What to Do When Your Back or Legs Hurt and Thoughts Arise During Meditation

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AVAlexander VolchekMeditation practice and techniqueStates and effects of meditationTimeMeditationBodily sensations during meditation

What is said here

• 00:05During meditation, memories, images, and pictures come up. Or, for example, when you sit down to meditate, your back starts hurting and your legs ache. You cannot sit through it. Certain states arise…Meditation · Anger
• 01:24What should I do? I sit down to watch a movie, cannot watch it, and turn off the television. What is happening to me? The question you are asking needs to be considered in a broad context. That is very important.Health · Meditation
• 02:20The body stays alive because, in general, the person is not lying in bed all day. If someone does not get up for, say, three weeks and does not move at all, they will be in serious…Time
• 03:15That is guaranteed. Look, guaranteed. Just breathing. Simply pay attention to your breathing continually. Continually, not during some special period set aside for it. Someone sits down and breathes properly for half an hour…Time · Meditation
• 03:55Why are you not suffering? Why not? Because their perception has narrowed. What happens when you direct your attention toward meditative perception, when you direct your attention?Expanded perception · Time
• 06:14Right now. Then, during meditation, they will be able to find real answers to why they feel that way. Their perception has expanded. They have begun to see more broadly.Expanded perception · Time · Meditation
• 06:55That is why we see bad people and bad events being dressed up a little in the world. Their truth is hidden behind a kind of veil.Truth · Children · Daughter
• 08:00Always. She has no other answer. It is simply an automatic response. What is behind it? What does “everything is fine” even mean? Then stop asking that question altogether.United States
• 10:12To perceive bad things, to be able to perceive them, hear about them, learn about them, and examine them without falling into psychophysical hysteria because of them.Meditation
• 11:49And, of course, a person begins to get blocked by those reactions. But there are things, Galya, that you cannot change. I have never in my life been able to sit in the lotus position. There was an interesting episode in my life.Meditation · Galya (meditation channel participant)

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• 01:55

  It is a state to work toward or observe throughout your life.

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• 03:20

  Simply pay attention to your breathing continually. Continually, not during some special period set aside for it. Someone sits down and breathes properly for half an hour, then goes out in the evening to drink wine and smoke a cigar. Why did they spend thirty minutes breathing that morning? I do not understand the logic. It is unclear why they did it. They might as well…

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• 05:48

  That is what you should be afraid of, not feeling less than great the next day, with WHOOP picking something up, and then lying down to sleep again while your body says, “Okay, at last we can recover.” His HRV goes through the roof, and he says, “Look, it is good! I have recovered already.” It is going through the roof because…

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• 06:14

  Then, during meditation, they will be able to find real answers to why they feel that way.

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  But it is automatic. You ask it automatically. You say it and say it and say it and say it and say it and say it, and you cannot get rid of it.

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• 08:25

  In America, I think society has deliberately made that question completely meaningless.

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• 10:05

  The point is that I try, have always tried, and keep trying—though “always” is relative, of course…

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• 10:40

  I try not to go there either, so I increasingly try to respond calmly when people tell me things.

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• 11:17

  But this is a structure—for example, the structure of ego, the presence of Luciferic programs, Ahrimanic programs, or certain forces within you…

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• 12:08

  I said, “I cannot sit in that position. It is impossible.”

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