Is meditation possible for Aspies?

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Has anyone tried it? Does it work for you?

I visited google and found a website

http://www.learningmeditation.com/index.htm

I tried 1 exercise but gave up after a minute because i couldn't concentrate and couldn't picture an image in my head.

I'm a very impatient person i know, i just want everything to work the first time, otherwise i give up

*sigh*

Meditation hasn't worked fro me as well as short quiet walks.
I always forget to alot time for meditation, which takes practice anyway.

I take medicine for my anxiety, but very rarely. I only took it once in about two month. I have never thought medicines helped too much they usually makes things worse for me. I try not to become too dependent upon my pills. Only when my anxiety is beyond my control.

I've decided to give Meditation a try, 10 years ago. I've opened my eyes and found that I was sleeping for an hour and a half. I finished my Coke and than I went to Bed.

I've tried it in the past and been pretty much unsuccessful. Either I get bored and start thinking about stuff, or I fall asleep.

I've had better results with guided imagery tapes, although usually I end up falling asleep with those as well. Recently I attended a new-agey sort of thing where the facilitator gave us each a couple of rocks, told us to concentrate on the impressions we got from them, and attempted to help by saying relaxing things in a soothing voice.

I thought: "Here I am, holding two rocks with my eyes closed."

I don't think I could be hypnotized, either.

Meditation is not something you learn at once. If you all give up this easy, I'm surprised that you can walk.
I have been meditating for years, and I guess it's hard for me, but I'm learning all the time.
Now I meditate every day and it's really relaxing and helps me focus.
All you really have to do is sit comfortably and think of nothing, and if that's to hard, occupy your mind by observing, not controlling, your breath.

cool ion. How long do you meditate for? And do you sit or lie down?

I guess your supposed to sit, because you don't want to fall asleep. I've read alot about meditation when I was 13, tried it a couple of times, it did work, but it takes discipline to make sure one keeps up with it.

Well, that's just too funny for me to get offended about, so I'm not; also I'm not lazy or a quitter. I just never got any positive results at all from my attempts at meditation. For stress relief, I do better with a nice nature walk or some sort of intense physical activity. Yoga is good too.

I tried meditating a couple of times, but all unsuccessfully. My friends go on and on about how it helps them relax and feel better about life, but that's been far from true for me. Last time I tried meditation, the only thing it gave me was a headache. I couldn't focus on a single word or image to save my life.

I've tried more than one type of meditation, and have found it useful for some purposes.

The one thing it hasn't done for me, however, is produce any sensation, feeling, conviction... of oneness with or connection to the universe, which many others have described (Though words won't quite do).

I seem to touch emptiness, isolation, nothingness, the void... (again words don't quite do)

"Alone, in the dark, with the compass spinning."

I have never been able to meditate...Id rather just go outside & look at the birds & plants...Im usually pretty calm when i do that. When i try to meditate I just get impatient or bored...

I've had no problem with meditation, when I get around to doing it regularly, I feel less stressful. I don't do it to feel one with the world, I do it because it's a nice way to reduce stress. Then again I also do yoga frequently at my gym, which is also relaxing.

It's possible you were trying to concentrate too hard...

If a walk helps you relax, you can just consider that a more active form of meditation. Sometimes I think introverted people spend much of their time in what others would consider meditative states. (Just a personal theory) That is, spaced out and thinking about something. For meditation, just try concentrating on something different so as to take a break from any obsessions you may be overdoing...

Sitting or lying down doesn't really matter, unless you're tried ofcourse. When I'm tired I tend to fall asleep if I lie down.
The important thing, though, is that you can breath unhindered.
It does take dicipline, which is yet another thing that I, and I suspect, others need to practice.
The other day I were sitting in what appeared to be a weird position, which made my legs completely numb for 10 minutes afterwards.
But it was interesting observing not having any control or feeling in my toes, none the less.
I think I've done amazing progress. When I begun, I could barely sit a minute without losing focus, now I average 10 minutes, with a record of about 30.
But the most important is that it's something that should be relaxing and comfortable. Don't sit in awkward positions or push yourself to sit longer than you feel you are able to.

Close your eyes, or have them open if you like, think of something relaxing, or nothing at all, and take a deep breath, with your stomach, hold it, ans exhale. Repeat as long as you want.
When you feel ready, you can ofcourse investigate more advanced excercises, perhaps qi gong movements.


Good, because that was not my intention. My intention was to maybe get people who needed it to realize that practice makes perfect.
It's especially hard for people that may have problems concentrating, but the payoff is equally big IMO.


Then don't.


Incidentally, that's how many people describe the feeling of being one with the universe...


That's a kind of meditation. The purpose is to calm your mind, whatever method you use.
Just unplugging.


And it's a theory I think have a good point.

Aspies often have problem with sensory overload, from dealing with the "normal" world, and I think that clearing your mind with meditation is a way to cope with that.

Meditation involves clearing your mind of thoughts. That's something that I can't do, because when I try, thoughts just pour in anyway. I can't even imagine myself with an empty head. I mean ... I can fill it with all sorts of utter information, but clearing it? That's another story.

When I took swimming lessons years ago at the school I was in, and these were people who specialized in treating students with special needs. I couldn't float on my back. They told me more than once that I need to try to loosen the tension within my muscles. If you can't do that, then you can't really sustain a back float. So, I couldn't do that regardless, so I can't back float. There is no way to relieve the tension. I think professionals call it hyperarousal or something.

- Ray M -

Certain wind chimes and vibribrical instruments such as crystal bowls are a nice background environmental while thinking.

I do not like that omm stuff. These visualization suggestions in guided meditation require an animated active imagination that seems like nonsense.