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Old 05-11-2007, 02:28 AM
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I am a completely novice meditater. I've thought about it and researched it for over a year now... maybe over two years, and played with it a little, but never actually done any meditating. But recently I've determined that my bottleneck in personal development is in the spiritual side, and so I've committed to a 30-day trial of meditating for 5 minutes every day. (Not much, but more than I can do consistently.)

Anyway, I sat down in my meditation space today, set the timer, and began focusing on my breath. After a few dozen breaths I felt a kind of tugging in my mind -- kind of like that little signal that says it's time to sleep. But when I "followed" it, I didn't fall asleep. It just kept kind of going deeper and deeper. I was definitely still aware of my surroundings - the ice cream truck going by - but also kind of deeper into my mind.

Is this normal? Is this of note? Or is this just my mind telling me funny stories because it's bored, so it's something I need to ignore and move past? I know I didn't describe it well, because I don't really have words for it - I'm kind of hoping you do.

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Sounds like you got to a comfortably deep meditative level. You're doing well, keep going with it.
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Beautiful. Very good. Keep it up, play with it. You are much more powerful then you know and you are so much more than this. Good luck my friend.
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There is no RIGHT way to do meditation. Everyone is different. Some people swear you have to have a crystal with you, some think candles are needed, some tell you the lotus position is paramount.

In my opinion, meditatio is just something you do to calm yourself down and experience yourself. And everyone is different. So, their meditation is different.


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Is this normal? Is this of note?
It's pretty normal in meditation. Actually, if you didn't experience this, you probably were not meditating.
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So whatever it was, and whatever name you want to call it, it's certainly not a problem. And may be a good indication that I'm getting better at this meditation gig.

Thanks for your feedback, everyone! It helps a lot to know that I'm on the right track.
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I don't really know what you have perceived or what that was, but the way I see it, anything that happens during meditation is a good thing, so keep at it.

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