r/Meditation 9h ago

Sharing / Insight 💡 Bringing desire back to wholeness through meditation

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The five human desires are:

- Sleep

- Hunger

- Sex

- Money

- Fame or The Need For Attention

Nowadays, when the schedules got so involved, 8 classes a day for school, 40+ hour work weeks, great demands on families etc. sleep has suffered.

Noting our food crisis, terrible chemicals in our food, mineral depleted soils, all around bad practices with animals and crops etc.

Sex, everyone seems to have their own sexuality these days. Terrible practices regarding sex across the board.

Money. You could go on and on about the crisis of money.

Attention or fame. They stuck a hand computer in our faces. Now instead of embracing our need for attention we just look at our screens.

Generally, meditation can be about bringing our desires back to a whole and healthy state, for yourself, your family and your community.


r/Meditation 3h ago

Resource 📚 Looking for a genuine spiritual guru/meditation teacher for personal guidance

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Hi,
I’m looking for a genuine spiritual guru or meditation teacher who can guide me.

For the past several years, I’ve been struggling with constant, unnecessary and unrealistic negative thoughts. I haven’t been able to sleep peacefully for quite a long time.

I tried meditation on my own for about a week, mainly focusing on my breath. Surprisingly, I felt a deep sense of calm and peace during that period. But after a few days, that peaceful feeling gradually disappeared, and my mind went back to its old pattern.

These days, it sometimes feels like dozens of thoughts are running through my mind simultaneously. I’ve discussed this with a couple of psychiatrists, and they told me that everything is normal. Still, I feel that I need proper guidance to understand my mind and develop a deeper, consistent meditation practice.

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A bit about me: I’m in my 30s, a working professional from India, currently living alone in a metropolitan city. I’m physically fit and don’t have any other major health concerns. I’m simply looking for a deeper understanding of my mind and a way to develop lasting inner peace.

So I’m looking for a genuine spiritual guru, meditation teacher, or experienced practitioner who can guide me personally, not just through a few meditation techniques, but in understanding how to work with the mind and develop a consistent spiritual practice.

If you’ve personally had a meaningful experience with a teacher or guru who genuinely helped you, I would be very grateful if you could share their name or recommend someone.

I’m looking for genuine guidance, not commercial courses or quick-fix promises.

Thank you. 🙏


r/Meditation 2h ago

Question ❓ Meditation to Overcome Compulsion and Addiction?

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I’d like some recommendations for a type of meditation that can help me break compulsions and addictions. I have habits that I really, truly need to quit, but I think they stem from emotional or traumatic addictions—something I don’t even remember clearly, but that’s related to my childhood

Please, if you could share what you know about mantras and meditations that can help me deal with this, I’d really appreciate it!


r/Meditation 9h ago

Sharing / Insight 💡 I Think the Hardest Part of Meditation Is Just Doing It Every Day

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I think the hardest part of meditation isn’t dealing with intrusive thoughts or struggling to sit still. It’s simply being consistent.
Life inevitably gets in the way. Some days you’re exhausted from work. Some mornings start too early. Some nights you stay out too late. Sometimes your mental health is in a rough place, or you’re just unbearably sleepy. And on days like that, instead of thinking, “I should meditate,” it’s easy to think, “What’s even the point of meditation?”
But I believe there are things you can only understand through consistency.
For me, journaling taught me that.
When I look back over time, I notice that things I used to brush off easily can feel much heavier to me now. On the other hand, things I once took very seriously—things I thought would bother me forever—can eventually become things I barely care about at all. And through all those changes, I’ve also started to notice parts of myself that remain the same. Certain patterns, values, and aspects of my personality that seem to be at the core of who I am.
I don’t think you can really see those things without sticking with something long enough.
That’s why I think consistency can sometimes have a deeper meaning than we realize. I believe meditation has a lot of potential, and right now, my biggest challenge isn’t meditating perfectly—it’s simply continuing to do it.
Journaling has already become a habit for me. I genuinely enjoy it, and it helps me feel grounded. I think one of the core parts of who I am is that I’m naturally introspective, so reflecting on my thoughts feels comforting rather than like a chore.
So I’ve decided to connect meditation to that existing habit. After I journal, I’ll meditate. No matter what kind of day I’ve had, I usually write something. And even if I skip a day, I always come back to it the next day.
Thinking of meditation as just something I add after journaling makes it feel much easier to sustain.
That’s my goal right now.
Learning how to deal with distractions, racing thoughts, or the discomfort of sitting still can come later. First, I just want to learn how to keep showing up.


