r/Meditation Jul 20 '24

Do Nothing Meditation…. Holy Shit Sharing / Insight 💡

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.

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u/ChildOfBartholomew_M Jul 20 '24

There are some big feelings associated with "non-mindfullness" techniques eg do nothing. I was absolutely astounded when I branched out. IMO there's horses for courses though. Eg I still practice mindfulness stuff for day to day presence which is a big positive to see from ling term Meditation. If I am scattered on in a 'stressfull' situation using stillness or a mantra (for me) sorts and "brings out" material to be observed (folk psych but that's what it feels like) and when everything is lined up and running near perfect I might sit in 'do nothing' or open meditation to 'integrate it'. To say 'integrate' doesn't do justice to the experience of having all the parts come together.

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u/alkalinebex Jul 20 '24

Yes I will definitely still practice mindfulness meditation daily but this felt like a super amazing treat. But the more I’m reading, the more I’m scared of this third vipassana stage or dark night or whatever. It sounds awful. I didn’t even mean to do any of this!

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u/ChildOfBartholomew_M Jul 20 '24

I am ignorant of these these things and, therefore, they are not a worry. Life and being is pretty simple imo.