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Post by Ava on Jan 29, 2020 15:08:32 GMT
I ought to meditate at home but my house is too noisy, too often. So I only meditate at the meditation center in town. Each time I've gone, it's been somewhat of a different experience, though there are some common elements. Typically I do experience somewhat of a pure and still state, though I don't sustain that for very long. I'm a novice. I'm always alert to the colors, auras, visual "tricks" or misperceptions (I know the meditation pillows don't glow, but when I open my eyes slightly, they genuinely seem to.) Non-typical experiences have involved: - Feeling myself expand so that I believed I was about a foot larger in all directions; that I AM my aura. - Seeing my mother, seeing a woman in meditation and then meeting her a few weeks later - Feeling as if maybe something was touching me? I wanted to keep a record of these impressions for whatever they might be worth, and invite anyone else to leave some notes on what they experience, too, if anyone feels inclined to discuss this. Thanks
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Post by Ava on Jan 29, 2020 15:26:32 GMT
Last night the moon was in Pisces conjunct Venus and Neptune. That may have factored into the relatively high attendance.
I was trying very hard to stay completely open to whatever came through. Gradually I started feeling like I was experiencing a bit of psychic or intuitive awareness.
1) The blankness in my mind started to form shadows that formed themselves into a silhouette image of people walking down the street, with a silhouette-lamppost to indicate that it was the street. I had no idea why I'd see that, but as the image dispersed, people out on the street started talking loudly. So it came into my visual awareness before it was audible. Or maybe it was faintly audible but I wasn't paying attention at all...either way, the sound intensified dramatically right after I saw the people.
2) I was getting random impressions of the people in the room, like I thought one guy must have been in prison either in this life or a past one; another was a dancer; another was small for his age, growing up in another country. No idea if any of that is true. But here's what is true:
- A heavyset, angry woman appeared and gave me this "squeezing" feeling, associated with the new, young guy behind me. Just after she appeared, he stood up and left the meditation center, mid-session. As if he was "squeezed" out (?)
- I saw two things clearly around the woman in the back: wings and beads. The beads became pills, but I couldn't get rid of the wings. I kept thinking, "Is she an angel? Am I delusional?" I actively tried to obliterate the wing-image, but they only got larger.
After meditation, we stayed in that same room for discussion (usually we move out into the aptly-named discussion room). We were rearranging the chairs and I noticed that one of the banners featured a large bird with dramatic wings, and she had been sitting there. Okay, maybe I remembered that banner's placement in the back of my mind, and when she walked in late, I heard her footsteps go towards the banner. So that's explainable.
Then she talked about how she used to work exclusively with drug addicts (I didn't know). Pills? She said they tended to hate her for the work she was doing but she knew it would help them, so she did that thankless job, with her main consolation being the assurance that it was charitable (even if they didn't think so).
Hmm....I don't know...maybe that does make a person a bit like an angel. Or maybe the wings represent all the unexpressed gratitude that's in store for her, once those folks recover and see what she really did.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 21:21:39 GMT
Ava , it's lovely to have visual experiences - lights and colours. Think of it as seeing and enjoying the wonders of this universe. I wouldn't be worried about getting distracted by them. Mindfulness, for example, advocates relishing your experiences without judgement. I remember one very nice experience of feeling expansion without boundaries. I tried to feel the limits of my body but couldn't - it was just an immense space as large as I wanted it to be. When I eventually opened my eyes, I felt a deep stillness and peace, which lasted through the day. The experience happened spontaneously, not at a result of continuous practice. It was a taster of sorts which was inspiring and motivating.
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Post by anela on Feb 6, 2020 22:39:47 GMT
I can only do this when I wake up feeling all dreamy and relaxed (which is rare), or when I get the same feeling if I take Tylenol, and it either takes pain away, or helps me to sleep. If I try to sit and focus, I get uncomfortable. The same thing happens if I'm stretched out somewhere, and not feeling that relaxed.
I have things comes to me, when I'm doing something. Like the dishes. My mother was the same way. She did once see a cat at a spiritualist church. The spirit of a cat. She was waiting for my aunt, just sitting there, and caught sight of a cat. It surprised her, so it jolted her out of whatever state of mind she was in, and when she looked back, she no longer saw it. A woman noticed her, and asked her about it, then told her about the cat.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2020 4:55:00 GMT
Ava, how old were you when you first began meditating? Have you always been able to sense other energies or spirits? I often wish I had the ability to do so.
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Post by Ava on Feb 9, 2020 13:13:39 GMT
Hi @astrokeen , just started meditating last year. I have no memory of interacting with spirits before my mother died when I was 14. After that, just sporadic experiences now and then, varying in intensity. It seems to depend more on the spirit's determination to get something through my thick skull, than it depends on me. I'm not all that receptive, usually.
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