Peter Zemskov

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  1. Posted

    12 hours ago, Sahil Pandit said:

    @Peter Zemskov Sounds like your Kundalini energy is starting to wake up.

    Do you keep your body limber? Also, your spine health.. how is it? 

    I'm not very flexible but don't have any flexibility problems either. And I don't have any spine problems.

    If it's kundalini than how much more time will it last and what is going to happen when it fully awakens?

  2. Posted

    Easy to say but its extremely hard to meditate when you're twisted in souch a way that your back hurts as though somebody stabbed you in the muscle. I literally have back pain for 15 minutes after a meditation session. But what is positive is that my willpower has grown enormously because of those sensations. I feel that i'm a lot more resistant to suffering than before. Also it sort of deapend my meditation. In those rare days when I have less movement than normal i'm meditating a lot deeper than I did before because now i'm acostumed to meditate in "hard" conditions

  4. Posted

    18 hours ago, Charlotte said:

    I've had/have similar. I usually have these bodily movements during a deep meditation. One time I was swaying back and forth with pace. I had tingling and burning sensations up my arms and neck I then lent far back and then flung forward, then came a huge realease of emotion, literally just cried for an hour straight. I've never been the same since.

    I also have tickling sensations in my shoulders sometimes. But I never had any emotional breakthroughs after mediation. Well I had it once after the first deep meditation but since then (2 years have past) I never had any.

  5. Posted

    15 hours ago, Erlend K said:

    What sort of meditation are you doing?

    Samatha: Every time your focus shifts towards the physical sensation note "sensation", and move your focus back to the breath. Be mentally prepared for any negative thoughts or feelings associated with the sensations, and set the intention to notice these asap, so that you can note "thought"/"feeling" and move your focus back to the breath.

    Vipassana: You may use these sensations as an object of meditation. Observe the sensations with as much equanimity as you are capable of, observe your mind's resistance to the sensations and longing for them to pass, notice how neither the sensation, the thoughts/feelings associated with them, the resistance and the longing for escape are "you" but just ever-fluctuating streams of information passing through awareness.

    If the sensations are too strong for these techniques, you might want to temporarily switch to walking meditation, or meditating lying down.

    I use the do nothing technique 

  6. Posted

    Almost a year now I'm having weird body movements during meditation that sometimes make it very hard for me to concentrate. First I thought that its just my bad posture but then I understood that it's something else. In one session I had my body leaning towards one side and then revearsing and leaning to the opposite side. That can't happen because of bad posture or muscle relaxation. What happens is that my body and my head start to lean or twist towards one side and this causes a lot of discomfort and sometimes even strong muscle pain. Sometimes I literally had my head twisting backwards and had to stop meditating because I felt as though my neck was going to break if it twisted further back. Usually its not that bad but still it makes meditation feel like torture. For example today my body was leaning to the left pretty badly and the only thing that I could think of was when is the session going to end. I couldn't meditate properly because of that.  Does any of you have anything similar? What is it and what do you think is the best way for me to deal with it?

  7. Posted

    2 hours ago, RabbitHole said:

    Baltic countries are perfect for that. I am from Latvia, studying and will have career elsewhere, but my dream forest house will definitely be there because Baltics are mostly forests especially Latvia, but honestly any European country has some isolated spot where you could live, It also depends on your career as most lower economical status will be less populated and more likely to have perfect spot for you, but It has downsides too.

    I know. But there's a problem. Some baltic people really dislike russians (for a good reason though) and as a russian I don't feel that its safe. Normally people who live in rural areas are less concious and they may hate me because i'm a russian. I heard stories that houses in small villages have been burned by the hateful locals when the owner left. I just won't be able to leave my house and go.

  8. Posted

    I'm 15 years old and my dream when i'm going to grow up is to have an isolated place somewhere in nature to which I can come to rest of civilization. I don't want to live isolated but I certainly want to have an isolated place where I can go to and where nothing will distract or worry me.

