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Good beginners meditation techniques?
#14031843 - 02/26/11 06:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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how do you guys usually meditate, or what is your preferred method?
i kind of just focus on taking deep rhythmic inhales and exhales, going as slow as possible. it was taught to me as the "3 point breath," point 1 is your stomach rising as you inhale deep from the belly, point 2 is furthering the inhale up through the chest, and step 3 is slowly exhaling..
just thought it might be a cool idea to post beginners, fool-proof methods (or some more advanced ideas are welcome) for learning to meditate!
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: owls]
#14031954 - 02/26/11 06:32 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just try to become as relaxed as possible while consciously breathing slowly to a fuller capacity. That's what I do but I'm s beginner too so don't take my words as holy.
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: NastyDHL] 1
#14032122 - 02/26/11 07:09 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Lay on a bed on needles and do yoga.
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Proper airflow is a necessity so try your best to have your spine straight. Some enlightened thinkers believe that pranayama yoga is one of the most powerful techniques of meditation. I like to focus on the air flow coming through my nose and become the feeling. Also, counting can be a very grounding way to fall back onto counting when your mind leads you somewhere else. Just remember to accept all thoughts, love them, and stay focused
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: DivineBeauty]
#14032296 - 02/26/11 07:41 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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is pranayama a specific breathing technique? any advice on proper execution? i want to begin practice now! lol. i'll look it up on google..
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: owls]
#14032312 - 02/26/11 07:43 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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www.progressivesadhana.com
Dont waste your time on google youll just get a bunch of yoga cultish dogma, that will try to make you become vegatarian, even if its a unhealthy choice haha.
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: p4kSouL]
#14032323 - 02/26/11 07:44 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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p4kSouL said: www.progressivesadana.com
Dont waste your time on google youll just get a bunch of yoga cultish dogma, that will try to make you become vegatarian, even if its a unhealthy choice haha.
haha exactly what i figured, that's why i thought it'd be better to just ask here for ideas.. thanks i'll check that out after i go stuff my face with vegetables muahahaha
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: owls]
#14032352 - 02/26/11 07:48 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Pranayama is a bit hard to explain but involves breathing in with the sound of ssssss for 6 seconds holding it for 2 and breathing out for 8 with the sound of ahhhhhh making the back of the throught create a deep vibrating noise. These time frames are subjective and are meant to be played with but its important to hold your breathe for some time and exhale longer than you inhaled. Also, there is real no right or wrong way of meditating. THe point i see in meditating is letting go of limits, aka your ego, and become open spae, aka hightened awareness.
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: owls]
#14032373 - 02/26/11 07:52 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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owls said:
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p4kSouL said: www.progressivesadhana.com
Dont waste your time on google youll just get a bunch of yoga cultish dogma, that will try to make you become vegatarian, even if its a unhealthy choice haha.
haha exactly what i figured, that's why i thought it'd be better to just ask here for ideas.. thanks i'll check that out after i go stuff my face with vegetables muahahaha 
Veggies are good, just people need to use common sense and eat what makes them feel healthy for fing sakes.
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: DivineBeauty]
#14032386 - 02/26/11 07:54 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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DivineBeauty said: Pranayama is a bit hard to explain but involves breathing in with the sound of ssssss for 6 seconds holding it for 2 and breathing out for 8 with the sound of ahhhhhh making the back of the throught create a deep vibrating noise. These time frames are subjective and are meant to be played with but its important to hold your breathe for some time and exhale longer than you inhaled. Also, there is real no right or wrong way of meditating. THe point i see in meditating is letting go of limits, aka your ego, and become open spae, aka hightened awareness.
yeh i gotcha. i'm assuming to make those sounds you breathe in though the nose and exhale through the mouth? i just started taking some yoga classes and we've done a few different breath exercises but nothing that's particularly stuck with me yet
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: owls]
#14032403 - 02/26/11 07:57 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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No breathe all through the nose and become the hightened awareness/feeling of the air coming through your nose. ALso chants help your mind and body resonate on a certain frequency that allows your ego to let go. With breathe comes life, and every exhale comes death...embrace. Life is a continuos cycle of the ratio of expanding and contracting..become it
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: owls]
#14034314 - 02/27/11 03:19 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Self inquiry, it's a deeply penetrating meditation which rather than trying to get from A to B, is more like questioning 'who meditates?' which paradoxically brings about a state of rapid & powerful meditation as it does not assume you are a thing that needs to get from A to B, it questions the very existence of the thing you assume yourself to be. So it seems like any other practice, a practice of effort, until you look for the one exerting effort and see it is your mind (not you) so it's a really beautiful subtle process, if you can even call it a process, as 'who is going through the process?'
I've found no greater power, peace & bliss than when the mind is turning back on itself, which can be done in a number of ways
Who am i? What am i?
Or when you see something in meditation like, bliss, visions, pain...
Who sees this? What sees this? What is aware of that? Is this what i am?
Your presence/sense of self then remains distinguished from things so remain unattached from them, yet your presence still encompasses all things so there is no more feeling of separation, its a paradox of nothing being what you are yet everything being included within what you are.
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: Chronic7]
#14034419 - 02/27/11 04:33 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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feel the silence between heart beats feel the silence between thoughts watch the silence between sounds watch the silence between emotional waves watch whatever comes and goes more and more the silence will grow, and the mind will slow
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: deranger]
#14034433 - 02/27/11 04:40 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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then when the mind will die see it was only the silence that was ever alive
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: owls]
#14034611 - 02/27/11 06:45 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Go for a walk in the woods
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: owls]
#14039048 - 02/27/11 09:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I really suggest finding a teacher you are comfortable with to learn, because there really is quite a lot that can come up that you wont know how to deal with. I mean, if you'd like to start practicing samatha it's pretty simple, and there are tons of videos online to check out, but when you eventually start getting into the realm of access concentration I'd say a teacher is almost required to safely navigate the super-mundane states of awareness that come up.
As "the chronic" pointed towards though, discursive meditation can be practiced safely by anyone.
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: blewmeanie]
#14043336 - 02/28/11 04:32 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I focus on my breath or a thought. even though I wasnt a huge fan of the book "be here now" works fucking wonders.
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: Cracka_X]
#14043351 - 02/28/11 04:35 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Cracka_X said: Go for a walk in the woods
This.
I come back feeling great after any walk in nature. If there's one thing we're supposed to be doing, it's walking around forests.
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: circastes]
#14044365 - 02/28/11 06:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I agree. I rarely get less than an hour of it in the mountains each morning at dawn.
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Re: Good beginners meditation techniques? [Re: Icelander]
#14050870 - 03/01/11 08:16 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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biking for me for now, can't walk much haven't repaired my ankle enough yet with yoga..
thanks for all the replies guys, i've read em but am too whiped out right now to make any specific replies
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