Do any of you implement meditation into your fitness routine?

How do I unlock monk mode?

>>41225523
Lifting is a meditation if you do it right.
Doing 20-30 rep sets will make you meditate on the pain because it's so intense.

Otherwise out of the gym, on and off

>>41225560
96 hours uninterrupted meditation

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>>41225523
I only do it when I'm really anxious or angry or whatever to relax. It works.

I'm not really good at timetables and things like that so I'm just trying to do it every evening but I easily forget

>>41225523
of course. body and mind are interconnected.
always meditate at least half an hour before exercises,
you do it too, you'll be better for it

>>41225583
no it's not. i used to think "you can meditate while doing things" but you can't replace sitting, you can't

Sauna Meditation.

As long as there are no idiots in there talking or listening to music on their phones. Also anyone who brings their kids in the sauna deserves a savage beating.

No. Any form of silence or time I focus on myself I get immensely depressed and angry. I take my phone in the shower with me and watch videos to avoid thinking.

>>41226410
Confront your emotions, anon.
It's the only way you'll grow.

>>41225523
How to get into meditating? Just sit and think about nothing? Does it really make you feel as good as people claim?

>>41226387
The idea of to completely clear your mind by focusing on a single thing. Even in sitting meditation they have you do this most of the time by telling you to focus on your breath. Mindfulness meditation is as simple as just concentrating on whatever it is you are currently doing.

>>41226504
My emotions scare me. I'd rather just be numb.

>>41226700

Practice it like lifting my friend. One small portion at a time, just enough that you could handle but also need to expend a reasonable amount of Willpower to do so.

>>41226410
this is painfully recognizable...

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>>41225523
Can't
Have ADHD
> yes it's real

>>41226524
read "Mindfulness in Plain English"

>>41226524
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJ_wbjBL6c

>>41226743
No excuses.

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>>41226524

>>41226822
This. Highly recommend

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This. Highly recommend

>>41225523
Spiritual exercises are a waste of time.

i wanna try this but i live with some people and don't want to ruin my normieness by doing this every day

no, i dont get gainz by sitting still

>meditation

Waste of time it doesn't even do anything

Yes I have found it's very beneficial. I do 20 minutes in the morning so that I get short term brain gains for the rest of the day, and I also do it consistently (as you should) for long term brain gains

Any nay-sayers are stupid as fuck and definitely missing out

>>41227544
>>41227537
>>41227429
Are all cretins

>>41226524
There's lots of ways, but try and sit for 5 (just five) minutes and every time a thought comes into your head, push it out again. Look at the inside of your eyelids.

>>41227525
Do it in secret. It's best to not tell people you're taking up the practice.

>>41226410

Similar feeling

This is why I always put a video on YT (withouth looking at it, just to listen to someone) or always let the TV turned on. I don't like really much the absence of noise because I feel really lonely and alone with my thoughts.

>>41227615
but how? a guy with whom i live has bed 3 meters next from mine
being student sucks

>>41227653
You can do it in bed lying down on your back, count to 100 breaths

>>41227653
Try finding somewhere else to practice, nature areas for example, anywhere moderately secluded. If all else fails, go full retard and meditate in the bathroom.

>>41227429
t. butthurt soullet

>>41227698
>>41227737
yeah that makes sense, thanks

>>41226623
fuck off sit replacer

vanity of vanities; all is vanity

>>41227862
I don't have to take that from you, motherfucker. If you don't like my idea, man up and be direct.

>>41227429
>t. spiritual manlet

>>41228140
shut up faggot i bet ur mom and dad transed into each others genders bitch

>>41226387
I can do this while drawing, only it takes much longer than pure meditation. I go through a similar progression of losing and regaining focus until I'm consumed with the task at hand in a way that is more intense and pleasurable than flow.

I don't think I'd be able to do that with weightlifting simply due the nature of the activity however.

>>41227537
Spiritual/mental gains.

>>41227698
Don't you have to sit straight up?

>>41226822
Is mindfulness even the same thing as meditation?

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where can i find a good and simple resource on transcendental meditation?

>>41228446
transmed.seinfeld.gov

Every day. Don't buy into the Chakra shit but do research on it. They correspond to hormone glands and there are real physical benefits to consciously controlling parts of your body.

>>41228528
>there are real physical benefits to consciously controlling parts of your body
this is true. i'm consciously controlling my hand to perform a wanking motion as a reaction to your post. put my wang or your wang in there, and boom. real physical benefits.

>>41226387
that's for you only then.

>>41225523
You gotta first define what meditation is.

