Meditation is to clear your mind and try to not have any thoughts, but instead be present in your body, right? I’ve tried one of the apps for a few days. It was… fine? I don’t remember feeling different to be honest. 🤔 What would you say the effects are in your life?
I think the best meditation would be without any app support, just staying still and “watching” your breath for 10-15 minutes. If you do it properly it should feel hard, you will be pulled into your thoughts quite quickly.
If you are able to detach meditation from a specific goal/outcome that’s when it works best. This is why I am not a good meditator because I treat it as a task → “I need to meditate so that I reduce my anxiety/stress”.
The goal is not having any goal and as you can see from your questions that’s a concept hard to grasp for most of us.
Whenever I was able to meditate properly I was feeling a “connection” to the universe that is hard to rationalize. I try to look at it in a non-spiritual way and my interpretation of it is feeling “connected” to all things around you because if you remove your consciousness from the equation, you are just part of the overall reality and You is just an observer of this experience that you is living
I think there is some truth to what you said. How I see it is that meditation forces You to take a step back while "you" does its thing. So one thing that a proper meditation practice should be able to achieve is that you can watch your own thoughts. So instead of feeling that You are thinking something, You just notice the thoughts and realize that You are not producing them You are just witnessing them as they happen.
In the same way we watch raining outside the window you would never think "I am raining". The same thing but for your own sensory experience (especially thoughts).
Unfortunately, especially for me, it's very hard to explain it. This is the inflection point where sometimes I wished I had time to do a proper meditation training with someone who has dedicated their life to it because there is a lot of untapped knowledge into it
Meditation is to clear your mind and try to not have any thoughts, but instead be present in your body, right? I’ve tried one of the apps for a few days. It was… fine? I don’t remember feeling different to be honest. 🤔 What would you say the effects are in your life?
I think the best meditation would be without any app support, just staying still and “watching” your breath for 10-15 minutes. If you do it properly it should feel hard, you will be pulled into your thoughts quite quickly.
If you are able to detach meditation from a specific goal/outcome that’s when it works best. This is why I am not a good meditator because I treat it as a task → “I need to meditate so that I reduce my anxiety/stress”.
The goal is not having any goal and as you can see from your questions that’s a concept hard to grasp for most of us.
Whenever I was able to meditate properly I was feeling a “connection” to the universe that is hard to rationalize. I try to look at it in a non-spiritual way and my interpretation of it is feeling “connected” to all things around you because if you remove your consciousness from the equation, you are just part of the overall reality and You is just an observer of this experience that you is living
Hmm, in that case, meditation is dissociating from your ego / sense of self?
I think there is some truth to what you said. How I see it is that meditation forces You to take a step back while "you" does its thing. So one thing that a proper meditation practice should be able to achieve is that you can watch your own thoughts. So instead of feeling that You are thinking something, You just notice the thoughts and realize that You are not producing them You are just witnessing them as they happen.
In the same way we watch raining outside the window you would never think "I am raining". The same thing but for your own sensory experience (especially thoughts).
Unfortunately, especially for me, it's very hard to explain it. This is the inflection point where sometimes I wished I had time to do a proper meditation training with someone who has dedicated their life to it because there is a lot of untapped knowledge into it
Merry Christmas to all the people who is reading this post 🎄Hope Santa treats you right this year
and doesn’t just come once a year 🎅
Thanks for the wishes! Got an incredible gift this year 📖 I'll definitely touch on this in a future tip. Merry Christmas 🧑🎄