First time Meditating Need suggestions advice

The key to starting a meditation practice is to not only be good to yourself but take baby steps. Do not say you are going to meditate for 30 minutes a day, start with 5 or 10 minutes and then work up from that. :)

A really strange/funny thing happened this morning.

My dog had woken me up and I was wide awake but it was still half an hour too early to get up. I decided to put into practice some of the comments I'd read yesterday on how to meditate.

So...I'm sitting, propped up in my bed (duvet around me as it was a bit chilly) and I started concentrating on my breathing and relaxing again.

I'd read last night, sorry I can't remember who said, but it was a few, if your mind gets too busy just go back to concentrating on your breathing.

And that's what I was doing. Thoughts were popping in and out of my head but I found using this technique were really quietening my mind. AND...I wasn't falling asleep. Great!

After a few minutes of this I heard someone take too loud steps up the stairs. Now the thing that's strange there is I live alone. The other thing about that is I only heard them in my left ear and the sound came from behind me - which is a wall (stairs are in the other direction). I wasn't frightened but found it interesting.

The other 'funny' thing that happened was a few minutes later. My tongue was hanging out of my mouth and it was becoming dry. Sexy vision, I know!!! BUT, when I went to bring my tongue inside my mouth, and brought my consciousness to my tongue, it was already in my mouth. I would have bet money that my tongue was hanging out and was really surprised to find it wasn't.

Of course I don't know if this all means anything but...I'm hoping it does.

Blessings!
LL

[michaelj1981]

sorry guys for the long delay its been really chaotic in my life right now with moving and easter and what not. I haven't meditate as much as i would like. However i do walk alot and when i do i just relax and breath in deep and out. Thank you all for your great ideas and advice and your stories. :) One mediation i love is listening to good classical music and living in the moment, usally when im alone i make myself come to the conscious realization that only i exist and everything outside does not. Then i let everything go!

You could try an Open Eyed Chakra Meditation.


http://www.sunshineofthesoul.com/Pag...editation.aspx

[Gem]

Originally Posted by sunshineofthesoul

You could try an Open Eyed Chakra Meditation.


http://www.sunshineofthesoul.com/Pages/chakrameditation.aspx

I click on the site and it just gives me google ads is it spam?

[michaelj1981]

Today i was meditating and i heard a big pop and a flash of light. what is that about.

[Nameless]

Originally Posted by michaelj1981

So last night i used a mediation audio with head phones, and as i was doing it i felt it to a point like all i could feel was being aware. Then i felt a tingle on the top of my head like someone was touching it. Then is started to get anxious like i had to move alot, My mind couldn't shut up and not focus, plus every part of my body had a itch almost. lol So any ideas on how to do it more effectively. When i look back however i did enjoy it, and is something i want to do more often.

What i did learn was

I need to learn to focus
I need to withdraw my awareness more from the body, and the not observe the thoughts as much as create them.

I am just learning to meditate myself, and when I tried it before, I just couldn't get anywhere. I found this recently and tried it a few times, and I am gonig to try to do this everyday for awhile and see if it works.

It is some help from the other side - my favorite nonphysical entities - Abraham Hicks -Breathe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyHfXjj9UQU

[michaelj1981]

i read that book and i need to finish i think i got to like 250 or so it is a very good book

[Gem]

Originally Posted by Nameless

I am just learning to meditate myself, and when I tried it before, I just couldn't get anywhere. I found this recently and tried it a few times, and I am gonig to try to do this everyday for awhile and see if it works.

It is some help from the other side - my favorite nonphysical entities - Abraham Hicks -Breathe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyHfXjj9UQU

Just curious as to how that can be authenticated as Abraham Hicks. It sounds like 'americanized' hype to me.

[Nameless]

Originally Posted by Gem

Just curious as to how that can be authenticated as Abraham Hicks. It sounds like 'americanized' hype to me.

?? Not sure I understand where you are going with this question. Are you questioning if it is Esther Hicks channeling Abraham? Are you questioning whether she is an American. I would say Esther is American, Abraham isn't :). I can tell you I have watched countless hours of Esther channeling Abraham, on DVD's, on You tube, and I have seen her do it in person recently (which was fun), so, yes, that is Esther's voice as Abraham.

If you are questioning whether she is channeling at all, or making it all up, well then, that would be for you to decide. I can only say I have channeled Abraham as well, so you can call me crazy too, I don't mind. It really is not difficult to channel them, and Abraham gives instructions, although by the time I found that clip on You tube, I had already channeled them. It is interesting for me to note that I was channeling someone else entirely when they rudely interrupted - that was interesting. They can *pass the phone* so to speak. As long as you an in the vibrational vicinity, in the neighborhood, as they like to call it, on their channel (98.6 FM as an example...), anyone can do the same :)

I will say, it sure livens up my life.

Here is Abraham on channeling them on their frequency - oh, and FYI, people are allowed to post Abraham "shorts" on You tube - I think they are allowed up to 15 or so minutes, otherwise You tube will pull them down if they are longer. So it is not Jerry & Esther that put the music or images in this clip - it is some random person that posted it. Esther channels in front of a live audience, and always has. And the only music they have is in the beginning or at the very end, before and after any channeling. It is quite the journey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ilomKaFyw0