Has anyone had an experience with meditation where you found and cleared stored up tension in your body?
I had an experience where I fully charged my chi and it was flowing through me super intensely. So much so that I could identify spots holding hidden built up tension that I was able to move to other parts of my body that could handle and absord the energy.
It was wild. It would have looked like an exorcism to anyone watching.
Anyone?
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Also this led to about 6 months of tinkering that ended with a partial MANUAL Astral Projection.
By manual, I mean I physically willed my dream body/spirit/chi into my third eye and partially expanded into the astral. Would love to talk more about it.
I would love to read more about it.
Did you do it while laying down?
Night time? How many times how you try before you were able to do it?
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Yes laying down. Usually in the middle of the night when I woke up feeling anxious. You can concentrate on the anxiety to facilitate meditation.
My guess is that the anxiety/fear feeling is actually a hormone being secreted, and that hormone can "loosen" your chi and get it flowing.
I'll just give you the basic 5 steps to the process.
Focused breathing meditation. Any type of accelerated breathing pattern for 10-20 mins. Best time is when you're feeling fear/anxiety. Focus on that and stoke it (this also relieves the bad feeling).
Take a bodily energy inventory. Breathe normal and scan the body for differences in the tingling feeling. Do your feet tingle? Do you feel uneasy anywhere in your body? Do you feel strong anywhere?
Once you've taken inventory, relax more. You can actually physically relax more than you think. Once you can relax further, energy can flow more freely and balance out.
Your body has a standard tension setting. It comes from all of your thoughts, fears, and habits. The mind IS the body, the body IS the mind.
This process loosens that tension setting and with enough practice can lead to AP or Kundalini awakening.
Lmk if you want steps 4 and 5
Thats really interesting, thank you very much for sharing. And Yes! What are the next steps?
4. Once you can start to let energy move (key word is let. It's the process of actively relaxing, it's bonkers) you have to think about the chakras. Familiarize yourself with them and find them and feel them in your body.
All the energy/tension in your body has a home chakra. I can give you more specifics about what energy goes where in another post.
By this time I didn't need breathing meditation anymore, I could just relax and play with it. Once you get to the point where you can identify what tension goes where, you'll understand enough to go all the way if you want.
This culminated in me aligning most of my chakras and literally pulling my spirit out of my arms and into my 3rd eye, expanding my conciousness into ?? The astral plane? My inner sub-conscious? Outer space? Idk but it was wild and I had to give up ownership of my arms. I left them dead on my bed beside
Anyway, thats as far as I got. It was work. Like I said, works best if you're feeling any strong emotion so if you're an emotional person it will be easier. I am not, so it turned into too much work to maintain.
Again:
Idk why but it changed step 5 to step 1
thanks for the time to share that. I know I am in good hands over here. I have done progress on many aspects ( recapitulation, meditation, gazing, etc).
Actually last night I set down and meditated and gaze at sunset for about 20 to 30 mins (I actually don't keep time so I am giving a ball park here) then I lay down and stared at the clear sky. There was multiple thing happening... colors, enrergyyyy beams??? maybe . Two things are clear for from yesterday daydreaming that I would like to share:
- first I saw the number 4 multiple times. It was a giant number 4 going across the sky.
- The second one was a voice (it could be my own voice) but whatever it was said "open the door" with a low tone voice.
The voice thing is wild. "Open the door" is pretty profound haha.
Had a similar experience where I was getting creepy visuals with eyes close. Fought it a little but when I let myself see them they flashed rapidly like a movie and I heard my own voice say:
"All the things you concern yourself with have nothing to do with where you are going"
And I realized that was exaclty what I needed to hear. It was a message from my subconscious, delivered thru visuals.
I think its all linked, gazing, the breath, body awareness. They're all separate skills when combined lead to, i don't know, enlightenment I guess.
I was doing some light gazing the other day and got a visual that gave me tingling in my arms and I knew to foster that tingle. I knew it was my mind affecting my body. And when I did accept and foster it, the visual was able to change.
