Thread: I just had a very profound experience!

That is a classic meditation technique and it works wonderfully in any context.

One example I like starts with the basic breathing meditation where you focus on your breathing. Don't regulate it or anything just focus on it, listen to it as you breath in and out. Feel your body respond as you take in air then exhale it. Once you feel the pattern and have fully relaxed imagine your body as a big balloon. Filling with air completely when you breath in then emptying completely when you breath out.

I am no mystic but when I get to that state I can feel my mind/body expelling the stress of the day. I imagine all the tension from the day being pushed out of my body. As if it was water pouring in with each breath, washing thru me then flushing out the stress. In some cases (much like the exercise you did) I picture individual instances or situations that caused me stress.

Like I said I'm no mystic and trying to explain it is hard but I'm not focusing on the stress of the day but on the breathing. imagining the stress and tension being washed away by it. After five to ten minutes of that I feel like I've had a nice relaxing nap and am ready to take on the rest of my day.

It is amazing what taking a break, closing your eyes and relaxing can do for your mind. Listen to your body, let your mind wander free (almost like sleeping) and see where it takes you.

Oh duh.... the alien feeling you experienced is most likely something that has been repressed for so long you can't even recognize it. Not so much the event, as it is what triggered it when you focused on it, but how you feel or felt about it. It takes a lot of soul searching to be able to see something from so far in our past and really deal with it. To understand the emotions involved and what they've mutated into after so long being repressed.