Anyone ever tried it? When you come out of it you feel amazing!
Believe it or not meditation can be very helpful to your mental health and so much more!
Physiological benefits:
1- It lowers oxygen consumption.
2- It decreases respiratory rate.
3- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
4- Increases exercise tolerance.
5- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
6- Good for people with high blood pressure.
7- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
8- Decreases muscle tension
9- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
10- Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
11- Helps in post-operative healing.
12- Enhances the immune system.
13- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
14- Enhances energy, strength and vigour.
15- Helps with weight loss
16- Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
17- Higher skin resistance
18- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
19- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
20- Decreases the aging process.
21- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
22- prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases
23- Makes you sweat less
24- Cure headaches & migraines
25- Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning
26- Reduced Need for Medical Care
27- Less energy wasted
28- More inclined to sports, activities
29- Significant relief from asthma
30- improved performance in athletic events
31- Normalizes to your ideal weight
32- harmonizes our endocrine system
33- relaxes our nervous system
34- produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
35- Cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).
Psychological benefits:
36- Builds self-confidence.
37- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.
38- Resolve phobias & fears
39- Helps control own thoughts
40- Helps with focus & concentration
41- Increase creativity
42- Increased brain wave coherence.
43- Improved learning ability and memory.
44- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
45- Increased emotional stability.
46- improved relationships
47- Mind ages at slower rate
48- Easier to remove bad habits
49- Develops intuition
50- Increased Productivity
51- Improved relations at home & at work
52- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
53- Helps ignore petty issues
54- Increased ability to solve complex problems
55- Purifies your character
56- Develop will power
57- greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
58- react more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
59- increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance
60- higher intelligence growth rate
61- Increased job satisfaction
62- increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
63- decrease in potential mental illness
64- Better, more sociable behaviour
65- Less aggressiveness
66- Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
67- Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
68- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
69- Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
70- Increases sense of responsibility
71- Reduces road rage
72- Decrease in restless thinking
73- Decreased tendency to worry
74- Increases listening skills and empathy
75- Helps make more accurate judgements
76- Greater tolerance
77- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways
78- Grows a stable, more balanced personality
79- Develops emotional maturity
Spiritual benefits:
80- Helps keep things in perspective
81- Provides peace of mind, happiness
82- Helps you discover your purpose
83- Increased self-actualization.
84- Increased compassion
85- Growing wisdom
86- Deeper understanding of yourself and others
87- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
88- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
89- Increased acceptance of oneself
90- helps learn forgiveness
91- Changes attitude toward life
92- Creates a deeper relationship with your God
93- Attain enlightenment
94- greater inner-directedness
95- Helps living in the present moment
96- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
97- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
98- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”
99- Experience a sense of “Oneness”
100- Increases the synchronicity in your life
[URL]http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/05/100-benefits-of-meditation/[/URL]
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i get a boner when i try meditating
I refuse to breathe out more oranges.
Already had a hard time, choking on all the blueberries I had to breathe up.
At school, about 5 years ago, they tried to make us all meditate to be all "multicultural".
As soon as it got quiet, I farted really loudly, so everyone burst out in laughter.
[QUOTE=anarchist;28260137]100- Increases the synchronicity in your life[/QUOTE]
Oh, thank god, I hate it when your life goes out of sync and your ears get a half-second lag on your eyes.
[QUOTE=blazingfly;28260219]Oh, thank god, I hate it when your life goes out of sync and your ears get a half-second lag on your eyes.[/QUOTE]
I hate it when I get that, It's so annoying
I tried doing this but I never felt better after doing it. Fortunately I didn't feel worse either.
To be completely honest most of facepunch is very skeptical of anything even vaguely spiritual (as meditation's usually the first thing that probably comes to mind about Buddhism)
But they don't even consider the scientific parts of it.
But yeah, I do meditate every once in a while. Gets me to relax and re-focus on things.
[QUOTE=Mikaru-Yanagida;28260520]To be completely honest most of facepunch is very skeptical of anything even vaguely spiritual (as meditation's usually the first thing that probably comes to mind about Buddhism)
But they don't even consider the scientific parts of it.
But yeah, I do meditate every once in a while. Gets me to relax and re-focus on things.[/QUOTE]
Haha why does Hezzy look so scared in your avatar?
I tried meditation once but I fell asleep because it was so boring.
i prefer acid
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for discovering myself spirtually
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not working sorry
I pace a lot and go into a state where I can think about anything.
Tis awesome.
Theres a meditation tutorial in the OP of the Sleep and Dreams megathread, FYI.