    My question is really simple. What are the best natural places I can go to live in, in europe? The only thing that I want from that place is isolation, lots of greenary and it has to be in europe. Those of you who travel a lot can you advise me something?

  9. Posted

    On 21.05.2018 at 9:24 PM, nour-cha93 said:

    I understand this very well. My parents compare me to other people all the time. But now I chose to take it but not be affected by those comments. This is their opinion about how to raise a child and no amount of discussions would change their mind. That is why I let it go. When they compare me to others I listen to them and smile :)

    I think that that's the most concious way of dealing with it. But it's emotionally very hard not to get affected by what they say

  10. Posted

    On 16.05.2018 at 11:49 PM, Star Net said:

    Hi @Peter Zemskov

    How are You ?

    I think there is a difference between Competition and envy,

    There is nothing wrong in comparing Yourself with others and compete with others, but Envy is the problem and it is wrong.

    In my experience competition often creates envy. Compering yourself to others creates an unhealthy self esteem that is dependent on how you match in comparison to others (and not how you really are) which inevitably creates envy. Also competition is a low conciousness thing because it's really your ego which wants to be better than others. 

  11. Posted

    16 hours ago, mohdanas said:

    sometimes, I think this isnt the case.

    They do not compare themselves with others but only their children dew to expectation. 

    I suffer this personally. 

    My dad compare me with other children but never compare himself with others. 

     bro, idk, first of all every parents is different. 

    I can get this to understand parents of my cousins but cant get in to my father head. The last time I had the argument, he literally shouted "one should compare" period after I asked him "why" one should do it. 

    Coming back to you, 

    My friend, I deeply wish I could help you, and what suck is, I can hazily find some solution for you but it will draw so much energy for such simple petite thing.

    Solution - 

    What you need is convincing. Prepare your argument logically on a piece of paper and then plant the idea abstractly. 

    Steps 

    1. Take a paper

    2. Research point supporting your arguments. 

    Tip - Search Science, Spirituality, Quotes Of Big People ( Specially whom your parents respect ), Religion Sources ( If your parents value it )

    3. Organize all the major points. 

     

    Now you have science, spirituality, famous people and religion backing you up. 

    ( I havnt done this much as I am too busy ) 

    4. Convincing 

    I think once you have so much of data, convincing should become easier though it would still be quite challenging. 

     

     

     

    That's interesting. They won't listen to me if I just tell them my opinion because they'll dismiss it as being an excuse for my laziness but if I'll teel them some quotes from important people I think they're going to listen...

  12. Posted

    10 hours ago, Sahil Pandit said:

    @Peter Zemskov Peter, 

    It sounds like they are projecting their insecurities onto you. That aside, what values/strengths could you focus on instead of being envious?

    Like @ajasatya said, you could try to have compassion for them, but from the sounds of things, they have made you pretty neurotic about it.

     I would recommend some sitting (however long it needs to be) and accepting that they are who they are, then finding out the best version of yourself you could be instead of the envious Peter. 

    They are. Naturally i'm not an envious person but they force me to be one. It's a problem of giving to much attention to their comparisons of me to other people 

  13. Posted

    16 hours ago, ajasatya said:

    be aware of the fact that they are envious themselves and have compassion for them. they are always comparing themselves with others and they suffer from it.

    they wouldn't project it on you if they weren't envious people.

    It's true for my dad. He tells me with pride stories from his childhood when he got the best marks and always puts himself as an example that I should follow. He just doesn't understand that I don't have the desire to compete with anybody. My dad always felt pride in being better than other people. 

    My mom is different though. She's a typical stage orange person who values success over everything else. She doesn't compare herself with anybody but she does compare me to others. She wants me to live up to her expactations and always tries to put me in a rat race.

