I've been wondering about this. i never feel 'done' doing it, just gradually transitioning to 'i feel like ive been doing this too long', like my mind, brain and body can't agree on when im done meditating.
@@G4RYWithaFour I’m certainly no enlightened guru or something, but I imagine if you feel you’ve been doing it for too long and you’re satisfied with it, then… 🤷♂️ You’re probably good to pause there! If you’re starting to have those thoughts, that is.
@@hectichive889 that's the issue for me, before 1 feeling is satisfied, another one comes up with some kind of problem. intrusive thoughts are pretty much constant for me, i'd never be able to start if i based it off that.
@@G4RYWithaFour That's okay I feel De K would be okay with that. Just pick an arbitrary criteria on when you'll stop. Usually I get an urge to stop and I ignore it if I want to do more. It also helped I do timed meditation. I initially started from 5 minutes. So I tend to go around for at least 5 minutes. Sometimes over. That's it
This technique is great. I have tried meditation many times , But my mind is always flooded with thoughts . This makes it much easier. Thank you for all your work and helping these Gamers. That reckful stream brought me to tears.
Don't worry about the thoughts when doing Meditation, think of it like a mental push-up each time you bring your attention back to the focus of the Meditation (Breath, Body, Sound, etc). Doing it over a long enough period of time you'll slowly find you're able to keep your attention longer-and-longer on the focus of your Meditation.
Thats the purpose of meditation. Noticing the thoughts, and then letting them go. It will be easier and easier every time you let them go, be it you have to do it over 100 times. Its normal. Picture youreself sitting ontop of a mountain, the thoughts you have are the clouds. Just notice them and let them drift by, eventually theres nothing but you thats left. Thats meditation.
i always was pretty great at meditation, and tought some of my friends on how i did it "unfortunately only one of them cared enough to try" and yeah, this is one of the best methods i've ever seen
I remember when I tried meditating at first many years ago and gave up because it was way too difficult... Now I practice it everyday and it has been such a blessing! I've managed to finish all 6 essays I needed to get done. If I hadn't been practicing meditation, I know for a fact that anxiety would've absolutely annihilated me. As long as you don't judge yourselves for passing thoughts and just redirect your attention back to your breathing, you're fine! Just a bit of effort makes all the difference. Anyways, happy meditating gamers!
Dr. K's discussion of the function and purpose of meditation, that meditation serves to focus one's mind on the present and to quiet the stream of frantic thoughts about random other things beyond the present state, made me realize why people often turn to things like instruments, working out, hobbies like fishing or knitting, and say that it's therapeutic for them. Seems like the same mechanism of focusing your attention on the task at hand, cutting away stray thoughts.
@@growingoaks i think that taking this time to do this kind of hobbies let time for the mind to process feelings and is needed to feel better . not making not thinking about it but taking time for feeling to process. i don't know if it's clear not my foreign language
@@growingoaks There is one kind of meditation and other kind of meditation. You can focus on something such as breathing to silence the mind or focus on your stream of thoughts and let them flow.
Just as he said "go ahead & finish breathing...."- my phone got a call... though I will say it helped me stay far more calm than I normally would have been. (Calls from this individual spark anxiety, anger/fight response, nervous nausea & dizzy spiraling feelings.) By the way, thank you for all your videos. I've only just scratched the surface of them but they've been helping me. Feel seen, called out at times (the bad habits & reactions), vulnerable, not alone,... only to say a few. The videos spark emotion & challenge me to read myself better, the signals my mind & body are giving & give me tools to help not feel like I'm floundering with no idea how to handle things. Even if I don't always understand in the moment how to go about using or adapting the knowledge to my life. Just... Thank you. For helping me heal even just a little (although absolutely tearing the stitches open in a few areas sometimes. First-aid/EMT work VS your surgery, I guess. Gotta get rid of the bandaid to fix the problem.)
