Why You Feel Sleepy After Meditation: What It Really Means

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AVAlexander VolchekGMGalya (meditation channel participant)Meditation practice and techniqueStates and effects of meditationMeditationSleepiness after meditation

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• 00:04By the way, there is something else I wanted to ask. If you feel sleepy after meditation, or even during it, or seem to switch off, or do not feel like doing anything afterward, is that a process of transformation or a process…Meditation · Love
• 01:14You enter and expand your perception. That expansion happens through a particular process. And that process can take very different forms.Meditation
• 02:04Or it is very hard for people to get used to this and work their way through it. As for the general state of feeling that you want to fall asleep…Expanded perception
• 03:42For years you draw nourishment from particular energies. So if you feel sleepy, simply take it calmly.
• 04:39The only comparison they have is that they have fallen asleep. They cannot remain perceptually aware at the same time. It is hard for them to do that.Spirit
• 05:29Do you know what is interesting? We have already discussed a similar question. I listen to you answering questions, and every so often a question comes up for me.Truth · Meditation
• 07:41It is a different reality. And many people around you will not like it. Many people will not like it. It is a different reality. But it is a different reality.Truth

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• 01:06

  In reality, anything is possible, because meditation is not something aimed at calming you down or bringing you into harmony.

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• 01:35

  It may also set off powerful impulses toward peace or calm. Everything depends on the meditative process taking place. Again, people often think of meditation as a set of actions: sitting down in a particular posture. That is so deeply ingrained. You understand?…

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• 02:04

  Or it is very hard for people to get used to this and work their way through it.

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• 02:51

  Of a kind of breaking down. At first, of course, it is activity, a mobilization of the system. Then it moves into a kind of breakdown. In many meditative states, as people expand their perception, they receive an impulse toward recovery. They receive an impulse toward recovery. It is important…

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• 04:43

  They cannot remain perceptually aware at the same time. It is hard for them to do that.

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• 04:47

  To maintain that point of connection, a clear awareness that they are present here and now while also being in the spiritual world.

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• 05:08

  This also happens very often, and people associate it with falling asleep. Consequently, we may interpret it as the physical body being tired.

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• 06:48

  Take precedence over all of this? You are telling me, “For me, coming to know the truth does not take precedence. Every so often, that attachment is there.” But this is your choice. Your relative choice, yes, because in terms of awareness it is relative. Certain…

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• 07:57

  A thirst for truth. You sit down and say, “I have a thirst for truth, and I am doing this because I have a thirst for truth.” That is normal. It is like saying, “I am thirsty. My body is dehydrated. I need to drink water. I am thirsty.” That is normal: you need to drink water. “So that means you have a dependency.” Well, you…

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• 08:23

  It will simply die. That is all. It will not die if you do not give it Napoleon cake. It will die if you do not give it water. You simply need to be calmly aware of yourself.

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