I had an interesting experience during savasana at the end of my vinyasa practice today.
It is said that savasana is the most important part of your practice because it is the time during which you ruse over your practice to rejuvenate mind and body and to bring them together to find stillness. Until today, whenever I thought I was entering a deep relaxed state, I always fell asleep. Today, I was able to stave off sleep and dream while I was awake. Wow, that's some weird stuff.
As I lay there, I was thinking about the things that still lay ahead. My body felt really heavy after an hour and a half while still curiously feeling pretty energetic still. My mind started to wander, and I started to think about my department chair and the topic that I would like to talk to him about tomorrow. And then it happened. I went into a kind of a trance, I was really talking to him as if he were there in front of me, and then the whole room came alive. I remember thinking, wow, this is something. This light shone throughout the whole room, and then I was gazing upon myself.
I am not sure if this is something that is supposed to happen. The purpose of meditation is to clear your mind of all thoughts so that you have nothing but that very moment to focus. That is why there is such a huge emphasis on concentrating on breathing, on audible breathing so that that becomes the only thing on which to focus your attention on.
However, today, I definitely went somewhere where I hadn't been before. It was funky, it was bright, and it was surreal. And I liked it.
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