Vibrating during meditations.

 Q #307: I have been studying A Course in Miracles for over a year now. For the last few months, I have been having this strange and wonderful feeling -- my body starts physically vibrating during my morning and night meditations. I feel like something inside me is about to take off, like an airplane, a kind of inner weightlessness. After my meditation, I feel great and full of energy. But sometime this feeling that I am experiencing makes me think and think again. I wonder if other students are or have experienced the same thing I am. I also wonder if it is okay to feel that way.

A: Although a variety of explanations could be offered to account for your experience with your body, all you need to know is that our own minds translate any experience of abstract love, such as we may experience in meditation, into a form that we can accept, since our ego-identified minds fear the abstract. At times the form may be, as you are experiencing, sensations in your body that you find pleasant, even pleasurable. What will be most helpful to remember as you have such experiences is that you want to be willing to let go of any judgments you may have about them as either good or not good. Or any thoughts to make a big deal out of them. If you enjoy the experience, there is certainly nothing wrong with that. You just don’t want to make an altar to the experience and then seek after that, for, as wonderful as it may seem, it still falls far short of what Jesus is holding out to us in his Course. For it is still only a specific symbol, a temporary form, through which you are allowing yourself to feel his healing comfort and unlimited love.

Q #181: When I worked the lessons in Part II of the workbook of A Course in Miracles, my experience of God’s Love was very profound. It felt very sensual. Even now, sometimes, during meditation, I experience the same warm, sensual feelings. I find myself feeling guilty. Is it wrong for God's Love to be experienced as sensual?

A: While it is true that any genuine experience of God’s Love is beyond all feelings, sensations, thoughts and symbols, a couple of things are still true while we continue to see ourselves as existing apart from that Love:

For one, our minds, still believing we are specific and concrete, will want to contain that limitless experience in a form or experience we can identify with, to avoid feeling overwhelmed by the immensity of it. So our minds may translate the experience into something familiar and comforting, even pleasurable, such as you describe. Early in the text, Jesus speaks of "the confusion of miracle impulses with physical impulses" and adds that "all real pleasure comes from doing God’s Will" (T.1.VII.1:2,4).

And another thing that is true is that our ego will seize upon whatever it can to sabotage the experience of love and peace to sow seeds of conflict. But that is only because it is threatened by the limitlessness of love in which it ceases to have any existence.

So the wisest thing is simply not to judge what is happening, acknowledging that your ego may have its agenda with the experience, but its counsel need not be sought. Allow yourself the experiences you are having without judgment, without making them into a big deal in any way. And remember that the experience of God can and should be the most natural experience we could possibly have. And if we’re not having it, it certainly is not because He is withholding anything!

Jon Mundy mentions Gloria Wapnick with a reference to Ken Wapnick in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKnxExddT1w

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