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The main issue is that most people who are a part of a religion do not read the entirety of Scripture for their religion. I've read the Bible word for word, from the beginning of Genesis to the end of…

The Key to Being — The most potent drug is (within) you. It is your previous experiences, your memories! **What memories of yours contain the greatest love, joy, gratitude, etc. ?** Memories of a certain person (or p…

Thought Breathing (imagining breath sounds playing) as a potential hybrid meditation +breathwork combo! — Thought Breathing (imagining breath sounds playing) as a potential hybrid meditation +breathwork combo! Hello! I wanted to ask in and share and/or ask around about a kind of meditation I haven't real…

WARNING do NOT do the whimhoff breathing exercise while DRIVING! (I crashed) — Before I tell the story of what happened to me let me explain what the whimhoff breathing exercise is. Take quick super deep breaths around 20 times and hold the last breath as long as you can then e…

Weekly Synchronization :) — so, last week's worldwide, synchronization was such an overwhelming success and blessing to the people who organized and participated that they've decided to make it a weekly event. They've added a se…

12 minutes in my breath got weirdly "clicky" and now i'm overthinking it — At minute 8 of a 12 min sit yesterday my breath started feeling… segmented. Like inhale was coming in little packets instead of one smooth line, and the exhale had this subtle "click" sensation in my …

Something about manifestation that most people get wrong (probably you do too) — There is a version of you three months from now sitting somewhere quiet, maybe with a cup of something warm, and that version of you is not excited. They are not jumping. They are not screaming into t…

Electrifying eye contact with stranger?? Meaning? — The other day, I was walking to class when I saw a group of people at a small bar in the street. I noticed a guy sitting on one of the stools, and as I walked past them I looked at him and he looked a…

What are your favorite ways to meditate? — Have a blessed day everyone. I'm no expert ,just been into meditation for about 4-5 months. My method is 60 minutes daily that I must do before the day ends. I usually space them in chunks of 10 or…

The reason “just start” doesn’t work and what the research says to do instead — I think a lot of self-improvement advice fails because it misunderstands how motivation actually works. The standard advice is: set a goal, break it into steps, build discipline, execute. And for som…

Success when I stop forcing it — I’m quite experienced with the Law now and aside from a few lingering disturbances of thought, mostly tied to health, I’ve generally found myself able to shift states with no resistance. It was midn…

Your nervous system doesn't speak English. It speaks breath. — Combat soldier, 3 tours Helmand, Danish veteran. PTSD diagnosis 2017. For years I tried to think my way out. Read books, did therapy, talked it through. It helped but it didn't stop the body from goi…

What’s actually happening (in plain language) Roughly, your system is doing this: 1. Distance = danger. When you don’t see him (or replies slow down), your body reads it as “I’m about to be abando…

The first thing you need to do is regulate your nervous system. I've been exactly where you are and I am so sorry you're going through this. Use the 4-4-8 breathing method which can help regulate your…

Broke up with my gf two weeks ago. She wasn't treating me right, like she switched up on me real fast. I managed to make the ending positive for both of us. However, when my mind feels nostalgic, I …

I get really anxious when I'm dating someone. Fear of abandonment, hypervigilance, the works. It got to the point where I was exhausted by my own spiral loop — overanalyzing everything, reading into e…

I feel your pain. I am giving you a hug. The kind that feels gentle and strong, like a tree. You feel your shoulders relax, only then realizing they’d been tight. Your neck relaxes, head rests to the …

As long as you are conscious, you are meditating. The mind loves to complicate things, whatever your idea of it is it’s not that, it’s much simpler. As long as you are conscious with an inhale and an …

Touch the top of your palate with the tip of your tongue. Breathe in diaphragmatically. Exhale until your belly button feels like it is touching your spine. In this position, briefly te…

There's every chance things AREN'T going well and she was outside your apartment trying to get the nerve to talk to you to ask if what he's doing to her, did he do that to you. OP let's pause, take 1…

Try somatic breathing exercises. 4-4 box breathing, 4-6 short inhale long exhale. They primarily calm the vagus nerve. That along with grounding and mindfulness can bring your body out of parasympath…

Yes, and it’ll bring about a new journey. The mind typically mirrors the body, so if it’s chaotic, then your nervous system and body is probably feeling chaotic and anxious. The best way to calm the…

I've learned to LOVE it. Im a 50/50 parent and when the kids leave, I spend a few hours cleaning up and washing clothes. After that... I just exhale. I'm usually bored by day two, but I just hit up a …

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I went through something very similar last year. When I first started meditating, focusing on the breath felt simple and I could clearly notice when my mind wandered. After a few weeks though, my thou…

I would recommend moving up to thirty minutes, e.g. adding 1 or 2 minutes every week until 30 min. 10 min is hardly enough to calm the mind after a stressful day. However, imo the most simple solut…

Nice to hear when someone finds something that actually sticks. For me the simplest breath focused meditation works best, just sitting and paying attention to the inhale and exhale. Every time my mind…

This is amazing because for the first time I realise my “block” was the expectation part.. as in the law of expectation .. as in rather than imagining I have it and how and it’s form and doubting whet…

