So... I started to meditate in my early 20s and did so quite often for a 6 month period. I did not expect anything and did not know anything about meditation, I just wanted to be more calm. When I started to experience sensations while meditating I got quite curious and excited, things like a pleasant shaking and almost completely spinning - that one made me snap out of it quickly as I did not expect it. I did feel more calm and connected to things and that's all I wanted as I was going through a stressful period. But as this video mentioned I had a few experiences related to sleep that made me stop meditating because I felt like it was becoming too much and that I wasn't ready for it. I am a pretty fearful person, it's my main issue. Not towards others but... Fear itself. I have a vivid imagination and one fear is that I'll go insane. Anyway. My experience that made me stop is about waking up in the middle of the night and seeing two beings in my room, I researched this afterwards and fits what people apparently call "Shadow beings". I did not feel like they had a particularly malicious intent - more a neutral one - but it was still uncomfortable as I did not expect these things at all. The other experience which was the final thing was an extremely vivid dream. Now I already have really vivid dreams most of the time and nightmares quite often, but this was something else. I "woke up" in the dream (which felt more like reality) in total darkness where no light existed - it was just the darkest black you could ever imagine. I felt as if I was laying down on my back and couldn't move, pretty much the same thing as being in a sleep paralysis if whoever reads this has experienced that. Then I started to sense a being in this darkness as it had started to sense me, I don't know if this being had a shape or not, but sensing it made me terrified. I could sense it coming closer to me and the closer it came the more terrified I became. I have never in my life been this afraid, not in the past and not since it happened. I could a sense that the being was amused and fed on my fear, but who knows, that is just how I interpreted the situation. It came so close to me that it was inches from my face but since the place we were in was just total darkness I still couldn't see it. Then it started to touch me and that was the peak of fear, I can't explain it. Just as I can't explain the sense of love I felt next. A door opened up in the darkness, or rather a shape of a door in the darkness and inside the shape existed a blinding bright light, a light that seemed to be alive. Then a being made out of that same light stepped out and walked towards me. It was a pretty intense contrast between the absolute void and that light. Even though it was the brightest light I've ever seen, it couldn't light up anything around it. The closer this being came to me the further away the other one got. I have to say that being felt like home. A love that's not possible to feel on Earth came from it and the being was also masculine. I am not religious so I have no speculations as to what it was. He calmed me telepathically and assured me that everything was okay. Strange dream. Anyway I stopped meditating and the weird stuff went away. I'm in my early 30s now and am thinking of taking up meditation again, not sure why I am writing this down. I'll try the affirmations for my regular nightmares and go from there. Thanks for the video. :)
Thank you for sharing this. I’m sure it will be helpful for others who have had similar experiences. My belief is that the light was God/The Divine. In my opinion, the message was to show you that in life, God/The Divine is always within your reach to provide comfort, peace, strength, and guidance. All we need to remember is to ask “Him” to intervene. Without asking, we are using our free will to go at it alone 🌞
I get intense (and exhausting) dreams also on occasion and use affirmations (when i remember to) and they work very well. When i wake up from a series of bad or intense dreams i tell myself: I will now have peaceful dreams, happy normal dreams, etc. and it calms my next dreams that night :-)
Great video again :) And me not able to skip silently Not that I oppose anything in the video Quite helpful for the majority, and all of it makes sense For those into chakras I could say the following simplistic approach If you don't have energy in you, but do exercise and open your upper chakras, then the nightmares comes If you have energy in you, and open your upper ckakras, then the bliss comes Here is what is happening when your lower chakras are full you feel comfortably "safe" and full, and then by opening upper chackras you become aware for the subtle perspectives of the unconscious, and you feel the bliss by fueling the energy in the upper, maintaining the 'combustion'. If you don't have the body energy in lower chakras, but directly opens the upper chakras, then you open the doors for "anomalies", these anomalies are anomalies because you don't have energy within you to shed light through, and be with their intricacies. These require to have energy to understand them, otherwise you just don't get it, but being fully opening the doors, you start to fear. Even your body is more vulnerable, lacking the energy. You don't feel "whole" but exposed to .... Exposed to your existence without the energy, that we call fear So, the best practice is If you don't have the energy, due to bad habits or whatever junk food/behavior, Then just don't open your upper chackras and get your body heal in lower. Then once reaching the capacity, open the upper chakras and "reset" your true self :) One could ask "why do I need my upper chakras open" The short answer is to become those 90% of unconscious conscious And the rest 10% mundane technicalities - the tool you have to put on rest, and reborn your true soul experiencing all :)
