What kind of meditation do you all use?

[TheSeeker]

I use breath awareness, and also practice the NEW system from Robert Bruce's book.

[Jeff_Mash]

Whenever I use the word meditation, I mean "the process used to help induce an OBE."

So for me, when I meditate, here is what I do:

1) Lie down on my back.

2) Take a few (3-5) deep breaths to relax.

3) With each subsequent breath, imagine that you're drawing energy up from your feet and stopping at each chakra. For example, if I had to draw it out, it would look like this:

Breath 1 Inhale ---> draw energy into root chakra ---> Exhale ---> Imagine root chakra spinning (activating)

I continue drawing as many breaths as it takes to fully activate the particular energy center, and then I move upwards to another.  So continuing my example, if it took 5 breaths to activate my root chakra, I would continue like so:

Breath 6 Inhale ---> draw energy into solarplex chakra ---> Exhale ---> Imagine solarplex chakra spinning (activating) etc.

4) After I have activated all my energy centers (God that sounds so "new agey!"), I can sort of feel myself vibrating.  From here, my technique alters depending on my mental state.  I do a number of things like:

    a)Try and will the vibrations to increase in frequency and spread throughout the body

    b) Try to watch for any astral images that pop up into my third eye, and "hold" them in focus as long as I can

5) At this point, I try and do whatever it takes to forget about the body and make my consciousness transistion over to the pre-exit state.  This is the hardest thing to do, and requires the most patience and practice.  Usually, you will get ancy and start to move, but that is only because you're too focused on what you're doing.  The key is to detach yourself and allow your body to naturally tip-toe along the lines of sleep.

Hope that helps.

[jonas]

I just wonder what kind of meditation you mean when you say things like "when I was meditating" and such. Are you simply using Breath awareness or something similar, or are tou raising energy or something like that?

Grateful for answers