Sometimes when I meditate I feel this strong sensation at the root chakra. Other times it feels like my body is vibrating, then if I stay in it long enough I usually just enter a dream state. My intention is to astral project but I can never get myself to actually achieve it

Have you ever tried focusing on that sensation in your root chakra. I’ve read focusing on pleasurable sensations like that can lead you into jhanas (pleasurable meditation states)

Yes , if I stay calm then yea. Sometimes it gets really intense if I focus on it, or it will move up slightly, or fade away, or disperse throughout my entire body.

It’s actually feels very cathartic when the vibration disperse out. There’s this sense of weightlessness and peace associated with it.

It’s such a weird an abstract state of consciousness I often have a hard time grasping what I experienced

Sam Harris dropped that knowledge at the end of today’s daily meditation (paraphrased)

The tools that we use to meditate are no different than the ones we can use at any other point of the day. At the end of the day we are only our consciousness and it’s contents as a matter of experience. See if you can recognize that and become Less and less precious about formal meditation and less and less cavalier about the rest of your life.

I can only speak for myself but as a relatively new meditator (couple of years), I can definitely have a tendency to keep some practices only during my meditation period and forget to practice them in the rest of my life. That’s the whole point of it I guess

Been doing late night meditations recently and damn they hit

Few more weeks till the 1 year anniversary of this thread

can anyone give me some guided meditations that are good?

i liked tara brach.

been meditating almost everyday the last few weeks

just a little bit, tryna form the foundation

feels good!

Idk if the “headspace” app is considered corny but I was feelin really bad this morning and I saw Headspace has a Netflix show where they guide you through a meditation so I did the first episode an it calmed me down so much

I felt so peaceful for like an hour after it ended, gonna finish the whole show this week

I love headspace. They introduced me to it all. Was subscribed for about three years but got tired of paying them at some point.

But would still recommend for beginners.

Not corny at all, but there are so many different styles of teaching and meditation out there so not everything will appeal to everyone. But if that vibes with you - and most importantly you feel good after it - that’s the only thing that matters. You’re on the start of a potentially very beautiful and rewarding journey good luck

I wonder what the world would look like if everyone meditated

I think about this every day

Imo All of these “problems” would literally be erased.

One of the big things that Meditation brought me was a deep sense of acceptance while still being able to reflect and work on myself without making it a big ass deal.

Reading how broke and lonely dudes are the most dangerous in the world is f***ing hilarious to me its so outrageous imo

I agree. Its funny, thinking about this bothered me at first but eventually the practice also brought me to a place of accepting that the world will never be as simple as it could be, maybe that’s by design, maybe not.

I’ve made peace with the fact that all i can do is try to make it easier for those I encounter in any way I can

You get it imagine a world where people were more accepting of not having answers to every problem and just letting s*** rock. the world will always be the world. Like you said, the way real change is implemented most effectively is by incremental, individual-to-individual action. Making s*** easier and life better for the people around you

Back on the meditation life. We transcending anxiety broes ☝️

just meditated, i feel great

Mornings like this one, man.

I’m thankful beyond words for this practice.

I been wading thru bs all weekend and its thanks to this practice that i ended up looking like the sane one.

when i really wanted to get em all on a group call and tell em to DIE. Instead i meditated and reacted accordingly and now they looking like bozos for coming at me wit that bullshit. Whoever discovered meditation was the real jesus.

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