Thank you very much Ben. I’ve always been a vivid dreamer but since I’ve started meditating daily when I wake up, (which I love and adore and is connecting me with my inner being) my dreams have become extra bizarre/weird and mostly unpleasant. They are crowded with so much crazy action and many people/characters I know well in my dream state but are unknown to me in my 3D awake reality. I’ve been wondering and trying to work out why so you have really helped my understanding. 🥰 I’m taking on board the affirmations as you suggest before sleep. I start my day with positive affirmations and feel gratitude continually during the day but haven’t tried them for dreams before. Very much appreciated. 🥰❤️🌌
Hematite Crystal stopped all my nightmares I got a blue one u put it under your pillow. I’d recommend this even to ppl who dislike crystals because after months of chronic nightmares this immediately ceased them
Exactly! that is why I'm here as well, The voice and the way of teaching It comes by heart, that cannot be mistaken Me personally triggers something in me, and I just start self reflecting :) Starting to make comments and cannot stop :) flooding with comments :) Feels like some kind of urge to share my experience Not that I want to shine But when you've had certain experience experiencing the Divine Then start to search a way to share So not that I oppose Ben in any way But just feel the urge to say it from my point of view Not because it is mine view But because if you have it, you have to share If you are convinced in your point of view, if you have discovered, if it survives the many changes in the life, and if it is proven by years of battles, Then you have to share it for others. This is not to get important But because there are searching souls in need And our responsibility to show the Divine
To be the Good, doesn't mean to be pumped up with asserted positivity To be "Good" is not polarity's side To be good means to embrace both and from that acceptance comes the non attachment Switching off your Ego Without dropping the rope on Earth though That doesn't mean you'll stop to enjoy the life It is an enjoyment on another plane in parallel Both worlds co-exist Material world to define you existence Spiritual world to have the bliss of eternity
Thanks, Ben, perfect timing because I had a bad dream last night where I was battling an evil spirit. This happens to me occasionally and is very draining. Do you think this is one of those doors to my self you were talking about? If so, what would that mean? Anyway, I’ll try the positive affirmations as you suggested. Looking forward to better sleep! 🙏
Same thing happened to me last night and I never dream like that. I’ve been meditating a lot and enjoying it so this was shocking to have a dream like this.
@@FabulousD thanks for sharing. Yes, it’s quite disturbing. When it happens I ask for intervention from Jesus, Angels, Spirit Guides or my higher self. The entity goes away or at least my dream seems to end, and I often then wake up.
I was meditating with the Silva method. I asked for healing of my vertigo and heart palpitations . I went into a deep sleep and felt some kind of pink and black energy around me but holding me down. There were what seemed black arms and hands under me. I was fighting it and trying to wake up. I was terrified. I then felt something or a hand make movements on my right side of the brain and body but especially my brain. I could feel something move inside my brain. The shadow hands opened up as if telling me ,” if you want to leave , leave” this experience was sooooo scary. Has any experience something like this?
Last year or so, I had some incredible lucid dreaming experiences. I kind of learned to recognize when I was in a dream, especially if the situation was negative. Once I realized it, I could do whatever I wanted-most of the time, I chose to fly, but could be also just facing the bad situation head on. The technique that worked for me was looking at my watch (has the word "now" or anything with text around me. In dreams, it's impossible to read, so that became my signal that I was dreaming. After a while, I didn't even need to check, I'd just know if something felt off. For a period, I was having these dreams regularly-it felt like waking up in the dream world but felt so real, like I could just think of something and it would manifest right away. That experience gave me a new level of trust that I could also overcome challenges in waking life. It's been a while since I’ve had one, but those moments were definitely powerful
While I've found that mediating has created some positive changes in my life, I've never had any such luck with affirmations. I tried them both during the day and when falling asleep at night. But I know everybody is different and there is probably someone out there reading this for whom they produce results. So please let me know if you used to be person whose past affirmations didn't work, but then you made some change or tweak to them that then triggered them to work for you. Thanks.
So... I started to meditate in my early 20s and did so quite often for a 6 month period. I did not expect anything and did not know anything about meditation, I just wanted to be more calm. When I started to experience sensations while meditating I got quite curious and excited, things like a pleasant shaking and almost completely spinning - that one made me snap out of it quickly as I did not expect it. I did feel more calm and connected to things and that's all I wanted as I was going through a stressful period. But as this video mentioned I had a few experiences related to sleep that made me stop meditating because I felt like it was becoming too much and that I wasn't ready for it. I am a pretty fearful person, it's my main issue. Not towards others but... Fear itself. I have a vivid imagination and one fear is that I'll go insane.
