I just realised that I may have been accidentally meditating without even realising it. For the past few years I developed a habit of going on walks to areas with slightly rough terrain. I walk pretty fast, so it doesn't allow me to think about anything because I have to focus on not stumbling. And I think over time i've gotten better at not thinking about anything because I find it comforting afterwards.
That's beautiful. I actually read something about a study a short while back, I don't remember the exact terminology, but I think it was something along the lines of "cognitive chatter" and running. Basically they found, that after a run, people's minds were calmer, not just subjectively, but from a biological standpoint. Wouldn't be a huge stress that this also can be true for walking! (especially since daily walks have been a ritual for many brilliant minds throughout history)
The reason I almost cried for the people wondering why is because there's a realization that dude YOU'RE suffering and you put in effort so easily to help others cause they need your help but you never put in the effort to help yourself. I am not a priority to myself and it's a sad realization.
I need to get this out of myself. I started crying too. My dog died a month and a half ago. She had terminal cancer and I would wake up in the middle of the night at the slightest sound she made so I could help her stand up or clean after her. I'd follow her everywhere so she didn't hurt herself (she was deaf and blind from one eye). Meanwhile, I struggle to get out of bed even to have breakfast. But you know something? If I had to do it for the rest of my life just for her to be fine, I would have done it. I wouldn't care if I never slept well, or if I ended up really tired every morning after cleaning up 4 times in a night. She was the sweetest dog you could ever meet, and saved my life in more than one way. So I'm not throwing away all the good things she taught me. I'm now going to look for my own good.
Thank you for putting these on youtube. I dont have time to watch streams so its awesome to get what you say on stream in a condensed version right here. Very much appreciated!
Woah the description of sound meditation for ADHD minds made something click. I have always loved really noisy, heavy, fast, dark music. Deathcore in particular. The really high rate of sound that feels almost like sonic sandpaper just itches my mind in all the right ways and I can't think about anything else. It is nice.
One of the best ways to kill my headaches is listening to Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony, following all instruments simultaneously. I've been finally diagnosed with ADD at 37 years old, because my son at 10 years old got that diagnosis and reading about what the hell that was, was staring into a fucking mirror. Now that was a blessing of the most depressing terror I'd ever realised
God damn, you went through your whole life with add and no diagnosis? I hope adults didn't punish you too hard for your energy or how quickly you could become bored.
This comment plus Dr. K's explanation of sound meditation just helped me realize why I feel meditative while listening to progressive metal music... THANK YOU
wow i had never listened to his work until just now and i sat with my eyes closed and listened to all 14 minutes without moving or getting distracted or anxious. thank you for sharing
I'll keep that cognitive fingerprint in mind now. I've been meditating for some years now and used various techniques with different outcomes. It was usually some incurable mood that I had to accept when things didn't work out but I never questioned the different techniques used. Thanks for doing this for us!
I love when you talk about ADHD because it affects directly me, I've already perceived that sound was better for me but I always heard people talking about breathing.
As a game addict, I can say group projects were the only assignments I could do and do good because it was for other people, I didn't care about me. I did the best in a social studies class I had because the teacher gave us a group assignment like every week. Every homework was a group assignment so I couldn't not do it
"Go to a busy place, close your eyes, and listen to as many things as you can as fast as you can." Oh, so that ADHD superpower is finally going to come in handy for once!
After sitting all day on the PC and not getting anything done, after having rapid, anxious and thoughts as if they were fire works for hours, and just sitting on RUclips binge watching videos, I tried the sound meditation and I was able to slow down my mind by a lot. I'm actually surprised. I feel better
1. The best meditation for you is the one that gets you to dhyana the fastest 2. Focus on yourself, not on others and how what they're doing or not doing is not beneficial or harmful 3. Dharma( 18:11 )- I owe myself a life of peace, happiness, contentment, and success where i get better. I just don't realize i owe that to myself
Idea for sound meditation: get as many audio sources (cassette/CD player, radio, phone, computer, TV, anything else you can think of) and play as many types of music, podcast, informational video, anything to create an environment with as many sounds as possible
There are specific sound meditations. Just adding alot of noise is simply nonsense. Sure if you can handle this sensory overload, it will make you mentally strong, but nothing more. Stillness of the mind is just the beginning of something much larger then us.
After I did the breathing thing, my head felt lighter for a while. There was this weird feeling of wanting to smile for no reason in particular. I might start meditating. Ty.
A favorite of mine: "The Letting Go Deep Dive", similar to the one you suggest for ADHD where you focus on as many sounds as possible, instead here you substitute sound for physical sensation. Between 5 sec and sometimes up to 3 min I scan my body as fast as possible, trying to turn on every square inch of surface and visceral sensation. Once I can feel the sensations of my entire body all at once, I tune into and inhale deeply into them. For 30 mins, with each and every slow exhalation I physically relax, soften and release any tension, letting go deeper each time, as if descending levels. And even when you think there's nothing left to let go or release, you notice every breath takes your relaxation deeper and deeper and deeper, unlocking endless lower levels of tension release. (Actually, doing that routine but scanning only your head and face area is easier and just as effective, you lower body will follow along automatically)…After 30 mins you'll feel like the mightiest human pudding ever!!
