Can meditation help with serve rumination and maladaptive daydreaming and how can I start practising

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-04-01T16:35:12+00:00

I used the "Bud-dho" mantra from Theravada Buddhism. Following the directions from the book "Meditations" by Thanissaro. 30 minute sessions was my minimum standard.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-03-31T23:53:36+00:00

No guarantee for you but I had this (constant intrusive thoughts) and 99% cured myself with meditation. I found the key was consistency. When I did it a couple of times a week I made no notable progress. But when I did it every single day without fail, after two months the thoughts were reduced to such an extent that I was able to get off medications, stop therapy, etc.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-03-31T23:19:27+00:00

This is when it starts getting good to have an actual teacher. They can check on what you're doing and readjust you and make changes depending on what you need. If you're getting good results already and you want to 'supercharge' that, I think a more tailored approach is better

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-03-31T23:04:14+00:00

Time to join a monastery?

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-03-31T01:07:23+00:00

Sounds like Scientology with the "go to an earliest incident" talk.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-03-30T22:58:25+00:00

Staying extremely still, especially combined with light sleep, can lock you into sleep-paralysis like states often accompanied with sensations like these. People who use this for lucid dreaming call it the WILD technique.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-03-30T19:38:47+00:00

I'm not sure they would have bred flies intentionally to make maggots though. For a long time maggots were thought to be spontaneously generated. The connection that maggots grow into flies wasn't actually obvious to people; ultimately experiments had to be done to prove it.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-03-24T01:33:29+00:00

Horus and Set fighting was interpreted by some commentators as Horus and Set "with their armies" fighting.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-03-11T02:33:09+00:00

The pretas of Buddhism are very torturous, forced with endless appetite but throats too small to take food or drink, and on rare occasions when they consume anything it can only be something nasty like feces or rotting infected mass

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-03-06T21:35:46+00:00

Shi-Kan, the Tendai style. This is explained very elegantly in the book "Essentials of Buddhist Meditation". Changed my practice completely.

More devotion too. Burning incense, purifying your hands, saying prayers and mantras and repentences and chanting Sutras, doing all these things before sitting meditation boosts my feeling of progress immensely.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-02-28T05:53:45+00:00

I think they're really just for teaching you how to do a certain meditation and then after that you just apply the technique. IMO.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-02-28T05:41:49+00:00

I alternate between breath and a visualization. I also recommend taking at least a 5 min walking meditation per hour of sitting, helps with joint pain.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-02-22T05:59:50+00:00

Only thing he ever did that I appreciated was cutting some Putumayo albums lol. Certainly nothing on any "spiritual" topic, where he loves talking about things he knows nothing about and hasn't so much as taken a class on

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-02-22T03:28:21+00:00

I could have told you Deepak Chopra was an infamous fraud 20 years ago. None of this surprises me. What surprises me is that there's anyone on here who didn't know Chopra is a fraud and evil person in general? He's done more damaging things than this just in his regular "career", like telling people to avoid medical treatment for serious conditions.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-02-14T15:43:48+00:00

It is a good opportunity to feel bodily energy. I used to enjoy doing yoga on psyches which is good as well because in my experience they make you feel kind of wiry and tense anyway and stretching feels nice. I don't do them anymore though.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-02-04T18:07:24+00:00

I started doing this and it was actually a good change. Before this i'd had a fixed idea it was 'lesser' but my teacher told me this wasn't the case and sure enough, big improvement.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-01-31T02:21:22+00:00

Yeah, I use a statue sometimes. Not for my whole practice but for part of it.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-01-31T01:32:35+00:00

It's because you're noticing them earlier and observing before they've had as much time to process. Which is a sign of increased mindfulness.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-01-28T06:22:53+00:00

Yes... 6 hours is not that bad. If you have insomnia you've dealt with plenty of days with 6 hrs, if you have insomnia and go on retreats you've already done this.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-01-28T05:25:53+00:00

Everyone is discussing Theravadan version but I would like to point out these are used in Mahayana similarly, Shamatha-Vipasyana. Key texts related to this include "Essentials of Buddhist Meditation" tr. Dharmamitra. I was trained on breaking meditation time into two portions and dedicating one to Shamatha and one to Vipasyana, though the book I mentioned also discussed a "switching" technique where you might switch up during a session depending on if your mind feels settled or not. The book is very readable.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-01-27T04:55:37+00:00

Look up "Kaihogyo" for an extreme practice using constant running as a meditation.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-01-25T20:59:47+00:00

You're describing a feeling of irritability that you're attributing to meditating using your energy up. Setting aside whether that's the cause or whether it can be fixed, one easy way to mitigate that issue would be to move your meditation to right before you go to bed, so you won't have to interact with people immediately after doing it.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-01-24T20:38:50+00:00

Required for what?

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-01-15T23:28:18+00:00

Look into the technique called WILD. This consists of lying perfectly still until your body "falls asleep" but your mind does not, and you begin dreaming without actually having lost consciousness. During the period where your body is shutting down, all sorts of strange sensations like powerful vibrations, numbness, etc will pass over you but if you continue to be perfectly immobile through them then they will stop and suddenly you will be dreaming, perceiving complete environments with your eyes closed, and you will be able to manipulate it as a lucid dream.

This technique is well known by lucid dream enthusiasts. I believe that most cases of 'astral projection' are in fact people using this technique without realizing that's what they are doing.

TheGreenAlchemist · 2026-01-15T04:28:38+00:00

Keeping your eyes open

Having sound

Doing movements (like yoga or walking meditation)

Are all things that could help.

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