Ultimately what you and I are saying here is that visuals can be intrpreted thru sound and feeling
Something that I can resemble from what you wrote is the part of fostering tingling sensations. Yesterday while laying down I was feeling bugs crawling on me. I have come to realized that my brain or body is trying to trick me. Yes, sometimes are actual bugs, but instead of reacting with a swiping motion to take it out or scratch my body I started to make (intent) them (my body parts) to feel like they were part of the ground. As I focus on that intent, at the same time I was gazing and of course I am searching for moments of total mental silence.
So what I am trying to say is, instead of getting annoying with the bugs or the tingling I embraced them... I know that helped me yesterday reach a.... I know know the name or the label... hehehe. but it worked.
Yes!
The acceptance of the bug feeling is exactly what I was talking about when I referred to actively relaxing.
Part of it is ignoring that animal impusle to scratch or shift to alleviate discomfort. I just shut that reactionary part of my mind down and try to interpret whatever feelings are there.
Okaaay okaaaaay we on to something here.... hehehe.
I am noticing that as I engage more in this group, and as I keep reading others the way they write and expressed themself, slowly I have been able to Express my experiences, feelings and other things in a way I couldn't explained before.
There is a lot to go for me, but this group is definitely therapeutic and helpful for me.
Same 🤙
Qi is like water flowing in a system of pipes (the qi meridians). Sometimes there is blockage in a given pipe, which causes external phenomena like pain or itching or rashes or other physical problems in the area, etc. It can also cause mental problems because different qi channels are linked to specific emotions.
When you meditate, it pushes energy into the pipe system. This creates extra pressure at the blockage points, which increases "symptoms". This can be unpleasant or not depending on the nature of the blockage, but ideally one should ignore it and just keep pumping energy into the system. Ultimately, the block(s) will clear, although it could take years to complete the process.
When one experiences nothing at all during meditation, you will know that you are actually beginning to get somewhere!
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Clara taught some healing techniques along that line, in Taisha's book.
You have to be careful though, about drawing conclusions.
If I was absolutely sure the second attention was filled with pink elephants, I'd find one for sure.
In fact, just having said that, I'm almost doomed to be greeted by one in a day or two.
It's best to focus on the "how" rather than the "what".
How did you do that?
Not, was it true or a deeper view of reality?
Only how is useful to know.
It's around the "whats" that me-too naguals destroy entire systems of knowledge.
The How: I cast my awareness totally away from my thoughts and totally onto my physical body.
It showed me that the mind is the body and the body is the mind and that the dreaming body is real and can be separated from the physical body.
I suppose this is the kind of thing which is so personal, you can't communicate it.
I've discovered lots of short cuts and tricks, but when I try to explain them, I realize they all depend on where the attention is focused.
And in a way that can't be communicated.
However, in keeping with being a grouchy bastard today (from being in full on heightened awareness), if you can do that, how come you don't have pictures of the magic you've learned to do, so we can see where it leads?
There's only one answer. You can't do that over and over again, on demand.
That's what's missing in the Castaneda community.
The realization that you need to find anything you can do, which is cool.
And repeat that until it ends. When it ends, you'll notice something else.
That's navigating.
You actually have to get up the energy to do it over and over, to let it lead you as far as it can.
And if you do, it's easy to hear in what you say.
You didn't.
It's still all a mental trip.
As it is for 99.99999% of the Castaneda community, so don't take it as anything but me urging you to work harder for real.
Sorry no magic pictures yet Dan
I didn't make any the first year.
I discovered newbies won't read anything, so I keep having to explain the same things over and over.
But oddly, pictures work.
And they make the angry Zen guys go away. They'll talk and talk about how far they can piss, and no amount of reasoning makes them cut that out.
But show them that "Dreaming Types" diagram, and they go away.
After accusing you of being like the old sorcerers (able to actually do magic).
You guys have access to someone in heightened awareness (usually). That hasn't been available since Carlos died.
Well. The witches are a mystery to me.
I'm banned from even being around them anymore, at a time when I could figure out what's up with them.
Two people in heightened awareness can communicate in ways no one else can perceive.
I was driving out in the desert and seemed to pick up a whiff of Taisha. At the start of this year in fact.
But now, none.
Cholita's powerful and really cool stuff happens when she's around.
But she isn't in heightened awareness.
Or she'd stop biting me.
Wait maybe accessing the second attention or silent knowledge is when you're able to translate across senses like this.
Like being able to experience the sound and feeling of a visual.....
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