I think i have the same path as you, almost, if i fail in life by not doing anything ima try to be a budhist, thats the plan b, but if i fail at that then its gg
Can you give a run-down of each type of meditation you know of, describe the name, basic idea of how it's performed, and what it's supposed to be aimed towards or for what type of person it should help?
ADHD brain/toddler analogy was golden. I consume a lot of media where the main character has the trope of using the enemies power with the control of the good team (meditation is the key to controlling the thing the overlords use to control us) and usually it is expressed via demons or some form of demonology. I came to this through my own means and had come up with this concept of exercising one’s personal demons rather than exorcising them. I had realized my mind was like a restless toddler (little devil) and needed to be tired out before I could interact with it healthily. Just some fun wordplay but rather profound in my situation.
As an ADD Person I do a chore as fast as I can. Prep a protein/vanilla/banana/soy milk/lemon juice shake(all fresh ingredients) as fast as I can. Do a strength workout. Have the shake as a reward. Open the windows in my living room wide open. There's a busy pond, busy road, bike path and a forest/park right there. I put up a sound meditation on top with open back head-set so I can hear the meditation AND sounds outside. In the sun if I'm lucky. Presto... Nirvana... My 10 minutes of zen in an insane ADD brain.
I always love it when Dr. K says "Go back to the fuckin' breath" 🤣 Oh also, when I think of my sister as some kind of horrible bot that doesn't know what she's saying, that actually helps.
The “noticing the temperature of my breath” works. I didn’t try the “ sound meditation” though, since the breath one already works pretty fine on me The counting breaths that i heard a lot bores me that it makes me want to stand up and run around after periods of time.
You could do them in order for a deeper effect. Focus on the different sounds in your environment (from most distant to internal), then the temperature of your breath, and finally on counting your breaths (backwards is useful, but sweeping your awareness across your body from the tip of your toes to the crown of your head). Meditation techniques stack powerfully when you move your awareness from the outside world to your inner state of being.
I didn't know there were Meditation styles for various cognitive styles. And I have bachelor's in Religious studies and took Sanskrit course at uni! 🤦The one for ADHD is priceless!
Holy Crap i have tried to meditate before but was not able to focus, but after i saw the laziness video i decided to try the Bee sound thing you did and it was great! i will be doing more of it :D thanks for the good work you do.
How wonderful it is finally to see a well educated man having had education and experience of yoga and Breathwork and guide people!!! I am a yoga teacher and I teach yoga and meditation and Breathwork to others and I feel so sad that sooo many people don’t believe in these practices
Wow I've discovered the sound meditation on my own and I'm ADD. However I didn't realize that I should pursue it further. Breathing meditation works pretty well for me now because I've practiced it for a while. Same for muscular meditation. I need to find this list of 112 meditations.
Originally started watching because I was interested in the meditation part - but the part that really opened my eyes is the 'Complacency vs Content'. Apparently I'm fairly good at this.. at times at least. I usually go up a regular flight of stairs instead of an escalator/lift, because I want that for myself. I know that it's better for my body to move and excercise, so I take the regular stairs. This is also why I try to go on walks every single day. I try to take good care of my body & with that, also take care of my mind. I just never realised this was called Dharma :)
Awesome - Meditation has been shown the reduce stress, control anxiety, promote emotional health, increase self-awareness, improve attention span, reducing age related memory loss, help to mitigate addictive behaviors such as alcoholism and food craving, improve sleep and last but not least, improve your tolerance to pain. Just as the Buddha says "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment"
Just checked, it's not the latest VOD. This was from the VOD 15 days ago - "Missing the Boat" & Overcoming Your Skill Ceiling. This video starts around 1:37:00-ish
@@ARGhazalia Sorry, didn't mean to sound like a dick when I said it wasn't the latest vod. I also figured it would be the last vod, that's why I wrote that it's not. Cheers!
Wish I knew this before, topkek. ADHD and I bruteforced my way into mindfulness meditation. It worked after years of trying, but seriously just start with what ever works best for you...
I literally cried when he talked about getting enraged with chat being disrespectful. I felt read like a book. I was being judgemental and not actually doing the exercise mentioned. Im always beating myself up for how emotional I am, but is the first time that it actually didnt matter.
Writing this for my own sake, so please ignore. After rewatching, it seems that the main takeaway for "choosing the right meditation" is finding whatever meditative technique gets you to dhyana the fastest. For reference, dhyana is the state of mind achieved by meditation, which seems self-referential from a cursory glance. From a further examination, it seems to be one in which focus is enhanced and extraneous thoughts are no longer present. There may be other goals of dhyana, but I think this is sufficient for my own problems.
I'm having trouble with meditation. I started with it about a year ago and i've learned a lot and recently i've started to sometimes feel like i really get lost in the meditation, like i enter another state of conciousness or whatever. But then something happens in me that triggers an anxiety attack; i feel trapped and out of control and i can't keep my eyes closed anymore so have to end the meditation. This doesn't happen every time as i don't always feel like i get to that level, but when i do, i end up more anxious than before.
