Nude Meditation Options

I talk frequently with a co-worker/friend about meditative experiences. He loves to experiment and recently tried a meditation nude. He told me he felt as if there was a void completely around him and as if he was all that was existance. He had never experienced anything similar in all his meditative experiments! I attempted to find a thread about nude meditation and it's outcomes in other individuals but was unable to.

Have any others experimented with nude meditation? What were the results?
Are there other similar sensations that any have felt with different variables entirely?

Just curious... thanks.

This post has been edited by leech: Sep 29 2008, 11:15 AM

Well seeing as how I live in northern colorado and the times I usually meditate are at night, its usually just a bit chilly for me to meditate nude. However what I like to do is draw a hot bath, pretty hot but not so hot I can't stand it. Then I'll dim the lights, or light a single candle, before I get in the tub, maybe play some music if there is alot of outside noise and burn some incense. I have some nifty "relaxing" bath salts I'll throw in too. Once I am in the tub (nude of course) then I submerge myself so that my torso is completely underwater, except for my nose. Then I'll close my eyes and slowly breathe to relax myself. As I do this for each in hale, by body rises. When I exhale my body sinks. This produces a rythmical flow in the water that I have found to be pretty relaxing. All this together acts as a sort of sensory deprivation technique in that I am completely closed off to the outside world and my senses are all inundated. I have in a way produced a sphere of solitude as I call it. Short of banging on the bathroom door I'm turned off to the outside world.

Once I am prepared and totally relaxed I can use this as a platform for just some relaxation, or I can delve a bit deeper into astral projection or pathworking.

Then when finished (about 30 - 60 minutes) I bathe like normal just as a sort of way to cleanse and ground myself when I am done.

I have tried meditating nude before. But I never really found much difference from meditating with my cloths on. I have attempted nude meditation with a couple ex girl friends with some success. But get me naked in front of a girl I am physically/emotionally attracted to and its hard to concentrate. The times where the meditation was successful was when we simply had sex as a sort of warm up and then meditated after the fact.