeon, and learned about the effect of attachments. At this time where we are feeling the need to release what does not serve, and to bring harmony and balance to ourselves and to our lives, energetic decording can help a lot. Although we have non-physical assistance, this process can be done by ourselves, and I find that it is empowering and healing on many levels. If you have any questions, please let me know, and I will be happy to help.

One of the largest contributors to physical, emotional, and psychological depletion is energetic cording. Whenever we have a relationship with another person, whether it is with a parent, spouse, partner, sibling, friend, coworker, or another, we create energetic cording between ourselves and the other party. Energetic cords look like tubes that are connected from one person to another, and sometimes from one person to an entire group (such as a family unit or ancestry). Cording can go from any part of the energy body to any part of another's, for example, I have viewed cording between someone's head and another's head (thought transmission involving mental manipulation and judgement) as well as many other configurations, such as from one person's throat to another's solar plexus (transmissions of disempowering energies and also siphoning of another's power). The combinations of cording attachments is infinite, but always created by thought transfer.

As thoughts are tangible structures, each contain a specific vibrational frequency and energetic charge. When you have a thought about someone, that thought goes to the person, it does not disappear. And, depending on the emotional charge of the thought (positive, negative, or neutral), the thought will go through the cording to that person and integrate within their field, or it will dissipate. Over time, repeated transmissions of thoughts can create structures within yourself or another person, called "thoughtforms," which are clusters of thought energy that can shape one's perceptions and impede health. That is why it is very important to be vigilant about the thoughts we transmit, and the vibration of them, as they create.

Cords are also created by our beliefs, and are attached to thoughforms anchored in the 4th dimension. These thoughtforms are conglomerations of thoughts of the same belief and vibration, transmitted by every human on the planet with the same perception. Thoughtforms exist for anything to which humans believe and fear, so if one recognizes a belief or fear that is causing suffering, one can also decord from that thoughtform as well. For example, if you have a fear of heights or of an animal, you can decord from that fear. And you can also decord from an illness or addiction, and this release can help you to heal.

Energetic cording transmits thought energy to others, and it can also siphon as well. If you are attached to someone who is codependent, they can be continually siphoning your life force via your shared cording, which can create a host of physical issues for yourself, most especially depletion within the solar plexus, which includes physical weakness, exhaustion, stomach, intestine, and colon issues, and many other manifestations. Siphoning can also create headaches, lack of focus, and various other conditions, depending on where the cording is attached.

Decording can make a world of difference in our existence, as afterward we can rebalance and get to know our authentic self, without interference from others' thoughts and perceptions, and also life force siphoning. We regain strength and sovereignty. The results can be permanent and create a lot of healing, if we are willing to also reevaluate our relationships and to not accept anyone into our life who will take energetic advantage. Creating strong boundaries is essential to maintaining health and vibrational integrity. The higher our vibration, the better our health and clearer our spiritual perception. It is also equally important that we evaluate our own programming and clear what is not supportive, so we do not attract others into our life that mirror our own issues. Working on clearing ourselves after decording is always helpful and highly recommended, because the patterning we carry within is what expresses itself in all aspects of our daily life and relationships.

If you choose to decord yourself from another person, it is helpful that you intuit whether permission is first needed from their higher self, as we all contract our relationships with others at the "higher" levels. The physical person does not have to be asked, but you can make a request of their higher self, and then feel (or hear) a response. If you receive that the decording has been agreed upon, then go ahead with the process. If you feel any concern, then it may be best to wait until you feel a pull to ask again.

Sometimes decording can be done without asking for permission, for example if there is trauma involved and to stand in your power, you feel the need to immediately detach from another person. Also, permission is not needed to decord from mass consciousness belief and fear thoughtforms.

Please note that decording only removes energetic distortions, and the genuine love you may have in the relationship is not affected. So, if you intend the relationship to continue, decording can provide an opening for this love to be experienced and reflected more authentically.

Below is a statement that you can use to decord. You can use the statement alone, or if you would like, use it in addition to visualizing the release. By visualizing, see yourself and the other party attached, and then with holding a large pair of scissors, cut the cording from toe to head, while saying the statement. Either way is effective, either visualizing or not, so please do what intuitively resonates. I suggest you do this release in a quiet state, where there are no distractions, a state of peace and calm. And do it in a state of knowing, where you know all is cleared.

After the release, you may experience a clearing of the energies, either immediately or over time. If you feel emotional, tired, or anything different from how you usually feel, try to move through the feelings and observe them, instead of attaching to them, as this will prevent re-cording. Trusting and having confidence that all is released, is important.

