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Standing Meditation
Hello all,
I have a question about meditation you mite be able to help me with. A long time ago I bought a book about qui gong and how to practice. The first step was to learn the standing position meditation, I did it over and over each day for about 7 or so weeks, with each day I was able to increase my meditation time so much so that by the 7th week I could be standing still for around an hour without moving. The book explained that while standing still and breathing deeply you should try to feel your inner organs working, not visualizing them but feeling them. This was hard but with persistence I was slowly getting some ware. The thing that caused me to stop practicing was that towards the seventh week when I was in, what I would call deep thought after the pins and needles had gone from my arms and I could no longer feel my outer body. I was getting strong pulses of energy and felt scared so I would open my eyes and come out of it. When doing this I was seeing stars, feeling dizzy and getting lots of static feeling all over. What I'd like to know is, is this a normal reaction to meditation or was I doing it wrong?
I have a question about meditation you mite be able to help me with. A long time ago I bought a book about qui gong and how to practice. The first step was to learn the standing position meditation, I did it over and over each day for about 7 or so weeks, with each day I was able to increase my meditation time so much so that by the 7th week I could be standing still for around an hour without moving. The book explained that while standing still and breathing deeply you should try to feel your inner organs working, not visualizing them but feeling them. This was hard but with persistence I was slowly getting some ware. The thing that caused me to stop practicing was that towards the seventh week when I was in, what I would call deep thought after the pins and needles had gone from my arms and I could no longer feel my outer body. I was getting strong pulses of energy and felt scared so I would open my eyes and come out of it. When doing this I was seeing stars, feeling dizzy and getting lots of static feeling all over. What I'd like to know is, is this a normal reaction to meditation or was I doing it wrong?
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I'm a Qi Gong teacher, and I would advise people to work up to an hour's worth of the 'standing still' position over about a year. (That's Zam Zong - "Standing like a tree".)
For precisely the reasons you give.
You actually achieved the hour's worth a bit too quickly, in my opinion.....
Other teachers' opinions may differ, but in my experience, maybe you rushed stuff....