Meditation - Staying Awake

[SilverInfinity]

I believe many have issues staying awake during meditation or long visualization exercises.

Some believe that the person is doing the work subconsciously when they have fallen asleep like that. But there are people who want to consciously remember and experience from meditations especially those meaningful and focused.

So I compiled a list of links that should help --

This author suggests creating a slight discomfort and completely avoiding furnitures that reminds the body of sleep:
http://1stholistic.com/Meditation/hol_me...-awake.htm

Good comparisons of alertness, meditation, and sleep states: http://www.mudrashram.com/awake.html

Why some instructors say staying awake is important (I feel it is true. A few times I fell asleep during my golden altar sessions, astral entities attacked me on the spot):
http://www.chikung.org.tw/etxt/q054.htm

[Leftygrl]

interesting. I find the most risk of falling asleep is during the golden altar. Also while spinning chakras... almost always right before I get to the heart chakra.

I think its some type of sabotage.. and take it a a sign that these must be extra important things to do.