"I now hereby permanently sever, cut, release, and remove all energetic cording, banding, attachments, and 4th dimensional thoughtforms connecting me to (a person, a belief, a fear, an addiction, or a past life)____________. I state that all vows, contracts, agreements, and karma are now null and void, and completed. I take back all power I have given to _________ and I take back all power __________ may have taken from me, and declare that now I regain and contain all power that is mine and inherent to me. I release and clear all energetic imprints, charges, and programming within my entire being I may have received from ________, and release and clear all programming within my mind and subconscious mind that __________may have transmitted to me, and declare I am now completely free and clear of any and all energetic distortions throughout my entire being, transmitted from ________ to me. I now state that I am free and sovereign, and am no longer attached to ________ in any way, shape or form. I am completely clear right now, and so it is.”

Font: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheStarPeople/comments/1guj1ip/energy_cord_cutting_ritual/

Last week, I did a third eye meditation for the first time. During this, there were color changes as usual and the color dimming and becoming brighter repeatedly. I thought I was seeing a violet circle color just slightly. Just slightly. I saw that. I didn’t force that. It just came up on its own. It wasn’t clear. I think I saw other images but they were not clear. So I didn’t know what I was seeing. My eyes were fluttering every time I saw it. I was trying to relax my eyes. Then I think I saw an eye in the corner.. it didn’t look like a human. The pupil looked like a slit, like the eye of a reptile. I was like “what is that?” And when I said that, the eye vanished.

What was that eye?

William Shakespeare

Hello everyone I hope you are all well, I've been meditating and being mindful for 11 months now and I've been surrendering to chronic body tension that I've had since I was very young. Long story short recently I've had an unprecedented level of thoughts and feelings which are getting released naturally and effortlessnessly as I go about my day. Every day I seem to go deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole and uncover something new and it's like simultaneously a demon is trying to get out of me and I'm learning to love and work with myself. I have this voice which takes over sometimes and helps me and does all the hard work, I simply guide the way. It speaks to me and tells me that I am so close, that every day I get closer. And everyday it does seem that I am getting closer to something but I don't know to what. In the last couple days I've had violent emotions release along with thoughts such as, ' you have to be aware of danger', ' you have to listen out for danger so you don't die' ' you have to have sex so you can pass on good genes' ' you have to look aggressive to scare off danger' 'you have to eat food' 'this food is good, make sure danger doesnt see you eat' 'don't let anybody steal your food' which are often accompanied with ' anxiety'. It's seems like primitive thoughts which used to be attached to feelings are becoming detached and simply thoughts if you know what I mean but I've never heard of anyone going through something similar. Anybody have any ideas what is going on? Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I’m relatively new to meditation, though I’ve tried it a few times before. I wouldn’t call myself experienced—more like curious and ready to learn.

Recently, a friend of mine mentioned something fascinating: he only needs 5 hours of sleep a day, and he attributes this to meditation. Intrigued, I started researching and found that it’s not entirely unheard of—some people claim meditation can improve sleep efficiency or reduce the need for sleep.

Here’s the thing: I know this might not be the "purest" motivation for starting a meditation practice, but the idea of needing less sleep and having more energy is really appealing to me. I also genuinely want to experience the other benefits meditation might bring—clarity, focus, peace of mind, etc.

So, I’m ready to start. I’d love to hear from you:

1. Where should I begin? Are there specific techniques or practices that might be better for a beginner with my goals?
2. What can I read or watch to get a solid foundation? Books, articles, YouTube channels, apps—I’m open to all suggestions.
3. Have you had any personal experience with this? Did meditation impact your sleep or energy levels in any way?
4. Are there studies or science-backed resources about meditation and its effect on sleep? I’d like to approach this with an open but informed mind.

Thanks in advance for your advice and insights!

Spiritual exercises (The Practice of the Right Effort) is just simple thing - you have to stop your "TRINITY" (the world outside and inside) 1) STOP!!! your Physical body - 5 senses, 2) Mind - your thinking process and finally 3) Feelings/emotions. If you are able to do this you will discover your "ESSENCE ". In different religions it has a different names ( spirit, light, consciousness, nothingness). "What I am talking about is called enlightenment, and the process that brought you as a personality (Trinity) to this point from which you observe your Trinity is called Transformation.This is the truth and ultimate reality.

The Essence / Spirit cannot be defined due to the dualistic nature of human intelligence.
All that can be said about the Essence is that it is a Conscious Non-being (nothing), which never changes itself (it is permanent). The Essence / Being manifests itself through non-being or through the Trinity (feelings, mind, body). The Trinity, when manifested, gives rise to the objective reality of this world. A human being includes both the Essence and the Trinity. However, this does not mean that a person perceives themselves as both. For a person, the knowledge of the Essence is active in nature, and one must make an effort to reveal the Essence.

The degree of activity of the Essence is determined by awareness.
Awareness is the volitional act of the Essence manifesting as attention, the maximum strength of which is directly proportional to the level of awareness the individual has attained. The quality of activity imparts different degrees of penetration into what is being created.

