Meditation: Fucking do it!

Favara · 2012-12-02T03:15:00+00:00

Here's something I've been doing for years:

Stay in a quiet room. Sit down or lay on your bed or whatever, it really doesn't matter as long as you're confortable.

Focus on the silence, just listen. The silence itself actually starts feeling like a noise eventually, like some kind of oppressive humming. Like your head is about to explode.

Already hearing that "noise of silence"? OK, now focus on your sense of touch. Don't move a single muscle, don't go and touch anything... No matter the position you're in, some part of your body is already touching the surface you're on. An alternative is having two of your fingers touching eachother before you start. Anyways, just concentrate on that feeling...

Eventually you'll lose your sense of touch. Great. Keep still, focus on your fingers. You know how flexed they are, right? OK, just focus on FEELING their position. Now this is what caught me by surprise the first time: you'll lose proprioception, the sense that tells your brain the position of each part of your body. You'll quickly start feeling like your fingers and toes are becoming grotesquely twisted, and that feeling will expand to the rest of your body.

And then you'll feel like you're burning, again from your fingers/toes to the rest of your body. It's like some fire consumes your body and leaves nothing behind; once it's on your wrist, you won't feel your hand. Actually, you won't even feel like you've ever had a hand. And it goes on, until you're reduced to your head, which will feel like you're inside an insanely big room. You'll feel smaller and smaller, until you lose all sense of time and space.

...And now meditate the fuck out of it. You should have become completely rational by now. It's like your brain's debug mode. A cool trick now is to try to visualize things, they'll actually feel like real objects. Even abstract concepts will feel like that. So, run a simulation of the situation you're trying to solve, in this case picking up a girl. Visualize a nice girl and make your own small world like a club or whatever you want the place to be, as detailed as you can. Practice with her. See how it goes. Not what you want? Change your parameters and try again. You can effectively change the way you think about the approach. Just keep trying until it works.

With some time you'll be able to isolate your mind faster and in a worse environment. Just remember to keep an alarm on your phone if you're going anywhere, because you won't feel the passing of time. And I must warn you that going back to the real world will feel overwhelming; your body will burn for a second, your arms will weight a ton, and light and sounds will feel really intense. Don't worry, it all goes away in a moment.

I'm not sure why, but I feel messianic after doing this, like I'm all-powerful and above any other mortal. I don't know if it will work like that for everybody, but it does for me. It's relaxing and helps me see where I might be failing, a win-win.

dirty_mirror · 2012-12-01T20:01:51+00:00

Here's a brief primer on meditation: http://postmasculine.com/meditation

Here is everything the casual meditator should ever need: http://www.urbandharma.org/pdf/mindfulness_in_plain_english.pdf

You'll sit there and meditate time after time and feel nothing. Then one time, you'll "get it right" and you'll feel amazing. Then you'll keep chasing that feeling, achieving it with more frequency as you continue to practice. Think of it as working out your mind; you're training your focus/concentration.

The first time I "got it" was at night; the power went out and my phone/laptop were dead -- I didn't even have a flashlight. I had nothing to do so I sat there listening to the storm. I don't know how long I sat there but I eventually went to bed. When I awoke the next day I just felt different -- zero stress, zero mental wandering. I sat there for hours and finished all of my school work for the week. I stuck to my strict diet with no cravings for junk food. No getting up and pacing every ten minutes.

As someone with bad anxiety and ADD, I can tell you that meditation helps me greatly. I sit for 20 minutes a day now and if I skip more than a couple days, I can feel myself regressing.

Freevoulous · 2012-12-02T01:40:01+00:00

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NotAWasteOfMyTime · 2012-12-01T22:36:05+00:00

/r/meditation

cygnusness · 2012-12-02T01:08:42+00:00

I don't meditate frequently but I read a bit out of "Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle and he has a great exercise for meditation.