r/Meditation 16h ago

Sharing / Insight 💡 Is mind everything we ever created

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There is nothing more dangerous for the subconscious than the mind itself altering the nervous system. Poison, as such, could be included in diseases, in the destruction of health and likewise, the somatization of the most negative emotions of the human mind. Then the question arises. How many of the conditions that indicate the application of certain diseases are indirect consequences of decisions produced by a human mind? We as humans and as physical bodies, send back, retreat and rust exactly like the strongest metals on Earth.
There is nothing more harmful than an impulsive nervous system, with the inability to heal, regenerate and continue promoting the Universe itself. The organic health of the being only worsens when the use of mental free will is misused. Tobacco is a very clear example, it seems the need for relief or reward, among it seems the creation and expansion of industrial tobacco, generating consumption and exposure to carcinogens. It also appears in a very clear example with ultra-processed food. The bag of instant pleasure of the unconscious being, coexistence and the economy appears, hence the generation of certain food systems and erroneous exposure to new hosts, generating metabolic and cardiovascular effects. Creativity and the fortuitous impulse of Being is only a method of expansion. When it is not used correctly, at the right time, it becomes the wrong substance for the same organism. Hence the birth of diseases such as cancer, inflammation, and the degradation of tissue in the body. I am not saying that the mind directly creates cancer, but rather, the activity of the human mind can create environmental, behavioral and technological conditions that tell the probability of certain diseases.

A polarized mind seeks a crazy solution, relief from damage, and this creates immediate relief, thus generating a different consequence. Emergencies cannot have been inherited by humanity, but some modern forms of them have been exaggeratedly amplified with what we have created. At what point has a new species remained, if radically modified now environment when now we are not chapters of integrating new modified properties? So ask yourself this question, has consciousness really presented itself or only its capacity? A consumer needs to live, a company needs to sell, the State needs to recover and the worker needs money. The industry believes and the individual belongs, none of these are actors in the prison that we have created for human beings, but they are the fundamental structure and framework that strongly conditions the individual to live locked up. When the herration ceases to be subordinated to the original purpose of the being, this use of organizer around the herration and the relationship becomes invisible. There is no need for a conspiracy because the chain of relationships that they do not know how to completely control already exists.

It is not about cleaning up what we have done, but about being able to transpolate energy to something positive, so that the same human experience of the game of reality is much more rewarding for us. Our actions leave traces on our own being. Some bring us closer and others distance us from what we want to be. When we live by our values, our mind and body integrate much better. The communion between the body and the mind will make the cognitive fusion of feelings. For the first idea, we could think that the currency of the Universe is energy. But we must still give space to doubt, chance and time so that things happen and gain meaning and with consequence, coherence and wisdom. We can work our energy, but not take it away. It is not about changing the past, but changing the direction of it, where the energy simply does not continue to recede. It is not taking away our past, since without it, we would not be able to write what we read today. I do not deny what I was, to be able to define what I am now.


r/Meditation 23m ago

Resource 📚 Looking for a guide to understanding what meditation *actually* is

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Hello
Do you have a good suggestion for a video/explaination that describes what meditation actually is, for the moments when you are susceptible to understanding it.
Coming here with an outside perspective, i think the biggest struggle is to actually understand what it is, internally fully understanding it. Most explainations are reasonable, but just not enough to read and move on. It just doesn’t stick.
I have listened to stuff by Alan Wats, and could feel myself grasping a grain of understanding, but struggling to actually internalize and keep it.
I hope somebody understands what i am asking for, i hope my question is allowed, as i am asking for links/resources that might be interpreted as an ad.
But thanks anyway.


