Most feelings that we experience in our everyday life, are caused by thought.
Our mind causes cramp-like sensations in the stomach area when we feel fear.
Our muscles in our arms, belly and legs tighten during stress.
So, when living in the Now, thoughts stop, and the ego disappears. In this space that is left behind when it is not taken in by thoughts and fears, only love can exist. And with it come sensations of bliss, interconnectedness with God or the Universe, and a strong sensation of unity.
Meditation is like a practice to achieve that.
Even tho you could experience it right away, right here in the Now, and there is nothing to achieve, the ego will try to prevent you from realising this.
When you realise it, the ego dies. It doesn't want that, it wants to feed on your feelings, and feeds you with thought that bring you more unease, fear, tension.
In meditation you learn to, even momentarily, let go of thought and ego, by focusing on a mantra or breath, or whatever.
So, everything you describe you feel in meditation is like a prelude to enlightenment.
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When we meditate, we are able to ignore our ego minds and allow our Beings to develop an interconnection with the Universal Being to form oneness.
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This interconnection is allready there. We are allready One. The mind is just giving it it's best to make sure that we don't see it.
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Meditation focuses on the present moment, on the NOW. Is this the reason why we are able to feel a decrease in stress – or simply to escape the chaos that one might by experiencing in life? In other words, is it because we are allowing our feelings to become less obstructive and more motivational?
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Stress is tension, a thought-based illusion in our mind, that wants us believe that we are feeling stress. This is usually time-based:
Something that happened in the past, or something that will happen in the (near) future, like a deadline that is impossible to make. Immediately the mind starts to play scenario's in our mind what will happen when we don't make the deadline. We might get an angry customer, we might get a contract-based penalty, we might lose our job.
All speculation, and usually the problem is never quite as serious as the scenario's played by the ego.
Also, these scenario's keep you from performing your tasks in the best possible way, so they are actually slowing you down !
If the mind stops, the ego disappears, and all there is is this moment that you live in. Your creativity is at it's peak, and even if you don't make the deadline, and you do get a penalty, or lose your job, you accept it as something that happens, and could not be avoided. You did your very best, and you will find a better job, or earn back the money you lost in a different way. It is all just a play of form, your connection to the source fills you with bliss and all you need is this. Happiness comes from within, not from circomstances.
