I'm so glad you mentioned service to others. I released my long term depression and experienced my first awakening by Grace after I became a care worker.

I started meditation last week . I'm now half shaolin monk 😂 . Thanks Ben good advice . My dogs are being blamed by me for distracting me . I will create a pad in my spare room and shut myself away

Ben, THANK YOU, truly, for this video and your precision in capturing exactly what I needed to hear. I didn’t know I needed to hear it until I did. And it brought things back into perspective. So thank you. I’ve really been struggling with my life over the last decade, and I have been trying hard to turn things around. But I also know I can do better with that as well. And this was the reminder I needed again. Your channel is awesome, I just came across it a day or two ago. Truly valuable content, and I sincerely appreciate it all and you. Blessings! XO

I relate to your habit of praying for random people who cross your path, like the ambulance, or it could be someone you notice could use some help. Something strange can happen when you do that with a sincere heart. People can come across your path with the same needs as those you prayed for, in your professional work and you will be in a position to help them in a work capacity. It’s as if a higher power brings them to you to share your area of expertise. I thought I was weird for doing that and other people didn’t do it till I heard you say you do it. I don’t feel so weird now, I think I’ll do it more. Thanks.

That is exactly the way the place I work is …. A Silent Retreat Center 🙏🏻😊

Excellent thank you for the reminder. I feel like I have become very distracted with life and have noticed I’ve fallen away from the depth of my practices. I’ve found spiritual music.. Sanskrit playing while I’m home and Watching the type of content I allow very helpful. Definitely putting the devices away have become a must!! Love your channel. 🙏💗

Sounds like vippassana. Im doing another vippassana course next month

Great insight... basically, we should aim for making our life a meditation... doing exactly what we love is what we came here for but we are programmed to be good and deny evil and we do not realize by doing that, we are projecting evil and so we see them seemingly outside of us...

Have you heard of the gateway tapes by the monroe institute? They use a patented form of binaural beat technology called hemi-sync that puts the brain into different states of consciousness by manipulating brain waves, even causing out of body experiences like the one you talked about before in a video. The different states are called 'focus levels' and each one is associated with a verbal cue to allow the user to 'reproduce' that brain wave even without the audio tapes. I found success with this in my own 'authentic' meditation practice whereby I can achieve a state of body numbness in a few minutes and even withdrawal of the senses in another 5 or 10. More advanced users can cycle through these states of consciousness at will just by counting through the focus levels, It's pretty cool.

I definitely enjoy meditating and I am somewhat new to it. However, if I did have an out of body experience, it might possibly freak me out a bit.

All your advice is helpful thank you Ben

Thankyou so much!!

Thank you Ben! I needed this. I spent several years going deep into meditation and having extraordinary experiences regularly- but last couple years the busy mind and stress has taken over. Been trying to get back to more balance. 🙏🏼

As you revealed the different points i was thinking ...yeh, that makes sense!.....so how come i didn't think of them? 😂😂😂

Thank you. Great advice

I'm loving the videos Ben!

Thankyou Ben

Does not matter if u have thoughts just focus on the silance of the mind behind it all and over time thoughts will lessen and not even matter

Great video

Ben, prayer and meditation are similar???

Quick question, does the schuman resonance affect sleeping patterns?

I have one last question, since your other answers seem now to be satisfactory toward the remaining stuff. Since obviously it is a life-long work to never be "completed", and since you've _also_ said you don't _need_ to take it to "Olympic athlete" level , how much _balance_ in your "discipline" or control over the "mundane stuff" in life should one develop before _even thinking to start_ a serious meditation program, and moreover, how much balance is the minimum required level _before_ one turns to the "psych ward risking stuff"? Or if there is no hard/fast _level_ rule, what is the more general _judging criterion_ to "greenlight" each phase?

Hello Ben. I’ve been trying for OBE for some time now. I’ve been meditating for a few months quite well. But I’m confused with obe as I had the impression the body needed to be asleep whilst the mind stayed awake? But how can the body sleep in a sitting position? Because back muscles ect are in use. Not physically fully relaxed. Can you advise me on this please? ❤

Any advice on how to meditate? Thanks.

I'm learning the mindfulness as you said. I guess you experienced astral projection during that retreat? I'd like to mention days ago I saw a 10 year old video about meditation that helped me out a lot through simple explanation and true motivation called Spiritual Reality Power of Meditation.

I'm so desperate for an experience.

Switch off phone, remove demanding cat from room, ask partner who is working from home to keep the noise down; remove demanding cat - again, and try to ignore the little pr*ck who's modified his motorbike so it sounds really loud. Finally, silence. Then, just 3 mins into meditating I'm startled by the very loud chime of the bell signifying Mass in the Catholic church a few hundred feet away. FFS! Stressed, I get up and resolve to try again tomorrow. I'm beginning to think meditating at home is problematic and that I should probably join a group and meditate somewhere else.

Not hard; just fall sleep each and every time.

Was this a Vipassana retreat? If it was, you should let people know as Vipasanna centers are everywhere and are often free to no cost for people who are serious about learning to meditation.