EXPERIENCE SHARES. How To Meditate Course.

The following is a sampling of experience shares from people who have taken our How To Meditate course, an introduction to Supreme Meditation.

I have only practiced a guided meditation, but it was nothing like this. I could not get into that. The person just kept talking and I was like, “How am I supposed to meditate while your talking?” This is different and very beneficial. My meditation was so peaceful and quiet. This was just great. My mind was actually quiet and I am calm.

I never meditated before but I think I just did it. I experienced having no thoughts. Even though it was my first time, I just did what you said and the thoughts just went away. I thought that when meditation came I might be thinking about my day but I didn't think. It was great! It went by fast.

I find this whole course to be very soothing and relaxing. It brought everything to one focus. Since starting this course, spontaneously, I have been meditating at home, about 3 or 4 times this week, always at around 4:30 - 5 am. There is something about that time period when it is just so uniquely quiet, and I'm able to meditate for 25-30 minutes. It's completely different from the quiet I'd experience if I came home in the evening and the house happened to be empty. The energy of those morning hours is a pristine quiet.

I found it definitely easier to meditate. I really enjoyed the experience of chanting also.

There was a point when I forgot where I was for a while. I had no idea where I was. Like sitting in the middle of nothing. Very cool.

I really got into the Om. I had some thoughts during the meditation, but then I did what you said and put my mind back onto the Om, and it worked. I did an Om on the inbreath, and another Om on the outbreath, and just continued that way for the rest of meditation.

I loved the group mantra repetition. I was able to find my own style to repeating the mantra. I was even singing the Om. I carried that into my mediation. Some thoughts were there but this time I was not disturbed by them and allowed them to pass. They were there and then they would go. They were there and then they would go. I used the mantra the whole time. I was not ready to come back when the bell rang. I was far away. But I wasn't disturbed by the bell either. I went even deeper than the last mediation. I feel very peaceful. Even the mantra got quieter. I got a glimpse, and it was just a tiny little glimpse. But I know now that I am not this body, that I am not my job. I experienced that I am that which watches the experience of these. Because of this, I know that there is a lot potential to this and I want to keep going with it.

It was easier to meditate this time. Even though I didn't meditate at all since last class, I think it's getting easier every time. I loved listening to the both of you chant. It was so beautiful. At first, I couldn't even tell whose voice was whose between the two of you, when one began and when the other ended, it just blended together so nicely. But then I started being able to distinguish when to come in to chant myself, and so that's when I started singing in as well.

My mind was quiet. Yea! It was very peaceful. I didn't see anything but I felt peaceful. My mind was not bothering me or thinking, it was happy to just be peaceful.

The chanting was very soothing and relaxing. I thought it was easier this time to meditate with the chanting because I was more relaxed. The Om was amazing. I don't know if it is something about the Vibration of it, but it really just put me at ease.

That was very relaxing. With four kids and a busy work schedule, I barely find any time for silence. The second meditation was different from the first. My breathing was easier. There were points that I still thought about my breath, but then times when I was not thinking about anything. That was great!

Chanting the mantra definitely made my Meditation easier. It helped me to focus on something else instead of focusing on all the thoughts that are usually swirling all around my mind. I found it much easier.

Previously, we focused on the breath during Meditation. I like that now we have added focusing on the Mantra. I found it actually easier to put something else (the Mantra) in my head to use during Meditation rather than just focusing on the breath. It was easier to focus on the Mantra and let my thoughts just be there.

That was my best meditation yet. They just keep getting better and better. I feel like I spent more time in that place where you should be, where my mind was quiet. When I moved away from that place during meditation, I used the mantra to get back there.

This meditation was very good. I did have some thoughts. But the concept of watching the thoughts go by like clouds in the sky really helped me. I cannot believe how fast the time went by. It felt like no time at all.

That was a very fast meditation. It felt like one second ling. I had focused on the mantra and remembered what Lakshmi said about identifying with the mantra. I began to think about what that meant for me. That I am God, God is within me. I believe that is true. When I finally figured that out, to repeat the mantra and think about what that meant, I don't know where the time went. All I know is that I felt sad when it ended. The meditation was so short and I didn't want it to end. I didn't want to come out of that timeless place. I definately had an experience. It was wonderful.

In this second meditation I felt a lot more relaxed. I was focused on the mantra and my experience was very soothing and peaceful.

It was a lot easier to meditate this class. My mind was pretty quiet through the meditation. I'm surprised because I had a bad day and I was concerned that I might be thinking about that in meditation. But I forgot all about my day and enjoyed the mantra Om coming and going through in my meditation. It was very peaceful. I enjoyed my experience very much.

I was a little apprehensive about chanting. It was my first time ever chanting and I was self-conscious. I found that although I had thoughts in my meditation they were somewhere in the background. I was not interested in entertaining them so they remained at a distance. I was paying attention to the peaceful space of the Aum throughout my meditation. It was a very tranquil, welcome experience.

This was very interesting. I have never meditated before. I found myself thinking of the breath as a swing. As it came to its height or bottom it stopped, pausing. I was paying attention to the swinging breath. I am very peaceful as a result. There were no thoughts in my mind during the meditation. Everything dissolved in the swing of my breath.

I had some flashes of images and thoughts in my mind. I also experience a quiet mind. It was brief, but during those times my mind was inactive. I experienced some quiet! I kept bringing myself back to the breath.

I LOVED IT! I didn't want the chanting to stop; I feel like I could go on and on and on forever. It felt very spiritual. I REALLY loved it.

It was very dark, and then I saw all these colors, purple, black, and then yellow. I was doing the mantra Om Namah Shivaya on both my in-breath and my out-breath.

I feel so peaceful. I felt similar to how I've felt while driving in a blizzard and watching the snow come at my windshield when everything became silent and serene. My mind was quiet for bits at a time; I caught glimpses of my mind being totally quiet. I feel peaceful like those snowflakes, very peaceful.

I saw some sparkles and felt a lot of pressure in my head. I felt cold in the body. I felt like I was dropping into the void.

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