hello well I have tried to meditate for a couple days now. But I was wondering, what are the effects of meditating? Well besdies relax you. What happens? Short term effects? and How was it helped you? In the long run? Over time? WHy do you mainly meditate? Any stories? Well thanks for your posts!
as far as short term effects...total silence of the mind...overwhelming feelings of joy/bliss...and once i even had a full blown orgasm
Well besides making the mind more quiet and clear, it gives you control over the mind, instead of you being a constant slave to thought after thought. It also unifies the body and the mind. You will feel the sensations in the body much more clearly. Many pains in the body will slowly start to vanish and you will feel more at one with yourself. The goal of meditation is actually to be in a constant state of meditation all the time. Bringing awareness to the present moment by focusing on the breath is one way of doing this. If you meditate don't get fed up if you don't see results right away....keep at it, and you won't be dissappointed. If there is a bookstore near where you live you might want to pick up a book on breath meditation. Namaste
I meditated for a couple of days (like 5-10 minutes each day) and straight away I started having very vivid dreams... I dreamt I was an Indian princess and my husband was one of my attendants... everyone called me "Desa" (which I think is Hindi for princess). That was kinda interesting. I want to start doing it again to relax.
Yeah, now that you all mention it, the vividness of dreams has always been way more pronounced during times when I am meditating. In fact, I used to meditate alot and would fall asleep during meditation as well, sitting up, and everything. At those times I often fell asleep and was awake for a few moments in mind and would have waking dream visions. One who experiences this can see the claravoyant light itself as a cloud, because the mind all of a sudden falls asleep and it can be seen that it had a noissome energy. Right when the mind falls asleep energy stills and forms a wall of thick gel-like light. The reason one can even watch the mind fall asleep is because there is a person yet beyond it. This is the turyia state of basic samadhi. The only difference between it when the mind is sleeping and awake is ability to manifest the unbounded state of mind of turiya in activity.
i feel that meditation long term has helped me to have a clearer understanding of who i am, and what i truly believe in. It helps one to also become content, and more at peace/one with themselves, so they can accpet themselves for who they are. I know that my emotions have become more clear, and during focused periods of meditation, sometimes i would feel an overwelming emotion of happiness and contentness. Although everyone percieves things differently, so this isnt to say you wont experience different or similar features of meditation.
Creating the life you want. It becomes much easier when meditation is a daily habit. Things seem to just come my way. I meditate to bring awareness to my true self, which i consider synonomous with God. But I try to stay away from the God word, as its pretty vague. =)
with meditation there are so many different methods, i am not sure which one is the best? I am really under a lot of stress with work, so i want to relax. that's all i wanna do is be able to deal with stress. Any suggesstions? Peace and love
From 25 plus years meditating now I can tell you that the long term effects of meditation include stability of mind, and an unshakable certainty about the nature of mind, life, and wisdom.
For myself I have found that it helps me get a clearer understanding of the world. It definitely helps calm the mind and body. I have also heard that it is part of a path to divine knowledge and wisdom, but I imagine it will take a long time and a lot of patience to accomplish that.
a friend of mine who is a beginner with meditation (as am I) had been meditating for about an hour or so and was near a lake as she did this (or she was kayaking or something). anyways, she was putting her kayak back onto a rack when she dropped an end of it on her foot. i guess it was bleeding a little and was all bruised and swollen. and through the whole thing, she didnt feel any pain. she just kinda watched it happen. when she got home and her mom saw her foot, she started to freak out (in the way that moms do) but my friend just said, "hey, it´s no big deal, it doesnt even hurt, etc...." something that´s happened to me more than once was that after meditating and after opening my eyes, the first vision of myself that i saw had *something* coming off of my head. for example, i was sitting on the end of a dock on a river one time and when i looked into the water at my reflection, the sun was directly behind me and there were rays of light coming from my head and dancing in the water. then another time, i was sitting on the end of a rock that sticks out into a river and when i opened up my eyes and looked down at my shadow on the rock, there were "heat wave" lines coming from my head, again from the sun. kinda fits the feeling, doesnt it?
Yay, loved that! I was part of an intensive professional acting program last year and we would do daily, sometimes multiple, meditation/relaxations... At first I thought of it as sort of "nap time" (which was beneficial in itself!) but as I started to really get into the meditations some were guided and some were individual) I could begin to understand why we did it... Meditation for me: helps me see my true self, helps me feel as though I am seeing things in my various environments (social, emotional, spiritual, physical, etc.) with more acute clarity, and generally relaxes and focuses the mind and body. It's now a permanent part of my life, although there are times that I am really good about setting time aside to meditate, and times that I'm lucky if I get a quick "session" in at all.
