Weird meditation experience

Spirituality
#1

I red almost all of the articles here but there is nothing similar to what i experienced so i am going to need some help :slight_smile: . Started meditations a month ago with zero knowledge about yoga , after 15 days having meditations once or twice a day for 15 -20 minutes i decided to go further and started educate my self in yoga . The very first time i did my alternative nostril breath pranayama i felt connected to strong field of energy - it came on pulses 1 - weak 2 stronger 3 even stronger and 4 i was completely connected . First i thought i am in some samadhi state and was very happy how quick i am :slight_smile: . After a lot of reading i realize that it cant be samadhi because there was no bliss and no joy …but also it was not just a calm meditative state- i was 100% sunk in big energy field . Now after having it a few more times i can describe very accurate two more weird details which i need explained :

  1. my breathing pattern automatically becoming fast and rhythmic
  2. the more i raise my head (chin) the better i perceive and sink in this state

This with the head was hard to understand because the books told me that i must keep my back and head straight in one line while in cross legged position but it didnt worked for me- i was intuitively moving my head back and back to the maximum until i sunk completely in this state ( whatever is it)and any every try to put it straight was getting me out of state

thanks

#2

Since no one answer me, I had to figure out my self and yes - I am having some initial form of samadhi(still under question) where i am connected to the prana field . I manage to straighten my head now without losing the connection but i notice that the body parts which sense the energy are changing with switching the head . Head backwards and chin up - energy in my head . Head straight in line with the spin - energy going in the chest .
This actually what I am curios about - interaction between head position and energy reception . I have a wild theory that if my crown chakra is blocked moving my head backwards open the way to ajna :slight_smile: I think even for experts this is interesting subject and will be happy to hear expert opinion
thanks

#3

For what it’s worth:

When you say you sit for meditation, the first thing to be done is understand that it is not this body identification that is sitting for meditation, but this knowledge ?I am?, this consciousness, which is sitting in meditation and is meditating on itself. When this is finally understood, then it becomes easy. When this consciousness, this conscious presence, merges in itself, the state of ?Samadhi? ensues. It is the conceptual feeling that I exist that disappears and merges into the beingness itself. So this conscious presence also gets merged into that knowledge, that beingness ? that is ?Samadhi?. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Meditation is when all kinds of funky conscious, subconscious and unconscious experiences occur, non-dual merges are spontaneous happenings unmistakable and not explainable other than a point. ~Ray Killeen

#4

Hi Ray Killeen
thanks for the guidelines but my question was more of a technical matter :slight_smile:
I need to get familiar with the factual knowledge about the energy mecanisnm . After that I can forget about that knowledge and carry on by intuition :slight_smile:

#5

Sit quietly other than that how can one make the spontaneous happen. Siting in meditation for any particular goal is deluded, whether it is for enlightenment or otherwise since meditation is not something that can arise out of the clinging activity of the mind i.e. the more you hanker for it. It is like trying to bring the moon lit lake to a stillness by poking at it.

Every aspect of the yogic sciences is an “attempt” to fulfill very particular functions, the 8 limbs is designed to help create a condition in the body which will be supportive once you start dealing with the mind directly in meditation. Before one makes an attempt to sit in a posture like the lotus posture one should practice a number of asanas which involve strengthening the core of the spinal cord. Ordinarily, it takes a few months of consistent practice before the core becomes strengthened to the point where one can sit effortlessly in meditation without any discomfort. Or, if you wish to practice the lotus posture directly, then one will have to understand that it will have to be done with a certain consistency over a stretch of time the body will undergo certain changes gradually just through the act of sitting in the posture. Both asana and pranayama purify the nadis (pathways of energy in the subtle body), which helps the energies flow through your system to move more efficiently. Through undergoing a thoroughly physical purification, both at the gross and subtle levels one brings about a mental purification. Even this explanation is scratching the surface of what is happening, good luck.

#6

Thanks Ray , i am going definitely for the Lotus , although i am one of the very hard cases and it will take months . Before we close this one last question - how about meditation in free laying position ?

#7

how about meditation in free laying position

Try without a pillow (because drowsiness/sleepiness can occur when your head is slightly tilted because of a pillow etc). Keeping the spine straight is stressed in many yogic texts.