cetus

@All_Around_Me

@Mat Pav That sounds like an accurate description. It is a state of being, and well being. "Everything is exactly as it should be at this very moment".

@Isle of View I just pulled the trigger on the emWave. My girlfriends daughter has an ill regular heart rhythm and sometimes has to wear a heart monitor. I have been suggesting meditation to her for a while but she doesn't do it. She is stressed right now because she is starting a new job that is very demanding at a hospital. Maybe she will find it of use in her busy schedule. You have the emWave?

@Henri Well that's too bad. Let me tell you where I'm coming from. I have a friend that is dying with cancer. The doctors didn't give him much time. He is just a regular guy that got the devastating news that his life will be ending very soon. Imagine for a moment that something that was safe and controlled like bio-feedback could bring a sense of peace and bliss to his life and would show him that no matter what happens, it is going to be all right. If he could experience what long term meditators experience in his short time he has, that would be a blessing. I wish everyday that he could experience the peace and bliss that there is something beyond what we normally experience as a personal self. As of now that can only be done through administering drugs.

No I haven't but I would love to try it sometime. I used to have an alpha-theta b-w monitor. It had an audible signal and you could really hone in and fine tune into b-w activity . It took the guess work out of meditation because I could get direct feedback on where I was at and focus on staying at that point. If the mind would drift that was also shown as soon as it started to happen because the signal would fall off instantly and I would catch myself before I got too far off track. Once I found where I liked to be, I could get back to that after a while without using it because I knew exactly where to go. The problem was that the sensors were not developed as well as they are today and were a real pain to get a strong signal. It had metal sensors and a gel.

@Henri That's the new world we live in. I can see a day when someone can go to a institute and have a brain wave monitor placed on their head and what would normally take decades and thousands of hours of meditation to achieve could be accomplished in a couple of short sessions.

@Isle of View I seen a heart coherence monitor a while back. Yes, it sounds interesting.

@All_Around_Me I kept asking the same exact questions you where. "Will I ever feel normal again?" How long does this last? Will it get worse or better? My mind was going a million miles an hour and that was making me feel totally panicked. My family could not understand. I can totally relate and most people here too. Yes that is resistance causing all that useless trouble. But that is hard to see when your mind is spinning out of control.

@All_Around_Me Good thing Leo started this forum. When it happened to me the first time there was no forum. I didn't know what had happen. I thought I lost my mind or something and nobody answered me on Leo's YouTube channel. After that I stated there that something has to be there when this is experienced for the first time. Some kind of support system. Getting the person to the experience of no-self is one thing, but than what is there to ground someone once the realization happens and it hits them in the face all at once. Leo should do an in depth video on what the experience is like once that realization happens. That way people wont feel like they are going mad. I remember at the time just desperately wanting someone to talk to. Someone who understood what I had just experienced. It does scare the heck out of a person the first time.

@All_Around_Me I'm so glad to hear that. You had a busy week to say the least. Let it just gel for a while and when you feel ready, do some nice easy breath meditation for relaxation and you'll be just fine. Nobody ever forgets their first time and you will look back on this someday and exchange memories of it with others as we do. You could start a journal too if you want.

@JustinS If absolute awareness is only a belief or concept at this point, the first hand experience is needed. Even if it only last a couple of minutes it can still show you the true direction and open up a part of you that was dormant. After the experience I constantly slip back into being centered within the body again. It is a constant struggle to keep that door open. But I know it's always there now. Some days it's easy and everything is right in front of you (as it has always been) and some days it's not so easy and it is more illusive. For me it's a constant struggle because the body/mind is always pulling me back. It is getting somewhat easier by the day. Eventually it will totally consume "me" over time. I'm optimistic. For an example: On Wednesday after I meditated pure awareness was particularly strong. Everything surrounding me was bathed in an ocean of pure presents. It felt as if I was at the bottom of a sea, but instead of being surrounded by water, I was surrounded by pure awareness. Just thinking about now that gets my back there and reopens that gateless, gate. Everything around us is submerged in an ocean of pure awareness. It's a unified field. It's always there.

@All_Around_Me How are you feeling? Did you get some sleep?

@actualized1 Yes, plastic surgery is too.

@Arik To sit in the forest and see the splendor of new growth is easy. Finding splendor in what is returning to the forest floor is hard.

I know, that joke doesn't deserve even the sound of one hand clapping.

Good one! I started meditation because I heard it would silence the constant chatter in my mind. It's not working, I can still hear the wife.

No, not "reckless", you didn't know. Now you do and we all learned something here. Stay with what is in harmony with your true nature. That is where everything exists.

So true. I felt like I had a foot in each world for a couple of days. Good thing I didn't have to go to work or I would have to of called out sick. It was the worst hang over I ever had.

@All_Around_Me I'll check it out. I used to do ?436hz or something like that . Yea, it got a little weird and I stopped listening.

@All_Around_Me What B-beats were you using?

@All_Around_Me Go out and do something you really like to do. Have some fun. Enjoy yourself and relax. That's the best medicine for the mind.

@All_Around_Me If you think you don't feel right, by all means see a doctor.

@All_Around_Me This is universal awareness you explain here. Everything in existence shares that. That is what we are. God, the universe, however you see it, That is looking through all our eyes.

@All_Around_Me You experienced pure awareness. What exists beyond the illusion of what you "thought you were. That is an awakening. You what to fall back into the illusion of self again? Why? It scared me too my first time. Now we are best friends. I can't get enough of that!

@All_Around_Me Yea. sounds like you had a nice breakthrough. Good going! You will be just fine. Your first time experiencing this I presume?