I had a interesting experience this morning. I have been following a few meditation routines every morning and every night. This morning, I woke extra earlier and in a bit of a stupor made my way into my easy chair in my office. I started listening to a guided meditation and about 5 minutes in, I found myself visioning myself getting up out of the chair, walking through a door and sitting back in the exact same chair – except this time I had a heightened sense of awareness of my surroundings and a vague feeling of separation between me and my normal troubled mind.
I thought I must have been dreaming, I sort of shook myself awake and started listening to the meditation again. In sort of an experiment, I decided I would try to imagine myself getting up and walking into the exact same room and sitting in the exact same chair again. As I did so, I felt that same feeling. An awareness that the current mental state was not directly connected to my current active mind, bur somehow separate.
Ok. This sounds nuts, right? Anyway, I decided to see if I could do it again, and the guided meditation got me to think of some new angle – the second me, the disconnected me, got up out of the chair and walked through a door and found the identical chair – except this time the room I was in was completely black nothingness. So see if you can follow this madness – I was in a chair, in a dark room imaging that I was the imagination of another me sitting in my office in the same chair, who was in turn imaging that he was representing the real me sitting in an actual chair in an actual office.
I had a thought start to creep in my mind. Some vague thought that I had a bill to pay today or something. A thought that had nagged me the night before. The thought just simply did not make it. It may have impacted the real me, but by the time the thought got to the second and then the third me in the dark room, it felt like a slight annoyance and it slowly drifted away into the blackness. I then tried again. I split myself again, this time imaging floating through the blackness toward a very distant light. I went through that and found another version of myself suspended in a dull light, with no concern or thought of any present care. I then started to imagine what this future person was going to actually be. At this point, separated from my normal litany of thoughts, I felt an intense spiritual feeling – like I suddenly understood something. What was once darkness became light.
I thought this was just crazy, but I found out that this concept of splitting the mind, or elevating awareness is a well known concept in the meditation world. I just found it by accident, or perhaps not – maybe just after 114 days of meditating you just figure it out.
I then went for my morning run, and somewhere around mile 4 – I decided to try this concept while running. Elevating my mind to be above the physical, and then to float above the road I was running on, and then to elevate to the level of the clouds and sky and to look down upon what I was doing. When I would feel a slight a pain in my foot, knee or hip I would get a vague sense of it, but very quickly it would just become a slight vibration that evaporated into the air. I began to imagine that instead of running, I was flying, or floating.
You are probably thinking I have completely lost it. 297 days of doing this and I have just flipped out. However, when I finally broke this trance like state – I forgot about pain or difficulty running. I looked at my tracking application, and I had ran 10 miles and averaged right at 9 minutes per mile. A personal best for me in terms of time per mile. Something is really powerful about the mind and its relation to the body and our ability to suspend ourselves in a higher perspective of consciousness.
The rest of the day today was easier. I just felt that the normal things that annoyed me were just not that important, when compared to this higher view I had obtained this morning.
Guy Reams (297)
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