On Sunday my friend and yours, Deepak Chopra, led us in a meditation. It was really amazing in a number of ways. I felt really peaceful and focused - which is untypical for me. I usually have a very difficult time calming my mind. The meditation was about 10 minutes in length and somewhere near the end I had a really interesting experience.
I felt completely disconnected from my body.
I'm assuming you've had the experience where your arm falls asleep during the night. You wake up with a cold appendage that no longer feels like your body...? This was like that only not at all like that. Nothing was asleep, but I felt outside of my body.
It completely freaked me out and I started moving my fingers and hands just to re-connect. And I repeated to myself over and over, "I am in my body, I am in my body." I think that was supposed to feel good, but for a newbie like myself, not so much.
So I'm curious...anyone out there have a similar meditative experience - or meditations not like this, but crazy nonetheless? (Jess - do you still read this blog? Would you share your experience from the same meditation?)