Yes, I have trouble with this as well when I meditate with a jaw harp! I have trouble being at peace with myself. I sometimes feel very paranoid and find it helps to go somewhere no one will bother me.
My hypothesis for this state is that you've started to think again, rather than enter a meditative samadhi state, and just aren't aware that you're thinking and it triggers depressive thoughts. Bad meditations tend to go like this for me. Just a hypothesis, could also anxiety / C-PTSD triggers that people complain about in meditation.
"I feel trapped and out of control" Mind/ego get anxious because the mind always wants to be in control and it does not like that the meditation is taking its control away, also because you are aligning with soul and taking a break of the mind. Most people are aligned with the mind. There is this book called THE POWER OF NOW and it can help you a lot if the mind you have understands
if i am understanding this correctly, we have "chat" in our head someone overwhelmed is talking back to chat in their head and listening to what it says someone in focus or meditation is like "ok chat" and has a grin but does what he wants chat can you verify
4:26 O! That explains something - with my ADHD I do prefer to listen to rapid things, like podcasts x2 speed and I wish I could do x3-4. When I tell that to ppl they say it's exosting. It's true it's taxing but I have better focus when I do that and it's kinda plesant. Afterwards I feel lika after a fun excercise not a chore/burden. And I like them difficult, like quantum physics, geopolitics, macroeconomy and such so yeah, afterwards everything seems calm in comparison. Never thought I can be close to a meditation that way :)
I used to do the sound meditation when I was a kid for fun just to see how many different things/people I could hear in noisy places. Who would’ve thought over a decade later I’d receive and adhd diagnosis :)
Dr. K, thank you for another upload and I hope you are enjoying your break. I did my first proper meditation in quite some time today to a Joe Dispenza CD and I felt vibrations and cold chills throughout my body and at one point a strong vibration/cold chill almost goosebump feeling in my chest that felt absolutely amazing. The strong vibration lasted only a second or two but it felt great. Have you experienced this before? And if so, do you know the name of what was happening? I would like to do some research on it. Thanks Dr. K. All the best. Bo
I wonder what's the relationship between dharma and self worth. If I can't devote myself to something meaningful, does that make me less worthy to exist?
I've had this idea that my smoking isn't really all that much about smoking any specific thing in particular. It's more about the ritual of rolling the thing then smoking it. it's like i trained myself that way. Just like you talk about training yourself to enter that no mind state. Ofc the nicotine probably makes the urge stronger... but rolling is like a part of me now. I bet some people will understand what I mean.
I used to smoke weed. It was fun at first, but then it got less exciting, then boring and finally bit off-putting. But I kept doing it because of that ritual: getting illegal substance, getting paraphernalia, getting the squad together, rolling it and hanging out while smoking. Whole process was much more enjoyable than actually smoking.
What Dr K was saying here about your duty to yourself sounds a lot like one of Jordan Peterson's 12 rules for life which is "treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping"
Can someone tell Dr. K to use a chat program which supports BTTV (Better Twitch TV) and FFZ (FrankerFaceZ) emotes? They exist as browser addons but I think Dr. K might be using a separate chat program, and there also are many chat programs that display all of those emotes. I seriously think Dr. K would understand the Twitch chat a lot better that way sometimes. Not that the chat would look smarter, but you would actually see what emotes they are posting ;)
I just stumbled on your videos and I'm enjoying it so far. Are you a psychiatrist or a psychologist? Just out of curiosity. I'm a physiotherapist and working on some physiotherapy videos for video gaming with my colleague so I'm just curious about what your take on the physical effects of video gaming is and do you consider those at all.
When Dr K yells at me it feels like I'm yelling at myself, the kind of no bullshit "you know I'm right" yelling that's only concerned with helping me, that doesn't feel threatening, just honest
The dharma thing is what I was doing with inner child work. I would ask my kid self if she was ok, what did she need, and she would tell me. After a while a worked through most of my early issues, and now my inner self is more of a teen/young adult. Some day I'll catch up to my actual age!😄
dao is kind like the society level‘s meta mechanism ( just i feel )(i am Chinese i can read the old Chinese literature ) Matthew effect is one of dao instance.
I have adhd and I am currently trying different meditations. I always kind of calm down at some point but I dont think I have ever entered a state of mind where I dont have thoughts. So you recommend I should try to go to a loud, public place and try to listen to as many things as possible, as rapidly as I can to exhaust my mind, so I can calm down. But loud places with a lot going on are very uncomfortable for me and I cant stop thinking about how people look at me and what me doing that, looks like. Is there any different form of meditation that would be better suited for me?
It probably doesn't have to be loud. You can go outside and hear a lot of things. Car drive by, tree in the wind, dude on a bike, tree again, footsteps, AC units from the houses, tree, etc.