I guess a separate thread would be useful though, meditation isn't discussed in that thread, theres just a tutorial in the OP.
Not gonna try it unless it can make you levitate.
heh a lot of this is just placebo
This is a waste of space if you put it on Facepunch.
But yeah meditation is good stuff, it takes someone not so ignorant and arrogant to try it though.
We did have a meditation thread, but it was pretty poorly constructed. I made a post about buddhist style meditation in the last thread, so I'll dump it here.
[QUOTE=TAU!;27966763]I would try calming myself down by slowing my breathing, then thinking of simple things until my thoughts started to go quiet. Then, after a few moments of silence a random thought like "Oh, hey, I haven't been to Taco Bell in a while" pops into my head and ruins everything. Then it feels like I've just walked into a busy sidewalk during rush hour.
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In Buddhist practice there's a type of meditation called "Mindfulness Meditation". The idea, quite simply, is to be mindful, or aware, of phenomenon happening now - so far as to relax the mind from dwelling on the past or future. For all intensive purposes, it's the same experience as completely emptying the mind.
What are the phenomenon happening now? They're your "Objects of meditation".
You start with your breath. You can repeat to yourself "In, ....... Out" while breathing; which is being mindful of the breath - as it happens, and when it ends. If you find that you're being distracted by thoughts, you simply do the same thing - repeating to yourself "Thinking, ........ Thinking" until the distraction ends. Once that happens you return to being mindful of the breathing. If anything else arises that takes your attention, label it in the same way until it dissipates, e.g. "Pain, ... Pain", or "Noise, ... Noise"; and then immediately be mindful of your breathing again. Keep in mind that the labels you choose don't really matter. Do what works for you.
With enough practice, distractions will cease to draw your attention. You may find, after even more practice, that you're able to be mindful of your breath without labeling it. That is the progression of mindfulness meditation. The practice is being mindful, and the result is a clear, open mind. It sounds like you tried to begin at the end :engleft:
If any of that didn't make sense to you, or anyone reading this - I suggest you just google "Mindfulness Meditation". There are loads of good introductions available. Here's a wonderful video that explains what I attempted to explain.
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Enjoy
my meditation is making techno beats out of fry cooking and sampling mice
I watch this while meditating to double the relaxation factor.
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At least before they start fucking. No joke it's very relaxing doing a nice stretch while watching the first bit.
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Only when I'm horny though. :3:
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And you keep saying you meditate.
[QUOTE=elfboy55;28262481]i prefer acid
[editline]24th February 2011[/editline]
for discovering myself spirtually[/QUOTE]
Mate you have no idea how acid/lsd is so anti-spiritrual.... Try DMT for a spiritrual experiance/awakening.. Trust me.
[editline]25th February 2011[/editline]
I doubt you've even tried lsd..
Still haven't been able to get myself into a daily routine. I meditate once in a blue moon at the moment, but want to make it more regular.
I just find it hard to get into that mindset with all the background noise in my house (damn family won't ever shut up and leave me alone for half an hour).
I'd love to get to the point where I map out my mind and attain some greater control over everything (think the ability to self-stimulate the pineal gland or release cannabinoids at your own will). I'm pretty sure that Buddhist monks who've achieved enlightenment have this sort of control over their mind and body. Probably why they laugh so much.
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[QUOTE=anarchist;28275960]Mate you have no idea how acid/lsd is so anti-spiritrual.... Try DMT for a spiritrual experiance/awakening.. Trust me.
[editline]25th February 2011[/editline]
I doubt you've even tried lsd..[/QUOTE]
DMT is great and all, but it feels so claustrophobic. Like there's hundreds of people surrounding me. And it caused a really uncomfortable taste and smell (not the smoke's taste) but a flavour which I experienced simply because of the trip. Something about staring out into the void that is the inner workings of my fractal mind machine is quite surreal though. DMT is definitely a key element in living organisms and I think it may be what encourages that pre-defined shape that each organism (creatures and plants) takes on.
I meditate every other day. I wouldn't feel like myself without it.
Not this guy again
my post was rated and nobody argued my point im so angry!
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;28280201]my post was rated and nobody argued my point im so angry![/QUOTE]
You're right in the way that a placebo is entirely mental, but at the same time, that's essentially what meditation is doing. You're using your body's natural self mending ability to it's fullest, much like when you receive a placebo.
[editline]26th February 2011[/editline]
So like meditation and placebos both do the same stuff, it's just that meditation is you forcibly activating that functionality of the mind.
you have given me much information
I will now meditate on this
I do it right before bed, so when my head hits the pillow I'm out.
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