Article 5

Meditation Experience

       Meditation is a method that has been used for centuries in many different cultures. The purpose of meditation is to unlock and journey into the depths of the unconscious mind. This can be accomplished by focusing on peaceful and repetitive stimuli such as soothing sounds and not being disturbed by the outside world. In class we listened to a recording that would help us meditate. It was a woman with a soothing voice who was saying instructions that we had to imagine. This was accompanied by peaceful, soothing and repetitive sounds that would stimulate the brain to meditate.

       At first I didn’t feel anything. I simply started a journey feeling relaxed as I walked down a pathway. The experience of walking down a pathway and finding magical objects was fascinating though. The pictures were very clear in my head, at some points I even felt I was really there. The place was completely magical and I was building it little by little according to my likes. What fascinated me the most out of this experience is how realistic the different lights that shone upon me were. I was curious the whole time, I wanted to go further into the journey, and I wanted to know what else would happen. The feelings involved here confused me. For the most part I felt relaxed and curious. Yet in some parts I don’t know exactly what it was I felt. This happened every time there was a light shinning upon me. It was a mixture of being careless and light. In the first light I felt no joy, yet I wasn’t sad or anything like it. In the violet light I did feel something close to joy and excitement and in the green one I felt at ease. When I was with my “guardian” I felt safe and all the other emotions I felt when under the lights. I really don’t know what to make of what I felt or what I saw but I would defiantly try meditation again to try and find out what to make of everything I felt.