| Meditation is an experience of heightened | | | | The more I practice meditation / visualization the |
| awareness not a state of unconsciousness. | | | | longer I can stay in the energy state before mind |
| My eyes close as I breathe deep, abdominal | | | | chatter thoughts begin, also when doing a |
| breathing, sinking down inside myself. I sense | | | | visualization exercise I recognize quicker when I've |
| muscular relaxation, a slowing down. Releasing, | | | | switched to a mundane thought and return to the |
| relaxing further into a sensation of merging | | | | visualization practice. |
| internal and external senses. | | | | The meditative state is not a constant level; it |
| Flowing down to a level where a sense that the | | | | can be compared to how when you are sleeping |
| body's appendages, organs, cells, atoms are just | | | | one moves through the depths and shallows of |
| electrical vibrational energy. My body looses | | | | the sleep state. For example, you awaken from a |
| definition boundaries and melts, merges with | | | | deep sleep because of a sudden sound or physical |
| surroundings. | | | | need; you recognize the sound or attend to the |
| I sense that I am intelligent bodiless energy | | | | need and return to the sleep state. |
| floating in a sea, a void of intelligent energy. With | | | | There are many styles of meditation, some |
| no focus or thoughts this energy is neutral. I am | | | | connected to major religions. Christians, Buddhists, |
| aware of emotionless peace, contentment. I am | | | | Hindus, and Muslims all use prayer beads for |
| one with all space and energy. I think of this | | | | repetitive prayer meditation. The Religious Society |
| sensation as the Buddhist's description of | | | | of Friends, or Quakers, who received this name |
| mid-path, neither joy nor sorrow. | | | | from their physical quaking when receiving the |
| The void I float in is both particle and solid, | | | | inner light of Christ, are known for their silent |
| awaiting attention, command, thought to mold it | | | | services listening for the "still, small voice within". |
| into reality. I drift in a softness where I am can | | | | Meditation styles include very passive where the |
| experience 'me' or I can shift focus and | | | | meditator tries to be aware of the stream of |
| experience being other things, being all. | | | | thoughts, allowing thoughts to come and pass |
| At various points, I realize I have left the energy | | | | away. There's focus meditation using candles, |
| state and have been thinking of breakfast, work, | | | | flowers and other objects to anchor one's |
| or the neighbors. I wish to stay with the | | | | thought on a single object for learning how to |
| meditation and let the extraneous thought | | | | control of the mind's roaming thoughts. Mantra |
| dissolve as I breathe deep to return to the sense | | | | meditation which uses a repeated sound would fall |
| of bodylessness. | | | | in this category. |