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anyone ever meditate while stoned

i agree with the buddhists' advice to some degree. cigarettes do hurt my ability to meditate. i really need to try meditating while stoned, there's a lot of potential there... but it just so happens that i *have* to have a cig when i'm stoned, so you see my dilemna.

drunk... nah, i feel too silly when i'm drunk
 
The only way I remained sane was to meditate. Stoned or not, it's a great way to release all your bad energy. It's a real trip to go past normal meditation into deeper layers. That's the reason I stopped using drugs. I found that I could see and feel anything that I wanted through meditation. You also develop an ability of clairvoyance (psychic ability) through higer meditation. I recommend you guys to read Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. Here are some concentration exercises by Robert Bruce that I use. BTW, if you have ADD.. meditation will take that problem away from you :)

Concentration Exercise (1)
After image retention: Relax, calm your mind, and look at a candle or a light bulb. Place this light in front of you, a couple of feet away, and stare fixedly at it for a minute or two. Close your eyes and concentrate on the after image this will generate behind your closed eyelids. Try and keep sight of it for as long as possible. Use breath awareness to keep the mind clear, while you are doing this. Try and make the after image grow, instead of fading away.


Concentration Exercise (2)
One point stare: Pick a spot on a wall and gaze at it. Don't focus on it, just gaze at it gently. Clear your mind of ALL thoughts and forcibly hold it blank. Concentrate HARD, on breath awareness while you are doing this. When you feel a thought beginning, push it away, don't let it finish! Hold this for as long as you can. Do this several times a day, or more if you can.


Concentration Exercise (3)
Energy breathing: Sit and relax. Close your eyes and clear your mind. Do the breath awareness exercise and imagine the air you are breathing IN is brightly coloured energy of your favourite colour. Imagine the air you are breathing OUT is a murky Grey, full of toxic waste. This is a purification exercise. It stimulates your chakras into absorbing energy on the inhale and getting rid of negative energy on the exhale.

Note: Try your best not to tense up while you are doing these concentration exercises, it is ALL mental. In the beginning, it may feel as if you have to tense your mind into a tight ball to stop it thinking, but in time you will find the opposite to be true. When you get used to it, clearing the mind is VERY relaxing.
 
I haven't actually sat down to meditate getting stoned, though ive sat there very stoned and started thinking of things so ages, so i suppose that can be called meditate too..i never moved, just sat there very peacefully thinking all calm thoughts.
 
"meditation while high is either awesome or terrible. on sativas, your thoughts race and its unbearable.
on indicas its awesome because u feel glued to your meditation spot and feel compelled to feel nothing and think nothing"

i agree, i've had amazing experiences meditating on indicas. i've pretty much learned how to induce a state of bliss and oneness. on sativas i get a really euphoric high but if i try to meditate i'm usually unable to quiet my mind. so i have to choose between euphoria and bliss, neither one a bad choice. i really want to try meditating completely sober but in order to do that i'd have to stop smoking weed for a few weeks at least and i can't seeem to do that. my daily marijuana experiences are simply so blissful i can't give them up.
 
asianfreek said:
i think the best way to meditate when you're stoned is to listen to music.
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i strongly disagree: ireally enjoy listenin to music when i m high, believe me, but if u wanna meditate it's not ideal...i get into the music for 100% and my thoughts are being slowed down due to this...when i stop listenin it's much ezier to concentrate ( quite logic , ithink)
 
Listening to music is great for me when I'm stoned. It's probably not quite mediation, but in my mind it is. I listen to the music and I just think about stuff. I get a perspective on all my problems and just found a way to not worry about them. It just refreshes me.
 
I used to get mild anxiety attacks when I went to bed stoned... I couldn't control my thoughts and I would see some really disturbing and negative stuff. I remember one time to try to deal with the bad bad images and I found this 'place'. I've never meditated properly before but in this 'place' I had to carefully balance something in my mind... sometimes I would feel myself lean a little too much to one way and have to quickly go the other until things were even. In this 'place' my head was competely clear, it was quite euphoric. I don't know how I got there though, so I haven't really been able to do it again. I might try some of your excersices gravity, thanks :)
 
Chaotic Action Man said:
i meditate at a budhist monestary and one of the first things they said was the more impurities you put in your body, the harder it is to meditate. if you have a toke, or even alcohol even once a week it impares meditation. this is why budhists do not drink etc. hell he even said smoking cig's acts as a barrier. i can still meditate, but while i use, my meditations will never be as deep as they could/should be.

personally i can't meditate at all if i smoke pot or drink the night before, let alone moments before. it gets easier the longer i have gone without it. recently i have been thinking just how deep into meditation could i go sober. it has been an interesting train of thought for me over recent weeks.

anyway, for me, mediation while stoned just doesn't happen. i fall asleep.
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You could use the weed as a training aid. Because it's "harder" to achieve deep meditative states whille stoned, trying to train yourself to be more disciplined might make you a stronger meditator. (did i just make up a word?). It's the same principle as when runners travel to high altitudes, or when competative swimmers will wear "drag suits" to strengthen their stroke.

Weed may act as a mental workout, which might enable you to get deeper into meditation when you've abstained for a few days.
 
Hmm, so I wonder if one were to spend their stoned time on intellectual activities and critical thinking, one might be able to improve their intelligence?
 
It's fun meditating while stoned but I find the ability to simply wash over things and return to that state of not apathy but complete contentment that comes with meditation, is much harder stoned.

If i'm sober meditating, you hear something, or see something, and it washes over you after a second; you ride the wave of your breath, following tangents of thoughts then letting them dissolve.

stoned, I'll do that, but then hear something, and won't let it wash over but it will keep nagging; until I get paranoid, get anxious, or start concentrating on my heartbeat and get REALLY anxious cos it's beating faster. Even with strong indicas not only is your mind too cloudy but it's too hard to achieve that state, for me at least...my body is at complete rest but my mind can't reconcile that...sober, you can just let go.

but I will try it again, maybe tonight but I've cut down on my smokin drastically so I might not until sat.
 
Lately im just falling asleep every time, but I've been doing it at night after work. I'm going to try meditating and then smoking later cause this isn't working out.
 
i meditate at a budhist monestary and one of the first things they said was the more impurities you put in your body, the harder it is to meditate. if you have a toke, or even alcohol even once a week it impares meditation. this is why budhists do not drink etc. hell he even said smoking cig's acts as a barrier. i can still meditate, but while i use, my meditations will never be as deep as they could/should be.
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i couldn't agree more. there are some things i think drugs should never be accompanied with. meditation is surely one of them. needless to say, i don't meditate whilst stoned. but i DO go into some deep, strange thinking...a trance like state (more so on psychedelics)...but i guess that's..what...sort of the antithesis of meditation?
 
iom said:
Hmm, so I wonder if one were to spend their stoned time on intellectual activities and critical thinking, one might be able to improve their intelligence?
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i think stoned is a wrong word, i prefer high.
improve intelligence? r u nuts?=D ;-)
no , offcourse not, it can help u think things tru and so forth...
 
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