Many of those who pursue meditation as a means Flow State Training Program Review of achieving self realization or self awareness reach a point where they suddenly begin to perceive on an intuitive level, a truth that is fundamental to their well being and sense of self and security, at which point some choose to continue and some choose to discontinue the journey of meditation. In fact, this is a well known obstacle in meditation that has to do with the true nature of reality and our perception or lack of perception of what is real.Suppose we go on an intellectual version of an actual meditation experience. We are sitting in a quiet room surrounded by the familiar objects of our life. We place a candle on a low table before where we intend to sit and meditate. There is little light in the room and we light the candle before us and begin to sit quietly slowly gathering our attention and focusing it on the candle and its flame. Reality slows, the mind begins to calm as we let go of the random thoughts that are constantly being generated by our undisciplined mind.

Candle, flame, wax and fire. Word symbols that represent manifestations of energy in the objective reality, the world of things. We become more and more aware of the difference between our thoughts of these objects and the experience of these objects. We wonder who or what it is that can be aware of the activities of our own mind? We realize that this is what is called mindfulness. As our mindfulness increases our awareness increases as well. Flame and fire become a process of transformation between one form of energy to another form of energy. Something is consumed and something is created.Sounds from the other rooms of the house come to our senses and we mindfully refrain from identifying them and labeling them but rather simply letting the pure experience of the tone produced in our mind come and go. And then again, perhaps not.

We begin to think about a project we are working on at the office and what we need to do to make it better. And the store later on for groceries, and what to do about the teenage daughter sneaking out at night, and what we would do if we became famous, a star, on Oprah even. And suddenly we are back in the room with the candle and the flame and the process of transformation and ourselves sitting here now once again mindful of the present moment.But where were we and for how long were we there? And who is asking this? We begin to wonder not only what's real, but when is it real and where is it real? Suddenly we are walking on shaky ground. We begin to experience a feeling of restlessness, we want to get away, our mind becomes involved in a desperate attempt to distract us from our meditation session.

Some forms of meditation such as the Vipassana technique can be perceived as a threat, but why. This particular meditation discipline is about achieving enlightenment through insight. Perceiving awareness as a threat is a sure sign that we are not living in the real world but rather some conceptual reality produced by our own minds ability to imagine and create mental constructs of what is real. And with a long enough exposure to this, we will of course begin to believe and experience it as real. That is, as long as we don't attempt to develop any true level of awareness though something like meditation which would eventually reveal the deception.Is it so difficult to understand that we would run from the truth that we may have been living in some kind of fantasy version of reality rather than the actual real world? Especially if we also realize that this has been going on for many years. This is crazy, how can this be?

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