as far as having lost out by not meditating, ... well not all meditation is the same. There is awareness meditation and there is concentrated meditation, there is meditation on an object or opening all your senses and paying attention to everything. Both concentrated and awareness are better than being stuck or overtaken by thoughts but watching thoughts is good too because you are the observer and then not 'stuck in' the thoughts but learning detachment from them as the witness.
The idea of meditation being the witness of thoughts is good and while the meditation does bring some peace, its also a 'practice' so it is something you learn to do by practicing so that eventually you watch your thoughts all the time and are therefore free from them.
A great meditation is feeling the belly expand and contract or the breathing. Basically feeling anything in the body is good. Whatever you are doing while meditating (whatever you are thinking) you note it and return to the meditation (on body sensations).
People talk about 'out of body experience' but most people are out of body most of the time which means they are disassociated with themselves. In meditation, I want an 'in the body' experience . To have an 'in the body' experience, I have to pay attention to all the sensations in my toes, ankles, shins, calves, knees, thighs, hips, fingers, eyeballs... etc... as you can see body scanning and when you can learn how to do that, you get more and more into being 'embodied' and 'present'.
Thats a big chunk of the spiritual path. it seems to work with listening to the lifeflow for me pretty much
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