it's geniues because it shows you that it's okay if you can't "not think" like most people complain about when they try meditation. you can think, just make it something that constantly puts you in the present which is the hand switching
Omg, was having such a stressful day, i journaled a shit ton (like 4 pages) and then did this, i feel so much better, thank you Dr.K, i could cry of happiness and relief, but I literally cannot feel anxiety right now or sadness. I can’t believe I thought this was stupid for over 20 years of my life. I’m gonna study and take notes on your “what is meditation” vid so I can understand and appreciate more.
bro I keep coming back to this, tbh this is the only guided meditation on youtube that's genuinely helped me when I needed it and the best part is that Dr K is the one guiding us. Thank you for this gem, we all greatly appreciate it
i have endless support for Dr. K i payed for a few months of DBT therapy and the way they did meditation/mindfulness made it difficult to motivate myself to practice but this style of meditation has helped me a lot the past couple of days i really hope i can keep this up. thank you!
can we get a real course on meditation please? I've been trying to meditate for years, recently I tried headspace, but it's trash. Be still and see the thoughts as cars on the road - it's nice but a 10 minute nap is more effective. I've tried to absorb every detail about meditation from you and I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere. If anyone agrees, please upvote this, Dr.K is always looking for feedback.
why do you think headspace is trash? I used it for little time and thought it was great, but i also always had ease for meditation. So what's on headspace that you think is really bad?
Look up Culsada's book on meditation or try reading transcendental meditation (TM) PDF online. TM is essentially a mantra meditation (repeating a mantra in one's head, eg, attentiveness, which is the repetition, and mindfulness, being mindful of when you wander from thinking the mantra). But like Dr. K said in another video, there's 112 types of meditation, from trataka (focusing on a candle) to breath based meditations. Culsada says that meditation requires both cultivating "samadhi" and "mindfulness", eg. "mindfulness and attentiveness". If you emphasize mindfulness over attentiveness, your practice will consist of mind wandering, physical discomfort, drowsiness, and frustration. Similarly, stable attention over mindfulness leads only to a state of blissful dullness. "Like two wings of a bird, both stable attention and mindfulness are needed, and when they are cultivated together, the destination of this flight is samatha and vipassana".
@@nuclear804 Any type of meditation cultivates mindfulness if you are mindful of when you're not 'doing the meditation', eg being distracted. For example, if doing a mantra, you are mindful that you forgot to repeat the mantra, or if doing trataka (eye-based / visual meditation on an object), you are mindful that you forgot to focus on an object. Attentiveness is cultivated when you are doing the meditation, like when you're doing trataka, you are attentive to the object you are staring at or when doing mantra meditation, you are repeating the mantra. You continuously go back to it. That's attentiveness. It's different from mindfulness insofar as mindfulness just involves being mindful that you're distracted, so when you KNOW you've been distracted, you go back to being attentive (repeating the mantra) or doing whatever the object of your meditation is. It's kind of like when xQc meditated with Dr. K, xQc's attentiveness was to visualize his body moving like a robot. And then his thoughts would wander but he'd go back to visualizing his movements as a robot. That could also be a type of meditation. He was mindful of when he was distracted or not thinking of the robot, too. Not sure if Dr. K has talked about this. Ultimately this is more of the 'back-end' of Buddhist meditation. A zen practitioner's meditation is similar, but they refuse to say anything about it because they're 'Zen' (similar to Taoism). Not that either is incorrect. But this is a description of how meditation works for Westerners. 'Mindfulness + attentiveness' to produce that clear state of mind.
@@deqa Thanks for taking the time to reply to this in detail! I'm still starting out on meditation and I was wondering what resources you used to start off with to get closer to your level of understanding.
@@Delemarky RSDTyler's video on "How to Meditate" got me into it, the presence-based breathing meditations in particular and that Eckhart Tolle thing he talked about "being focused on the present". Otherwise, nothing else really. Just hearing RSDTyler, David Lynch (transcendental meditation) and Culsada. I think that RSDTyler has like one of the best base level descriptions of meditation: "Follow your breath. Sit cross legged. Don't think about the future." Otherwise, I kind of am a bit zen about meditation where I think I know nothing despite meditating for like 8+ years for 20 minutes a day. I still struggle like anyone else. Try different meditations and see what works. My favourite right now is pranayama (alternate nostril breathing) that Dr. K teaches.
