My first transzendentale meditation
If you follow my blog for a while you might remember that I really like meditation.
In several podcast I heard about transzendentale meditation (tm) and planned to give it a try.
While in other meditations you focus on your breath, here you focus on one mantra to keep your mind busy.
Usually you have to "fight" with your wandering mind and its inability to really focus, especially if you start with meditation.
I meditate pretty regular for several years now and had my ups and downs with meditation but this tm session really impressed me.
At the start I was repeating the word very fast, so I dont have any breaks and thoughts can creep up but the more I continued and fell deeper the slower I could repeat the word and enjoy the breaks between.
The mantra I repeated was "AIMA". I dont know if there is a deeper meaning behind it as far as I understood it, it just should be a word you have no association with.
Fe if you would choose "boat" you could see yourself in a boat or that you want one etc.
I am pretty excited about that form of meditation and will pick it up for some time now.
Do you have any experience with it or helpful literature or youtubechannels?
I love TM! It's the first meditation that truly worked for me, for several years. Unfortunately I'm not disciplined enough to do it twice a day for 20min, and also I need to change things up and need some new things every now and then, but when I do it, I love it.
But just to clarify, TM is actually not a mantra meditation. Yes, you are being given a mantra, but you're not supposed to focus on it. TM is about the opposite of focus, and your mantra gently comes back to you every now and then, like an anchor, to draw you deeper. But on the way down you'll have lots of thoughts - which is welcomed in TM - because this is when you dissolve stress.
TM is not about getting rid of thoughts or replacing your thoughts with a mantra. It's about dissolving stress from your system and your environment (because your brainwaves entangle with other people's brainwaves - though this is probably true for all meditations or methods that shift our energy :)) and frankly, to me it's a peace movement.
I'm curios to hear how you will like it. The experience of transcendence is just wonderful and it always makes me feel one with the universe and like I'm truly dipping into the unified field :)
thx for clearing this up.
So far I watched only a couple of youtube videos so I can try for myself.
I hope I will have the diciplin to meditate twice a day.
I did it when I was deep into vipassana meditation but it was not easy. We shall see :-)
Oh my, I admire anyone who sits through a vipassana retreat. Definitely NOT one of the things on my bucket list 😄. I prefer easy.
It was one of the hardest but at the same time one of the best thing I have done so far in my life
Yes, I hear everyone say that. It must be really good. In the end :)
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of transzendentale meditation, but I’m pretty sure I’ve done it before!
I really have to work on shutting everything down and focusesing on my breath because my thoughts always seem to creep in on me.
You should check out the book “the power of now” if you haven’t read it already!
I know that feeling.
Yes I have read it. One of my favorite books and usually the one I give as a gift.
I don't preffer meditations with mantra's. I just like to relax and let go all thoughts. Don't have fight with my mind because I trained it to know when is moment to stop.
then you are one of very few if you are cpable fo doing that.
How long you meditate?
Don't want to get in why our mind operates in way it does because it's long story for one comment. It can be useful for many things, for example reminding you must be in 5:00h at some place. Problem is when mind completely takes control over someone's perception, so mind chatter takes control over someone's perception. But in the end it's individual fault that happen. I think there is wrong perception we must fight our mind. To me that is completely wrong. Our mind is not stupid, in the end listen our command. If we want our mind to be quiet, it will be quiet. To someone who allowed mind chatter to take control, it will be longer process to be done because mind knows to fight, not because it wants to control you, it is because it's used to operate in some way. I will recommend tehnique 'I don't care' when mind starts it's own chatter. In the end if you stick with it, mind will realize he really don't care about my thoughts in this moment and I must let go. That can be very useful in every day life and in meditation in this case.
I meditate from time to time since I was teenager, well over 15 years.
Intersting.
I did not fight the chatter of mind and be more of a spectator while I focused on my breath.
With the mantra it felt quiet more naturally which I enjoyed a lot.
That is great! Everybody must find tehnique that is useful for them. I'm not mantra guy, but if someone loves it go for it. Didn't try various meditation tehniques because I like to have my own way. From few I tried I only liked breathing meditations.
Did you hear something about Stanislaf Grof and Akahi Riciardo?
no never heard of it but I will look it up later.
Yes I agree there are so many meditations out there.
I followed the vipassana meditation for quite some time but also ran in some problems there.
Ich habe noch nie meditiert , stelle mir das aber sehr spannend vor....
Ich kann es nur wärmstens empfehlen. Es gibt sehr viele geleitete Meditationen auf Youtube.
Ein paar mal ausprobieren, am Anfang fühlt es sich etwas komisch an.
Es gibt auch ein paar gute apps wie "headspace" zb.
Gerade jetzt in der stressigen Vorweihnachtszeit, kann ich mir das sehr gut vorstellen...
ja da kann das schon sehr helfen, denke ich.
Aber auch sonst im "ungestressesten Leben" ist es etwas was ich nicht mehr missen möchte.
wonderful concept i like this post,
My late father told me to get hold of The science of being and art of living when I was around 20.
For many years following TM was my go to for relaxation and clearing the mind of clutter. It works a treat, and I think can be 'learned' quickly by anyone.
Well done for giving TM a mention today - you might have even inspired me for a session by the sea.
Cheers!
my pleasure ;-)
I am still psyched about it how well it worked today and looking forward to dive deeper into it.
Super mein bester! Hatte ich auch schon drüber gepostet! Du inspirierst mich es bald wieder zu machen...! Dafür n Upvote und resteem! Doch es geht noch tiiiefer bei der transzendentalen medi...hihi...Freu ma das es so gut war! Hugs out
Oh super und viele dank natürlich :-)
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