>>41225523
Yeah it's called lifting weights OP

You should try it

>>41226410
seek help

>>41225560
1. study buddhism
2. meditate
3. ???????
4. profit

>>41225583
meditating != focusing on something senpai

>>41225560
Meditate every morning and evening for 20 minutes and read The Power of Now.

best thing i ever started doing

thanks for the fitizen who suggested doing it years ago

>>41225560

Be celibate. Congrats, you already made it anon

>>41226396
Fuck the retards that come in jump around, stretch, do crunches etc too. It's a place for relaxation not your body weight workout cunts

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>>41225523
>try meditation
>feels good
>try to get someone into meditation
>"No thanks anon, i dont want to summon demons"
Apparently a lot of people are told meditation is evil as a kid

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Yeah. I do it. I have adult ADHD so sessions longer than 5-10 minutes are challenging for me. But it helps. I have some fucked up stuff in my head that needs regular facing and understanding so I can be mindful of the pain and go about my business without it eating at me.

I recommend Mindfulness in Plain English and Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner. Brad is a hippie piece of shit who hasn't lifted a dumbbell in his life, but he knows exactly what the purpose of zazen meditation is and has devoted his life to that. Gotta respect those kind of spiritual gainz.

Basically you are not blocking out or pushing away thoughts, you sit there on your pillow and allow them to come to you. JUST allow them to come, and then to pass. You don't need to interact with them, you don't need to respond. Just watch them as they go. You're not there to "think about nothing" or to focus on a mantra or object, though sometimes that can help. You are there to allow your innermost ugliness and weirdness to emerge without strengthening it by fighting it. You just... breathe. And exist. And breathe again.

It's quite nice once you understand why you're doing it and don't expect any DBZ superpowers or anything like that.

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>>41230875
>hardcore zen
My nigga.
That book helped me taking the first steps at self-improvement after 4 years of drugs and booze.

>>41230706
I'm not shitting you when I say our PT at the gym where I work just cancelled his yoga classes and is replacing it with Pilates Because he's a hardcore Christian and watched a YouTube video on why it's evil.

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>>41230993
I'm sure you can learn yoga with your satanist friends. It sounds like he's interested in not burning in the lake of fire.

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>>41230993
eh, Yoga can get pretty fucking weird and spiritual

"Many Eastern religions teach that the source of salvation is found within, and that the fundamental human problem is not sin against a holy God but ignorance of our true condition. These worldviews advocate meditation and "higher forms of consciousness" as a way to discover a secret inner divinity.

Yoga, deeply rooted in Hinduism, essentially means to be "yoked" with the divine. Yogic postures, breathing, and chanting were originally designed not to bring better physical health and well-being (Western marketing to the contrary), but a sense of oneness with Brahman—the Hindu word for the absolute being that pervades all things. This is pantheism (all is divine), not Christianity.

Transcendental Meditation is a veiled form of Hindu yoga, though it claims to be a religiously neutral method of relaxation and rejuvenation. Initiates to TM receive a mantra (Hindu holy word) to repeat while sitting in yogic postures and engaging in yogic breathing. The goal is to find God within their own beings, since God (Brahman) and the self (Atman) are really one.

Differences in various forms of Eastern meditation aside, they all aim at a supposedly "higher" or "altered" state of consciousness. Meditation guides claim that normal consciousness obscures sacred realities."

maybe you can start to understand where he's coming from. Not saying I agree with him, but Yoga is a spiritual thing and if anything tests your faith with god you're supposed to cast it away.

>>41225523
I don't know how. I usually just get myself angry beforhand and wear myself out in a few moments. Repeat until exercise is done.

>>41225523
Sounds pretty gay

>>41230706
>>41230993
How does anyone link meditation with Evil? It's probably one of the least evil things you can do.

>>41228437
Mindfulness is the goal
Meditation is the tool to achieve it.
At least the type of meditation taught in that book. Not every kind of meditation is the same.

>>41231083
no one said meditation was. paganism is...

>>41231083
>>41231069

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>>41231069
pretty good explanation.

Can someone explain to me what meditation even is? To me it just looks like a dude napping but I would hope there's more to it than that.

>>41231083
Its usually the extreme "pokemon is teaching kids to summon demons" Christians.

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>>41230875
>don't expect any DBZ superpowers or anything like that.
You act like it isn't possible. I'll master the Kamehameha wave, just you wait.

>>41231634
That's what it looks like but the person in the act of meditation maybe going over possible dinner recipes to fighting with an age old demon. It's one of those things that is different for everybody.

>>41230993
>Replaces yoga with Pilates
>Christ was killed by Pilate
Hmmmmmm

>>41231634
https://youtu.be/LL2XUTeoUsM

>>41231634
There are so many types of meditation that you'll get a different answer every time you ask.
Some people try to completely clear their minds, some try to achieve unity with their god, some focus on their thought process and try to dig deeper into their consciousness, some just try to relax. You can do it with or without the Buddhist stuff attached.

When I do it I pretty much do the method outlined in MIPE, trying to become more aware of yourself, your thoughts, and the world around you and your connection to it.
I've tried to get into mystical Christian meditation Cloud of Unknowing style, but it must be higher-level because I haven't gotten anywhere.