Right now, my mental health is like collapsing and i have no money for a therapist online or offline - so i'm glad i can follow this indian boi to make some sense of how i feel
It was hard for me to always be present while doing usual guided meditation and just breathing consciously was overwhelming in a way..this is the first time I didn't feel weighted down by the thought of meditation..Thank you from my heart for this amazing content you give here..everything feels light,fun and just good here while also being extremely helpful! Much love♡♡♡
I saw the video talking about ADHD. You talked about a meditation technique, and since I also have ADHD, I tried it out. It actually helps! I think to look for more techniques, and lo and behold, this video. Thank you very much, I'll be trying this out. You're awesome dude.
Cant thank you enough for the content. Are you gonna do a summary of meditation in some other video? You might want to go through the steps of different meditation and so on. Atm Im a rookie but gonna practise meditation from here on out. Thank you so much for your help
I actually visualize a square with a little light going around the square. When it goes to up on the left I breathe in. When it goes to the right I hold and then when it goes back down on the right I breathe out and then hold. It helps to have a mental imagine to picture especially if you are starting out.
this is one of the first meditations i've done where i just don't have thought at all, this is pretty cool. Makes me feel more lifted in a way i might do this more often.
I dont know man... its a feeling you have to experience to understand, you can call it Zen, but if you try to meditate and constantly think of "when is it going to start?" or "am i doing it right?", then it wont work... So dont worry about how you are doing it and just "be" in the present moment. I hope this was helpfull
Hello Dr. K, first of all, great accent. Also, I am incredibly greatful for the work you do, being a gamer myself but not really on Twitch cause there's still so much toxicity around. I know there's wonderful people out there, too, but I guess the negative sadly has a tendency to overshadow the positive, so THANK YOU for making the gamer space a little happier and a little safer one video at a time. I also wanted to ask if there is a particular type of meditation that you'd recommend to do before studying in particular - or is any mediation suitable, e.g. the nostril breathing of this video?
Dude wtf I feel like in gonna break my fingers or hand trynna put my hand into that sign at the start?! How do you even bend your fingers and keep the pinky ring finger straight like what?? Update.. I got it 🙈😂
That feeling at the end with that ringing sound in your head after you open your eyes is amazing but weird. Its as if my physical brain and my thoughts were in a race and my brain dominated throughout then my thoughts finally caught up at the end when I opened my eyes. Extremely weird feeling, but I felt calm and relaxed after. Just proves there are actual meditation techniques rather than those bogus trash ones where you just sit down and essentially go to sleep for 10 mins.
Dr K you can do a masterclass on Udemy and i will buy it. Just make it more structured, from very broad like "What is the point of meditation" to "what meditation is for what", "best time to meditate" "meditation combination", so on and teach them individually. I'll totally buy it
Thank you for making these videos! Some Mindfulness techniques a teacher had one of my classes practice put me in such a state of despair that I was worried any meditation would do the same, but this is effective. I'm grateful for the explanations too!
Should be noted, i'm sure some already know that there are many different forms of breathing meditation, not just the one shown in the video. The same kind of meditation focusing on breath can be done merely by sitting cross-legged, and focusing on breathe and neither trying to have thoughts, nor prevent thoughts and merely staying in a state of focus on the breath. Even a few minutes a day can have huge effects, doing it i went from having intense stress in my shoulders and minor panic attacks to no stress and no panic attacks. It should be noted though that meditation is a practice that must be done consistently, you cannot just meditate once and hope to cure all your anxiety. Meditation is also not just something of a position, focus on breath can be done during anything, running, in class or at work.
Hi Dr. Doctor K I love your Videos I couldn't stop laughing initially, because I was High on a pot brownie; also because the rhythm is a bit off kilter. Then you said, " No you shouldn't be smelling anything! "
Hey. I really hope you read this Dr K. If you ever need to talk to somebody im here for you. Im from Argentina. I know Byron was really happy to have you as a friend in his last days of the journey and I know that he dont reggret any talk you give him. I think he might have beeing sad for letting you down. He didnt even want to make the chat sad. He was trying and beeing the best he can till the end.
honestly idk why he said you shouldnt, it actually opens the airways which is how the nose works, the more you breath through it the easier it gets, if anything I think people with DS ought to do this one especially!