r/Meditation 23h ago

Discussion 💬 What should I do here? Meditation wise

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I have very very bad anger and rage issues and also I have an extremely short attention span and discipline problem to the point where I hardly ever do things like brushing my teeth each day and I’m 23 and still don’t how to drive because I can’t pay attention and focus enough to do so and I constantly forget everything I do learn after a week and this is for everything like last week I tried to learn how to use a wrench and after 20 minutes of it being explained to me I still didn’t get it. I also have never had a job and can’t ever do any research on things I actually need to know. What types of meditation can I use to improve my mental stability and attention span?


r/Meditation 45m ago

Question ❓ Tips on how to NOT control the breath

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Hello!

I’ve been on the cushion on and off. I used to be able to meditate effortlessly even as a beginner and achieve concentration.

Now, after a long break I’m returning to my practice and finding it fairly difficult.

Particularly, I find that I start controlling my breath as soon as I place my attention on it.

I invite tips or suggestions from experienced meditators that might help me re-establish my practice.

With metta


r/Meditation 1h ago

Question ❓ Severe nervous system agitation and somatic ocd

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Hi.

10 years ago I was 'floxed'. Had an adverse reaction to a flouroquinolone antibiotic. They are basically the nuclear bomb of antibiotics This left my nervous system in a chronically over activated state which I have never been able to come out of. It causes all kind of horrific symptoms from neuropathy to panic attacks to visual disturbances and dark thoughts. My brains gaba glutamate balance os screwed as the drugs bind to and downtegulate gaba receptors and produce a situation similar to severe benzo withdrawal.

Ive realy tried to get into meditation to help teach my nervous system to re regulate but I have serious problems when I do. Its like fighting with an angry child.

Basically if I get stressed out or 'feel' emotions too much.. like even watching a film can trigger me. I dissociate and have a panic episode. Hell I even had one eating dinner.

I tried basic meditation, focus on the breath.. notice the distraction.. Come back to it. But my brain is so messed up that I began hyper focusing on my breath to the point where I couldn't stop and that made me hyperventilate and panic.

Now when ever I meditate in inadvertently focus on my breath and that triggers me.. ive tried focusing on sound etc or sme other anchor and it does kind of distract me but my brain is so active its insane.

Medication like ssri for example causes me to have severe symptoms of neuropathy like im on fire.. sertraline gave me severe tinnitus and citalopram caused major burning episodes that's lasted for years. So im worried about trying meds.

Does anyone have any tips for me in trying to get on to meditate in a safe way. I was fit and well before this happened. Never experienced major anxiety in my life and was quite resilient. Thanks a lot.


r/Meditation 11h ago

Question ❓ Chronic back pain and a 10 day meditation retreat

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I've wanted to do this 10 day Vipassana retreat for the longest time, and now I finally have life sorted enough to go for it. It will be 7-10 hours of meditation every day.

The only catch is that I'm prone to lower back pain because of a degenerated spine and the ache worsens on sitting or not moving - be it sitting on a chair or on the floor. I've been practicing sitting on the floor for an hour every day but can already feel the lower back being tighter afterwards during the day. And this is after just an hour of practice! I'm really worried about managing the full course.

Please give me ideas on how to manage the physical aspect of sitting down at the retreat, and what i can do to prepare. I have 20 days to go and willing to work hard.

My hips are somewhat tight so kneeling down works better when on the floor for short durations. But I've been practicing in the Siddhasana (aka burmese pose) with a yoga block under the butt and a cushion under one knee.

The center will provide a chair (also causes pain after a while) and 'chowki' (guess a low flat bench). I will stretch and walk and exercise during the breaks.