[GlictStiply]

While I try to meditate and stay awake, while trying to enter a trance, sometimes I start to fall asleep, then I am brought back wide awake, feeling a rush of energy, and then my heart starts beating wildly. I usually feel like I'm inflating like a balloon feeling lighter, but as this happens I notice my muscles start to tighten a little.

I've been getting the heart racing like crazy every time I try this. Wondering if its a heart condition or something!

But I do get "awakened" quite often. Thats a reflex I've noticed that I get alot when I'm tying to stat awake. Something brings mme back (this isn't the jolt or anything thats separate).

Is this normal part of it?

[joeyCanada]

Yes this is normal. Heh, you keep describing things so well that it brings back vivid memories of my own experiences. Heart racing can be the heart chakra accelerating, or physical body adrenaline reaction to the shock of waking - it's normally easy to tell which though. Yes trying to stay awake while going deeper into trance often creates this situation - you will definitely get the hang of the balancing act with experience and practice.
Cris.

[GlictStiply]

What I've been doing is taking deep breaths to try and slow my heartbeat down after this happens. Is that the right thing to do?


Also this deep breathing that everyone does, I find ti hard to concentrate and do more than a few dozen before my breathing is more relaxed again.

How important is it to be taking deep breaths, holding them etc? In this whole process? When do you stop doing it?

[crycleascentyv]

This condition can be brought on quite drastically if you write a bwgen preset that relaxes you for about 20 minutes and then suddenly jumps up in frequency and amplitude. Scares the crap out of me.

[desmond001]

Lone Crow wrote:
How important is it to be taking deep breaths, holding them etc? In this whole process? When do you stop doing it? Besides optimal oxygen absorption, deep breathing can make you 'aware' of your body processes, like moving energy. It also relaxes you. How important it is depends on you. I find it very pleasurable, and never have stopped doing it. I actually breathe deeply as a reflex to stress. (Do something long enough...) but if you find it disruptive, then maybe it's not for you. If you're following MAP, then do it as long as it says. It really should be your own technique.

[Ruidselisse]

hmm, most of the time it's actually your heart beat, not chakra.

for example, you're trying to reach a trance state, but you get tierd, and start to fall asleep, but then - in the same way your head jolts up when you fall asleep at work - you are awakened, heart speeds up. undoing all your hard work trying to relax.

this is the main thing preventing me from progressing to full obes.

[GlictStiply]

thanks for tips, yes it seems like a "oh crap I just fell asleep" reflex, and its definitely my heart beating, I can feel it beating.

I have a hard time feeling "chakras" at all. When I move energy it seems all I can feel all the time even right now as far as energy is at my base, under my genitals.

Moviing it up my back or front torso is hard to do, but when energy reaches the back of my head it makes me dizzy for a split second like the falling feeling then the top of my head I don't feel anything really. When I bring it to the front of my face at times I can feel like it feels when water from a shower is dripping down your face. But I never can "feel" my 3rd eye chakra.

Further down its a total crap shoot if I can feel anything. Never the navel, but below the navel I can feel lots..

Maybe I'm too focused down there? heheh