Last night I received a gift that gives me hope for the future of the human race on this planet. I met someone new at meditation group. Watching this person meditate and seeing how deeply affected she was buoyed, my spirit. I listened to her explain how she wanted to be angry after we were done, because other people started to talk about five minutes after we finished. She could feel the experience start to slip away from her. She wanted to hold on it to it.
This new member didn’t want to talk about it at first. It took a while before she opened up about what she saw and felt. I think it was the first time she had ever tried meditation. She described beautiful colors and emotions, different ones for each chakra. She said, “I didn’t know that was supposed to happen. You didn’t tell me that would happen.”
Of course experiences during meditation are different for everyone. They can be visual, auditory, and even taste oriented. They can be feelings or emotions. In fact, most meditations don’t lead to any experiences.
By me not telling this person something could happen, she had no expectation that something would happen. And by not having an expectation, the experience happened. Expecting something to happen during mediation is a sure way to prevent the experience from happening. Some people take months or years to reach the point where they start have experiences. For a lucky few, things happen right away. Some people actually have such strong expectations they literally have to give up, even though they continue to meditation, and come to expect that nothing will ever happen before they have a breakthrough and experience something.
The group was small and my wife was there as well, so the energy was flowing and very upbeat. Our new meditator later confided to my wife that she cried the whole time. She didn’t know why, because she wasn’t sad, but she did. I think on some level, she knew she had found something she was meant to do. During our discussion she asked, “What books can I read to learn more about this?” And “What will happen to me when I have to go back to school in the fall and can’t be part of this group?”
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