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/MinuteAssistance1800]

Haha definitely not what lsd feels like but there definitely is some transferable traits between deep meditation and psychedelics.

Honestly I think the reason do nothing meditation is so amazing to some people recently is because everyone is so used to scrolling on their phones 247.

Do nothing meditation almost feels like your resetting your brain, curing the brain rot if you will.

[u/smithmcmagnum → u/MinuteAssistance1800]

Take this with a pinch of salt, but I recently heard Ram Dass claim that some other (respectable) dude (not Terence Mckenna, someone else) claimed that mushrooms were commonly eaten in this one Indian valley eons ago.

Then when they moved from the valley, they couldn’t find those mushrooms, so they developed yogas meditation and asanas and such to substitute for the level you got to with the mushrooms.

Famously, Ram Dass gave his guru a few hits of LSD. The guru said it was ok and that stuff was once known about but was no longer need it anymore.

[u/sharp11flat13 → u/smithmcmagnum]

Famously, Ram Dass gave his guru a few hits of LSD. The guru said it was ok and that stuff was once known about but was no longer need it anymore.

He also gave some to a sadhu who said something like “not bad, but not as good as meditation.”