I’ve been meditation almost daily for 15-20 minutes the last 1.5 months. I enjoy the pratice, and it is nice and relaxing, however I find the changes, if any, to be very subtle (to the point that they might as well be placebo).
Curious to hear your experiences.
Results? Immediately I guess. I mean, when you direct your attention at a thing, or concentrate on a thing. On text on the screen or an idea in your head or trying to balance on one foot. When you chill out and concentrate on that, you get results immediately, right? I mean you can suddenly balance better, read the book better, play the videogame better, think more clearly… so it isn’t that strange.
And then as I mediate more I get more results. More silence, clarity etc.
And the results always linger after the actual meditation (tapering off over hours and days). So if I meditate and then, while enjoying the results of that meditation, I meditate again, those results stack. So I get bigger results. And if I meditate 6 times that day I get big results. And if I do that for a few days I get very big results.
When I first started meditating I did a concentration type technique and what I did was experiment with a few different things to concentrate on. Visualization, things I look at, things I feel, sounds, mantras… I hunted around till I found a thing to concentrate on that worked right for me.
Now, when I do concentration meditation, I use “the feeling of breath in the tip of my nose” as my thing to concentrate on. (my “object”).