meditation

Beyond Dreaming
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No offenses, what if you have a bad allergy or cold that you can’t breath effectively through your nostrils? :tongue:

Anyways I prefer breathing deeply and slowly… depending on what my instinct says… without having to do nostrils technique. That way I can breath through my mouth if I have a cold or a bad allergy or through my nose. :smile: More flexible for me. :smile:

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It’s funny you mention that. My nose is a little crooked (I don’t know how it got that way :content: ) and it’s always easier for me to breath through my right nostril than my left.
Weird eh? :tongue:

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I just started to try meditating again after reading this. I’ve done it twice so far and it’s the same as before. I can feel my third eye and the rest open up to my crown chakra and then I start to feel all tingly especially in my hands. It also feels like the tempurature in my hands has gone up and they radiate. And it gives me a really hyper happy feeling like joy kinda. Not that I mind but does this happen to anyone else or am I delusional? Aren’t you supposed to see things clearer? Usually I just don’t care after. I really need to find a class.

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I kinda get that feeling sometimes, like I can feel my ‘energy’ moving around or something.

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Thanks! Off to it!

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Haha, Dm7 (is that your favorite guitar/piano chord?) I feel you. I used to not be able to breathe through my nose at all, I’d suffocate! I got jaw surgery (check my before and after pics in The Gathering) and since they moved my jaw forward, it opened up my nasal cavity and now I can breathe through them!!! Stops the drooling at night. Anyway…

I can’t really ever feel my third eye. I try the 61-point relaxation at times but can’t move to point 2 cos I can’t focus on point 1!! :confused:

Haha, I usually just walk away from the meditation too, so I feel ya again!

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Haha no… it stands for DreamMaster7.

Anyways, I usually have problems with my nose cuz of allergy or cold so I prefer being able to rely on something more reliable than Q’s technique. :smile: Hehe mm I can’t think of anything else to say so I’ll just… go. XD mm and skidzz I’ll check it out :smile:

Edited: wow… that’s a big difference! :o Amazing! :biggrin:

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DM: yes, if you have a cold that makes it more difficult :razz:

For me it works because i have to focus on so many things, and it brings me into balance. I used to be annoyed when i had a cold because i couldn’t do it! lol

but funny thing is, sometimes i wake up with one of my nostrils blocked, i just do this technique, (just breathe more forcefully through the blocked one so i still get enough air) and after a while it clears.

for me it is so difficult to just pay attention to breating or focus on an object, my mind thinks too much! So with this one i have plenty of things to keep my mind on. the counting, the blocking/releasing of nostrils, and the breathing :smile:

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For me, I love to picture a flower (don’t know what it’s called :razz: ) and inside there is a flame (as read in EWLD) I breathe VERY slowly and deeply, barely having my mouth open to breathe out. When I do breathe out, the flame in my mind’s eye waves as if I was softly blowing on it. I do this without thinking. Eventually I’m very relaxed and my timer beeps, and 20 minutes have gone by like that!

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Oh, the dream lotus and flame technique. I’ve never really tried that one. Do you find you get lots of WILDs with it?

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Lotus, that’s right! I don’t even know what one looks like (but I have an idea I think, it’s like a cup?) WILDs, eh… I haven’t seen any LD’s since meditating really. :confused: Can you WILD while meditating, is that what you mean?

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Wow, it’s so pretty!!!

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Well that technique is used by the dream yogis to have lucid dreams. Stephen LaBerge has adapted it to observe HI when trying to WILD. So you could use it for both LDing and Meditating :smile:

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regular sessions of any internal arts will help with stuffy nose, at least during your session
bigger problems like headaches have not worked so well yet, these will take much more time+effort

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Nice work, I’m going to try something like this tonight and focus on a spot/activity I want to do in my next LD. How long do you normally do something like this for? 5-10 minutes I’m guessing?

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for me meditation is pretty easy. The one with keeping your thoughts out is good but its pretty much boring and then sometimes my laziness takes over.

I’ve tried differrent types of meditation where you visualise you are at a place for a purpose. Like unleashing your true potential.

i learned it all at https://www.learningmeditation.com/

The site is full proof its the best there is. Highly recommended it even has tape recordings and special music to help you meditate. and it has something about being able to communicate with spirits.

its much more entertaining to keep your focus.

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Very cool link! Thanks!

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I meditate daily. It keeps my spirit up. I don’t do any specific meditation, i.e Yoga or Tai Chi.

This is a nice excerpt from a Erowid article:

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It gives a nice introduction to meditation. You can read the full article here.

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One mistake. Meditation is going into a trance. However you dont need to be focussed on that. Trance merely means that you get relaxed (lower brainwaves), so that happens automatically each time anyone meditates.

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that sounded odd to me too
but I assumed they meant it for people who think superstitiously/fearfully of trance