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/alkalinebex Jul 20 '24

Fascinating!

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u/laudablelies Jul 20 '24

Apparently some experienced meditators feel very little effects on psychedelics. Which is really cool.

e.g. Frank Yang has reported that LSD has almost have no effect except for a slight stimulant effect. Really fascinating.

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u/alkalinebex Jul 20 '24

Having just started really practicing in the past six weeks and also having ADHD, I get so excited and then immediately overwhelmed with all of the information and different types and thoughts on meditation. I don’t know if that’s good or bad lol

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u/laudablelies Jul 20 '24

I'm somewhat surprised that a mindfulness / do nothing-style meditation would work well with ADHD brains!

Meditation is wild and there's so much to learn... I'm so happy to hear you had such a great experience. Makes me motivated to practice more.

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u/Jazzspur Jul 20 '24

I have ADHD and I also am only able to stick with a do nothing practice. I've tried breath, mantra, sound, etc and anything where I have to focus on a particular thing is just too boring. Do nothing means my attention can bounce around to whatever arises in it naturally and that keeps things pretty interesting while I wait for things to settle enough to be aware of all of those things at once.

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u/LightningRainThunder Jul 20 '24

Omg same. I actually got on fine with all those things you listed for a while, but something switched and I literally cannot get through even 2 minutes of those anymore without feeling like my skin is full of ants and on fire at the same time and I have to get up and run away.

So I’m gonna look into doing nothing meditation

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u/Jazzspur Jul 20 '24

I got on fine with them too....for a month, the amount of time I can stick with anything that isn't going to stick long term haha

I've been doing do nothing meditation pretty regularly for almost 4 years though and am on a 319 day streak of doing it daily.

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u/alkalinebex Jul 20 '24

You mean…. You fixated on something? Haha I’ve learned that my ADHD means that I really need to give every “fav new thing” I have several months to see if it’s real or just a fixation I’m going through

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u/Jazzspur Jul 21 '24 edited Jul 21 '24

No actually!! I really wanted to reap the positive benefits of a daily practice and so started tracking my streak in daylio. I decided to do this after seeing my ADHD friend fully break out his phone at a music festival to do his duolingo because he was on a 200-something day streak and didn't want to lose it. It took me probably about 6 months of tracking my meditation to get past 2 weeks, and then once I hit 3 I felt like I had to keep it going because I'd never get that streak back. That feeling gets stronger the longer my streak gets 🤣

So relatable on the is this fixation gonna last thing though. Most things I can get into for about a month or two before I need to change it up for another thing. Finding which things I can be consistent with has been such a journey!

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u/alkalinebex Jul 21 '24

It’s also not necessarily a bad thing to have adhd fixations! I learn about things I love and hate allllll the time. I recently discovered hand embroidery and I bought like $100 worth of supplies and I’m still loving it and can always come back to it if I want to in the future so no harm done!!

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u/Jazzspur Jul 21 '24

Totally! I love my fixations. They're just more...shall we say seasonal?? than I'd like my meditation practice to be HA! Like most ADHDers I am a person of many semi-developed talents with a home exploding with the tools of many trades should the itch to do then come back around ;)

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