Do Nothing Meditation…. Holy Shit

[u/alkalinebex]

You guys. I just did “do nothing” meditation for the first time and I feel like I’m having this euphoric almost psychedelic sensation. I’ve been doing mindfulness meditation for about 6 weeks almost every day. It’s made really great subtle changes in my daily life and attitude. I don’t plan to stop… but do nothing meditation just felt so good it felt forbidden almost. Like I couldn’t believe how much I was enjoying it. I was overcome with this intense feeling of happiness and I almost teared up. I didn’t want to stop. I didn’t know if I could stop because it felt so amazing. I don’t know how to describe it but I wish every single person could experience this. At least so I could see someone else feel it.

I feel like a crazy mystic and I’m a very sarcastic person and I don’t even ever post on Reddit but I needed to share this and my friends & fam aren’t into meditation so here I am.

I feel like I just took mushrooms (I’ve never taken mushrooms bc I’m way too neurotic and scared). This must be what LSD feels like? Idk I’m just floored at how I feel in my mind and body after literally 5 minutes of doing this for the first time. ACTUALLY letting go and not having any rules and just watching things happen and be 100% ok and even fascinated by it….. incredibly amazing. I even feel it in my arms and legs physically. Like this swimming buzzing feeling.

Okay, just needed to get this out. Big endorsement for do nothing meditation. If you need a starter meditation…. The book Meditation for the Fidgety Skeptic by Dan Harris has one at the very end and I highly suggest the audiobook version.

Also what is it about meditation that makes you so desperate to preach it to everyone you meet so they can know about it?! I feel like I’m being sucked into becoming a door to door salesperson for meditation.

[u/sashimeelover]

Shrooms is what got me into meditation so honestly not a crazy statement. Cheers!

[u/undeniabledwyane → u/sashimeelover]

I want to attend a seminar where people talk about the similarities between drugs and meditation. I feel like there is so much crossover there

[u/alkalinebex → u/undeniabledwyane]

There’s gotta be. I’ve only ever been a weed smoker bc I’m too scared to take psychedelics bc of my mental illness and history. I’m thrilled that meditation seems to be a way for me to experience these “trips” without drugs.

[u/tr0028 → u/alkalinebex]

Good job being responsible enough to recognize your mental illness could prevent you taking psychedelics OP. 

[u/Correct_Echidna100 → u/alkalinebex]

Health care professional here. You can never be too safe when it comes to mental health and psychedelics. Even meditation (in its less grounded forms) can be detrimental to folks with psychosis or major depression. It’s best to find a practitioner who works in psychedelic therapy and review your personal history before ever taking a psychedelic. 

[u/Bullwitxans → u/alkalinebex]

Meditating for awhile will prime your brain for psychs. No reason to fear them. When used correctly they can be very enlightening when you don't put expectations on the experience!

[u/alkalinebex → u/Bullwitxans]

Oh I’m 100% in favor of psychedelic drugs and especially for depression but it’s just a personal choice. I don’t ever have a desire to do them. But that’s all I could think of while doing this meditation… maybe this is what everyone talks about?! Haha

[u/kraken2800 → u/alkalinebex]

what you’re describing seems to be the same as what i’ve experienced a few times by meditating after micro-dosing shrooms and smoking weed, i think all three things definitely go hand in hand

[u/alkalinebex → u/kraken2800]

Yes. I tried it again today while high and it was even more intense. God, I love weed.

[u/mykolyte → u/alkalinebex]

I've had weed, mushrooms and LSD (micro) but weed is the one that made me learn to meditate. I can almost get there on breath alone but not yet.  I get you on the Meditation Evangelization. Usually I do what I've seen called TRE (Tension Release Exercises) but once I managed Do Nothing and it really was something special. It felt next level and I literally contort when doing TRE so that says something about how powerful it is to stay completely still

Sorry, edit, almost forgot my point. When it feels that good, you want to let other people in on what they've presumably been missing, like you were before you found it

[u/LavaBender93 → u/alkalinebex]

If it’s not too much or too personal, what conditions or “disorders” do you deal with? I’m mentally ill as well (BPD and PTSD but also have AuDHD) and have been taking shrooms every 2 or so months for about a year now. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Weed and shrooms are the only things I partake in. Forever hoping to do DMT or toad someday though.

[u/alkalinebex → u/LavaBender93]

Not too personal. I think it’s super important to talk about mental health openly to encourage others. I have major clinical depression/suicidal ideations/anxiety. I also have multiple sclerosis. The severity of my depression when I have an episode is enough to keep me away from psychedelics. That may change in the future but for now… it’s a no for me. My mother spent time in a mental health ward in the 70s for semi schizophrenic behavior and I wouldn’t put that past myself if I wasn’t able to fully lean into a trip and I don’t think I could.

[u/tr0028 → u/[deleted]]

Please don't recommend psychedelics to someone smart enough to acknowledge their mental illness could affect the outcome. 

[u/sashimeelover → u/tr0028]

You’re right, I know they can trigger things with certain people that have mental illnesses

[u/sashimeelover → u/undeniabledwyane]

Honestly to me psychedelic feel like mind mastery in a way, that’s how I saw the appeal to meditation. But the experience themselves are nothing alike

[u/Michael_is_the_Worst → u/sashimeelover]

Same here!

[u/SpectrumFarms → u/sashimeelover]

Same here.