That was me (also: don’t slouch).
Nice to meet you too Sarah 
RICHARD
Hi everyone,
Wow… that was great!!!
At about 5 minutes to 11am I could feel the pull… it was very strong.
I sat and did my pranayama starting at 11:00 and then began meditating at 11:10 - I thought, as it takes me usually a little time to really get ‘there’…I would start a little before. I have to say I had a hard time getting through pranayama… I was being pulled in so deep.
It was beautiful…
Especially samayama.
Thanks.
I think it would be lovely to do every week… not some big heavy commitment thing, but just a regular date for those who can make it??
Thanks to Shanti for asking me.
It was so cool thinking of all of you meditating at the same time - Katrine in Norway, Wolfgang in Germany, Sparkle in Ireland etc.,
Who is up for next week??
Babaly
Hi all,
I am just too moved by this, for some reason, not sure if it was the meditation… or just the fact that so many joined in to do something as a group… thanks to all who did join in and not post… I did get a few emails from them…
I am still in my silence… I just don’t feel like posting and wasting any of this…
I hope we will do this again, next Sunday… same time.
Thank you… all of you…
Shweta,
Congratulations. I am sure that soon, the silence will never leave for you…because, you know, that’s the way it actually is!
-Scott
Shanti, engagement and worldliness are the yang to the yin of practice (clumsy metaphor, sorry). There’s no need to ever lose connection to your silence, but you’ll get more mileage by putting that silence through the friction of worldliness. Consider it polishing.
I myself must fight the urge to recede from the world as I reach new openings. It’s better for your practice (and, likely, for the world) to resist this urge. Others who I respect would strongly disagree. But this is the AYP way (IMO), and I agree with it (though don’t always succeed at practicing it).
As Scott says, silence underpins everything anyway (more correctly, it IS everything). So you needn’t accommodate it. See http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1137
That is exactly what I did… I was out all this time… I had to get out of the house to shake off the feeling… the feeling I have when I just get out of my meditation… But I have not been able to shake it off yet… Its not that I am all dizzy and not talking… I have a family that won’t shut up just because I am feeling my silence… and I appreciate that… but even after 3 hrs… being in a shopping mall… ordering lunch and going for ice cream… Even in the middle of the mall, with all the noise and people… I was in perfect silence… something I have not felt before… I am not saying it was the meditation that did it…
Jim. I am not trying to hold on to anything… I am not trying to recede… I am just overwhelmed… why? I don’t know. It is a new experience… that wil not last much longer I am sure…
I don’t want to bring you down Shweta, but a feeling of silence isn’t silence. I think I know the feeling you’re talking about, though…the in your bubble feeling. Where you’re centered and inward. It’s good…but that isn’t silence in my view. Silence is where your mind isn’t making waves. This feeling you have will probably always subside.
…by the way, silence is also there when your mind is making waves. Everything is a thing, and that which sees the thing is silence. The more focused you become on one thing, the more apparent it won’t be. Yep, I said won’t…because silence is an absence.
-Scott
Scott, just strictly intuition here, but I think what Shanti is having here is more energetic. Sometimes it’s hard to assign the “right” words to things.
Shanti, I’d suggest walking. Couple miles per day if possible. Grounding is good.
Why would you want to shake the silence? That’s what I like most about meditation; the fact that I can go about my day that is chock full of stress producing stimuli and just do what I do best and not let any of it touch me. Or is that what you guys are calling a bubble? Absolutely nothing jars me out of it; it just slowly fades.
Wolfgang: nobody’s ahead of anybody here. I really believe there are multiple pathways developing at the same time, like a tree grows.
One person is growing one branch quickly, while another person is working on another branch. People already have branches developed before they come here; they just aren’t aware of, or don’t appreciate them.
Near-
I was joking about checking people out energetically.
I’d be up for next week.
What was fun for me was thinking of the different times for different people and imagining what it might look like in their
country at this time.
Jim,
I agree that it’s energetic…I would call it a “feeling”. Ha…pretty simple when put that way. You know, energy and the mind are two sides of the same coin.
I also agree that she should do grounding activities, such as walking. Last week I didn’t self pace and found myself in the same type of situation as Shanti, while I was on a family vacation…so I walked, and actually prayed to be grounded so that my family wouldn’t be like “what the hell?”. Thankfully it worked.