The trick to meditation is to simply think nothing. Clear your head. This is way harder than it sounds, but what Tolle says is to close your eyes and imagine a tunnel, and from that tunnel are the thoughts that enter your mind. Watch the entrance of the tunnel diligently, observing what thoughts emerge out of the tunnel. If you're doing it right, nothing will come. You'll clear your mind by visualizing your next thought.

I never finished the book so take it with a grain of salt but I hope this helps someone.

DeuceBuggalo · 2012-12-02T01:22:12+00:00

"You don't have to like it, you just have to do it"

-Jon Kabat-Zinn's advice on meditation.

PUAollie · 2012-12-02T01:27:39+00:00

I was hoping someone would write about this.

I've been meditating for about a month now, and it's improved my life, and my game. It helps a person be more in tune to the present moment, and worry less about events, consequences, what-ifs, etc.

This will help your game because if you have a meditative outlook, it will be much harder for rejection/random events to make you feel out of state. It helps a person not let the outside effect their inside. Not to mention, women can see if a man is calm on the inside when things are hectic on the outside, and they LOVE THAT SHIT.

nycprowl · 2012-12-01T19:33:17+00:00

I noticed there's a huge push for meditation on Seddit. I honestly have no idea how to do it, and the few times I've tried, I can't not think about anything or stay calm. I have A.D.D so I doubt that helps my cause any.

The only thing that makes me feel close to what you're describing is physical activity, which I do a shitload of.

mrbob1290 · 2012-12-01T21:41:01+00:00

Greetings MrNutty.

Awesome to see you on board. Becoming more self aware and mindful of your mind/body/spirit is a beautiful thing. These feelings of 'euphoria' are a natural byproduct of meditation- just make sure to not go in expecting these feelings. The harder you look for the feeling, the less you will find it- its a Catch 22.

Follow your thoughts, and meditate daily. Might I recommend a book for you to read? (Meditation book that started me right) PM me for details.

SegaTakai · 2012-12-02T01:45:19+00:00

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inspector_lee · 2012-12-01T23:10:34+00:00

How To Meditate For Kids: A Children's Guide to Peace

WeepingWillowSoFine · 2012-12-01T23:32:47+00:00

Alan Watts - The Art of Meditation http://youtu.be/b-6tjwomnR0

wolfravenwylt · 2012-12-02T01:48:51+00:00

This is a better lifeprotip than a lot of the ones that end up on my front page. Once your mind is clear and you can focus on the present, everything goes better. It's also good for your health. They're still not done studying the benefits, it's that awesome of a practice.

lawwl · 2012-12-02T03:08:06+00:00

Quite simply, you are present in the moment, you are not letting your mind being filled with the ego-sense of self, rather you are being. Check out the works of Eckhart Tolle. The key to it all is being relaxed yet attentive.

pickup_sticks · 2012-12-02T03:55:46+00:00

I find that I get a similar buzz from yoga, and power vinyasa is a good workout. Plus, girls.

wtjones · 2012-12-02T09:40:53+00:00

I spent years listening to tapes and practicing exercises to no avail. What works is to sit with your eyes closed for 20 minutes everyday. Let the thoughts come and observe them. That's it.

Joker_Robinson · 2012-12-02T14:58:36+00:00

I actually taught a girl how to meditate, great Kino and it really makes you look more interesting when you say you mediate and that you can teach her if interested

zenmike · 2012-12-02T15:28:12+00:00

Saved my life.

VampireOnTitus · 2012-12-02T16:24:47+00:00

feel how heavy your brains are

crooney36 · 2012-12-02T06:01:21+00:00

I like to get stoned and meditate, it increases the effects by an exponential amount

georgekuhnrulez · 2012-12-02T01:11:24+00:00

Anyone having trouble meditating? My favorite way to cultivate presence is through moving meditation. IN between my studies I usually walk around or practice some kicks or go exercise if I have time. Clears my mind always. Also guided meditations audios are awesomeeee! I recommend auto-hypnotherapy sessions and YOGA!!!!

antsmasher · 2012-12-02T03:59:57+00:00

Is there are way to not feel drowsy to the point of falling asleep? I always feel sleepy towards the middle of my meditation session.

chocobaby · 2012-12-02T04:05:28+00:00

When I do this every day before sleeping, my life is sooo much better. When I don't...my life's up and down like everyone elses.