I've always been able to just stop my thoughts in an instant at any time I want, I don't really see that state as anything beneficial. The funny thing is is that I have extreme ADHD most of the time, but if I want to shut my thoughts down I have no problem. For me, I love getting to a state where my thoughts are progressive and structured.
That's usually not a problem for me either but there are times when the captain's wheel on my mind just slips out of my grasp and my thoughts go into overdrive and it feels like I'm in a violent tailspin. I can think about my rapid thoughts as they happen and that's how I perceive it: like I lost control and now the ride is going too fast. I usually just breathe deep and slow to sort of sedate myself out of it but this sort of meditation has recently helped with the emotional aspect of unchecked thoughts. Not ones that are out of control but rather ones that you can't hide away from.
Hey, was there already published Dr.K's explanation of 112 mentioned meditation techniques collection? If yes please send me a source/link, I would really benefit from it, as many would
Apparently I watched this video 2 years ago and I still forgot the point 🤦♂️ I’ve been meditating for a month with breathing because I thought if it was harder to do there would be more benefits. I should have just done what was easy for me to focus on
This is interesting, let me ask you somthing. I listen to Alan Watts a whole bunch, especially his guided meditation and he focuses on clearing your mind in a Zen way and my question is what do you think of that type of meditation? Of absolute clearness in the head
@@brahmaputramoskva1215 Some meditation techniques are not ideal for certain people. Meditation techniques using vivid visual imagery or recreation of polar opposite sensations may not be suitable for people with epilepsy and/or schizophrenia. People recovering from deep traumas also need to exercise caution.
it seems that jordan peterson is exactly teaching the same thing with dharma. You need a goal and make it your responsibility and embrace the negative roadblocks while attaining the goal or practicing your responsibility.
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Harvard Psychotherapist teaches chat the secret of Hamon breathing
I searched it and just found people saying that bc o2 creates oxididation we will age faster bc of the use of that technique.
I believe it's worth living a fulfilling life even if you age faster, rather than aimlessly go about
nada a ver mano
@@KaosSaBotazs Age is a time measure not an oxigen measure
@@KaosSaBotazs This is bullshit, you dont have more o2 if you meditate lol, rather less because your breathing rate decreases
I just realised that I may have been accidentally meditating without even realising it. For the past few years I developed a habit of going on walks to areas with slightly rough terrain. I walk pretty fast, so it doesn't allow me to think about anything because I have to focus on not stumbling. And I think over time i've gotten better at not thinking about anything because I find it comforting afterwards.
Hey, that’s interesting. Where do you go to for walks?
That's beautiful. I actually read something about a study a short while back, I don't remember the exact terminology, but I think it was something along the lines of "cognitive chatter" and running. Basically they found, that after a run, people's minds were calmer, not just subjectively, but from a biological standpoint. Wouldn't be a huge stress that this also can be true for walking! (especially since daily walks have been a ritual for many brilliant minds throughout history)
Walking meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh has spoken of this often.
I have the opportunity to walk on rough terrain almost daily, and yes, it's great for stilling the monkey mind!
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17:15 made me cry. I never thought about how much easier it is to help others than it is to help myself.
Read this comment before seeing that part and thought: I probably won´t cry. Then it came and I did... Wow.
Why the heck you cryin
The reason I almost cried for the people wondering why is because there's a realization that dude YOU'RE suffering and you put in effort so easily to help others cause they need your help but you never put in the effort to help yourself. I am not a priority to myself and it's a sad realization.
I need to get this out of myself. I started crying too. My dog died a month and a half ago. She had terminal cancer and I would wake up in the middle of the night at the slightest sound she made so I could help her stand up or clean after her. I'd follow her everywhere so she didn't hurt herself (she was deaf and blind from one eye). Meanwhile, I struggle to get out of bed even to have breakfast. But you know something? If I had to do it for the rest of my life just for her to be fine, I would have done it. I wouldn't care if I never slept well, or if I ended up really tired every morning after cleaning up 4 times in a night. She was the sweetest dog you could ever meet, and saved my life in more than one way. So I'm not throwing away all the good things she taught me. I'm now going to look for my own good.
you are such a good taker and im sure your dog was very happy to have spent her life with you@@ivesaaron
You should do a mini series with all the meditation styles you know. Would be amazing !
I think he does
@@username2872 Hey great username, username2872. Do you know where to find that?
@@calvinfranklyn5499he made a playlists. Just search it
@calvinfranklyn5499 there is a playlist on the channel called meditation
Thank you for putting these on youtube. I dont have time to watch streams so its awesome to get what you say on stream in a condensed version right here.
Very much appreciated!
Holy shit, I really needed you in my life.
Woah the description of sound meditation for ADHD minds made something click. I have always loved really noisy, heavy, fast, dark music. Deathcore in particular. The really high rate of sound that feels almost like sonic sandpaper just itches my mind in all the right ways and I can't think about anything else. It is nice.
One of the best ways to kill my headaches is listening to Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony, following all instruments simultaneously. I've been finally diagnosed with ADD at 37 years old, because my son at 10 years old got that diagnosis and reading about what the hell that was, was staring into a fucking mirror.