Anyway. My experience that made me stop is about waking up in the middle of the night and seeing two beings in my room, I researched this afterwards and fits what people apparently call "Shadow beings". I did not feel like they had a particularly malicious intent - more a neutral one - but it was still uncomfortable as I did not expect these things at all. The other experience which was the final thing was an extremely vivid dream. Now I already have really vivid dreams most of the time and nightmares quite often, but this was something else. I "woke up" in the dream (which felt more like reality) in total darkness where no light existed - it was just the darkest black you could ever imagine. I felt as if I was laying down on my back and couldn't move, pretty much the same thing as being in a sleep paralysis if whoever reads this has experienced that. Then I started to sense a being in this darkness as it had started to sense me, I don't know if this being had a shape or not, but sensing it made me terrified. I could sense it coming closer to me and the closer it came the more terrified I became. I have never in my life been this afraid, not in the past and not since it happened. I could a sense that the being was amused and fed on my fear, but who knows, that is just how I interpreted the situation. It came so close to me that it was inches from my face but since the place we were in was just total darkness I still couldn't see it. Then it started to touch me and that was the peak of fear, I can't explain it. Just as I can't explain the sense of love I felt next. A door opened up in the darkness, or rather a shape of a door in the darkness and inside the shape existed a blinding bright light, a light that seemed to be alive. Then a being made out of that same light stepped out and walked towards me. It was a pretty intense contrast between the absolute void and that light. Even though it was the brightest light I've ever seen, it couldn't light up anything around it. The closer this being came to me the further away the other one got. I have to say that being felt like home. A love that's not possible to feel on Earth came from it and the being was also masculine. I am not religious so I have no speculations as to what it was. He calmed me telepathically and assured me that everything was okay.
Strange dream. Anyway I stopped meditating and the weird stuff went away. I'm in my early 30s now and am thinking of taking up meditation again, not sure why I am writing this down. I'll try the affirmations for my regular nightmares and go from there. Thanks for the video. :)
Thank you for sharing this. I’m sure it will be helpful for others who have had similar experiences. My belief is that the light was God/The Divine. In my opinion, the message was to show you that in life, God/The Divine is always within your reach to provide comfort, peace, strength, and guidance. All we need to remember is to ask “Him” to intervene. Without asking, we are using our free will to go at it alone 🌞
Hi, I have just found you. I started meditating about 6 weeks ago and yes I have been having really vivid dreams so thanks for this.
I am going to have an absolutely beautiful, peaceful, calm, dream tonight.
gratitude is without a doubt the most important and powerful thing I found on my practice 💯🙏
Really needed this , these weird dreams have been sort of frustrating for me and kind of ruined my energy for the rest of the day.
Have been feeling the same gratitude these days 🙏💗
The less you define
The brighter the dreams
The more Ego defined
Stronger the nightmares
Hey Ben could you possibly make a video explaining the concept and benefits of hand mudras and show how to properly use them
I love the idea of affirmations!
I get intense (and exhausting) dreams also on occasion and use affirmations (when i remember to) and they work very well. When i wake up from a series of bad or intense dreams i tell myself: I will now have peaceful dreams, happy normal dreams, etc. and it calms my next dreams that night :-)
Great video again :)
And me not able to skip silently
Not that I oppose anything in the video
Quite helpful for the majority, and all of it makes sense
For those into chakras
I could say the following simplistic approach
If you don't have energy in you, but do exercise and open your upper chakras, then the nightmares comes
If you have energy in you, and open your upper ckakras, then the bliss comes
Here is what is happening
when your lower chakras are full you feel comfortably "safe" and full, and then by opening upper chackras you become aware for the subtle perspectives of the unconscious, and you feel the bliss by fueling the energy in the upper, maintaining the 'combustion'.
If you don't have the body energy in lower chakras, but directly opens the upper chakras, then you open the doors for "anomalies", these anomalies are anomalies because you don't have energy within you to shed light through, and be with their intricacies.
These require to have energy to understand them, otherwise you just don't get it, but being fully opening the doors, you start to fear. Even your body is more vulnerable, lacking the energy. You don't feel "whole" but exposed to ....
Exposed to your existence without the energy, that we call fear
So, the best practice is
If you don't have the energy, due to bad habits or whatever junk food/behavior,
Then just don't open your upper chackras and get your body heal in lower.
