Why Meditation Calms You Today and Irritates You Tomorrow

Main subjects

OMOlya (meditation channel participant)AVAlexander VolchekMeditationExpanded perceptionStates and effects of meditationMeditation practice and technique

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Perceiving changes
• 02:20What happens when we want to repeat one state
• 05:00What it means to expand perception
• 08:10Why an identical state limits perception
• 11:12What shapes our state
• 13:28Meditation does not always have to calm you
• 16:29What affects your state during meditation

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• 01:08

  So the question is why you feel different during meditation.

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• 05:32

  My wife constantly tells me she has heard something new from me and protests.

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• 06:33

  If you come to a meditation seeking a particular state, your aim is already different from the aim of this meditation.

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• 07:31

  The very act of expanding perception means that you will always experience different states of perception in meditations with me, because I do not recreate a restricted perception for you.

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• 08:23

  It is like preventing someone from moving their arms even when they want to: you have to tie them, because otherwise they will move them if they wish.

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• 14:21

  But I explain that a hotel room is still a confined room, a space smaller than my home.

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• 14:21

  And when I am on vacation with her, I need to support her vacation, because it is a vacation for her. I need to maintain a certain state, go places, look at things, and think.

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• 15:16

  At the same time, I have ten thousand other matters in my life, and this process begins to restrict me in dealing with them.

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• 15:16

  My time is less flexible; I am in a different time zone and have had to make a long flight.

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• 16:08

  The question is always to experience and understand what your state is based on.

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