Now that was a blessing of the most depressing terror I'd ever realised
God damn, you went through your whole life with add and no diagnosis?
I hope adults didn't punish you too hard for your energy or how quickly you could become bored.
This comment plus Dr. K's explanation of sound meditation just helped me realize why I feel meditative while listening to progressive metal music... THANK YOU
@@laurenhranicky7204 Oh my GOD. THANKYOU FOR THIS. I UNDERSTAND.
"It all makes sense now"
wow i had never listened to his work until just now and i sat with my eyes closed and listened to all 14 minutes without moving or getting distracted or anxious. thank you for sharing
Every streamer regardless of mental health status needs to listen to the part about chat LMAO
Dr. K made me realize I have been meditating for years while listening to music and bouncing my attention across multiple instruments playing.
I'll keep that cognitive fingerprint in mind now. I've been meditating for some years now and used various techniques with different outcomes. It was usually some incurable mood that I had to accept when things didn't work out but I never questioned the different techniques used.
Thanks for doing this for us!
I love when you talk about ADHD because it affects directly me, I've already perceived that sound was better for me but I always heard people talking about breathing.
As a game addict, I can say group projects were the only assignments I could do and do good because it was for other people, I didn't care about me. I did the best in a social studies class I had because the teacher gave us a group assignment like every week. Every homework was a group assignment so I couldn't not do it
"Go to a busy place, close your eyes, and listen to as many things as you can as fast as you can." Oh, so that ADHD superpower is finally going to come in handy for once!
After sitting all day on the PC and not getting anything done, after having rapid, anxious and thoughts as if they were fire works for hours, and just sitting on RUclips binge watching videos, I tried the sound meditation and I was able to slow down my mind by a lot. I'm actually surprised. I feel better
1. The best meditation for you is the one that gets you to dhyana the fastest
2. Focus on yourself, not on others and how what they're doing or not doing is not beneficial or harmful
3. Dharma( 18:11 )- I owe myself a life of peace, happiness, contentment, and success where i get better. I just don't realize i owe that to myself
Idea for sound meditation: get as many audio sources (cassette/CD player, radio, phone, computer, TV, anything else you can think of) and play as many types of music, podcast, informational video, anything to create an environment with as many sounds as possible
can i do it with tabs playing diff youtube videos
@@mollyo2407 Probably works the same
There are specific sound meditations. Just adding alot of noise is simply nonsense. Sure if you can handle this sensory overload, it will make you mentally strong, but nothing more. Stillness of the mind is just the beginning of something much larger then us.
After I did the breathing thing, my head felt lighter for a while. There was this weird feeling of wanting to smile for no reason in particular. I might start meditating. Ty.
What Meditation do you use?
A favorite of mine: "The Letting Go Deep Dive", similar to the one you suggest for ADHD where you focus on as many sounds as possible, instead here you substitute sound for physical sensation. Between 5 sec and sometimes up to 3 min I scan my body as fast as possible, trying to turn on every square inch of surface and visceral sensation. Once I can feel the sensations of my entire body all at once, I tune into and inhale deeply into them. For 30 mins, with each and every slow exhalation I physically relax, soften and release any tension, letting go deeper each time, as if descending levels. And even when you think there's nothing left to let go or release, you notice every breath takes your relaxation deeper and deeper and deeper, unlocking endless lower levels of tension release. (Actually, doing that routine but scanning only your head and face area is easier and just as effective, you lower body will follow along automatically)…After 30 mins you'll feel like the mightiest human pudding ever!!
Sam Harris Guided meditation
I think i have the same path as you, almost, if i fail in life by not doing anything ima try to be a budhist, thats the plan b, but if i fail at that then its gg
Can you give a run-down of each type of meditation you know of, describe the name, basic idea of how it's performed, and what it's supposed to be aimed towards or for what type of person it should help?
@@DevinDTV i second this
Came here looking for meditation advice and got more valuable life lesson about Dharma!! Thanks again Dr. K, may God bless your soul!
ADHD brain/toddler analogy was golden. I consume a lot of media where the main character has the trope of using the enemies power with the control of the good team (meditation is the key to controlling the thing the overlords use to control us) and usually it is expressed via demons or some form of demonology. I came to this through my own means and had come up with this concept of exercising one’s personal demons rather than exorcising them. I had realized my mind was like a restless toddler (little devil) and needed to be tired out before I could interact with it healthily. Just some fun wordplay but rather profound in my situation.
my god the comparison of chat to the stream of inner monologue thoughts blew my mind. like yes. perfect
As an ADD Person I do a chore as fast as I can. Prep a protein/vanilla/banana/soy milk/lemon juice shake(all fresh ingredients) as fast as I can. Do a strength workout. Have the shake as a reward. Open the windows in my living room wide open. There's a busy pond, busy road, bike path and a forest/park right there. I put up a sound meditation on top with open back head-set so I can hear the meditation AND sounds outside. In the sun if I'm lucky.
Presto... Nirvana... My 10 minutes of zen in an insane ADD brain.
Not willing to help myself but am willing to help others no matter the cost. That hit me so hard.
