Consciousness Work And Meditation Is This Normal

I was excited to try out the affirmation exercise in Nancy B. Watson's Practical Solitary Magic. Not too familiar with meditation, I wasn't too sure what to expect. I got in a meditation position (laying down), and got down to it. My arms were immediately the first to go heavy. Not knowing if I should stop there since my hands are usually where I feel my energy whenever I draw it up, I decided to keep going. It took a while (other thoughts were intruding though I tried to get rid of them), but the rest of my body was able to feel heavy, almost numb in a way. I was doing small quiet breaths, but decided to make them a bit longer and louder. When I did, my arms got heavier than they already were, and I could feel them start to levitate. Aware of it, I wondered if I was doing that on purpose to trick myself (though I most certainly wasn't). After a little bit they felt lighter, but I did lay them back down, and they started to feel a sort of icy cold. Knowing that I was still full of energy, I opened my eyes and did the affirmation exercise (more than once just to make sure). The thing is, is that my body, especially the arms, felt tingly and kind of hurt. During and after the exercise I felt full of magical energy and happy, and still do (I just did the exercise). I was just wondering about the sort of numbness, levitating bit, sort of icy cold feeling as I came back to consciousness. Is that normal?

Statistics: Posted by seawitch - Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:41 pm