Has anyone ever felt a physical contact while meditating?
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i need some more details to answer. do you feel the tapping at the mid-point of your chest, a bit above the epicardium and spread over 1--2 sq inch area or is it something different? if the answer is yes, then you have felt the centre of a life force (praan) which controls our feelings like love, hate, kindness etc. and it is normal. try to feel it more and concentrate on it. if you wish to learn some more you go through the letter ' SEVEN NERVE CENTRES' in my group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gita_upanishadrahasya
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Learn to meditate then listen to your inner voice, (intuition), feelings and pay attention to your dreams. Often dreams give us subconscious clues. If you want to know about a particular issue think about it while going to sleep and then write down any dreams. Remember dreams are often strange seeming, you have to analyze the whole dream to see what it could mean to you. While meditating close your eyes and focus your attention on the spot just above and between your eyes. You may feel a sense of pressure, tingling or other sensation there. This is normal. It will change as you progress. You may be feeling pressure there or whatever and then the sensation may change, often an opening or freeing kind of sensation. This means you are progressing. The more you practice the better you will become at it. Remember to meditate when you won't be interrupted and have time because if you are concerned about other issues you can't really meditate at the same time. Also get a book on meditation at the library, it can't hurt to practice differing techniques until you find one that works best for you.
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When I have felt God's presence it was usually with a lot of other believers during a time of prayer and meditation.  When I have been meditating by myself, or when I have been mentally going about some depressing fact and She steps in to bring me back to reality.\n- Oh yeah stopping to take a breath and look at Her beauty in the world also has made me feel God's Precence\n\nSo I think the key here is being open to feel God's presence.  Meditation helps, but I think most of it is being spiritual and open, having faith and taking the time to listen to what God may be saying.
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did you know meditating has been linked to thicker cortexes which is where concentration and memory is?  Anyway check out the source link I provided for the answer to your question.  Happy meditating
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Hi,\n I teach spiritual development and your experience is very similar to that of some of my other students. While we sleep, we are able to connect to our relatives, guides, and spiritual helpers more easily than if we were awake. Some people experience conversations, others feel they have travelled to places and met people, others are shown incidents in great detail,this is what appears to be happening to you.\n Please trust in your intuition, the more you trust and accept the things shown to you, the more your intuition will help you during the day, and allow your abilities to develop further. Try keeping a diary of the things you are shown to monitor your progress.Good luck x
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Aparently something because this happened to me.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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I'm not sure but I have had that sensation to.I will be keeping an eye open for a good answer to this one.
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I once saw a one legged witch turn a storm.\n\nMy first ritual, we were all comfortable throughout the ritual, but the instant the ritual ended, we realized that the room was cold. The heat hadn't been on and the whole time and it was spring equinox.\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could put healing energy into people and tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nI have this one singing bowl which plays differently, responding to the place where it's played, or what chakra it's played on. I use it to locate blockages for spiritual healing. I also used it to find the perfect place to set up my tent the first time I camped in Kansas. One night the wind ripped through the camp. By morning, just about every tent had blown over except mine.\n\nFor a while, a friend and I maintained a karmic connection through an object which was divided and each of us kept half, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked at a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."\n\nOne time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate from any other areas and so no one came into the area. Suspecting activity of the Fae, everyone put out offerings, except for the woman who lost her necklace. She cursed the fairies. The next morning, everything was returned except the necklace. To this day, the necklace has never been found.\n\nOn another camping trip, I put my tent right in the middle of a natural faery ring. When I camp, I always have a flashlight with me at all times. The only place I could have lost i
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I have sensed the voice of God, but not heard an "audible voice". It has been a still, small voice that is more of an impression than anything else. And, it hasn't happened in about 20 years for me. The times I remember it happening were very good and peaceful experiences and not "weird" or anything. Nothing fell down from the sky, there were no bright lights...just a peace and the sense of being communicated with from something quite holy and beyond normal experience. It's something to keep private in one's heart, I think.
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I felt more intune with my spiritual side and more at peace.
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It happens- I wondered away from God for 20 years, but God patiently waited for me to come back and I feel a closeness I never thought possible. To feel closer to God, try to incorporate your spirituality into your daily life- if you hold the elevator for someone, silently think to yourself I do this for you Lord, If you help a stranger or do any act of kindness, do the same thing. It will bring your focus back to God. Be Blessed, God loves you and will never abandon you. God will patiently wait for you. I know from experience.
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That's because you were not meditating. I suspect you were relaxing and trying to get yourself into a different "level" of consciousness. Meditation isn't like that. Meditation is awareness (one-pointedness of the mind). You can achieve meditation even by attentively drawing a straight line. I achieved that before but that particular awareness only last less than a quarter of a second, after I realize such awareness. But that ultra-short experience was wonderful. I finally know what's the true feeling of total awareness and peace.\nYou have to be clear of what exactly is meditation. The "devil" (maybe some demons or imps) may be involved, so you might wanna meditate in temple or places like that. But I can tell you, last time I "meditate" and achieve the feel I mentioned right at home in my room, while drawing.
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I've had a couple times where I really felt God with me.  The one I recall most: I was thinking of His actions that confuse and/or disturb me.  I started crying hard.  So I prayed, and told God what I was thinking.  Next thing I know, my tears dry up, my breathing slows down, and my whole body relaxes.  I have no doubt God was comforting me!
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A kinder made me laugh so hard, my tummy hurts! \n\nOn a more serious note, I have felt very intensely in tune with nature before. On a seperate incident have felt at one with the universe...I guess you could say I saw a vision of the universe. Sort of an epiphany after thinking a lot on how we are all connected and the oneness of life.\n\nEdit: I just saw that a kinder is snoopy! I somehow saw him as venus trap before, mouth open...bottom jaw to the right...that was a bit of an epiphany! lol
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I met a group of Buddhist monks a few years back.  One of the monks I talked with gave off this remarkable energy of complete peace and serenity and it was so palpable I literally felt that I was in the presence of someone who did not belong with the rest of us.  It was awe inspiring.
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YOU WILL KNOW DO U FEEL A CONNECTION
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Absolutely, and it's the most amazing feeling! Actually I do sensory-based meditative exercises called "Imageries." Imagery is wonderful for tapping into the senses with your imagination! You can use fragrances like inscence or candles; lighting; music helps tremendously... and you hone in on sight, sound, touch/texture, temperature, smell, imagining them all and meditating on those senses and the calming effects of them... you walk yourself through these scences and then back out of them slowing using deliberatly slow breathing. It's beautiful depending on where your imagination and your heart takes you. Each time it can be a different one if you choose, or you can return to places in your mind for the familiarity and comfort. Many therapists are familiar with the technique and can provide help in learning and mastering Imagery.