2012-12-02T04:16:30+00:00

Self hypnosis: fucking do it even more.

mariochui · 2012-12-02T12:34:20+00:00

glad to see some meditators on seddit

shatherine · 2012-12-02T13:59:20+00:00

I have to say I was the BIGGEST sceptic about relaxation, meditation and breathing techniques. I'd tried it before and it did nothing so I just threw it away as batshit ideas. Yesterday I watched a show, Dragon's Den, and some guy used singing bowls for a few seconds . For those seconds, I felt a soothingness, that I couldn't explain, so I youtubed it. I found similar tones and watched a few of them, changed my breathing, and hymned a bit. I went to bed relaxed, slept 5 hrs, and felt fully rested. Its mind boggling how real this stuff is. One thing though, is that you have to throw away conventional thinking, otherwise I think it will block any type of negative energy you're trying to remove, thats why I think it had never worked for me before. I'm definitely hooked now.

rickrossroll · 2012-12-02T16:11:23+00:00

This is great advice, but I don't know If it really belongs in this sub without some context relating back to the topics here.

2012-12-02T18:13:47+00:00

Meditation is great for everyone. Glad you're enjoying it, I really need to remember to do it more often.

Brannus · 2012-12-03T00:28:17+00:00

I completely agree with this. I think the real power of meditation is the fact you can get out of your head. Especially when you are doing the seduction thing, you are almost always in your head. Meditation allows you to look at what is given to you, and just accept it. I take away from meditation is that we, ourselves, make a judgment call on when something happens to us. If we get rejected by someone, we feel bad about it. When something goes the way we want it go, everything is right with the world. To quote the Joker from Batman, ' Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plans are horrifying.' But when something goes the opposite way, that is when life is not fair or not right.

Through meditation you can see just how much our mind tries to grab on anything and everything when we try to focus on nothing. This translate into the way our mind just assumes we are right. We just assume that our thoughts are an actually representation of reality. The ability to ask 'Is that So?' is such a powerful effect on how you react and interact to people, events, and life as a whole. Once you start to second guess your automatic reaction to something, you can then see it in a more neutral light.

The real change comes in the relationship you have with something. You are able to relate with things different than when you thought everything was about you. Meditation comes down to just watching events go by. Accepting the outcome as it the outcome. I really think meditation can help with becoming 'outcome-independent'. You see (for example), cutting wood and fetching water as just cutting wood and fetching water. It isn't the boring activity that you hate doing because it takes time out of your precious day. It's something that needs to be done and you just do it. Instead of seeing an interaction with a girl as her being your girlfriend, you start to see it as a fun interaction which your main goal is to have fun.

virginity_detector · 2012-12-03T04:12:46+00:00

how do I not fall asleep when meditating?

I closed my eyes and listened to some meditation music (was like binaural beats) and fell asleep. Tried it on two separate occasions.

Pouderpuff · 2012-12-02T08:01:45+00:00

Try listening to This while in the act. It helps me a lot.

Dan-Man · 2012-12-01T20:02:58+00:00

I tried meditation for a few days, but i never feel like my conciousness has awoken, in fact i feel like my mind becomes more relaxed and calm throughout the day, but slower. I direly need more energy not less. I dont know what is wrong with me. Some days i have lots of it, and others it just seems my mind is in a fog and i cant keep up with anything.

cmwells55 · 2012-12-01T21:48:07+00:00

ploop

slopdonkey · 2012-12-02T12:20:42+00:00

Commenting to save for later

Piss_Marks_MY_Spot · 2012-12-02T17:09:39+00:00

Why is this on sedition?

homerr · 2012-12-02T16:40:11+00:00

This subreddit has become a joke.

Title	Meditation: Fucking do it!
Author	MrNutty
Upvotes	390
Comments	86
Date	December 1, 2012 7:12 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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