I guess spending a whole evening in kechari isn’t as good as it seems.
Etherfish,
You don’t want to shake the silence, but rather, shake these feelings that come up which mess with your life. The silence can’t be shaken. I have a feeling that Shanti will soon be experiencing some negative effects in her personal life, because the mindset she posted in is kind of…vulnerable. I hope I’m wrong, of course. But she just experienced this deep feeling, and is now open to new feelings…bad ones! It’s good to maintain a normalized viewpoint, rather than being in awe. To have a centered and balanced mindset.
But to each his (or her) own.
-Scott
Ether, I was not trying the get rid of the silence… just an observation that it still hasn’t left me… I am in the middle of it all… and it is still here… This is new to me.
Scott… this one is different… Few months back I agree I would have been a mess… I am not spiraling downward. thanks for your concern though…
Thanks Jim…
Hi Richard,
what you describe is very similar to my experience.
Here it goes …
First very deep mediation for about 10 min. Stronger than usual energy, keeping my back straight without the need of support. Currents of energy going up and down from the root to the third eye. Then, unexpected concentration of the energy in the space between the breasts, love in its purest form?. Then visual disturbances, as you called them, started: there were flashes of light, like stars hovering in the indigo sky, some of them differentiated into images…
Now comes the tricky part… Imagination? Illusion? Delusion? Call it what you want I just want to report what I remember experiencing and what I am able to put into words…
Hi Elldibor
My med was actually physically interrupted by someone coming into the room so I wont know where it was going until next time.
Yes people sitting in a circle, but I think we see what we want to see sometimes don’t you!
I went back in again but not so deep and that is when the visual disturbances started, very vivid flashes, but we should probably not take too much notice of that. very interesting though, I cant wait for next time we have definitely got to go on with this 
RICHARD
Hi Richard,
Afreed and very true - most of the times we see what we want.
But still there is the synchronicity thing,
which we better not ignore because of too much skepticism.
Healthy skepitcism and entousiasm to know is my normal approach.
So i am looking forward for the next session.
Elldibor
‘Dare to know’
Hi Elldibor
Yes I am looking forward to it too, the connection thing should be no trouble at all just a simple matter of intent nothing more and you have that anyway just by joining in. Anything more than that simple intent and you will muck your meditation up just go in meditate as normal and expect nothing, If we all do that things will happen
RICHARD
One good thing that happened to me was, since 2-3 weeks before this group meditation thing, my pranayama+meditation sessions were not going for 30 mins. I was just coming out after say 15-20 mins. Not that there is anything wrong in it, but usually my pranayama+meditation total time is around 30 mins.
With the group meditation, I came back to my previous 30 mins. Now all my sessions are like that. May be posting in the forum helped too.
I would love to do it next weekend too.
-Near
Thanks. My meditation was boosted by joining you folks in meditation.
Thanks for setting this up Shanti. It was a great idea.
Oh great, Elldibor; I have to dress respectably to meditate now.
This is not me… so I did not want to post this. However, it is something that happened without me trying… so I am going to share it.
15 min before our meditation… I did my spinal breathing for 10 min. then couple of rounds of chin pump… I then closed my eyes to get ready for the meditation. I am not sure how… but I could see myself as an energy body in space (Etherspace??)… I was facing the East… I could see more energy bodies in front of me… in space… all floating balls of energy… Richard, Louis, Katrin, Wolfgang, Elldibor… maybe?.. On my left was David and Sarah… on my slight right Jim… on my right… Yogani… behind me… Ether, then Meg, Near, Victor, Babaly… I did not see anyone… just energy balls like planets in space… just vibrating energy bodies… It was for a few seconds… then I started meditation… I did not see any of these again… Once again during Shamyama though… when I dropped the word love… I felt my silence rise like a cone from in me and spread all around towards each of these energy centers… the same with unity and radiance… but not with the rest… It was very beautiful… I stink at visualizing… so this was something new for me. I felt this silence for the rest of the day…
I agree it is really foolish… but since I was not expecting anything… this was totally out of the blue…
Thank you all for sharing your energy with me… I look forward to next Sunday.