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.
hi, james!
ReplyDeleteYour report and doubts on transcending experiences raised my interest immediately. As a new TM practitioner myself, I always wonder what the heck is transcending, after all? I sometimes have the intuition that it has to do with the almost-asleep momentaneous feelings during meditation. but what is its connection with the evolutionary sense of transcendence, that is, with the real improvement of mind and soul (whatever it may be)? on david lynch's blog there's a curious non-definition, although it sort of simplifies a rather complicated mechanism, I guess. "You’re awake, but you sort of fall, and you maybe see some white light, and you get a little jolt of bliss, you know, something like that? And you say, “Holy jumping George!”"
I'd be happy if you shared more sources and thoughts about it on your nice blog!!
cheers from brasil!
susana.
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