daily meditation for 25 years ama

[terrapin]

ive been meditating every day for over 25 years. i spend about 3 hours a day and have to the best of my ability (not very impressive honestly ) applied myself diligently to it. i am also a part of a very committed community of meditators so have a broad knowledge base of its effects on a wide range of people.

i know people who have had extremely powerful life changing mystical experiences and people whose experience has been almost entirely devoid of mystical experience.

the meditation ive practiced for the last 15 years or so is christian but the first 10 years was not christian. the focus is on psychological and spiritual transformation.

ama.

 

[Papi Chulo]

 

[William Huggins]

No pictures?

 

[lsa]

Do you have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

 

[Phlog]

3 hours a day is a lot. You could be a master level in any task you chose instead. Was it worth it?

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Three hours per day? That's very impressive. I don't think I've ever been able to properly meditate for five minutes total in my entire life. And, believe me, I've tried. Back when I spent years training in traditional martial arts I tried & again when I tried yoga. But all my attempts have failed because of my ADD. I have too many intrusive thoughts & my mind races too much for meditation to be a thing for me. Even when medicated my mind is too active for me to meditate. I've had psychiatrists try hypnosis on me several times too but they've always failed at that as well.

 

[Andrey Kamensky]

Noice!
I only lasted like a year or two meditating. And my meditations were short. Like 5-30 minutes. But could definitely feel the effects.
I’m kinda lazy when it comes to meditation honestly and my favourite kind is the guided meditation where I can just lay down on my bad and listen to an hour without “trying” to be still or whatever.

 

[Travis Alexander]

3 hours a day?!?!

 

[terrapin]

3 hours a day is a lot. You could be a master level in any task you chose instead. Was it worth it?

i have never looked back and sometimes meditate all night rather than sleep. some of the places you get into are pretty amazing, striking really. its hard to explain but you end up touching upon deep meaning and purpose.

purification is the word often used for the negative side of the effects. it does tend to amplify your problems or your experience of your problems but this amplification leads to deeper transformation and transcendence of those psychological issues too. its not for somebody who wants to sail through life although that is probably the common perception.

i am immune to bad days. i just don't have them and i don't have to do anything at all to psyche myself up to have good days. bad days are just not there at all. there is still purification but a sense of intimacy with god and purpose makes that purification desirable. the monsters in the basement were set free and ate me a long time ago and have no power anymore.

that alone makes it worth it.

 

[Dan Torrance]

Yeah, i day dream too.

 

[MescalineDreams]

All that meditation and you’re still a sheep for vaccines and the status quo

something got lost in translation bud

 

[Dan Torrance]

crom.

 

[Andrey Kamensky]

i have never looked back and sometimes meditate all night rather than sleep. some of the places you get into are pretty amazing, striking really. its hard to explain but you end up touching upon deep meaning and purpose.

purification is the word often used for the negative side of the effects. it does tend to amplify your problems or your experience of your problems but this amplification leads to deeper transformation and transcendence of those psychological issues too. its not for somebody who wants to sail through life although that is probably the common perception.

i am immune to bad days. i just don't have them and i don't have to do anything at all to psyche myself up to have good days. bad days are just not there at all. there is still purification but a sense of intimacy with god and purpose makes that purification desirable. the monsters in the basement were set free and ate me a long time ago and have no power anymore.

that alone makes it worth it.

Wow bro. I felt that.

 

[FierceRedBelt]

Well can you describe to me what meditation is? How you can do so as a Christian? What do you actually do to meditate?

 

[terrapin]

Well can you describe to me what meditation is? How you can do so as a Christian? What do you actually do to meditate?

for us meditation is just prayer but its the part of prayer where you stop talking and just rest in the presence of. ultimately its about having your will focused on the divine (i call it god but don't want to be preachy) and then rest in that power and absorb it and be changed by it.

the typical stages are


verbal prayer
internal prayer
meditation (confusing but for us this actually means thinking deeply on purpose about things).
contemplation-- (confusing because this stage is where thought stops or fades into the distance and you can rest uninterrupted with god).

 

[terrapin]

All that meditation and you’re still a sheep for vaccines and the status quo

something got lost in translation bud

i know a ton of serious meditation people. there is no correlation between that and agreeing with you on politics, or me for that matter.

 

[MescalineDreams]

i know a ton of serious meditation people. there is no correlation between that and agreeing with you on politics, or me for that matter.

I would say there’s a strong correlation between being aware of the unseen/ invisible spectrum of reality and immunity to common political narratives.. lol


I would say you’re one of a very small percentage who attempts to pierce the veil while simultaneously being on board with the contrived reality being pushed upon us.

 

[terrapin]

I would say there’s a strong correlation between being aware of the unseen/ invisible spectrum of reality and immunity to common political narratives.. lol


I would say you’re one of a very small percentage who attempts to pierce the veil while simultaneously being on board with the contrived reality being pushed upon us.

thanks for sharing.

 

[FierceRedBelt]

for us meditation is just prayer but its the part of prayer where you stop talking and just rest in the presence of. ultimately its about having your will focused on the divine (i call it god but don't want to be preachy) and then rest in that power and absorb it and be changed by it.

the typical stages are


verbal prayer
internal prayer
meditation (confusing but for us this actually means thinking deeply on purpose about things).
contemplation-- (confusing because this stage is where thought stops or fades into the distance and you can rest uninterrupted with god).

Are you suggesting that it's possible to sit completely without thought? I may or may not have mastered this at work.

 

[Andrey Kamensky]

Are you suggesting that it's possible to sit completely without thought? I may or may not have mastered this at work.

Lol!!!!!