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I have a question..i have been doing meditations and such for about a week and ahalf so far(Trying to find my spirt animal), and i dont know if this has anything to do with it, but now i will be sitting in class and the teacher is explaing what we are saposed to do that day and i,...go into a meditating state of some sort.. i dont daze off or nothing it's just really weird thats all...i get plenty of sleep and i eat enough and i work out so i do not think this is a problem, physicaly.. but it is not very good...like i was waiting in line at the store , and the cahier had to come up to me and started waving at me it took me like 30 seconds to come out of it...it's just really embarrising and want to know your oppion! i've thaught maybe my spirt animal is somehow trying to contact me, but ..oh i dont know
Help me PLEASE sweatdrop
Many Blessings
-Melissa

i don't know maybe you are just good at falling in to trances you should experiment is what causes it. I know I use to do that and I do that a lot in karate... I have found that i do that most often when I have a lot to think about or when I need to change gears from doing one thing to another... see what happens and just experiement

Um...the link doesn't work.. sweatdrop

^^ .. Hmm ..

I never found mediation very difficult, because my mum taught me how to do it using my chakras when I was 9 or 10 I believe. In the space of five years or so I forgot this, so when I tried to teach myself how to meditate again, I did it in a totally different way .. xD

I would sit in front of my alter (or lay down in bed), perhaps some incense and a candle going, and I would be very still for a while. I might picture in my mind something very beautiful (this would block out any other thoughts and quiet down 'the monkey mind'! 3nodding ) .. like a deep forest glade or a shining lake. After a while of meditating on this and breathing in slowly I would sort of walk in to the vision.

I might wander around a little bit, play in the water or smell the flowers .. perhaps lay down and close my eyes - meditating in a meditation one might say. xd I usually would take along a small bag with a few special objects in it that I've collected from other journeys. Or you could use this place as a 'stepping stone' to begin another journey, perhaps to another plane of the Astral Realm! 3nodding

It was in this way that I first found my spirit guide! I've also spoken to my spiritual ancestors and remembered past lives in this manner .. ^^

When you think of it as an adventure, a spiritual journey, then it becomes much easier .. minor distractions of everyday life become much less interfering in your meditation if you try to remember that in a way your life is like a beautiful story. ^^

Oh, never worry about that .. fear is the first thing that keeps a person from benefiting from meditation. heart

I remember one time when I was extremely depressed .. I had been in the hospital for several illnesses and I felt like I was in a constant haze. (This was also because I was taking medication that made me very tired) sweatdrop I was simply tired of *being* .. I just wanted to sleep and sleep and forget all the sickness I had suffering from. One night I laid down to sleep and told myself that I would astral project - I had done this once before and I knew that in this form you don't feel any pain.

I tried and tried and tried, but nothing happened. Finally I let go and drifted off to sleep. That night I had the most vivid dream of floating above my bed, looking around the room, and floating out into the hallway. My spirit guild was sitting on the floor of my living room, as if waiting for me. What he told me eventually helped me to heal both physically and mentally .. ^^

I remember at the end of this he gave me a white rose, and when I looked at it in my hand I suddenly felt this enormous TUG somewhere along my spine, and I woke up very suddenly. It was strange though because although it was shocking, I still felt very very sleepy, and I felt like I was still holding the flower even as I drifted off back to sleep.

Later I told my mum about this. She said that if you ever get scared while you're astral projecting, look at your hands! For some reason, and even she doesn't know why, this has ALWAYS woken me, her, and everyone she's ever known who astral projects.

Did you ever see the Matrix? Remember "the body cannot live without the mind"? Well .. that is true in a way. ^^ You see, the spirit *needs* the body to express itself in the material realm, and the body *needs* the spirit to keep it alive! Your spirit will always come back to your body .. it is necessary for the essential happiness of both!

Well, I was reading this thread so I decided to try some meditation and other things. So when I was going to go to sleep I cast a circle in my bed. I held my Athame tight and used something I use to give me a little courage lift lol. Well I was so relaxed and felt so calm just lying there in my bed. I felt like I was just about to fall asleep and I know thats what happens to many who try meditation lying down. Anyway all of a sudden I hear this loud jibberish[SP?] in my left ear. It wasn't someone shouting but it was like someone was next to me talking right up at my ear. I could not understand what they said or if it was even english but I jumped right out my skin and got the biggest fright I have had in a while. Maybe just my mind playing tricks on me though...

It could be that you have a spirit guide trying to communicate with you .. only in a different language! ^^