| Increasing awareness and insight into reality is our | | | | before we sit for the session. When we sit for |
| purpose, not getting high. Does the meditator | | | | the purpose of furthering our path to insight and |
| sometimes experience a euphoric feeling when | | | | awareness, the by products like euphoric feelings, |
| meditating? Yes, but not always and again, not | | | | psychic abilities and visions should be |
| our goal in meditating. If one goes into meditation | | | | acknowledged but let go. Do not focus on them |
| for the purpose of obtaining a "high", he or she will | | | | as they will bump us to a hard turn away from |
| actually probably have a lot of trouble | | | | our goals. |
| experiencing that. When the sincere goal of insight | | | | Meditate for the right reasons. Again, different |
| meditation is kept in mind many times feelings of | | | | types of meditation should be used for different |
| well being and euphoria occur. When they do, we | | | | types of outcomes. Be clear on your goals and |
| must not focus on that however. They are just a | | | | stick to them without putting undo pressure on |
| by product to the path of insight and liberation. If | | | | yourself during the actual meditation. Too many |
| we get lost in "good feelings" when our relaxation | | | | people beat themselves up because they sit and |
| point turns blissful, we could easily take the wrong | | | | don't get that "high" that they've heard about. Use |
| turn on our path and end up stalling. It is fine to | | | | breathing and stress relief meditation methods for |
| meditate to relax and relieve stress but a clear | | | | relaxing but don't get those methods confused |
| distinction should be realized and observed even | | | | with Insight Meditation. There's a big difference. |