What comes from your mind during meditation?

[ComradeMeow]

Well , personally , when I meditate these tentacles come out of my head and pick things up and explore. The tentacles seem to be taking over. Help!

Better get that checked, tentacles are well known to molest anime girls.


...Meow

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"Meditation" is a woo word. All you are doing is deliberately talking steps to calm yourself and relax. There are many ways to do that without assigning it a woo word. Sitting in a steam room or hot tub, laying on the beach taking a nap, sitting in a field with your eyes closed feeling a cool spring breeze. I all is a way of relaxing.

Meditation is not a woo word in the slightest bit. Anything mildly associated with religion seems to be cancer to atheists. I also do not find meditation to be relaxing.
The purpose of meditation is not to relax, this destroys the purpose of it. I recommend you to learn what meditation actually is.

...Meow

[vodkafan]

The OP is right. Meditation is not woo. There have been studies done on it. Meditation has proven benefits , unlike prayer.

[ComradeMeow]

The OP is right. Meditation is not woo. There have been studies done on it. Meditation has proven benefits , unlike prayer.

I was so shocked to learn Sam Harris speaks highly of meditation but then again he is a neuroscientist so it shouldn't surprise.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/...meditation

Vast amounts of info on meditation and it's benefits but on the other hand prayer and its effectiveness has be disproven

[Angrboda]

When I meditate, I concentrate on the breath. It's easier to attend to my focus with this simple meditation. I used to try other kinds of meditation but I found that "exploring" other forms of meditation became a distraction in itself. I would try one technique, then switch mid-course to another - it just wasn't productive. I don't know how you differentiate meditating, thinking deeply about things, from non-meditative thinking, but if it works for you, great. I could never do it.

[ComradeMeow]

When I meditate, I concentrate on the breath. It's easier to attend to my focus with this simple meditation. I used to try other kinds of meditation but I found that "exploring" other forms of meditation became a distraction in itself. I would try one technique, then switch mid-course to another - it just wasn't productive. I don't know how you differentiate meditating, thinking deeply about things, from non-meditative thinking, but if it works for you, great. I could never do it.

This did become an issue for me since I am by default explorative. I just had to stop looking around for what else to do in meditation. When I looked at it I just realized that a lot of it was woo. Falun Gong, Daoism or even Buddhism all became distractions because I wanted to somehow improve upon something that was in reality extremely simplistic.
There is no need for ritualism and wasted actions.

[Whateverist]

I enjoy doing many things with a quiet mind. To me it isn't something I do, it is more like something I don't do. It's okay with me if thoughts come and go. I just prefer to attend to whatever it is I'm doing sans narration.