The main criterion for spiritual growth is the expansion of awareness.
Awareness reflects the continuous process of human evolution in understanding being. Awareness is the tool for infinite self-knowledge and self-development. Awareness expands the spectrum of human sensory experiences, intuition, superhuman abilities, willpower, spiritual freedom, and physical perfection.

Normal awareness can only reproduce what is limited by the Trinity.
Super-awareness, as the highest degree of awareness, reproduces the super-reality that exists beyond the boundaries of the Trinity. This is what is incomprehensible to the Trinity. The difference between humans and all other living beings lies precisely in the fact that only humans are capable of realizing themselves as spiritual beings and discovering their Essence. Moreover, only in humans is there the potential to achieve super-awareness — a state of attention that allows a person to transcend the limits of ordinary reality, restricted by our sensory organs.

I have a snorkel and gargles. I keep my pool warm - 94 degrees f (34.4c)

I submerge entirely with only the tip of the snorkel out of the water. When you breath through a snorkel underwater the sound of your breathing is quite pronounced.

It sound like a gentle bellows.

I focus on the breath sounds and if a thought sneaks in I try to let it evaporate.

My wife says I an a nut. I am embarrassed to discuss at sazen because it seems presumptuous or pompous having my own pool and all.

Does this make sense?

Why we are making meditation complex by adding techniques and other stuff ? I suggest you to simply concentrate on on your breath . Watch inhalation and exhalation as a witness . If you will do it for 10 min your mind will be ready for meditation . In meditation you have nothing to do just enjoy stillness . Watch light or hear sound if you can . If you can’t see or hear then also don’t worry it will happen in due course.

Hi! I’m newer to meditation and I started with mantra meditation and now I’ve been doing guided meditation. What’s better? I know it all is and there no right or wrong but just wondering what is better for awareness and self compassion

I am really scared of planes and flying for several reasons. Normally I’m able to control my anxiety and it’s manageable but recently I’ve had something else going on my life which has exacerbated my anxiety so much, that it’s just getting out of control and I don’t know what to do.

I’m currently on vacation and was meant to fly home yesterday. I got all the way up to the gate, let my brother and all 200+ people board and I just couldn’t get on the plane and even started crying. I now have to stay in this foreign country, alone for a few more days before my next flight, and I’m already terrified the same thing might happen and I won’t be able to get on the plane.

I tried meditating for 20 mins 3 separate times in the past 3 days before my flight and normally this would help immensely, but like I said my anxiety has spiralled in the last few weeks so the meditation didn’t help much.

Are there any breathing exercises I could try? Or different meditations?

When I’m alone, the anxiety isn’t as bad. It was particularly bad once I saw how packed the flight was, it was fully booked and I feel so much worse in confined spaces with lots of people. I think what bothers me the most is how my chest feels, it just gets so tight and my heart races so fast, it honestly feels like I’m going to die in the moment I’m experiencing the anxiety.

Practice of the Right Effort (PORE) 

Sharing / Insight 💡

The Practice of Right Effort (PORE) is aimed at developing sustained attention through the creation of the right internal effort, facilitating the revelation of the "Essence" or "Conscious Nothingness" (other names include Divine Light, Spirit, Consciousness). The state of Conscious Nothingness is free from the existing world perceived by our senses and our internal experiences. The Essence is undefined, as it reveals itself at the moment of the Mind's (Intellect's) disappearance.

One could say that PORE creates the conditions for the emergence of a perfect state in which no desire exists, and the body becomes completely immobilized, compelled by the practitioner’s attention. In the state of Essence, a person feels no lack and resides in the eternity of Conscious Nothingness.

Hi.. I just badly need help or I don't know maybe just an advice on how to be more compassionate towards my sister. I love my sister so much, and I know she loves me too but since we started living together with her daughter I am starting to have feelings of frustration or anger towards her parenting.. My sister has OCD and can be a narcissist at times but not the extreme case. I just feel incredibly heartbroken to see my 4 year old niece walking on egg shells just to make sure she wont upset my sister.. She gets soo triggered when my niece spills things or when she makes a mess because her OCD is severe. She doesnt want therapy because she is in denial.. and I dont know how to even talk to her about this.. I have been meditating for a long time now but whenever my sister gets upset with my niece I feel her pain and sadness and it's incredibly hard to meditate because the thoughts of my niece having a childhood trauma comes flooding when I try to sit and meditate. Please can you share any experience where you were able to practice calm and compassionate during a very very difficult time.

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Why do I lose the motivation to study,pursue to seek a job after meditating. Like before I was generally excited but now its totally gone?

For context, I’m 8 months into an incredibly difficult, high risk pregnancy that has obliterated any sense I had of mental or physical wellbeing. I’ve been reading Eckhart Tolle finally and have found my way back a bit through his mantras and reminders, but in being back it’s simply made me aware of how miserable I truly am. Distraction from the present was making this feel more manageable. I don’t want to be disconnected, but being connected is outright painful.

