Meditation Temptation

After spending some time online reading others’ different methods and thoughts on meditation, I decided that I wanted to try one of them, I chose this one.

I turned off my computer and sat down on a carpet and started going through what I could remember of the steps that were mentioned.

I made it through the initial steps and felt that it became a little easier to concentrate as I gradually calmed my mind. During this part I was very focused on my breathing, for some reason I stopped thinking consciously about it after a while, as I started shifting my priorities to forcing my mind to stay silent, I unconciously began holding my breath on every exhale….the first couple of times I did this I wasn’t aware that I was doing it.

What’s really interesting was that I suddenly started having films showing inside my head, they were so clear that I became completely focused on them instead of what was happening around and with my physical body. As I said, it took a while for me to understand what was happening and to connect the dots between my breathing pattern and how/when I saw these things.

I experienced some time dialation, or atleast I think I did….because even though it felt like 10 minutes there seemed to have been at least 10 more that are somehow “gone”, after finishing the meditation I felt a bit drained, but otherwise I did seem a lot more relaxed and at ease then before I started.

It was a very powerful first time experience and I am really excited about making meditation a part of my daily routine.  One thing’s for sure, this won’t be the last post I’ll write about meditation!

(If I get some better “reception” on my minds eye TV I’ll write about it the next time I do one on Meditation.