Do you meditate?

[All Seeing Eye]

Do you meditate?

Simple enough question. I wanna see who actually meditates and who actually feels they get something out of it and what exactly do they get out of it?

If you don't meditate then why not? do you think it's silly to do so?

 

[sidious618]

I don't but I should. It's rather healthy.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I don't do it very often anymore. But AIR it always left me with a general sense of well being and calmness. I still regularly use controled breathing when I exercise and in daily activities.

 

[Vulcan Princess]

I used to, but I've gotten out of the habit. I keep meaning to get back into it, but it's like exercise - I know it's good for me, I feel great when I do it, but I can't seem to get started up.

When I was in college, I took a meditation class from a Jesuit priest. It was great. We met in the chapel every morning for a meditation session. (It was at some awful hour like 7 am, so I might have dozed off a time or two, but I never got struck by lightning...) I found that I was much more relaxed and I slept better at night as a result.

 

[The Sneeze Police]

No, I don't. I don't know how. I tried hypnosis for a few weeks to relieve stress, but it disn't really seem to help.

 

[Emher]

No but probably should.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I use some mind-calming techniques to keep my teeth clean. Every time I go to the dentist, the staff there are amazed at how these methods manage to transcend dental medication.

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But to answer the question properly, I've never tried it, really. Praying to my higher power of choice I do regularly, but not really meditation.

 

[Michael Chris]

Yes. I meditate on God's word. Not as regularly as I should. However I do pray many times a day.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Kinda. I consider my jujutsu training a sort of meditation in motion. Sometimes I even blacks out while doing my kata. It's very refreshing.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I tried to in the past, but I'm very sensitive to noise and since a rather traumatic incident where I was suddenly jolted out of deep meditation by a loud noise I've been unable to bring myself to do it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I've tried many times, but my mind is very active which makes it difficult. I'd really like to get the hang of it, because I want to master Lucid Dreaming.

 

[Cakes488]

Yes I meditate...it's called smoking pot.

 

[CorporalClegg]

This is how I meditate.

Good tunes, comfy chair, blissful thoughts. It's all good.

 

[Cakes488]

^ LOL when I first read the youtube title I thought it said "classic maxwell house commercial". I thought how nice..this guy just wants to curl up on a comfy chair and drink coffee and listen to music.... How peaceful.

 

[Amaris]

Yes, I meditate.
It's a part of my faith, so it does benefit me very much.


J.

 

[Kelthaz]

No way.

My mind races a mile a minute and that's just the way I like it.

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

Do you meditate?

I use meditation to initiate out of body experiences once in a while. It gives me a similar inner peace as regular meditation, though it's much more interesting.