I believe this also ends up encouraging deep breathing, which has a whole kind of calming effect upon the vagus nerve on its own, so I'd suppose that any intentional breathing would do. (I'm not a scientist/doc/yogi at all though so, grain of salt lmao)
Will you teach us (or me if it doesnt help anyone else cuzni cant speak for anyone but myself) a meditation on how to properly reminice on nostalgic memories or find a happy place or whatever? I can never understand how people find a happy place because situations that make me happy from my past make me sad now that rhey are over and someone suggested for me to spend 10 minutes each day practicing being happy
Only reason I disliked was to remind myself that this meditation does not click well with my body due to personal reasons - it's a very valuable material do I will go back to the playlist where it resides and the dislike is too remind myself that this is not the one for me - I wrote the comment for the algorithm though (hope it helps)!
Haha doing this after months and months of long covid, and my brain's like "HOLD UP gimme like 30 seconds to reorient my perception of the entire world because you breathed out a different nostril than you breathed in" 😂😂😂
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begone thought
Bahahahahahah niceee
this cracked me up more then I expected
i was the 666th like. not much but it's honest work.
Nice joke steal
best comment I saw in 2020
"Just do it until you're done doing it."
That's awesome. I started meditating 15 years ago and I've never heard a meditation teacher say that.
I've been wondering about this. i never feel 'done' doing it, just gradually transitioning to 'i feel like ive been doing this too long', like my mind, brain and body can't agree on when im done meditating.
@@G4RYWithaFour I’m certainly no enlightened guru or something, but I imagine if you feel you’ve been doing it for too long and you’re satisfied with it, then… 🤷♂️ You’re probably good to pause there! If you’re starting to have those thoughts, that is.
@@hectichive889 that's the issue for me, before 1 feeling is satisfied, another one comes up with some kind of problem. intrusive thoughts are pretty much constant for me, i'd never be able to start if i based it off that.
@@G4RYWithaFour That's okay I feel De K would be okay with that.
Just pick an arbitrary criteria on when you'll stop.
Usually I get an urge to stop and I ignore it if I want to do more.
It also helped I do timed meditation.
I initially started from 5 minutes.
So I tend to go around for at least 5 minutes.
Sometimes over.
That's it
This technique is great. I have tried meditation many times , But my mind is always flooded with thoughts . This makes it much easier. Thank you for all your work and helping these Gamers. That reckful stream brought me to tears.
Don't worry about the thoughts when doing Meditation, think of it like a mental push-up each time you bring your attention back to the focus of the Meditation (Breath, Body, Sound, etc). Doing it over a long enough period of time you'll slowly find you're able to keep your attention longer-and-longer on the focus of your Meditation.
Thats the purpose of meditation. Noticing the thoughts, and then letting them go. It will be easier and easier every time you let them go, be it you have to do it over 100 times. Its normal. Picture youreself sitting ontop of a mountain, the thoughts you have are the clouds. Just notice them and let them drift by, eventually theres nothing but you thats left. Thats meditation.
i always was pretty great at meditation, and tought some of my friends on how i did it "unfortunately only one of them cared enough to try" and yeah, this is one of the best methods i've ever seen
does meditation help on being able to focus more
I remember when I tried meditating at first many years ago and gave up because it was way too difficult... Now I practice it everyday and it has been such a blessing! I've managed to finish all 6 essays I needed to get done. If I hadn't been practicing meditation, I know for a fact that anxiety would've absolutely annihilated me. As long as you don't judge yourselves for passing thoughts and just redirect your attention back to your breathing, you're fine! Just a bit of effort makes all the difference.
Anyways, happy meditating gamers!
