How many of you have practiced meditation for any amount of time? What have the benefits been from practicing? Do you find it worth while to meditate?
Thanks in advance.
This may sound weird but here goes...
When I was in my mid teens, after school hours I did a part-time job as a close quarters security or easier to say as a bodyguard. I didn't wore a uniform and just wore raggedy jeans and acted like any normal teenager during work, like a kid waiting for his dad to finish work to get a free ride home
The job was high risk especially that our subject was a bit hardheaded and likes going to public places and has a habit of sneaking out on us, lol. The job was more like a waiting game and meditation got me through the boredom and the rush. Often times I waited on a corner or in a car for hours just staring at the door/window/wall or sometimes pretend that I'm some punk kid just sitting on the pavement across the road waiting for time to pass by and it was really boring but when movement was on, adrenalin was rushing. My senior gave me advice to meditate so that I can "happily" stare at a door for hours but still kept me on my toes. Meditation also came in handy during my MA training on stalking/hunting/shooting. I could stay on one place for a long time without moving but not die of boredom. I could even stay in a box and just watch time fly by but that was before but I'm too old for that now, lol.
I don't know if this has any connection with meditation but it felt that when we silence our minds, our "spider senses" seems to get enhanced that we can sense more. We can focus more on listening to the gossip nearby, the vibration on the floor and on the wall gave us an idea if there is someone closing in and gut feeling was working at it's best.
Another thing is that during fights, things seems to look a little bit slower than usual??? This doesn't happen all the time but sometimes it does. One example is that one time my older cousin and his buddies threw several bricks to my face but I don't know why the bricks flew at a slower speed??? They were only about 2 to 5 meters away and I was lucky not to get hit (my Nintendo dodging skills saved me from Donkey Kong, HAHAHA!!!). Don't ask me what happened after that ... I asked about this to my MA seniors and they told me that meditation can enhance our senses and this is not rare to MAist and fighters. Honestly I don't know if there is a connection with this to meditation and I don't know how to explain it but I have also passed some voodoo-tech that I collected through the years to my son and he said that sometimes things do look a lot slower especially on real fights.
Or maybe it's just the mind because through the ages humans have performed near to impossible feats during times of trouble. Example: small lady carrying a heavy cabinet while escaping the fire, guys who lifted a car to save the person under the car, people who jumped from a building to escape from burning and lived, etc. I guess that they haven't meditated before that???
I still meditate sometimes but not as much. I only meditate now for a deeper study of "funky stuffs"
Sometimes I meditate for stuffs that I want to happen or want to have in my life especially when I am desperate ($). I still can't rationally believe if it's true but there were stuffs that happen like coincidence. I would like to do this more often because of nice really vivid dreams and something like OBEs but when I really try too hard, I get a big headache.
I know that not everybody shares my BS but I'm sure that some of our members here in MT had the same experiences with meditation.
