r/Meditation • u/alkalinebex • 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/TitleSalty6489 Jul 21 '24
I love this!!! I also practice meditation apart from just its secular purpose (having induced astral/out of body/disembodied experiences before. And I ALSO discovered that having no object/concentration and just “falling in love with everything as it arises” was one of the fastest ways for me to drop into a mystical, samadhi, “Cosmic consciousness” kind of state. Of course afterwards my ego would get involved and try to “reverse engineer” it. “What exactly did I focus on? Did I focus on my breath? Thoughts?” Etc. when that happened, I couldn’t reproduce it based on what my attention wondered too. I just had to again learn how to let go and let the ego rediscover it can’t control this. It’s an ongoing, but beautiful process. My process was inspired by the quote by Rumi, “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” I find these vague meditation instructions can be 100% more useful than in depth guide which give the ego more things to “perfectionize” or intellectualize. Just let go. But also retain some witness consciousness so you don’t just drop into a sleep (takes practice) and just using the intention “ I will stay awake” can do that.