Subspace and meditation

[Oubliette123]

Do you think there is a link to the two?

I meditate regularly and reach subspace quite easily. Sometimes subspace feels like intense meditation. I wondered what people's thoughts are on whether there could be a connection to the two?

 

[Sweetdaisymae]

I have to say (with my limited subspace experience) when I fell into it, it felt like deep peaceful meditation, my mind was so disconnected from my body, from reality. Quite surreal thoughts streamed through my head. It was deeply peaceful.
Must be some connection.

 

[LallyH]

I drop into subspace very quickly and deeply, sometimes too deeply and I have to be brought back, but I've never consciously meditated in my life. But thinking about it, I have a good friend who practises alternative healing, and when I've been having 'treatment' and she's asked me to relax, she's been surprised how easily I seem to drift off. It's probably the ability to relax and switch off that's linked?

 

[KoPilot]

I don't do it very easily, but I do meditation somewhat regularly and do drop into trance states sometimes. They're definitely similar.

 

[Mission_Blue]

For most, I think there probably is a connection. I've been quite unsuccessful attempting meditation, but then I don't relax easily in general. To be fair, I haven't really applied myself to the practice. In stark contrast, I reach subspace rather easily. I credit that to having 11 years of routinely setting aside that sacred time/safe space to release control and turn off my mind. It's been quite therapeutic.

 

[Scotsman69]

My new young sub is a recent, and very intelligent, honours graduate in psychology. Her particular interest is in hypnosis, and for one so young she's an experienced hypnotist.

After our last scene, she told me she reckoned subspace is very close to the experience of hypnosis, the 'out-of-world' sensation. And I reckon a meditative trance is close to a hypnotic one. Meditation as a form of auto-hypnosis?

So aye, maybe the two are related. Makes sense to me.

 

[shy slave]

I find the two very closely linked.

I meditate regularly and find the coming out of sub space the same sensations as coming out of a deep meditation.

It's one of the reasons I dislike 'after care.' My idea of after care is to be left the fuck alone until my mind is back in my body.

 

[SubMrs]

Being a sub and meditating both require a surrender of control. In that sense they go hand in hand. I can't imagine all of these years of being tied up and uncomfortable if I had not developed the ability to meditate.

 

[desertslave]

I also think there is a link somewhere in there. I tried meditation back in high school as a non-chemical alternative to get my crazy head settled down. I had a lot of difficulty finding anything resembling a quiet space.

Then I met my first Sir, who took me to subspace after several weeks. Bless him, he's also the one who figured out that I had ADD. He had a deep, calming voice and sent me flying easily once he got me figured out. He also taught me to meditate properly somewhere in there.

I always find it interesting that something as exhilarating as a heavy play session can send me to such a quiet, serene place. It seems so contradictory on the surface.

 

[Oubliette123]

Being a sub and meditating both require a surrender of control. In that sense they go hand in hand. I can't imagine all of these years of being tied up and uncomfortable if I had not developed the ability to meditate.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Also I think the opposite is true, being in a state of keeping yourself in control for a long period of time (being tied up and uncomfortable) can be exhausting and a way to deal with that is to shift awareness (meditate).

I suppose the difference for me is meditation is always self initiated and subspace is beyond my control. It does feel different, but like someone else here said, the return to reality is similar.

 

[Oubliette123]

I always find it interesting that something as exhilarating as a heavy play session can send me to such a quiet, serene place. It seems so contradictory on the surface.

Its total duality isn't it, but I guess there is duality in everything. Its interesting you saying about your Sir having a calming voice, makes me think of the soothing words of a hypnotist. I wonder if this has a bearing on subspace too? I think I think too much