Thread: Meditation & OBE?
Meditation is a practice that Wochen the goal of achieving a state of mental clarity, emotional calm, and physical relaxation. Aside from its origins in both spiritual and religious traditions, it is used as a tool for personal growth, stress relief, and enhancing mental well-being.
About three years ago, I had tried meditation then stopped, until I got back to it again since October. My experience with both mindfulness meditation and guided meditation(guided by an instructor through an audio record) was going alright, there was no progress in the beginning, but I became better at it as I developed it as a daily habit years ago. I stopped after I noticed that it triggers strange occurances, which were similar to an out-of-body experience.(OBE) An out-of-body experience is when it seems you are observing yourself from the outside. While I do have such a sense of disconnection sometimes without doing meditation, I just didn't want to trigger more of it since it made me unfocused.
...As I am getting back to practising it now, it is still normal so far.
Questions for discussion: Did anyone else have an OBE or something similar while meditating? If so, how was it for you? Do you perhaps have an explanation for it?
@Katharsis22
i personally have not but will give this a bump for ya!
That’s really interesting! I’ve personally never experienced it, but I’ve heard it can happen when you're deeply relaxed. Glad to hear it’s going well for you.💗
@Katharsis22 I have not meditated much but when I have I never experienced this. Although I have experienced OBEs a lot with my mental health and I can understand why you wouldn't want them as mine typically come with anxious and depressed feelings. Have you been using the same technique or trying out different techniques? Maybe you need a technique that is a little more grounding like Imagery or something along those lines if it comes back. I am glad that for the time being you have been having a normal experience so far!
Yes. Multiple mental issues are known to cause a similar reaction. As for technique example, imagery often ends up with me daydreaming, haha. Thank you, I'll look more into that kind of meditation though.
-How do you manage OBEs?
(?) This was in Healthy Living I think.
@Katharsis22 do u think salah is a form of meditation
@milibunny97 It is more like a ritual. But in a way, yes. Just not the traditional style where you focus on your breath or/and a mantra. During that, one can get distracted by thoughts so then he/she redirects focus back on breathing. In Islamic prayer, one similarly tries not to get distracted and focus again on the prayer.
Throughout my five years of meditation I have never experienced an OBE . While meditation can be sometimes about seeing yourself from an outside perspective ( depends on the type and purpose of the meditation), I think that the core of the practice is to just be in the present moment and to observe yourself neutrally . It’s okay that you didn’t want to be triggered , anyone would have such concern and OBE can be difficult to navigate .
I guess I had something similar to that before when I was practicing meditation for astral projection, but it just happened for some seconds..
As for the explanation, I think it's either bcoz of u practicing meditation "on some lvl" or u "as a person" have the ability to the "OBE"
@Katharsis22 yes this is a natural occurrence in meditation, you're getting better at it. this is the start of the base formation level i would say.
But it seems you've stuff online e.g. OBE etc. n trying to fit what you've experienced into what you've read on internet.
when regularly meditating, one can either (keep a single thought for longer time) or (let go of thought by just observing the thought as different from the self)
both of these can result in what you experienced.
To go deeper, just keep doing what you've doing. You might experience ever more things, so if you change your attention/awareness towards what you've experiencing - you'll lose the concentration which led you there... so if you keep doing what you're doing, the concentration keeps getting better... you'll keep going deeper...
