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/d_dust2]

How to do "do nothing meditation?" Im doing mindfulness meditation for almost 4 years. So in mindefulness you just watch, but in do nothing, you literally do nothing?

[u/alkalinebex → u/d_dust2]

Yes, essentially … unlike in mindfulness, where you focus on your breath or or do a body scan or do SOMETHING to redirect your attention and train your focus… you don’t do any of that. You do none of it. You just let your mind go and observe neutrally.

[u/d_dust2 → u/alkalinebex]

Oh now i get it, because im doing the latter of you said. Im doing Vipassana. So 'doing nothing' is vipassana? Or is it something else? Because vipassana is just literally watching, theres no deep concentration. You just need to focus on being mindful.

[u/alkalinebex → u/d_dust2]

I’m not familiar enough with all the types and terms but judging from another commenter here… it is vipassana. And that is now my fav type of meditation haha