Meditation Practice

[Tistepiste]

Dear all,

I have a question concerning my meditation practice.

Basically, I am doing two different kinds. (I am not sure if they're actually different?)

• Focus on breath

When I close my eyes, I first start to notice which thoughts pop up. Mostly they're always the same kind of thoughts.
After that, I focus on my breath, and the thoughts start to fade. When I really start focusing deeply, I start to feel more energy in my body.
Like a low-soothing kind of vibration. Then I start being aware of how empty my head-space becomes.

• Focus on body

Other thing I do is that I focus on different parts of my body. When I do this, the vibrational energy I feel is much bigger.
My heart starts racing, my breath becomes shorter. When I focus the energy on my hands, I feel my heart pumping in my hands, when I focus on my feet, I feel my feet being pumped with blood. etc. (for all parts, yes I get a bon*r when I focus on my d*ck).
When I have a lot of cognitive work-load and overthinking, the amount of energy that releases in my body can be immense, almost too much to contain!
My heart starts racing crazy fast, my breath becomes shorter and like my energy is just spuring everywhere.
It depends on my mental-state at that point. When I am relaxed starting the meditation, it is okay. The energy feels good.
When I have been worrying and over-thinking, the energy is much bigger and it actually scares me sometimes.

Is this normal?

Cheers

[cetus]

@Tistepiste It seems your doing fine with the breath work but the focusing on the body turns into a mental activity/over thinking=distraction of sorts. The mind is a clever/ sneaky thing so it will try to throw all kinds of distractions in the way.

[yawning_]

great!

i would suggest getting into kriya yoga, it is such a wonderful foundation for meditation work

check out https://www.aypsite.org/

or http://kriyayogainfo.net/

they are both excellent resources on the topic

 

 

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