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Sounds good, care to elaborate?

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Recommendation I got from

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was to alternate between broad and deep attention in sitting meditation. So I did the following:

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Sat on a yoga ball & bounced, listening to songs with strong bass or percussion, putting attention firmly and squarely on that.

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Dissipative, take-in-everything moments between songs, then back to intense focus. Only took 10 minutes to enter trance. By 30, ecstatic.

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I suspect the bouncing yoga ball part helped. I have postural problems that make me shift around a lot while sitting. Distracting.

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I've meditated daily in periods, ranging from 5 minutes a day to 3 or 4 hours a day. After 40 or so minutes, feels like I spent 2 hours.

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And that's with more or less shambling into the "technique" by accident, on the spot, with a few breaks etc. in the middle.

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Sounds great. Can you define "transe"? Did you get pointed focus with loss of awareness of other things around you?

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Intensely pointed awareness, but also altered consciousness when zooming out between songs: crystal-clear, higher resolution than normal.

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Altered perception of time, loss of sense of self... some of the usual suspects.

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Towards the peak also started feeling intense waves of energy throughout the body, like a strong chemical effect or being in love as a teen.

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Accompanied by the entire body feeling cooled down, then warmed up, then cooled down.

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Sounds like you found a great spot to "retreat" when crap-overload happens. Thank you for sharing.

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