Automatic Meditation?

[DracoJesi]

first oof, I didn't see a meditation forum and since many paths use it, I figured it would better suit Just Pagan, instead of Just Talk...

sometimes, and often, I'll simply be thinking about something, and then my mind, without me realizing, will focus on that thought and enter a sense of light meditation, were I just seem non-existent from the world around me yet, it is not to deep, and I can be called back easily.....

my aunt says that sometimes it seems as if I'm off in another world...:lol:

it happens allot, and I've never given it much thought

how many of you experience this?

[childofbast]

I guess I kind of experience this sometimes. If I'm riding in the car with my family, and don't have to drive myself, I usually put my ipod on. When I was younger, I'd use a walkman. I'd zone out between the music, my thoughts, and the trees speeding by. It was really relaxing.

[aluokaloo]

mmm I've zoned out plenty of times.

[aluokaloo]

hey you know what though I like your idea on a meditation forum, perhaps as a subforum?

[childofbast]

I think it would be a good idea too.

[~Belladonna~]

Me three :)

[erika]

i know what you're talking about and it happens to me a lot.. especially when I'm driving, I'll start thinking and wander off and come back a few minutes later not able to remember driving during that time. it's like one part of my mind continues going normally while i'm off somewhere else :)

[DracoJesi]

i know what you're talking about and it happens to me a lot.. especially when I'm driving, I'll start thinking and wander off and come back a few minutes later not able to remember driving during that time. it's like one part of my mind continues going normally while i'm off somewhere else :)

well lucky for me, it doesn't happen when I am activly concentrating on being alert, like driving and what not..... not that I drive though, so I hope it doesn't xd

[Convallaria]

I thought this happened to everyone. We call it "drifting off into space," "staring off in to space" or "zoning out"
It happens a lot when I'm reading. My eyes will be reading the words, moving back and forth down the page but about 5 pages later I'll come out of it and realize I haven't actually read any of what I just read! Haha. It also happens when I'm the passenger in a car, or if I'm in a class I find to be particularly boring! The term "daydreaming" actually stands for this concept of sort of drifting off into a plane between consciousness and unconsciousness but with your eyes wide open, and your ears hearing but not really processing the sights or sounds. Some people call it "hyperfocus," some say it's a symptom of ADHD or ADD. All I know is that I feel incredibly relaxed during, but I feel guilty because it usually causes me to miss something and I have to double back and do it all over again, haha.

[DracoJesi]

I thought this happened to everyone. We call it "drifting off into space," "staring off in to space" or "zoning out"
It happens a lot when I'm reading. My eyes will be reading the words, moving back and forth down the page but about 5 pages later I'll come out of it and realize I haven't actually read any of what I just read! Haha. It also happens when I'm the passenger in a car, or if I'm in a class I find to be particularly boring! The term "daydreaming" actually stands for this concept of sort of drifting off into a plane between consciousness and unconsciousness but with your eyes wide open, and your ears hearing but not really processing the sights or sounds. Some people call it "hyperfocus," some say it's a symptom of ADHD or ADD. All I know is that I feel incredibly relaxed during, but I feel guilty because it usually causes me to miss something and I have to double back and do it all over again, haha.

I can see how you could consider them the same, and they may be related, I'm not sure how to explain the difference, other than it's more intenses and not simply zoning out or being "blank"

[Lunar Raven]

I've experienced what you speak of I think, where you really hear nothing around you, everything kind of slows down around you and you're unaware things. It basically IS like "being in your own world".

I guess it's kind of like a automatic meditation; being momentarily lost in your mind. I think everyone does it, especially when they're somewhere they don't want to be, or listening to something that's so dreadfully boring they wish they were somewhere else.

[Convallaria]

I can see how you could consider them the same, and they may be related, I'm not sure how to explain the difference, other than it's more intenses and not simply zoning out or being "blank"

I don't think there's any difference. I'm not trying to make it sound any less... spiritual, so to speak. But I mean, an uncontrolled loss of consciousness while you're awake is STILL an uncontrolled loss of consciousness while you're awake. Some people drift off and think about things like "what am I going to make for dinner tonight" and some people drift off and hear unidentified voices in their heads or catch glimpses of images. I don't think either is any different, it's really just up to the person experiencing the "automatic meditation"... the mind shall wander wherever it decides to wander! :)

[kotu]

first oof, I didn't see a meditation forum and since many paths use it, I figured it would better suit Just Pagan, instead of Just Talk...

sometimes, and often, I'll simply be thinking about something, and then my mind, without me realizing, will focus on that thought and enter a sense of light meditation, were I just seem non-existent from the world around me yet, it is not to deep, and I can be called back easily.....

my aunt says that sometimes it seems as if I'm off in another world...:lol:

it happens allot, and I've never given it much thought

how many of you experience this?

I also think a meditation forum would be a good idea although I think I define it differently.

For me it is stepping out of the mind, well, that is the ultimate goal, the state of no-mind, pure ultimate peace, or 'enlightenment'

So for me this involves observing the mind as if it were the mind of someone else. Watching it race twist and turn. And always bringing yourself back to the present, which can only exist in its truest state without the mind.