Ways of meditation

[Angelica]

Hi all! I started this discussion ispired on the story of Kay and her deeper meditation ;)

I am still trying to do it but I'm doing it in a slow speed. Still I can't say "I have meditated" . That's why I want to know your ways of mediation, how you do it? When? Where? How much time you have meditating? How to ignore thoughts? What are your feelings? and anything you want to share with us.

I would be happy to read your post!

[Kahea]

The best 2 things I have ever learned about meditation are from depac chopra and the buddhist monks i studied under in michigan.

The first one from depac chopra is: go in a quiet place, as quiet as you can find, maybe a bathroom or your room or something like that. Then you just sit and be silent for 30 minutes. You do this 2 times a day as often as you can. You don't try to controll your thoughts or anything like that, all you want to do is let them flow, no matter what they say or anything just let your self express its self, and just do your best to not be emotional. Don't laugh at stuff that's funny, don't get sad at the stuff that’s sad, don’t respond to anything. And what happens is you become desensitized to your thoughts. And the more time you spend each day not talking, and the less you respond, the less thoughts you will have. This worked for me very well. I’m still working on it though.


The one I learned from the monks is a common Buddhist meditation where you focus your mind on your breath. First you take some time to feel all around your body. From your head to your toe, feel every part that you can, taking more time each time you meditate. Then you want to sit in a comfortable position, back straight but relaxed straight not extended straight. Then you just want to breathe in and out like you normally do hahaha but you want to listen to your breath. That is all, when you start to think then you are not listening to your breath. When you realize this you want to start to listen to your breath again, gently pulling your imagination back to silence and listening to the breath. You want to do this for like an hour typically but you know do what you can do, maybe 15 min or 30 min, naturally the more you do it the better.

Now the stuff that I do on my own, my personal meditations are just things that involve getting into an altered state of mind. So what I typically do is lay down in the bed and get totally comfortable like I am going to sleep on my back and I just lay there, and eventually my body goes asleep but my mind is still awake and I may feel like a spinning or something and maybe I start to ask questions or maybe I will let my self go to sleep and focus on coming out of my body. I will recommend a couple books that are good to help you come out…I come out and I also ask the questions while I am in that beginning state. I trust it more when I come out though, because for me the ego is almost if not completely powerless when I am in the astral or in higher levels.

[Kahea]

One is called Out-Of-Body Adventures (30 days to the most exciting experience of your life) by Rick Stack
and the other is called
Astral Projection for Beginers by Edain McCoy
I really like her because she is like me where she has to do certain things that other others discourage.
Mine were always natural but I wanted to learn how to do them at will and her's was the first successful book I ever tried, but his was the fastest working techniques for me :)
But you will feel it, when you are in that limbo as I like to call it, you will feel that dizyness or spinning or you may experience "phenomena" and believe me you will KNOW when you are expeiriencing phenomena!

[Angelica]

Nice! I want to ecpirience phenomena! :)
Thanks Kay!

[Kahea]

The other important thing let me not forget that the monks taught me...if you are losing judgement, then you can meditate anywhere. If you are not judging the sound or the enviornment you are just listening, then nothing will bother you. I am working on that in every day life too. :)

[Ada Bader]

Never ignore thoughts! Thoughts are (buddhism) beautiful parts of the beautiful creature that you are, so feel kindly toward them as you should for the rest of yourself, and simply let them pass through your mind and float away.

[Kahea]

YEAH BABY...PASS AND FLOAT, PASS AND FLOAT !

[Matthew]

Howdy! I have just started meditation myself and I notice a lot of wandering thoughts when I do it. I am making it a goal of mine to meditate daily and improve my focus in every session. One tip I picked up thru research was sort of a mantra, when I breath in, mentally think Aummmmm and when breathing out Goddd. Inbetween I have also added the word Focus to remind myself to let go of distracting thoughts and focus on the meditation. I tried it for the first time last night and it helped me out pretty well, we will see what happens!

The inspiration to make meditation a daily practice was from books I have read from Paramahansa Yogananda such as Autobiography of a Yogi and Man's Eternal Quest.

[Angelica]

I think that would be a great meditation with the mantra, I still don't do it because there are people in other rooms! lol..but I could try mentally as you said, let's see. What I am trying now is with sound of nature and some songs where people "signs" something like mantras, it really help me to get focus.
Thanks for the info with the books!

[Angelica]

Oh thank you very much for answer!
That about not fight against thoguht helped me yesterday! Before what I was doing is to fight with them!

I think yesterday was my first rapprochement to what meditation is! I lied down, started to relax every part of my body, the breath and let the thoughts pass through..that took me a lot of time but then I started to breath deeply and what I felt next was a tickling around my all body and while more I was breathing more was feeling it...then I got a fright and suddenly I opened my eyes. Now, what is that tickling you feel? energy?

I will continue practicing today! :)

[Kahea]

I think it's you being aware of your body going to sleep. I get it too. You know how when your foot goes to sleep...well you feel that with your whole body when you are keeping your body really still but your mind awake. It goes away...you just gotta let it ride.

[Angelica]

It's really weird but I like the sensation, then I think it goes away and then I feel I little delicated breeze? I have to confess maybe I relax but I know I have not meditated yet. Something happened to me yesterday after "meditation" and hour later when I was already sleeping..maybe I felt the beginning of what some people calls OBE and I think I felt that too much time before I was trying to meditate. But I always get scare and open the eyes quickly! One Angelica was scared and the other one was telling me GO! I was trying to "go" And I heard a low sound and there got scare I woke up

[Kate Sommers]

I've been meditating for 35 years...OMG...I'm getting up there in years! It's great though.
I learned to do Transcendental Meditation when I was 11 years old.
The way I learned is to sit up comfortably and to quiet the mind, repeat my mantra, transcending to a relaxed state just happens naturally.
When I notice I'm having a lot of thoughts about whatever, then I'll do some slow deep breaths that will bring my mind back to a peaceful state again. It's a very sweet, amazing place when one is in meditation.Years ago,
I started getting waves of kundalini energy rippling through my body while I meditate. Kundalini energy is similar to orgasmic waves of pleasure,not as intense but pretty wonderful!
So meditating has many benefits besides just relaxing!
You can use the word Ohmmm as a mantra but you don't really need a mantra to meditate.You can use your breathe, count to 20 as you slowly inhale (work your way up to 20 you might want to start with counting to 10 ) and then count to 20 as you slowly exhale. Do this 20 times and you'll be in a very meditative state.
The meditation I do is usually 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening. After meditation is a great time to visualize what you want to manifest and FEEL what it will be like to have it, feel it in every part of you.