Does anyone have any advice on how to remain firm in your spirituality and presence when the parameters of your life have turned quite dark?

I hear stories about these monks who have powers, or such a strong will it seems unbelievable. I'm sure there are very few of these out there, has anyone you known anyone come close though? What were they like? What do they do with their lives? How does it feel to speak/interact with a being like this?

Since I was only 13/14 I developed sciatica because of sitting in the traditional way "on a chair" for prolonged hours in school, starte which is why I dropped out, continued with online education. anyways, when I discovered Meditation, bought myself a cushion made of buckwheat hulls, started sitting in quarter lotus instead of a chair my sciatica suddenly disappeared! I sit like this when meditating, eating, reading, for everything. I just don't feel that our bodies where made to sit on chairs, sitting on the floor feels so natural and rejuvenating. it's just so comfortable, now I can even bear long rides on a car without feeling like my butt is constantly getting electrocuted

Hi! I want to ask meditators who have been practicing for a few years, do you find your practice with time brings up memories and events or images that you remember from past lives or of a long time ago? It’s been maybe 5 years of meditation both daily short meditations and occasional long sessions for me and more recently— also having Pranayama practice maybe past two years— now my day to day is flooded with events and perceptions that trigger memories or dreams throughout my life. EX. If I smell something or see an event in my day than I’ll just be intoxicated with an old scene or memory.

Some of this is me remembering a memory of a memory. And things I can see from events that could not have actually happened but are vivid. Some places in my old hometown I remember seeing them as these small temples or shrines inside…. For example the old post office, I have a memory of a big fancy shrine inside. My hometown is in no way religious (now altleast). Or the old historical jail in my hometown I remember having visions of some divine-like couple together, but I don’t remember ever visiting the inside to see what it looks like.

And other visions of being with an old lover, or with other groups of people all different people. I also have a memory of being a child in someone else’s home in another family? But I only see a short clip of scene not more to tell me anything else. Many many different scenes… maybe some of it could have been real from infancy or experiences in my mother’s stomach, but other things cannot be real in this life. Like being in another country with a family member in a different body? The strange thing is some of these seem very obviously modern time so I don’t understand how they could be “past life”.

I don’t want to assume these are something that they are not, so I want to ask any experiences of meditation stirring up the mind to bring such experiences or memories forth for anyone? Any resources? I’m not purposely conjuring these up, but I do contemplate how my present reality or relationship may relate to them.

The biggest concern I have is that some of them keep coming up everyday and I feel they won’t dissolve on their own until I can understand why they are coming up. Some specific movements in my body or breathing techniques bring up the same memory or image too.

Sorry for any unnecessary context, I’m looking for any insight, shared experience, or resources.

I always hear "you have to love you, before someone else can" is that really true in your opinon? Like, i love me mostly, but there are things i wish I could change and im sure thats the case with 99% of people today.. but I for the life of me cant figure out when something is going well in my world, (relationship, job etc) it just goes away.. I get that you have to have contrast in order to truly enjoy life, but I feel at my wits end

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There’s a course in my area on this practice. I’m a beginner. Is this something that has warranted significant benefits for anyone?

Hi guys,

I struggle with ocd and along with other resources I’d like still like to work out how I can get meditation to aid me.

I’ve been looking at few different things trying to use metta and have been wondering about using a physical smile to keep my self mindful throughout the day and out of my head. I wondered if anyone had employed this practice and it helped? I’m a little concerned about it potentially being reassurance for my ocd and making it worse.

Thanks for any help m

This week has been tough emotionally. All of my fear and doubt and sadness have been begging for my attention. I havnt been sleeping. It took a few days to even get myself to face the emotions at all, as I've been blissfully mind-identified recently, strung along by distraction.

I felt into them, as much as I could, and eventually they fade away. Now I'm a bit numb, emotionally drained, but I'm finally ready to inquire into them. However, without the intensity of the emotion present, I don't know how to.

Should I just wait until it strikes me again? Should I intentionally try to summon the emotions? Any advice for how to inquire into strong negative emotion without giving it a narrative?

It feels like there's a barrier made out of fear and doubt. I don't think that tinkering with my thoughts more is how I go through, I need to drop straight into the emotions. I feel, in a way, that it'll kill me to do so. Like everything has to be left at the door, I don't think I can take any part of "me" through it. I'm somehow unwilling or unable to commit everything. Part of me says I'm missing the mark by spinning up some explanatory story, but I'm certain that fear and doubt are the core of it. I just don't know yet how to give them my full attention.

Thank you for very much for reading, I hope this makes any sense.

total beginner, meditated like once or twice in my entire life. id like to be able to get in direct contact with my subconscious easily and quickly.