I love cross contaminating teachings. Because we all learn in different ways and this is excellent! For me this speaks to how Neville speaks to how the feeling of naturalness is all important. You don…

That's the best part, that's exactly what you want. Those racing thoughts are the exact stuff that run in the background most of the day without you noticing and when you sit to meditate the volume is…

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Yea... if its helpful you can imagine yourself surrounded by white light, or light of any color really, and as you inhale(deep belly breath), draw the energy in from all sides of you, into every cell …

Really good advice already in the other comments. Especially the idea that you have an unresolved emotion or trigger. And that the main fix for it is in the body. I am new to realizing that I am a fe…

U should look into breathing if you are anxious. Meditation is not it. Meditation helps u figure out WHY you are anxious by noticing mental patterns however it wont stop it in 1 turn. What may help st…

Try following your breath with your attention. The breath is a gateway between what we can control and what happens automatically. Breath work can be very powerful so grounding exercises are also reco…

You are, of course, overthinking and over-feeling, which is exactly why you need meditation. You are a slave to your impulses. It’s actually extremely simple. I don’t care how busy your life is—10 mi…

Fixed air is higher up, to me. Mutable air is a conversation, 2 bodies exchanging their air. Cardinal air is the initiation, reaching out, the first exhale, the start to the conversation. Aquarius, mo…

Try visualising energy from beneath your feet being brought up through your body on the inhale, and then exhale it out of the top of your head, and visualise that energy going back down to beneath you…

Oh I’ve got a good one for you - if you or your kids have a pain, scratched knee or bump on the head etc, rub your hands together, shake them off, then hold them on, or one inch away from, the painful…

It's put as a disclaimer to not do that basically everywhere..... I'm just going to exhale, the comments have made it clear. I'm glad you're alive.

Is that what the Whimhoff breathing exercise is?? I've been doing similar breathwork since the last two years without knowing what it's called, it's like this technique but without taking quick super …

You’re supposed to hold the last exhale, not inhale. . After holding as long as you can then you inhale. But yea still can’t drive and do it

I'm a yoga teacher and honestly, this helps a lot of my students, and myself. Incorporate it daily, and it's very beneficial. A simple one that really helps me is **box breathing**. Inhale for 4 co…

When I started I wasn't really sure if I believed it or not. After having had a full-blown (yet short) experience it completely changed my entire perspective. I know this is anecdotal and doesn't do m…

The intensity of what you’re feeling anger, sadness, anxiety, numbness, loss of appetite, sleep disruption is your nervous system trying to process something it perceives as a threat to your safety, a…

Hey—I’m really glad you asked this, because this is where most people get it wrong. You’re not supposed to *avoid* feeling the pain. But you’re also not supposed to *drown in it*. What you’re exper…

Sharp heart sensations during metta are usually a mix of intercostal muscle tension plus the mind finally noticing grief, but please let a doctor rule out physical issues if that ache is new or intens…

Sharp heart sensations during metta are usually a mix of intercostal muscle tension plus the mind finally noticing grief, but please let a doctor rule out physical issues if that ache is new or intens…

It can help , but as everyone states, it hits every person differently. It can really help my over active amygdala that used to get easily triggered. I have been decreasing use and if I feel a trigger…

"exploring everything from IFS (internal family systems) to CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) to DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), but it seems like while all the concepts may be great, nothing s…

Start with just 5 minutes sitting alone with no distractions, no TV, no music, and no phone. Just listen. Work up to 15 minutes. Can you say hi in your head? Listen to thoughts with that voice. When…

focus on your breath, in for six and out for six is twelve. Do that five times and thats a minute. during this, smile without seperating your lips or allowing them to curl (that's your soft smile) Wit…

Oh... only doing the breaths on the exhale is interesting. Makes sense because the chest is more relaxed then. TBH I'm having the opposite issue from most Westerners, where I can only connect with met…

This is one of the most beautiful things I've read on here. And I want to honor that before I say anything else. That moment in the rain? You can't manufacture that. That was two nervous systems final…

What if I have exhaled sun in Aries in the 7th house alongside mars in Aries too

This is called drifting. Try to feel the joy in the intake breath of life, and a tension release upon exhale. But what actions have you been doing the last 10 years which would suggest that meditatio…

Starting with myself, I’d like to share the best technique that has worked for me so far. I lie on my back and begin by focusing on my breathing. At first, I control it consciously: I inhale counting…

Hey OP! Thank you for sharing your techniques. I've never been able to AP but I'm not giving up! Quick questions: 1) in the initial 5 minutes where you inhale and exhale for 5 seconds each, do you …

I'm sorry you're experiencing this. It's the worst and I struggle with this, too. I've been finding it helpful to think of CPTSD as a brain injury. Our pre-frontal cortex (PFC)goes off-line when we'r…

I agree. Sometimes just taking a break and taking an intentional deep breath and long exhale can be very beneficial.

Absolutely. MDMA can be an intensely introspective drug, you’ll judge yourself with no judgement. I remember taking it alone just after breaking up with my ex, the love of my life.  Walking down the…