meditation and comfort

AMH

I know meditation is practice and work, it is also not the most comfortable thing to do and is not intended to be. However I am in the need of deep comfort and I don't think it is available here in human relationships at the moment. So I still am only able to meditate in very short bursts, but I want/need that connection to all things and deep comfort that sometimes comes in meditation. I know the times when I have experienced that connection to everything I have come out of the meditation with a peace and joy that is amazing. It does not work to get attached to that from the past, but experience it when it is.

Okay so any deep comfort meditation ideas? I have had one in the past where I was in the arms of a primal mother figure but I haven't done that in many years.

aura

Meditating in the company of trees is extremely comforting. Trees gently bless everything around them.
Meditating in the company of water is extremely comforting. Water gently washes and blesses everything around it.

santhisouk

Good meditation is really rewarding.

seeker242

>Okay so any deep comfort meditation ideas?

Breathing in and out. When your mind is able to become focused and concentrated on just breathing, this "deep comfort" arises naturally by itself without any need for some fabricated, temporary thing.

abhishek_laser

Try to follow the instructions from many meditation teachers and apply them to your practice, this will help a lot and give you great number of strategies that will help you in increasing the results from your practice.
I would personally recommend the meditation instructions given by ajahn brahm, ajahn chah and thannisaro bhikku.

Also the easiest and fastest way to get peaceful and joyful is practicing the loving kindness meditation technique.

genkaku

It is the brief moments of clarity that draw us forward. One nanosecond is enough to inspire years and years of practice. If something was once "so true," there is a yearning to actualize that so-true-ness again. The harder you try, the more that so-true-ness withdraws, but what other option is there but to try ... and keep trying ... and keep trying ... until we are all 'tried' out? If trying doesn't work and yowling doesn't work and tears don't work ... what works? All we can do is try and see what happens.

AMH

Thank you genkaku, that is the place I feel often. I know that those brief moments are true, I know they are not based on my outside circumstances, and therefore I know when I am willing to face any blocks in my way that I can be ready to experience that again.

shadowleaver

Sometimes I succumb to deep anguish and hopelessness.

Most of the time the way for me out is through: when I admit just how bad I feel and let myself feel that way, without trying to *think* my way out of it, something interesting happens.

Something in me says: it's all lousy indeed but what now, what of it? At that point I feel tenderness and a new opening and for a while the world appears in a clearer, truer and gentler light. The "problem" just evaporates.

I believe that "simple" breathing meditation is helpful for such letting go. I also have typically found that trying to make discomfort go away and grasping for comfort often, if not most of the time, just make it worse.

AMH

Well I had several hours in the middle of the day today of peace. It was very welcome. Some stressful things happened after that but I still am better equipped to deal with that stretch of peace.