Over the past couple of days I have made a conscious effort to relax and meditate — watching my thoughts and relaxing deeper and deeper — and to observe myself when not meditating. I have tried different approaches to meditation over the years but yesterday I decided to throw all these approaches away and start fresh.
Today I went about my routine as usual but something felt different.
I am normally a very indoors type of person but today, for no reason, I felt like sitting outside in the sun. It didn't feel forced, it just happened. Then later in the day I didn't feel "like myself." It was a certain uneasiness, not like anxiety but a certain strangeness infused my sense of self. I usually have depressed and dreary thoughts but today it was like returning to a time when I was happier.
Are these perceptions normal when we begin these studies? I feel uneasy and bizarre but also a little elated, and eager to meditate. It was as if I had been meditating the wrong way for years.
Today I went about my routine as usual but something felt different.
I am normally a very indoors type of person but today, for no reason, I felt like sitting outside in the sun. It didn't feel forced, it just happened. Then later in the day I didn't feel "like myself." It was a certain uneasiness, not like anxiety but a certain strangeness infused my sense of self. I usually have depressed and dreary thoughts but today it was like returning to a time when I was happier.
Are these perceptions normal when we begin these studies? I feel uneasy and bizarre but also a little elated, and eager to meditate. It was as if I had been meditating the wrong way for years.
Accepted Answer
By starting fresh in every moment, and learning to really pay attention here and now, we can begin to extract the consciousness from the cage. It feels odd, but it is liberating. Nevertheless, although these perceptions can happen, they are no measure for success in the work. The measure of progress is found in our heart and mind.
"In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all. Meditation is fundamental when we sincerely yearn for such a change. In no way do we want a type of meditation that is insignificant, superficial, and vain. We must become serious and abandon the nonsense that abounds in cheap pseudo-esoterism and pseudo-occultism. We must know how to take things seriously, how to change, if what we really and truly want is to not fail in the esoteric work. Those who do not know how to meditate, the superficial, the ignorant, will never be able to dissolve the ego. They will always be impotent driftwood in the tumultuous sea of life. Defects discovered in the field of everyday life must be understood profoundly through the technique of meditation. The didactic material for meditation is found precisely in the different events and daily circumstances of everyday life. " - Samael Aun Weor
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes.” —Demosthenes
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
Accepted Answer
By starting fresh in every moment, and learning to really pay attention here and now, we can begin to extract the consciousness from the cage. It feels odd, but it is liberating. Nevertheless, although these perceptions can happen, they are no measure for success in the work. The measure of progress is found in our heart and mind.
"In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all. Meditation is fundamental when we sincerely yearn for such a change. In no way do we want a type of meditation that is insignificant, superficial, and vain. We must become serious and abandon the nonsense that abounds in cheap pseudo-esoterism and pseudo-occultism. We must know how to take things seriously, how to change, if what we really and truly want is to not fail in the esoteric work. Those who do not know how to meditate, the superficial, the ignorant, will never be able to dissolve the ego. They will always be impotent driftwood in the tumultuous sea of life. Defects discovered in the field of everyday life must be understood profoundly through the technique of meditation. The didactic material for meditation is found precisely in the different events and daily circumstances of everyday life. " - Samael Aun Weor
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes.” —Demosthenes
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
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