Posted on January 6, 2010 - by Jennifer

30 Day Meditation Challenge: Drumroll please…Day 30!!!

Monday January 4, 2010: ¬† In yoga, we babble on a lot about the journey rather than the destination. ¬†So, it is perhaps incredibly appropriate that when I sat for my mediation on Monday, I was completely oblivious to the fact that I had, in fact, reached my goal of 30 straight days of meditation! ¬†Colors did not explode before my eyes. ¬†Light beams did not shoot from my belly. ¬†The universe did not swallow me whole. ¬†There’s no Hollywood ending to this meditation story. ¬†In fact, I hope this 30 days isn’t really an ending at all but rather the foundation of a more regular (if not daily) meditation practice. ¬†Later, I plan to review all 30 meditation posts and write about the experience as a whole. ¬†I’m curious about patterns that may emerge. ¬†But, for now, I’ll just describe what happened on Monday night. ¬†I sat for meditation in the late evening. ¬†Since I had the whole house to myself, I decided to chant the bija mantra and to do it with some gusto (maybe a reaction to my stealth meditations during our Luray vacation with friends?) ¬†So I began the bija mantra and the process of moving the energy upwards. ¬†I noticed immediately that the flow of energy was quite strong, stronger than it had been in a while. ¬†Once focused on the two uppermost chakras (forehead and crown) I felt a return of that almost violent pulsation behind my cheeks and eyelids and up towards the crown of my head. ¬†It was similar to experiences in several previous meditations where it felt like I was blinking rapidly and constantly (imagine a tic) even though my eyes were closed. ¬†It felt like the energy was almost desperate to escape the confines of my body. ¬†I decided to just see where this went so I sat there until the pulse subsided to a more gentle, wave-like movement. ¬†After experiencing that for a while, I decided to try moving the energy back down my spine with another round of the bija mantra. ¬†But, I wasn’t quite able to direct it. ¬†Even as I chanted the mantras and shifted my awareness to the lower chakras, the energy continued to pulse in the upper chakras (even my prana is stubborn!) ¬†I can best describe it as feeling a channel or tube that ran from the point between my eyebrows to my heart and back. ¬†Energy just continued to flow steadily through that channel until I concluded the meditation.