Ali wrote:
"How do you know you're doing it right? Sensations? Visions? Feelings? What is supposed to happen?"
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Ali,
I’m not sure there is any right or wrong way. What do you want to happen? What do you want to feel? I lean towards visualization or holding an image or sequence of images to a final point. Then holding that final point or image in my mind. When everything works right, I experience a timelessness that always amazes me at how long I thought I was under compared to how long I was actually under. I mean, it only seems like I was…what..out?...a few minutes when actuality I had been sitting there for 30 or 40 minutes and my foot has gone to sleep. Holding the final image produces a light, kind of warming…buzz??...throughout my head and shoulder area with distinct pressure at the point right between my eyes. Sometimes a crawling sensation in the scalp on top of my head. Sometimes all 3..or combination of any of them.
And then..sometimes I fall asleep and slowly topple to the floor......
I’ve also tried the sitting in silence method espoused by Q’uo with much less success. Until recently (when I started working with this breathing technique), I’ve never been able to slow my thoughts down to the point that the visualizations seem to. I don’t seem to be able to contemplate nothingness without thinking about it, LOL. But lately…its been interesting to experiment with the Breath Technique.
Richard
"How do you know you're doing it right? Sensations? Visions? Feelings? What is supposed to happen?"
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Ali,
I’m not sure there is any right or wrong way. What do you want to happen? What do you want to feel? I lean towards visualization or holding an image or sequence of images to a final point. Then holding that final point or image in my mind. When everything works right, I experience a timelessness that always amazes me at how long I thought I was under compared to how long I was actually under. I mean, it only seems like I was…what..out?...a few minutes when actuality I had been sitting there for 30 or 40 minutes and my foot has gone to sleep. Holding the final image produces a light, kind of warming…buzz??...throughout my head and shoulder area with distinct pressure at the point right between my eyes. Sometimes a crawling sensation in the scalp on top of my head. Sometimes all 3..or combination of any of them.
And then..sometimes I fall asleep and slowly topple to the floor......
I’ve also tried the sitting in silence method espoused by Q’uo with much less success. Until recently (when I started working with this breathing technique), I’ve never been able to slow my thoughts down to the point that the visualizations seem to. I don’t seem to be able to contemplate nothingness without thinking about it, LOL. But lately…its been interesting to experiment with the Breath Technique.
Richard