It’s hard to find people who do. There isn’t a meditation community here so I made one ( [email protected] )
Meditation is pretty great.
No, but I often zone out for hours at work.
I tried but I’m too lazy to sit down lmao
I want to, but I always get lost in the past and end up shouting a curse word and getting flustered 😂
I do, but not as frequently as I used to. I think it is helpful though, and I wish I’d do it more often.
Every morning for the past 20 years. Mostly TWIM, but only for 20 minutes as a formal sit. Lots of short meditation breaks during the day, though. It has made me way less of an asshole, and a happier person.
I’d love to keep doing so, but never found a quiet place to do so on a regular basis. My new house is too noisy at all times.
And I cannot meditate with neighbors noise.
When I used to do I did before sleeping and greatly improved sleep quality for me.
Maybe seek out the contrast? Try meditating at a busy train station or another busy place. Then it might come easier to deal with annoying sounds.
Allow the noise to be a part of your meditation. When I meditate, I can hear my parents watching tv in the next room, and I accept that into my practice.
Yeah but I’m not into the void. I just meditate on images that are far away from people.
They come to me naturally and develop into their own trains of thought which I abandon one after another.
I hate being trapped alone with my mind so no
That discomfort controls you whether you’re conscious of it or not. Only conscious awareness of it actually heals it though.
Meditation is choosing to face that discomfort in order to heal it.
I have a few meditations but usually hobbies like playing video games for a bit or reading or practicing/playing music can provide a similar effect.
If lighting up a red candle dedicated to Lilith and focusedly look at its flame count as form of meditation, then yes I do, although not for the purpose of meditation, bc I sometimes do it more for invocation/inspirational purposes. It’s good to see occult/esoteric communities, though, because I’m new to Lemmy and I couldn’t find any communities dedicated to esoteric/occult/mystical concepts (such as Hermeticism) nor communities dedicated to entities and deities such as Lilith and Lucifer.
Meditation is when you deliberately control the activity of your own mind, as such. So as long as you’re focusing your attention on the flame and not just externally pretending to look, it’s meditation.
I can’t do it. I feel asleep too quickly.
Nope, too hard. My mind is all over the place as long as I’m awake. Work, video games, book storylines, politics, a constant background soundtrack of music, from TV commercial jingles to the chorus of whatever song I heard last, plus my own inner monologue are all constantly going on in my head. It’s generally not a distraction except when I’m trying to fall asleep at night, but if it was, I’d assume that’s what having ADHD is like? But trying to “Silence” my mind is impossible, it just never shuts up, even in sleep I have ridiculously vivid dreams that feel real until I wake up.
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I need to watch it again but i recently watched a sourced video (im french unfortunately so I won’t link it) with studies that showed that meditation has limited benefit and can sometimes be dangerous to some people in the long term.
Yes. I find it helpful.