Much love doc, you're an inspiration.
I was literally raging at chat it's like I'm there
fr he just convinced me to be angry at chat lol
Chat is chat 😌
I always love it when Dr. K says "Go back to the fuckin' breath" 🤣
Oh also, when I think of my sister as some kind of horrible bot that doesn't know what she's saying, that actually helps.
The “noticing the temperature of my breath” works.
I didn’t try the “ sound meditation” though, since the breath one already works pretty fine on me
The counting breaths that i heard a lot bores me that it makes me want to stand up and run around after periods of time.
You could do them in order for a deeper effect. Focus on the different sounds in your environment (from most distant to internal), then the temperature of your breath, and finally on counting your breaths (backwards is useful, but sweeping your awareness across your body from the tip of your toes to the crown of your head). Meditation techniques stack powerfully when you move your awareness from the outside world to your inner state of being.
Pitta here. Impressed w/ "inhale, how cold is your breath" meditation. Yup, right there. Thx Dr K! 😔🙏💖✨😎
Man, the breath tecnique worked so well for me, thank you
I didn't know there were Meditation styles for various cognitive styles. And I have bachelor's in Religious studies and took Sanskrit course at uni! 🤦The one for ADHD is priceless!
Thank you pal. Really appreciate your work here
Holy Crap i have tried to meditate before but was not able to focus, but after i saw the laziness video i decided to try the Bee sound thing you did and it was great! i will be doing more of it :D thanks for the good work you do.
Alok! The meditation where you notice the sound of your breath clicked hard with me last night. It was as if it was the first time I took a breath.
How wonderful it is finally to see a well educated man having had education and experience of yoga and Breathwork and guide people!!! I am a yoga teacher and I teach yoga and meditation and Breathwork to others and I feel so sad that sooo many people don’t believe in these practices
The tip for AD/HD mind was priceless! Thank you 💙!! I always loved train stations and such because of the ambience atmosphere they have.
23:09 I could watch it over and over till the day I die
Yeah thats so fking funny
Wow I've discovered the sound meditation on my own and I'm ADD. However I didn't realize that I should pursue it further. Breathing meditation works pretty well for me now because I've practiced it for a while. Same for muscular meditation. I need to find this list of 112 meditations.
Add is the same as adhd
@@unfortunate7803 its just the short way of saying “i have adhd but i exibit mainly unattentive simptomes”
the last 2 minutes, golden. I really wish they taught this stuff from a young age
Originally started watching because I was interested in the meditation part - but the part that really opened my eyes is the 'Complacency vs Content'.
Apparently I'm fairly good at this.. at times at least. I usually go up a regular flight of stairs instead of an escalator/lift, because I want that for myself. I know that it's better for my body to move and excercise, so I take the regular stairs. This is also why I try to go on walks every single day. I try to take good care of my body & with that, also take care of my mind.
I just never realised this was called Dharma :)
You have a good sense of dharma to self.
@@sourgrape_s Thank you :)
22:40 This is why I love this guy. This message and those like it.
Awesome - Meditation has been shown the reduce stress, control anxiety, promote emotional health, increase self-awareness, improve attention span, reducing age related memory loss, help to mitigate addictive behaviors such as alcoholism and food craving, improve sleep and last but not least, improve your tolerance to pain.
Just as the Buddha says "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment"
Alok is probably my favourite human alive ❤ Thank you so much for everything you do
thanks for these videos dude i really need them
That investigative breathing technique is like the first thing I’ve ever done that’s gotten my inner monologue to shut up
8:20 to about 10:20 had me laughing so hard. Thank you so much for this Dr. K & team!
Changing my life one video after the other.
Does anyone happen to know what vod this came from?
Probably the latest one since this was uploaded very recently? I haven't checked though.
Just checked, it's not the latest VOD. This was from the VOD 15 days ago - "Missing the Boat" & Overcoming Your Skill Ceiling. This video starts around 1:37:00-ish
@@ipd3995 thanks, very helpful! Haven't found the time to go and look.
@@ARGhazalia Sorry, didn't mean to sound like a dick when I said it wasn't the latest vod. I also figured it would be the last vod, that's why I wrote that it's not. Cheers!
@@ipd3995 no worries, I didn't take it as negative. Thank you again for looking :)
Wish I knew this before, topkek. ADHD and I bruteforced my way into mindfulness meditation. It worked after years of trying, but seriously just start with what ever works best for you...
Hi great video, did you ever make a complete guide to all of the mediations??? Would love to give all of them a try
I know I’m late, but he did it and it’s out there on reddit
I do that sound meditation in nature usually with the rustling of the trees in the wind
I literally cried when he talked about getting enraged with chat being disrespectful. I felt read like a book. I was being judgemental and not actually doing the exercise mentioned. Im always beating myself up for how emotional I am, but is the first time that it actually didnt matter.
Twitch chat psychology on point
15:15 such true words
Oh, the one for adhd! This is how i got there the first time. I wish i found DR K 4 years ago
The video we needed!
