(02-06-2012, 03:21 PM)Pickle Wrote: My first "noticeable" success at meditation came while spacing off. I was rebuilding some tooling at work and let my mind roam. I am used to the "routine" of building and did not have to apply thought to what I was doing, and instead the mind just wandered about with considerations. Suddenly concepts started to hit me with force, and my head first started to tingle, then started to hurt on the inside, like a burning pain.
I called that a success because it was a sort of meditational state where I was not actively forcing thoughts to run through my mind, and I received instant results.
Now if only I could consciously acheive this.
I had a very repetitive industry job a while ago, and I got into those states as well

Do you think that imagining moving images has the same effect as a still one? I'd like to improve my visualization skills, it's so weird because you can imagine everything but I don't really see it. Higher work is strange

Perhaps imagining people coming together, all races, ages and so on and just dancing and being happy could improve planetary vibration?