I just finished my third session with Healing Rhtyms, and am totally blown away! I achieved some sort of meditative state that I have never, in 35 years (on and off) of meditating, ever achieved before. I have had an intuitive faith in meditation for 35 years, backed up by reading an enormous amount of supportive literature. But I had two overpowering questions:
- Could I say, definitively from my own experience, that meditation worked (whatever that means) for me?
- And the prior question is: Am I actually meditating?
I now see that it's a "skill" in some sense ... like ridign a bike, or driving, or swimming. There is a physical/mental/emotional state that you can get in, if you know how, that is "meditation". But how do you know if you're in it? When I learned TM, the perenial question amongst new meditators was "did you 'transcend'?" I never knew! (But felt very envious of those who maintained that they had.) Now I have. It was an uncertain experience, tenuous at best, but I know it was worth it, I know that having been there once, I can get there again.
This was a major learnign experience for me, in many ways, and I'm very keen to share it with others, and to hear of their experiences.