>>41232044
Jew detected

>>41225523
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoOCw_tp1I

>>41226410
Hey me too

>>41225523

I started meditating daily because my psicologist told me so to deal with depression insomnia and anxiety

best thing I've done ever, even better than lifting or college, some days I even do it twice

A good book to get started is "mindfullness in plain english"

>>41225523
I do rosary every day. Read from bible every day, mostly psalms for inspo and power. Im going for christian templar mode.

>>41226743
I have ADHD as well, it might help you with it.

>>41233502

Sounds righteous af. But you should also start practicing swordsmanship if you want to be templar mode.

>>41230596
UNNDDERATED

can someone give me a basic run down of what medidation does and what benefits it provides? i'd rather not become placid/lose my aggression.

>>41233852
True. I do have a WW1 german officer sword and was always interested in fencing. But Im going for guns once I get a house, currently in transit to different states.

>>41232744
there are a lot of studies that show that meditation increases peoples self-reported feelings of happiness

it's like literally free happiness
who the fuck wouldn't meditate

>>41231634
The Zen way of explaining it is best:

When you sit down and watch your mind, body and surroundings, thoughts will inevitably arise one after another. The goal of meditation is to make the period of time between one thought and the next as long as possible.

Tibetans either watch their breath fall and rise or they visualize Buddha flying through the sky in crystals.

If all you are interested in is mental gains then I recommend Zen.

>>41225523
I hate sitting still after sitting at a computer all day. I do listen to guided meditations while running and lifting though.

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>>41234649
I should add that when you gain the ability to inhabit this space between thoughts for extended periods of time you start to experience some strange things.

Zen practitioners believe that there is something extraordinarily significant in this "space in between thoughts" and that realizing what that thing is can take a long time, sometimes longer than a lifetime.

>>41234656
Lifting what? Weights? LOL why would you lift weights?

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>>41234675
No bully pls :_;

>>41233971
Makes you a shill dude

the whole point of meditation is to do an activity that is not trying to make gains

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>>41225523
I do Kundalini Yoga and Hatha Yoga every day. Keeps my muscles flexible and my energy high

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>>41233971

>Not taking an active rest day (yoga, meditation)
>Making it

Pick one.

Yup. I do about 5-10 minutes in the morning and about 15 minutes at the end of the day.

I meditate at work and occasionally before bed but never when I'm working out. I use it to relieve anxiety or to collect my thoughts.

>>41226410
How can you live with being so terrified of your own thoughts? I know people like this and it just baffles me. I enjoy silence and I find it annoying when I'm around people who always need noise.

>>41236519
I call them plebs. Generally I find in life that dumb people like noise.

>>41236491
>limiting your meditation to just one day
>ever being anything other than a complete failure
your choice

>>41226524
in meditation, you dont sit and think about nothing, rather you observe thoughts without attachment. And yea, its really good, imho it is the best thing in your life that you could do to yourself. Also, you get full body orgasms which is nice.

>meditation

It's called resting, that's all it is, the benefits you gain from it are the benefits you gain from resting.

When a dog or cat lies down but isn't sleeping they are resting. Animals do this shit all the time. This shit about emptying your mind and chakras and shit is 100% bullshit religious mumbo jumbo

>>41226410
maybe thats just you but i enjoy having an internal dialogue with myself, playing out scenarios where im not a failure to my parents, ect..

>>41238090

I think you would know the difference if you tried doing it for yourself. I know I did.

>>41238090
>implying we are cats dogs and dont have toto execute complex logic tasks in our everyday life

>>41236519
>>41236675

Maybe because you are okay with yourself or have the courage to deal with your unsettling thoughts ?

Escapism isn't that uncommon of a thing given what some anons go through or how afraid they are of their own thoughts (no matter what led them to having them)

It's like when you clean a room. Or, instead of meticulously tidying up your things, you put them clumsily under your bed or behind your closet door.

You obviously don't want to open that door.

Is it possible to meditate while doing something other than sitting and breathing? Like standing and playing an instrument, for instance? Would it be more effective or missing the point of meditation?

>>41238216
Try a blank stare with no focus at all at a tree, lake or grass moving in the wind.

>>41238165
Internal dialogue is for mindlets.

>not visualizing an internal paracosm where you keep your DiD from manifesting beyond the introspective realm.

Never gonna make it.

>>41225605
this isnt even a meme. most ive gone is 43 hours before my back just gave out for holding that poosition for that long. it was a beautiful time tho

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>tfw theta brainwave meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teUiXgvskSM
Been using this to meditate recently, do you guys do it in silence or what?

>>41239236

>3 minutes
>meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0g28QAgYpo

search for "binaural beats" or "theta binaural beats" and see what you like. Sit comfy and let go of all thoughts. Or if you like order your thoughts and face them, theres different kinds of meditation.

>>41239870
>What is auto replay.

>>41226700
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL EDGY

>>41231069
Using that benchmark, not every form of meditation tests your faith in god. In fact, Zen specifically teaches that regardless of any benefit you might gleam from meditation, it is ultimately an end in itself. When meditating, your mind is clear and without delusion (which is what causes evil), and that alone makes it an activity worth partaking in.