6 essays? You're built different
@@anywow5120 Absolute GIGACHAD
I’m not gonna lie, this breathing technique honestly saved me from going into a long long phase of overthinking
Dr. K's discussion of the function and purpose of meditation, that meditation serves to focus one's mind on the present and to quiet the stream of frantic thoughts about random other things beyond the present state, made me realize why people often turn to things like instruments, working out, hobbies like fishing or knitting, and say that it's therapeutic for them. Seems like the same mechanism of focusing your attention on the task at hand, cutting away stray thoughts.
Meditation has nothing to do with “cutting away stray thoughts” tho wym? Meditation is about becoming aware of those thoughts.
@@growingoaks i think that taking this time to do this kind of hobbies let time for the mind to process feelings and is needed to feel better .
not making not thinking about it but taking time for feeling to process. i don't know if it's clear not my foreign language
@@growingoaks There is one kind of meditation and other kind of meditation. You can focus on something such as breathing to silence the mind or focus on your stream of thoughts and let them flow.
Just as he said "go ahead & finish breathing...."- my phone got a call... though I will say it helped me stay far more calm than I normally would have been. (Calls from this individual spark anxiety, anger/fight response, nervous nausea & dizzy spiraling feelings.) By the way, thank you for all your videos. I've only just scratched the surface of them but they've been helping me. Feel seen, called out at times (the bad habits & reactions), vulnerable, not alone,... only to say a few. The videos spark emotion & challenge me to read myself better, the signals my mind & body are giving & give me tools to help not feel like I'm floundering with no idea how to handle things. Even if I don't always understand in the moment how to go about using or adapting the knowledge to my life.
Just... Thank you. For helping me heal even just a little (although absolutely tearing the stitches open in a few areas sometimes. First-aid/EMT work VS your surgery, I guess. Gotta get rid of the bandaid to fix the problem.)
block the number bruh
This was wonderful. Thank you.
3:25 for returning viewers
THANKS
King
Clogged nose
Thanks Chief, much appreciated
nice
it's geniues because it shows you that it's okay if you can't "not think" like most people complain about when they try meditation. you can think, just make it something that constantly puts you in the present which is the hand switching
You are a Hero that nobody on the internet thought needed, but you are very much needed. Thank you for what you do.
Omg, was having such a stressful day, i journaled a shit ton (like 4 pages) and then did this, i feel so much better, thank you Dr.K, i could cry of happiness and relief, but I literally cannot feel anxiety right now or sadness. I can’t believe I thought this was stupid for over 20 years of my life. I’m gonna study and take notes on your “what is meditation” vid so I can understand and appreciate more.
bro I keep coming back to this, tbh this is the only guided meditation on youtube that's genuinely helped me when I needed it and the best part is that Dr K is the one guiding us. Thank you for this gem, we all greatly appreciate it
One of the best channels on yt in my opinion. thank you for the massive value
Facts
i have endless support for Dr. K i payed for a few months of DBT therapy and the way they did meditation/mindfulness made it difficult to motivate myself to practice but this style of meditation has helped me a lot the past couple of days i really hope i can keep this up. thank you!
Did you keep it up?
can we get a real course on meditation please? I've been trying to meditate for years, recently I tried headspace, but it's trash. Be still and see the thoughts as cars on the road - it's nice but a 10 minute nap is more effective. I've tried to absorb every detail about meditation from you and I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere. If anyone agrees, please upvote this, Dr.K is always looking for feedback.
why do you think headspace is trash? I used it for little time and thought it was great, but i also always had ease for meditation. So what's on headspace that you think is really bad?
Look up Culsada's book on meditation or try reading transcendental meditation (TM) PDF online. TM is essentially a mantra meditation (repeating a mantra in one's head, eg, attentiveness, which is the repetition, and mindfulness, being mindful of when you wander from thinking the mantra).
But like Dr. K said in another video, there's 112 types of meditation, from trataka (focusing on a candle) to breath based meditations. Culsada says that meditation requires both cultivating "samadhi" and "mindfulness", eg. "mindfulness and attentiveness". If you emphasize mindfulness over attentiveness, your practice will consist of mind wandering, physical discomfort, drowsiness, and frustration. Similarly, stable attention over mindfulness leads only to a state of blissful dullness. "Like two wings of a bird, both stable attention and mindfulness are needed, and when they are cultivated together, the destination of this flight is samatha and vipassana".
