My Top 3 Meditation Bad Habits

[Gabriel Antonio]

Here they are:

1- SLIGHTLY MOVING MY LIPS
When I am with strong emotions, I move my lips. This kind of ruins the meditation, because the point of meditation is not to talk to yourself. It gives me no sense of purification. On the other hand, when my mind is very loud, but I am able to keep my mouth shut, I feel the purification.

Possible solution: Prior to meditation, yawn really hard twice and make weird and spontaneous sounds with my mouth for about 2 minutes. This way, my mouth will get tired.

2- PLANNING WHAT TO DO AFTER THE MEDITATION IS DONE
I have got this habit a few months. I do get a lot of creative ideas that I wouldn't have otherwise had. Also, I feel this is what mind wants to do. However, it feels like I am more doing visualization than meditation.

Possible solution: Just allow it to be and eventually I will get tired of doing that.

3- AVERSION TO EXTERNAL SOUNDS
Everything: People, constructions, but especially music. When my neighbor is playing loud, low-consciousness music; I get lost in the song and the beat. In a way, I fear that shitty song will toxify my thoughts & subconscious mind.

I usually close window mindfully, or if that's not enough, I go to another room.

Possible solution: Experiment to be with the music throughout a meditation sitting.

If you want, share your experience...

[RossE]

@Gabriel Antonio  If anything you're toxifying yourself by judging your neighbour's music so much! It's just some music dude, if you don't like it then move away. Calling it low consciousness, toxifying and saying you're being mindful about closing a window (that's quite bizarre really) says nothing about your neighbour's music IMO.

The planning part is just a collection of thoughts and images, they'll calm down after more meditation. Just notice you're going along for the ride with them/create separation between the observer and the thoughts.

 

Edited January 4, 2017 by RossE

[Gabriel Antonio]

Thank you for the input, guys.

 

Edited January 5, 2017 by Gabriel Antonio
i was trying to be funny, but that's not the place for that

[Guivs]

@Gabriel Antonio Hello

I do not know  if it will help, but look at this short clip  It made me change my outlook on meditation, so maybe will it help you as well. Tell me if it did ! Good luck

 

 

[Gabriel Antonio]

@Guivs I can hold this as a belief, but I still don't have a direct experience of that. Maybe one day I will... 

[ajasatya]

for a while, my bad meditation habit was the fact that i used to judge my own meditation practice.