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organicAnt  ·  4072 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mindfulness on BBC Breakfast

    Yeah, really good when I remember to do it.

That's the thing. I always seem to have something else more important to do than sit down and meditate. I think a large part of the measure of success is how often you manage to gather the will power to actually meditate. It takes real discipline to do it regularly. Maybe we should start a #meditationInspiration tag to remind us to meditate more regularly.

    It's strange though, once I get into the meditation session and am starting to properly focus I get this reasonably intense energy feeling in my head.

I've read that may mean that the top chakra is opening, I have no idea if that is true or even what it means. It sounds like you're achieving something though : )

The longest I meditated for was a month in a small eco-village I was volunteering at. We used to start the day at 7:30 with 45mins meditation. It got easier towards the end. And then one night I experienced something weird just as I went to bed. It felt as if all my awareness had left my body and was concentrated right between my eyes. It's hard to describe but it was an incredibly uplifting experience that lasted for only maybe 20-30 seconds until my next thought came online "Holy shit, what's going on!" and I was back, feeling my whole body again, as if nothing had ever happened. I wonder what the world would look like we/humans learned to control our minds : )