Then once reaching the capacity, open the upper chakras and "reset" your true self :)
One could ask "why do I need my upper chakras open"
The short answer is to become those 90% of unconscious conscious
And the rest 10% mundane technicalities - the tool you have to put on rest, and reborn your true soul experiencing all :)
Thank you very much Ben. I’ve always been a vivid dreamer but since I’ve started meditating daily when I wake up, (which I love and adore and is connecting me with my inner being) my dreams have become extra bizarre/weird and mostly unpleasant. They are crowded with so much crazy action and many people/characters I know well in my dream state but are unknown to me in my 3D awake reality. I’ve been wondering and trying to work out why so you have really helped my understanding. 🥰
I’m taking on board the affirmations as you suggest before sleep. I start my day with positive affirmations and feel gratitude continually during the day but haven’t tried them for dreams before. Very much appreciated. 🥰❤️🌌
Beautiful message, remember to ground yourself daily.
Love and light. ❤
Yes this has been happening to me!
Thank you Ben for your practical steps to help us going through challenges in meditations.🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you. This is one of your best videos.
Hematite Crystal stopped all my nightmares I got a blue one u put it under your pillow. I’d recommend this even to ppl who dislike crystals because after months of chronic nightmares this immediately ceased them
Hi, if you have any crystal suggestions for helping with lucid dreaming, please let me know. Thanks.
Thank you for this video 🙏 I love to hear your voice and the way you teach ❤
Exactly! that is why I'm here as well,
The voice and the way of teaching
It comes by heart, that cannot be mistaken
Me personally triggers something in me, and I just start self reflecting :)
Starting to make comments and cannot stop :) flooding with comments :)
Feels like some kind of urge to share my experience
Not that I want to shine
But when you've had certain experience experiencing the Divine
Then start to search a way to share
So not that I oppose Ben in any way
But just feel the urge to say it from my point of view
Not because it is mine view
But because if you have it, you have to share
If you are convinced in your point of view, if you have discovered, if it survives the many changes in the life, and if it is proven by years of battles,
Then you have to share it for others.
This is not to get important
But because there are searching souls in need
And our responsibility to show the Divine
To be the Good, doesn't mean to be pumped up with asserted positivity
To be "Good" is not polarity's side
To be good means to embrace both and from that acceptance comes the non attachment
Switching off your Ego
Without dropping the rope on Earth though
That doesn't mean you'll stop to enjoy the life
It is an enjoyment on another plane in parallel
Both worlds co-exist
Material world to define you existence
Spiritual world to have the bliss of eternity
Thanks, Ben, perfect timing because I had a bad dream last night where I was battling an evil spirit. This happens to me occasionally and is very draining. Do you think this is one of those doors to my self you were talking about? If so, what would that mean? Anyway, I’ll try the positive affirmations as you suggested. Looking forward to better sleep! 🙏
Same thing happened to me last night and I never dream like that. I’ve been meditating a lot and enjoying it so this was shocking to have a dream like this.
@@FabulousD thanks for sharing. Yes, it’s quite disturbing. When it happens I ask for intervention from Jesus, Angels, Spirit Guides or my higher self. The entity goes away or at least my dream seems to end, and I often then wake up.
I was meditating with the Silva method. I asked for healing of my vertigo and heart palpitations . I went into a deep sleep and felt some kind of pink and black energy around me but holding me down. There were what seemed black arms and hands under me. I was fighting it and trying to wake up. I was terrified. I then felt something or a hand make movements on my right side of the brain and body but especially my brain. I could feel something move inside my brain. The shadow hands opened up as if telling me ,” if you want to leave , leave” this experience was sooooo scary. Has any experience something like this?
Hi Ben, what if these negative dreams are tests? Could it be that we are tested, for instance how we react in a negative situation.
Last year or so, I had some incredible lucid dreaming experiences. I kind of learned to recognize when I was in a dream, especially if the situation was negative. Once I realized it, I could do whatever I wanted-most of the time, I chose to fly, but could be also just facing the bad situation head on. The technique that worked for me was looking at my watch (has the word "now" or anything with text around me. In dreams, it's impossible to read, so that became my signal that I was dreaming. After a while, I didn't even need to check, I'd just know if something felt off.
For a period, I was having these dreams regularly-it felt like waking up in the dream world but felt so real, like I could just think of something and it would manifest right away. That experience gave me a new level of trust that I could also overcome challenges in waking life. It's been a while since I’ve had one, but those moments were definitely powerful
While I've found that mediating has created some positive changes in my life, I've never had any such luck with affirmations. I tried them both during the day and when falling asleep at night. But I know everybody is different and there is probably someone out there reading this for whom they produce results. So please let me know if you used to be person whose past affirmations didn't work, but then you made some change or tweak to them that then triggered them to work for you. Thanks.