What does meditating feel like?

What does meditating feel like?

As some of you may know a few weeks back I started meditating. I was fortunate enough to receive a grant from the Transcendental Meditation Group and was taught meditation in this style by teachers local to me who I hope to interview for my blog soon.

Since meditating I do feel that I have felt changes in my life but I am not sure I know how to articulate them yet properly so will hold off doing that for now, but I am often asked what meditating feels like. This is really challenging to explain as often the sensation varies hugely.

In the meantime, I do spend time watching posts on Quora about meditation and mindfulness and today found this lovely answer to ‘What does meditation feel like’ by the author Patrick Baigent who has also written a book called ‘The Gears of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide on Mindfulness’. You can find the book on Amazon in the UK here.

Here is Patrick’s answer to ‘What does Meditation Feel Like’

This depends on what stage you’re at.

• To start with you may feel nothing much at all, because your awareness doesn’t go deep at first.
• Then if you have a heap of ripe karma or beginner’s mind, you might get really meditative very naturally and feel amazing quite early on. You might feel; great peace, stillness or timelessness, joy and rapture, unusual or floaty sensations, pure bliss or love, psychic abilities, or your senses all disappearing into infinite space. Don’t worry if that doesn’t happen now, it can happen later if you go deeper.
• At some point (usually in the first few months or the first year) you will ‘hit the wall’ of your current experience, you might feel everything that is going on for you or you might only feel some of it. But meditation might feel very challenging and you might wonder why meditation suddenly got difficult (it’s because you ‘hit the wall’ and are now working at the coalface). You might feel all of these things; physical aches or tensions, emotional holdings, strong thought habits, even deeper views about yourself you hold; anxieties; worries; hopes and fears; etc. The good news is, if you didn’t become aware of these then it’s hard to change them, so that’s the first step you’ve just made. But it can sometimes feel pretty rubbish.
• It’s easy to get caught up feeling all this and forget what we really want to feel in meditation – which is to feel enjoyment in relaxation in all this unnecessary mental and physical activity. That’s the next stage; when you apply the four foundations of mindfulness as a single meditative process you feel relief and enjoy relaxation in some of this maelstrom of activity. That’s what the main training in mindfulness consists of. It can feel like hard work sometimes, and that depends on how much momentum of unnecessary mental and physical activity you’ve currently built up in your life – which all needs unwinding – but the unwinding itself feels like enjoying relaxation, even if just a little bit.
• The more you relax and unwind your particular momentum of unnecessary mental and physical activity the more you feel your metabolism reducing, you’ll feel your breathing calming down even just a little bit, you might even feel no breathing at all when you relax really deeply. The more you reduce unnecessary mental and physical effort the more you feel satisfaction, it’s inversely proportional.
• And finally, on the basis of a calm mind, you can investigate this sense of self that causes us so much trouble; you can ask, who am I really? Is there a real entity here to get worked up about and protect, or can I relax at a deeper level? This is the next level of mindfulness, which takes us right to the core of our feeling of self-ness. If we keep looking and investigating what’s going here, how we are causing our own feeling of dissatisfaction through our own subtle activity of mind, we eventually see through the delusion that there is a real entity behind our sense of self, this deep belief drops away and we feel liberated from dissatisfaction at the deepest possible level, it’s a feeling of happiness and freedom that is unmatched by anything – so people say!

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For more on the practice and principles of mindfulness check out my book – A Practical Guide to Mindfulness Therapy eBook: Patrick Baigent: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store