Writing this for my own sake, so please ignore. After rewatching, it seems that the main takeaway for "choosing the right meditation" is finding whatever meditative technique gets you to dhyana the fastest. For reference, dhyana is the state of mind achieved by meditation, which seems self-referential from a cursory glance. From a further examination, it seems to be one in which focus is enhanced and extraneous thoughts are no longer present. There may be other goals of dhyana, but I think this is sufficient for my own problems.
I look forward to all 112!
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Wassup brother, Kanye really is the Goat
@@yeezyy_ye are you high or what?
@@michalg4431 why would u think I'm high
Even a year later Zonzu still got me with "someone farted LULW" at 5:32
Its the first time Im watching him, and I love this guy.
'you have a dharna to take care of yourself' hit me HARD
Oh man, im high as fuck and chats got me dying. Ive never seen such an active and engaging chat. I need to see you live some time
“And then some of you dumbasses are getting upset with chat...
...Go back to the f*cking breath!”
Best guided meditation I’ve ever heard. XD
I'm having trouble with meditation. I started with it about a year ago and i've learned a lot and recently i've started to sometimes feel like i really get lost in the meditation, like i enter another state of conciousness or whatever. But then something happens in me that triggers an anxiety attack; i feel trapped and out of control and i can't keep my eyes closed anymore so have to end the meditation. This doesn't happen every time as i don't always feel like i get to that level, but when i do, i end up more anxious than before.
Yes, I have trouble with this as well when I meditate with a jaw harp! I have trouble being at peace with myself. I sometimes feel very paranoid and find it helps to go somewhere no one will bother me.
My hypothesis for this state is that you've started to think again, rather than enter a meditative samadhi state, and just aren't aware that you're thinking and it triggers depressive thoughts. Bad meditations tend to go like this for me. Just a hypothesis, could also anxiety / C-PTSD triggers that people complain about in meditation.
If you have trouble with meditation,start with Pranayama.As you get used to it,it will be easy to fall into meditative state
"I feel trapped and out of control"
Mind/ego get anxious because the mind always wants to be in control and it does not like that the meditation is taking its control away, also because you are aligning with soul and taking a break of the mind. Most people are aligned with the mind.
There is this book called THE POWER OF NOW and it can help you a lot if the mind you have understands
if i am understanding this correctly,
we have "chat" in our head
someone overwhelmed is talking back to chat in their head and listening to what it says
someone in focus or meditation is like "ok chat" and has a grin but does what he wants
chat can you verify
4:26 O! That explains something - with my ADHD I do prefer to listen to rapid things, like podcasts x2 speed and I wish I could do x3-4. When I tell that to ppl they say it's exosting. It's true it's taxing but I have better focus when I do that and it's kinda plesant. Afterwards I feel lika after a fun excercise not a chore/burden. And I like them difficult, like quantum physics, geopolitics, macroeconomy and such so yeah, afterwards everything seems calm in comparison. Never thought I can be close to a meditation that way :)
thanks for this!!
I used to do the sound meditation when I was a kid for fun just to see how many different things/people I could hear in noisy places. Who would’ve thought over a decade later I’d receive and adhd diagnosis :)
This is helpful I gotta do research. I only knew about mindfulness, which is awful for me, so I just thought meditation wasn't for me and gave up
Doc is fucking goated holy shit thanks bro
That sound thing.. sort of explains part of my school experience
Who.. were you two weeks ago?
Is there any book about all different kinds of meditations that Dr. K ever recommended?
Book of secrets
"Vigyaan bhairva tantra " By ranjit chaudhari
It's 1.30am, I have work in the morning and I'm watching Dr K. scream to me about Dharma
Dr. K, thank you for another upload and I hope you are enjoying your break.
I did my first proper meditation in quite some time today to a Joe Dispenza CD and I felt vibrations and cold chills throughout my body and at one point a strong vibration/cold chill almost goosebump feeling in my chest that felt absolutely amazing. The strong vibration lasted only a second or two but it felt great. Have you experienced this before? And if so, do you know the name of what was happening? I would like to do some research on it. Thanks Dr. K. All the best. Bo
Now it makes sense why my most powerful meditation experiences were with sound meditation.
I wonder what's the relationship between dharma and self worth. If I can't devote myself to something meaningful, does that make me less worthy to exist?
I never understood the appeal of loud clubs and dancing and stuff, until this video. Neat
I've had this idea that my smoking isn't really all that much about smoking any specific thing in particular. It's more about the ritual of rolling the thing then smoking it. it's like i trained myself that way. Just like you talk about training yourself to enter that no mind state. Ofc the nicotine probably makes the urge stronger... but rolling is like a part of me now. I bet some people will understand what I mean.
I used to smoke weed. It was fun at first, but then it got less exciting, then boring and finally bit off-putting. But I kept doing it because of that ritual: getting illegal substance, getting paraphernalia, getting the squad together, rolling it and hanging out while smoking. Whole process was much more enjoyable than actually smoking.
