Speaking of breathing. I'm not an 'expert' on any of the 'professional schools' of meditation in its various forms, although I have been doing meditation, in many forms, for ... well, most of my life, if I can be honest here. I guess, what I think is that the 'discipline' is not so important, just that you 'get there', where you need to be, to learn and experience, to continue to grow.
When I was young I was an excellent swimmer. I taught very young children, toddlers, really, how to jump from the diving board and paddle across the pool into my arms. This, so they wouldn't automatically drown if they fell in. To earn the merit required to be allowed to teach, I had to 'save' a big, burly guy, in several ways, for my test, and I am not a big person, nor am I a large, muscular man. This required discipline, and much time to learn, and much patience with myself, and the support from others to learn the skills necessary.
However, meditation...seems a natural thing. Really, it is. I remember that before I learned all these lessons so that I could teach swimming to young children, I liked to play in a certain way, in the public pool near my home, or in any pool. It was a habit of mine, and I loved doing it. It was simply, to sink to the bottom of the deep end of the pool, letting the air out smoothly until it was all gone. I would then push off from the bottom and return to the surface where I would take a breath, then sink again as the breath was released. While doing this, I would become happy and peaceful, and no one else seemed to be doing it. They were all playing games, having fun, which I liked to do also. There was a rhythm to it, you know, gently shooting up to the surface, sinking down to the bottom. If I was in just the right spot in the pool, it was just perfect.
When you do it, and you know it, that's all there is to it.
Seraphis1 wrote on Nov 28th, 2010 at 1:04am:PauliEffectt wrote on Nov 27th, 2010 at 9:56pm:Yes, I breath with my stomach. When I place my hands over my chest, I can feel no or extremely little movement.
That is not diaphragmatic breathing…place your thumbs on the illiac crest and breath if the thumbs move outward that is diaphragmatic breathing… you use the diaphragm not the stomach..
PauliEffectt wrote on Nov 27th, 2010 at 9:56pm:
I have read several times that you don't seem to breathe with your non-physical body while OBEd.
I don’t believe the etheric double breathes… but I have experienced the slowing of breath to almost nothing but because I am controlling the breathing with my diaphragm I can bring it to a point where no breathing is felt… not sure what is happening… whether a stream of air is moving with out the effort I don’t know… but I will suddenly need a breath and I am practicing slowing drawing the breath down without too much disturbance of the body… but, in one of my sessions I experienced a column of air like a tube flowing on its own… but, that only happened once…
PauliEffectt wrote on Nov 27th, 2010 at 9:56pm:Now, I am speculating. Could the no-breathing be an illusion? Or that I actually felt some kind of exit sensation instead? I personally don't think so, hopefully time will tell.
It could also be simple; I fell asleep, held my breath (some people do that in sleep), and then woke up seconds later.
I snored a few times, too, but not disturbingly much. A week ago I snored at almost every attempt, waking me up by the sound each time.
Unless you suffer from sleep apnea that is not what is happening… it is a phenomena of deep meditative state… which I do not understand at all but I don’t worry about it… all this stuff is automatic… just let it all happen… the worst that can happen is you end up permanently in f27... LOL!!
PauliEffectt wrote on Nov 27th, 2010 at 9:56pm:Besides, I noticed that the first JOOB CD, with Monroe speaking, was digitally re-mastered, which made me wonder how old the JOOB H-S sound is, as the H-S evolved a lot during the 1980s (each CD/sound pattern had 7 H-S frequencies with 5 H-S patterns on each frequency, at the end of 1980s, if I remember correctly from one of Monroe's youtube clips).
Do you know how old the JOOB CD set is compared to the Gateway Wave CD series?
Did you read the instruction??? Each disk is set up specifically with prompts and the hemi-sync signal is space at 20 minute intervals for the prompt except the last disk.
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