  14. Posted

    I'm working hard on not being envious and comparing myself to others anymore but my parents enforce the envy that I have towards other people and it make the job nearly impossible for me. They always compare me to other people and that sometimes makes me very envious. For example they always compare my marks to my friends marks and encourage me to compete with them and when I tell them that I don't want to compare myself with other they call me a looser and think that it's because i'm afraid of competition. It's really hard to get rid of my envy and self comparison in this situation so what would you recomend?

  15. Posted

    On 18.04.2018 at 3:39 PM, Max_V said:

    @phoenix666 Yes I can understand what you're talking about. 

    I'm very committed to meditation so it doesn't even come up as something I have to decide to do every day. I just find myself being moved to the cushion and sitting.

    My self-love has gotten a lot better but I think nevertheless, I would really struggle and give myself a hard time when I miss a day

    The mix of motivation towards meditation is swinging to the positive side but there is still a part of negative motivation that drives me to do it because I will inevitably suffer if I don't.

    I face that problem too. It's really a shame when such an effortless thing as meditation starts feeling as an obligation. I think the problem is in moralization. We shouldn't say we should meditate :)

  16. Posted

    On 18.04.2018 at 6:38 AM, Charlotte said:

    @Peter Zemskov  I feel you dude! I'm an 8 hours solid kinda person also. 

     

    I meditate daily even if I've had 3/4 hours sleep. To me personally it's non negotiable. Ways I prevent actually falling asleep... 

    Back straight af.

    Depending on how tired I am I do it with eyes open.

    If your that tired your back starts to bend forward go meditate with your back upright against a wall, that way when you feel your back coming away from the wall you can adjust very very slowly. 

    Go to the root issue as to why you aren't getting enough sleep.

    I also think "so what if I become sleepy during meditation sometimes, at least I'm still putting in the effort everyday regardless" ?.

    Try not to be too harsh on yourself also. 

     

    ♥️

    Thanks for the advice. Really helped me not to doze off today

  17. Posted

    In my meditation practice I faced a pretty annoying problem. I noticed that I can't meditate productively after not getting enough sleep the night before. And the problem is that even if I sleep 7 hours I can't meditate without facing sleepiness/drowsiness problems. To properly meditate I need to sleep at least 8 hours but my life conditions don't always permit me to sleep those 8 hours. It's really annoying when I haven't slept 8 hours one night and my meditation session gets ruined. And the fact that I'm a night owl adds on top of that. Give me some advice on how I can meditate better when I hadn't the opportunity to sleep 8 hours.

  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, Lurtsi said:

    My hands went into carpopedal spasm so you're not the only one :D So yeah @dude I can second @cetus56 and not recommend it until your hand is healed.

    I already did it and had the same thing. But it affected only my good hand. By the way the experience was mad. The spasm was really strong so even if I pushed my hand into normal position it would get twist back up

  21. Posted

    2 hours ago, dude said:

    Well I wouldn't recommend it. My hands balded up really hard and I thought I was damaging them in my session. My thumbs are still soar from it. I have not read anyone else who had that experience but it can happen so watch out.

    Same thing happened to me but only to my good hand. My broken hand was ok and this incredible energy peak just affeted my good hand

  23. Posted

    I'm very curious about how language is being constructed and what does shape it the most. Thinking about it I came to the conclusion that climate and nature can be a factor. I myself know Spanish and Russian so i notice this. Spanish for example is a very melodic and "light" language same as spanish climate but russian tends to be harder and less melodic very much like russian climate. 

    Do you think it's possible that language is shaped by climate and nature?

  25. Posted

    I want to share with you an insight about what is courage that I had a few days ago.

    Courage at its root is a result of a desidentification with your ego (body and mind). If you don't associate yourself with body and mind there's nothing to fear. Absolute courage is only attainable by full enlightenment. But in normal life we see people that are not enlightened but still have a lot of courage in them. That's because some people are more capable then other to desidentify with their ego in dangerous/challenging (not necessarily fisically, it can also be psicologically dangerous/challenging) situations. The more actualized and less egocentric is the person, the less this person fears. 

    Give your thoughts on this little insight that I had.