You may want to start meditation, but have several questions in your mind for which you need answers. Being mentally prepared will allow you to practice meditation properly and derive its benefits. You may want to know what does meditation feel like!
Meditation and its diverse states
Besides describe one feeling, it also is referred as the ‘meditative state’. When meditating, people generally sit still, at times expressionless. But within, you may experience whirlwind of feelings taking place. A single meditation session will allow you to experience frustration, calm, excitement, happiness, desire, restfulness, rage and wistfulness.
All this takes place within a matter of minutes or hours. Experts say, there is one particular thing that tends to qualify as ‘meditating feeling’.
The fact is what your experience, feel or meditative state is, based on the meditation type you practice. Hence, meditation is considered to be manifolds and complex, that provokes diverse feelings.
What are they?
- Calm: It is a considered to be a feeling that is commonly experienced by majority of the meditators. It is this rich experience that compels them to carry on their regular practice. Calmness derived from meditation is of peaceful, deep type a feeling of slowing down of time. You will experience your mind stop racing, thoughts slowing down and enjoy deep calmness. You also get completely satisfied with this experience.
- Frustration: Beginner meditators mostly experience this feeling. It specifies that your meditation session is ‘simply pointless’, ‘unproductive’, ‘not going well’ or ‘you are unable to achieve it’. With frustration setting in, many beginners tend to stop practicing. Experts consider it to be a healthy and normal part of the meditation process. You need to bypass it and focus on your meditation to achieve the benefits. However, meditation may result in restlessness, boredom and tiredness. Such feelings are better used and incorporated into your meditation practice.
- Vastness: At times, novices and even experienced meditations experience a particular feeling where the mind gets expanded. Such feelings may be felt after prolonged calm periods. It is during this stage where the mind is found to be at complete rest. Then there is experienced a sudden switch. The mind gets diverted and becomes vast, empty and beautiful such as the clear blue sky. You may imagine your brain to be a crowded, small attic. Doing meditation helps it to declutter and refresh your brain. Suddenly, the attic will seem to be clean and empty. Rather than an attic, it will seem to be an open field, like the open blue sky or vast, unending ocean.
During meditation, what you experience is likely differ from the others.