@@nuclear804 Any type of meditation cultivates mindfulness if you are mindful of when you're not 'doing the meditation', eg being distracted. For example, if doing a mantra, you are mindful that you forgot to repeat the mantra, or if doing trataka (eye-based / visual meditation on an object), you are mindful that you forgot to focus on an object.
Attentiveness is cultivated when you are doing the meditation, like when you're doing trataka, you are attentive to the object you are staring at or when doing mantra meditation, you are repeating the mantra. You continuously go back to it. That's attentiveness. It's different from mindfulness insofar as mindfulness just involves being mindful that you're distracted, so when you KNOW you've been distracted, you go back to being attentive (repeating the mantra) or doing whatever the object of your meditation is. It's kind of like when xQc meditated with Dr. K, xQc's attentiveness was to visualize his body moving like a robot. And then his thoughts would wander but he'd go back to visualizing his movements as a robot. That could also be a type of meditation. He was mindful of when he was distracted or not thinking of the robot, too.
Not sure if Dr. K has talked about this. Ultimately this is more of the 'back-end' of Buddhist meditation. A zen practitioner's meditation is similar, but they refuse to say anything about it because they're 'Zen' (similar to Taoism). Not that either is incorrect. But this is a description of how meditation works for Westerners. 'Mindfulness + attentiveness' to produce that clear state of mind.
@@deqa Thanks for taking the time to reply to this in detail! I'm still starting out on meditation and I was wondering what resources you used to start off with to get closer to your level of understanding.
@@Delemarky RSDTyler's video on "How to Meditate" got me into it, the presence-based breathing meditations in particular and that Eckhart Tolle thing he talked about "being focused on the present". Otherwise, nothing else really. Just hearing RSDTyler, David Lynch (transcendental meditation) and Culsada. I think that RSDTyler has like one of the best base level descriptions of meditation: "Follow your breath. Sit cross legged. Don't think about the future."
Otherwise, I kind of am a bit zen about meditation where I think I know nothing despite meditating for like 8+ years for 20 minutes a day. I still struggle like anyone else. Try different meditations and see what works. My favourite right now is pranayama (alternate nostril breathing) that Dr. K teaches.
I always come back to this. This helped me a lot and its very relaxing. Been doing this for a year now.
Coolest thing about this was opening my eyes after the meditation and seeing the twitch chat silent. Pretty cool
Right now, my mental health is like collapsing and i have no money for a therapist online or offline - so i'm glad i can follow this indian boi to make some sense of how i feel
I hope you will get better, take care
Hope you are doing well now.
I hope you're doing great man
It was hard for me to always be present while doing usual guided meditation and just breathing consciously was overwhelming in a way..this is the first time I didn't feel weighted down by the thought of meditation..Thank you from my heart for this amazing content you give here..everything feels light,fun and just good here while also being extremely helpful! Much love♡♡♡
I just found out today that I have a deviated septum
lol
I might have a deviated septum but why did he say you shouldn’t do it if you do have one?
How am i supposed to meditate when im laughing my ass off
i laugh non stop please someone edit this video and turn off the chat omg
I'm not a gamer but I always look for your videos because they are so helpful. This mini meditation really helps. Thank you ☺️.
Yes! please do a scientific analysis of meditation. I'd love that
I saw the video talking about ADHD. You talked about a meditation technique, and since I also have ADHD, I tried it out. It actually helps! I think to look for more techniques, and lo and behold, this video. Thank you very much, I'll be trying this out. You're awesome dude.
Cant thank you enough for the content. Are you gonna do a summary of meditation in some other video? You might want to go through the steps of different meditation and so on.
