Question for anyone

Matylda · February 18th, 2011, 16:21

Hello - I have been meditating for the last 12 months in response to some life and health issues and it has helped me a great deal. I recently purchased the LifeFlow CD's in the hope that it would fast-track my meditation (we all know how sometimes it is hard to get to that state of nothingness when our physical world impacts). Anyway - my question is that on listening to the CD (10) instead of feeling a sense of relaxation which is what I expected after listening to the demo, I felt quite unsettled and actually nauseous. Definately uncomfortable and my meditation just didn't happen as a result. I do have ME and am hyper sensitive to sounds so I am wondering if that could be a problem - should I just turn the sound down so I can hardly hear it? Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, Matylda (from Aussie of course)

pollyanna · February 19th, 2011, 13:42

Hi Matylda and welcome to the community. If you turn the sound down, you will still benefit just the same. You could try with and without headphones also. Here is a link you may find helpful - it is quite long but really worth it...

Principles of Meditation & Entrainment

Let us know how you get on - wishing you much peace and joy

Hazelkay · February 21st, 2011, 10:18

Warm welcome

For me, experiences during one session of meditation can be wildly different - and they all come under the umbrella of meditation.

Sometimes it is relaxing, but quite often not. The body stores all positive and negative stimuli generated within ourselves or coming from outside. Our reactions to these are stored as sensations we experienced at the time. As we meditate these can come to the surface in a myriad of ways. If we don't react the tension spring inside ourselves relaxes a little. If we do react - saying this is not the experience I want - we wind the spring a little tighter.

If we can accept whatever arises the tension spring gradually releases and then meditation experiences are more often relaxing - though not always as stimuli and reactions to them are ongoing.

As we meditate regularly we learn to react less in our every day lives, so putting less tension on the spring - it is a long process though - at least for me!
peace and Joy