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Can you meditate when intoxicated?
You cannot meditate with ANY level of intoxication (alcohol or any other drug). Meditation requires total mental clarity and discipline.
Can you meditate while drinking alcohol?
Alcohol actively diminishes your ability to pay attention. So if you meditate when you’ve been drinking, you will be more easily distracted and less focused. The fuzziness around the edges you get from alcohol isn’t an ideal state to enter meditation with. Drinking makes your inner world chaotic.
Can you drink wine while meditating?
Yes. A little bit here and there is okay, but not during meditation for sure, and never in quantities to numb your pain and suffering. Alcohol is an escape drug, it’s a neural system depressant. Meditation is the opposite – it is a tool for you to open up, to experience whatever is in you more fully.
How do you remind yourself to stop drinking?
Here are some options:
- Remind yourself of your reasons for making a change.
- Talk it through with someone you trust.
- Distract yourself with a healthy, alternative activity.
- Challenge the thought that drives the urge.
- Ride it out without giving in.
- Leave tempting situations quickly and gracefully.
Is it cool being sober?
Being Sober is more than Cool Living sober allows you to be healthier, both mentally and physically. You don’t pollute your body with toxins, you get quality sleep, and you never have a hangover. You are more thoughtful about your actions and words – which makes for a great friend.
Is it possible to meditate while drunk?
Actually, Yes. A Reddit user performed an interesting experiment: trying to meditate while drunk after consuming copious amounts of alcohol, with interesting results! A Reddit user recently posted results of an interesting experiment: attempting to practice mindfulness meditation while drunk.
How do meditators deal with alcohol?
When a meditator reaches this point, which usually takes a number of years, a dangerous substance like alcohol is viewed—within a context of strong discipline and clear intention—not as a conventional escape, but instead as a tool for loosening the subtle clinging of ego.
Did Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche meditate while drunk?
The Tibetan teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a notoriously heavy drinker, and as the above passage indicates, frequently incorporated alcohol into his teachings and attempted to meditate while drunk. More from the Elephant Journal article:
Is there only one effective way to meditate?
There are many approaches to meditation, and you would need to seek the one that is right for you. Flexibility and openness are the name of the game, and claims that there is only one effective way to meditate are just restricting.