Atm Im a rookie but gonna practise meditation from here on out. Thank you so much for your help
03:21 to 06:21, the Naddi-Shuddhi meditation
I actually visualize a square with a little light going around the square. When it goes to up on the left I breathe in. When it goes to the right I hold and then when it goes back down on the right I breathe out and then hold. It helps to have a mental imagine to picture especially if you are starting out.
You're a legend 🤙
The coolest step by step of meditation. I do this and feel good already. Thank you Dr. K!
this is one of the first meditations i've done where i just don't have thought at all, this is pretty cool. Makes me feel more lifted in a way i might do this more often.
BRO I LOVE how you can switch the accent on. Thats HILARIOUS.
I wish I could do this
Thank you Dr. K. The indian accent really got me in the start 😄
The meditation worked! Now I wish the like button was a love button!🥰😀😁
Wdym worked like what determines if a meditation works?
I dont know man... its a feeling you have to experience to understand, you can call it Zen, but if you try to meditate and constantly think of "when is it going to start?" or "am i doing it right?", then it wont work...
So dont worry about how you are doing it and just "be" in the present moment.
I hope this was helpfull
@@tutzysugarberg4879 oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah indeed
Hello Dr. K, first of all, great accent. Also, I am incredibly greatful for the work you do, being a gamer myself but not really on Twitch cause there's still so much toxicity around. I know there's wonderful people out there, too, but I guess the negative sadly has a tendency to overshadow the positive, so THANK YOU for making the gamer space a little happier and a little safer one video at a time. I also wanted to ask if there is a particular type of meditation that you'd recommend to do before studying in particular - or is any mediation suitable, e.g. the nostril breathing of this video?
I am actually blessed with your Videos, thank you !
I’m always so hesitant to meditate, but I feel so calm afterwards
I have a deviated septum and I did this it actually helps imo. It was more difficult at first and got easier
I think you child not do it still
Dude wtf I feel like in gonna break my fingers or hand trynna put my hand into that sign at the start?! How do you even bend your fingers and keep the pinky ring finger straight like what?? Update.. I got it 🙈😂
I related so hard to this LOL
I started doing this while showering to drown out my ADD
I'm just grateful that I found your work on the Internet man, Greatly Inspired from your work
That feeling at the end with that ringing sound in your head after you open your eyes is amazing but weird. Its as if my physical brain and my thoughts were in a race and my brain dominated throughout then my thoughts finally caught up at the end when I opened my eyes. Extremely weird feeling, but I felt calm and relaxed after. Just proves there are actual meditation techniques rather than those bogus trash ones where you just sit down and essentially go to sleep for 10 mins.
Love from Germany, Dr.K!
3:23 for the meditation
I was so confused by the accent at the beginning. Actually checked if it's a video 10 years ago or sth lmao
Same. I kind of missed the prase 'we will do accent for authenticity'
Love your holistic approach to mental health, doc! And the sense of humor))
oh man i died of laughter when he did the accent. man i wasn't expecting that
Thank you, Dr K.
As someone who has ahdh and asthma its hard but fun to do these meditations.
@healthygamergg
So, I have a deviated nostril, do i do the darth vader breething instead?
I am binge watching Dr. K
Thumb-2 finger calming meditation (to stop the momentum of racing thoughts)
I did this so many times when stressed, love it
Dr K you can do a masterclass on Udemy and i will buy it. Just make it more structured, from very broad like "What is the point of meditation" to "what meditation is for what", "best time to meditate" "meditation combination", so on and teach them individually. I'll totally buy it
For the first 2 minutes i couldn't stop laughing (all while adhering to the meditation)
Thank you for making these videos! Some Mindfulness techniques a teacher had one of my classes practice put me in such a state of despair that I was worried any meditation would do the same, but this is effective. I'm grateful for the explanations too!
Does the stream about scientific effect of the meditation happenned ? If yes, where can I find it ?
that actually felt great
wow like i feel so much better even after just this short meditation
The Raw ?
Thank you dr K. Seriously, thank you ❤
One of my all time favorite classic meditations is the bowl of cereal meditation. The better it tastes the better i know im doing lol
thank you dr that is the first time i could let my thougth go in years
Should be noted, i'm sure some already know that there are many different forms of breathing meditation, not just the one shown in the video.
