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Meditation · Jul 11 why do some meditation practices guide with eyes open? I heard there are some meditations that you meditate with your eyes open. What are the benefits of this compared to meditating with eyes closed?

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Top Answer: I have been told at a Tibetan Buddhist center that their practice is to meditate with their eyes open because the benefits are more easily transferred to your every day life. Since you are awake with your eyes open throughout the day, learning to med...

Meditation · Jul 11 how would you say meditation has helped you in your everyday life? This is directed at beginners but also experienced meditators, really to anyone who has noticed changes in their lives that they relate to meditation. I want to know what those changes you notice are.

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Top Answer: What I have noticed is that I am more aware of my thoughts, and that I am lost in my thoughts. Getting lost in my thoughts has always been something that has consumed most of my day. The moment a story line would start, I would just get so deep into ...

Meditation · Jul 11 If I sit and meditate for 15 minutes, is it less effective than sitting for 1 hour or longer?

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Top Answer: It depends how long you have been practicing meditation for. If you are new to it, sitting for long periods of time, even for 30 minutes, can be too much. You might just not be used to it, you might not be sitting correctly, you might experience more...

Meditation · Jul 11 How long was the longest meditation session you have done, and what was your experience with it? How did that session impact your mind, mood, your day, and week? It would be interesting to know the impact long sessions have on people.

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Top Answer: The longest session I have done was a 3 hour long session that included about 10 minutes of walking meditation every 25 minutes or so. I did this once a week for a few weeks, and the more I did it, the more I got used to it. The sitting was pretty...

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Meditation · Jun 23

How do you let go of thoughts while meditating? I am always told that meditation is meant to teach you how to let go of thoughts, and most guided meditations tell you to let go of thoughts, but what does this actually mean, and how do you actually do it?

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Top Answer: Letting go of thoughts to me has always felt like a task to do while meditating, and that is not the point of the meditation or of letting go of thoughts. Rather than it being a task and something you are actively doing, I think of it more as allo...

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Buddhist Teachings · Jun 23

How do you know the difference between doing something by force and doing something not by force? I realize that I tend to force things in life, specifically situations, and this is something that I am trying to stop. But, I am now uncertain as to when I am forcing things compared to when I am initiating things. Doing things, such as approaching people, is not always forcing it, but I'm just having a hard time realizing the difference.

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Meditation · Jun 23

Is there a name for the sensation when you are meditating but feel like you are mindlessly in a dream? Not that you are necessarily dreaming of anything, but just the feeling as if you are in a dream. Everything is sort of slowed down, and you don't really have too many thoughts anymore. Yet everything also feels magnified.

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Buddhist Teachings · Jun 24 Are we in the flow, or are we the flow? I was listening to part of a lecture by Alan Watts in which he speaks about life being a flow, and that we actually are the flow. I can't fully understand this concept though. It seems to me like we are more in the flow rather than the flow itself.

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Buddhist Teachings · Jun 28

How do you practice not forcing things? In the teachings, there is the concept of not forcing things, Wu wei, so I wonder how other people practice this and implement it into their lives, and what changes and benefits they have noticed from it.

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Personal Experiences · Jul 1

Does slowing down make you feel rested or impatient? Just wondering how everyone experiences slowing down and how it impacts their own mental state and well being. If it helps you be more relaxed and rested or if you grow impatient.

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