It depends on the meditation. Different meditation techniques give different results. Last year I attended a meditation week with a great meditation master. He taught us a couple of ancient meditation techniques that where extremely intense. One meditation was a very intense breathing technique. It felt somewhat uncomfortable during the meditation, but once I stopped meditating, it felt like every cell in my body had an orgasm of  pure light and love. It was very intense,but at the same time very relaxing. This feeling lasted for about 15 to 20 minutes and it was just pure bliss. This meditation gave me a very physical experience.

Most meditations, for me at least, make me no longer be aware of my physical body. The longer I meditate, the bigger the pauses between my thoughts get, until I finally arrive at a place of pure bliss, where there is no body and no world outside of me.

There are also meditations for a specific purpose where your mind needs to stay active to some degree, like mantra meditations for example. These  are very powerful also and create a different feeling than the two mentioned before.

Meditation is a skill and the more you do it, the better you get at it and the deeper you go into ‘trance’ (although I don’t like that word). What you put in meditation, you get out of it tenfold. Not only during meditation, but throughout your entire day. For me, it has been the single most important tool for transforming my life.  I now meditate about one hour, first thing in the morning and one hour before I go to bed. I experience two hours of complete physical and mental relaxation, two hours of pure love and bliss, every single day. Can you imagine what effect that has on your day?

Ok, re-reading my post, I realize I went a little bit off-topic at the end. I just can’t help myself, I love meditation 🙂