The same kind of meditation focusing on breath can be done merely by sitting cross-legged, and focusing on breathe and neither trying to have thoughts, nor prevent thoughts and merely staying in a state of focus on the breath.
Even a few minutes a day can have huge effects, doing it i went from having intense stress in my shoulders and minor panic attacks to no stress and no panic attacks.
It should be noted though that meditation is a practice that must be done consistently, you cannot just meditate once and hope to cure all your anxiety.
Meditation is also not just something of a position, focus on breath can be done during anything, running, in class or at work.
Starts at 3:19 just posting this for myself.
Consciousness without mental activity. Consciousness without thinking.
So all you are are pure awareness and that's the goal.
As always, thank you Dr. K! 🙏
Immediately noticed a lack of wandering thoughts doing this - at first I was like, hang on, where has my inner voice gone??
Just commenting for the algorithm, keep up the great work!
meditation starts at 3:14
This was lovely, but everything about Twitch chat and streaming SFX feel like the complete opposite of calming my mind 🙃
Got here from the wiki, thanks for all your efforts!
Thanks, I will try❤
Hi Dr. Doctor K I love your Videos
I couldn't stop laughing initially, because I was High on a pot brownie; also because the rhythm is a bit off kilter. Then you said, " No you shouldn't be smelling anything! "
Hey. I really hope you read this Dr K. If you ever need to talk to somebody im here for you. Im from Argentina. I know Byron was really happy to have you as a friend in his last days of the journey and I know that he dont reggret any talk you give him. I think he might have beeing sad for letting you down. He didnt even want to make the chat sad. He was trying and beeing the best he can till the end.
this is awesome thanks
Thank you very much
Thanks Dr. K!
I can't believe Dr. K was gonna just end this stream without explaining what we just did. Thankfully isoji asked. The explanation is crucial.
Thank you 🥰
Me with a deviated septum struggling and slowly opening my airways and then being told I shouldn't
honestly idk why he said you shouldnt, it actually opens the airways which is how the nose works, the more you breath through it the easier it gets, if anything I think people with DS ought to do this one especially!
So is there an alternative like this for those with deviatee septums?
This is bloody amazing.
This is pure gold!
Is it just providing a "focal point" so your mind doesn't wander ? If that's the case does it matter what kind of breathing we do ?
I believe this also ends up encouraging deep breathing, which has a whole kind of calming effect upon the vagus nerve on its own, so I'd suppose that any intentional breathing would do. (I'm not a scientist/doc/yogi at all though so, grain of salt lmao)
who is this indian guy? insane content keep it up!
Replace everytime he says "thought" with "thot", and suddenly this is a very different video
Instantly ruined 😂
starts at 3:18
Tutorial Ends at: 3:20
You Indian accent helps me to understand You better hahahaha i'm from México, god bless you
This is awesome
1:55 cracked me up lmfao
Start at 3:25
Will you teach us (or me if it doesnt help anyone else cuzni cant speak for anyone but myself) a meditation on how to properly reminice on nostalgic memories or find a happy place or whatever? I can never understand how people find a happy place because situations that make me happy from my past make me sad now that rhey are over and someone suggested for me to spend 10 minutes each day practicing being happy
Great questions chat ❤
Cool exercise , but what if i have sinusitis most of the time ?
Only reason I disliked was to remind myself that this meditation does not click well with my body due to personal reasons - it's a very valuable material do I will go back to the playlist where it resides and the dislike is too remind myself that this is not the one for me - I wrote the comment for the algorithm though (hope it helps)!
I cant focus when you do the accent my guy, Im cracking laughing in the floor
Haha doing this after months and months of long covid, and my brain's like "HOLD UP gimme like 30 seconds to reorient my perception of the entire world because you breathed out a different nostril than you breathed in" 😂😂😂
Bruh why did this make me cry? (In a good way) am I broken?
that is really calming.
What do you do if you can’t breath through both nostrils
I didnt really think about anything while doing this. I only thought about my breath.