@@MP-on1xf Exactly. And you can't get together without it anymore. sadly
@@DiegoSenge we worked it out and we still hangout, but its not the same. It will never be
"You can't blame chat, accept them for who they are" my god, that whole interaction was so funny. Struggling not to laugh too loudly at work.
What Dr K was saying here about your duty to yourself sounds a lot like one of Jordan Peterson's 12 rules for life which is "treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping"
The triumphal return of Sunshine King
Love the explanation and some spice of drama, I subscribed to you and hit the bell
Can someone tell Dr. K to use a chat program which supports BTTV (Better Twitch TV) and FFZ (FrankerFaceZ) emotes? They exist as browser addons but I think Dr. K might be using a separate chat program, and there also are many chat programs that display all of those emotes. I seriously think Dr. K would understand the Twitch chat a lot better that way sometimes. Not that the chat would look smarter, but you would actually see what emotes they are posting ;)
yeah it is kinda hard to understand the emotions linked to the emote itself if you can't see it :)
I feel like I have a similar reaction level to this guy when he was defending chad. Haha love it. Thanks chad.
Now I understand why I can listen to breakdancing music and feel focused.
I just stumbled on your videos and I'm enjoying it so far. Are you a psychiatrist or a psychologist? Just out of curiosity. I'm a physiotherapist and working on some physiotherapy videos for video gaming with my colleague so I'm just curious about what your take on the physical effects of video gaming is and do you consider those at all.
He's a psychiatrist
Chat is chat. Best analogy made with mind & will since Twitch Plays Pokemon.
When Dr K yells at me it feels like I'm yelling at myself, the kind of no bullshit "you know I'm right" yelling that's only concerned with helping me, that doesn't feel threatening, just honest
The dharma thing is what I was doing with inner child work. I would ask my kid self if she was ok, what did she need, and she would tell me. After a while a worked through most of my early issues, and now my inner self is more of a teen/young adult. Some day I'll catch up to my actual age!😄
dao is kind like the society level‘s meta mechanism ( just i feel )(i am Chinese i can read the old Chinese literature )
Matthew effect is one of dao instance.
Still waiting for you to cover all 112 techniques :)
I have adhd and I am currently trying different meditations. I always kind of calm down at some point but I dont think I have ever entered a state of mind where I dont have thoughts. So you recommend I should try to go to a loud, public place and try to listen to as many things as possible, as rapidly as I can to exhaust my mind, so I can calm down. But loud places with a lot going on are very uncomfortable for me and I cant stop thinking about how people look at me and what me doing that, looks like. Is there any different form of meditation that would be better suited for me?
It probably doesn't have to be loud. You can go outside and hear a lot of things. Car drive by, tree in the wind, dude on a bike, tree again, footsteps, AC units from the houses, tree, etc.
I've always been able to just stop my thoughts in an instant at any time I want, I don't really see that state as anything beneficial. The funny thing is is that I have extreme ADHD most of the time, but if I want to shut my thoughts down I have no problem. For me, I love getting to a state where my thoughts are progressive and structured.
That's usually not a problem for me either but there are times when the captain's wheel on my mind just slips out of my grasp and my thoughts go into overdrive and it feels like I'm in a violent tailspin. I can think about my rapid thoughts as they happen and that's how I perceive it: like I lost control and now the ride is going too fast. I usually just breathe deep and slow to sort of sedate myself out of it but this sort of meditation has recently helped with the emotional aspect of unchecked thoughts. Not ones that are out of control but rather ones that you can't hide away from.
@@kamomilo3532 can you please explain me how you overcome on your captains wheel kind of mindset because i have the same problem with my mind also
Short term: RUclips shorts/ short videos in a playlist each covering one meditation technique?
ooof, alternate nostril breathing is not the one for me. I have a deviated septum, and very rarely are both of my nostrils not clogged XD
Hey, was there already published Dr.K's explanation of 112 mentioned meditation techniques collection? If yes please send me a source/link, I would really benefit from it, as many would
Please make the 112 techniques thing PLEASE
Apparently I watched this video 2 years ago and I still forgot the point 🤦♂️ I’ve been meditating for a month with breathing because I thought if it was harder to do there would be more benefits. I should have just done what was easy for me to focus on
This is interesting, let me ask you somthing. I listen to Alan Watts a whole bunch, especially his guided meditation and he focuses on clearing your mind in a Zen way and my question is what do you think of that type of meditation? Of absolute clearness in the head
Zen is the Japanese for Chan. Chan is Chinese translation of dhyan. Which Dr K talks about here.
Alan watts,Osho, Sadhguru have legit methods of meditation. Try all of them,see which works for you. Can't go wrong with any meditation
@@brahmaputramoskva1215 Some meditation techniques are not ideal for certain people. Meditation techniques using vivid visual imagery or recreation of polar opposite sensations may not be suitable for people with epilepsy and/or schizophrenia. People recovering from deep traumas also need to exercise caution.
Why didn't I find your channel years ago?
it seems that jordan peterson is exactly teaching the same thing with dharma. You need a goal and make it your responsibility and embrace the negative roadblocks while attaining the goal or practicing your responsibility.