sometimes I just can't get those distractions out of my mind,

but when I sit down in the shower and pretend like the water is rain falling over me (lol), I find it a great setting to meditate!

the water hitting me isn't a distraction to my thoughts what-so-ever, and I always come out of the shower feeling much cleaner and clear headed than usual

anyone else try/do this?

I recommend it!

No but lately the power seems to always short out when I'm showering and I just stand there for a while in the dark
It's nice

Haha

A friend taught me this meditation that worked for him to feel to divine connection.

You turn the water up as hot as you can for 3 minute, than as cold as you can for 3 minutes.

Unless you completely relax (ie entering a meditative state) it will not be pleasant. Once you relax completely the feeling literally passes right through you and you don't notice it. Once you completely relax your body you completely relax your mind and therefore enter the state of nothought.

Now for an anecdote from him after telling me this method.

"So I was sitting in the shower and had started doing this for a week or so. I was the point where I would sit with the water hot or cold for 30 minutes, and hour sometimes without even noticing it. I was completely thoughtless. This particular time I was in there for an hour and all of a sudden I felt this huge presence above me. Needless to say I got scared and left the shower. 'What was that!', I said to myself. After I calmed down I decided to enter the shower again and see what was going on. I felt the presence again. It got bigger, and bigger, closer, and closer. Soon I was so close that I felt like if I got any closer I would die. I would cease to exist. So I did. I entered the presence. I immediately felt one with everything. I felt the most intense love I have ever experienced. I had no questions for I knew everything. It was amazing. I went to work the next morning the same way I had for over a year. I walked by the same wall that I always did. However this time, I looked at this wall differently. I noticed all the cracks. I saw the beauty in this formerly ugly and mundane wall. I looked around and saw the beauty in everything. In every person I saw God, in every object and thing, love."


This was the first time he felt that connection with the divine and since then is on his spiritual path.
I hope this might help you, or at least give you some amusement!

I have reach deep levels of self exploration in the shower. Ive seen great visions inspired by the waters.

Keep traveling friends

I couldn't agree more with the above statement. When I'm feeling overwhelmed, I take a hot shower and just let the sound of the water hitting my head and the walls envelope me.

I love it completely sober, but I remember in college I used to call taking a shower on a strong dose of LSD my version of "church" I'm no longer in college, but my opinion remains the same.

3 times a day at first my skin couldnt take it, but it has gotten used to the effect.

I find showers to work for most problem, extreme pain/headache, cold, bored, whatever. I just leen back so all of the water hits my head. Very nice feeling. Great for clearing the mind

I wouldn't go so far as to call it "church", but I have similar feelings about showing after smoking a large bowl of really good cannabis.

Now this here is an interesting thread. Meditation is one of those beneficial things that I suck at. I know it would be good for me, I know it would make my life easier/less stressful, and it's one of the things that I'd really like to get into. However; it's something that I have a really hard time getting into. Finding the time, utilizing the time, etc....... I never really thought using the shower to mediate. I shower every day, so it makes sense. I'm going to need to give this shot.

I also used to spend time in the shower while on LSD. It was my coming up ritual; start getting high, pop in the shower. It was very cleansing, in more ways then one.

I have done this exact thing. I always sit in the shower, and meditate with the water pouring down on me.

It is a very relaxing feeling, the way the water kinda fills and covers your head, then down your face, the amount of sensitivity you feel in the sense of the water going down your head, you can feel it all down your face, the back of your head, it sometimes gives you a shivery feeling like when someone rubs something soft against your back gently and you get shivers or tingles from it.

But definitely worth trying, and also the shower alone provides a nice droned noise for you to keep your focus.

I read somwhere, forget where, that a good way to rid yourself of negativity is to go in the shower and when you are cleaning and rinsing yourself visualise black negative energy falling off you and going down the plug hole then when you are done visualise yourself bathed in white light. Concidentally I told my friend this technique and he couldnt beleive it as he done something similiar naturally. He would go in the shower and try to get rid of all the negative thoughts and feelings he had been having and come out feeling much better.

I don't know where you got that I think I might have posted it somewhere at some point. I do exactly the same thing have done it for over 20 years. It's one of the few meditative practices that I have found that works almost instantly and anyone can do it.

I allow the hot water to hit the top of my head and visualize it washing through my body. I see in my mind the stress, hate, negativity as a black tar like substance that is washed down through me and out my feet into the drain. I have found that deep guttural chants aid this process quite well as most showers resonate really well.

This practice works and works well for anyone, if you haven't done this before at least try it. You wont regret it. If you do it daily it is more effective as your mind becomes conditioned to it the effect can be awesome. Low levels of changa can increase the effect.

This sounds like a good recipe for hypothermia.

As for the showers, I find it incredibly difficult to take a shower and not start thinking about DMT. Sometimes I'm thinking of conversations that I would like to have with people about the molecule. Sometimes it's just a deep pondering into the nature of my experiences. Either way, I instantly find my thoughts being re-routed in the shower from wherever they were before.

Vovin, I too have been have success recently with gutteral chants. They can end up being quite ecstatic.

i love having a shower , its truly a meditative experience and truly blissfull , the water feels so good , i also imagine it to be raining

Sky Motion

Meditation while showering can be extremely effective, the sound of water has an incredibly natural soothing rhythm and its resonances seems to effect us in a profound way. I have found through my experiences that tryptamines seem to have a strong affinity with water, as my journeys with Spice and Mushrooms while in the bath or close to water seem to take me deeper into their world.

Waterfalls have the most powerful meditative qualities for me as when ever I sit still in the water close to a waterfall my mind instantly moves towards a meditative state. Water is a potent meditation tool which I have always worked closely with...


Much Peace and Understanding

oooH Completely off topic. DMT in the woods while it's raining slightly....Not a downpour it'll straight fuck you up. But listening and feeling the rain falling on you and the leaves. Imma leave the surprise to you just try it you'll like it.

Thats pretty cool, I just asked my brother about it as he doesnt read this site but knows about the practice and we read it in the book practical psychic self defense: http://www.amazon.co.uk/...k-Survival/dp/1571746390

Funny you visualise the black tar like substance as thats what he says in that book

Definitely among the most profound and soothing meditative practices I've experienced.

I only wish there were more ways to stand in a warm shower for a prolonged time in an eco-friendly way.

i need to try that visualization thing! sounds very effective

its funny reading my first post in this thread from over a year ago. since then i've found myself meditating quite a bit in the shower

i usually end it with cold water first on the top of my head then slowly my whole body...if you do it slowly its not uncomfortable at all and actually feels great (apparently theres also lots of health/skin benefits from this, and your not gassing yourself with the chlorine thats put in most water around here). Then afterwords i just stand there, eyes closed, and with a relaxed focus just feel all the water slowly falling away. feelzgoodman

I do it all the time!