By the way, do you meditate in a lying posture, i.e. in your bed?
Hi NyxCC,
Thank you so much and all of the suggestions and tips have not been taken lightly. This is my first time really paying (ever so slightly) any attention to what I am doing in meditation. 99% of the time, I am in my bed laying down with my head slightly elevated with pillows with my right arm stretched out and my left arm on my abdomen. Lately, I have fore gone my left arm being on my abdomen to gauge my breaths because my breaths become so shallow and practically non-existent when I am really deep into meditation. I am always in my bed. I have tried sitting in the lotus position or even being in a recliner but this is way too uncomfortable for my back. I barely have any arch in my back (flat as a board) so it can be too painful at times to sit in a position for long periods.

I am a very light sleeper thanks to my insomnia, so going to sleep in my bed is usually the last thing I think about. I can only really meditate (or should I say WILD) when I am very very tired and I have not quite figured out why yet. It could be that with WILD you have to go to sleep and when I am ready for a nap I meditate first and then I know a WILD is right around the corner. But if I am not that tired and I meditate I usually don't WILD because I am not that sleepy.

Sorry to give you such a long explanation, but I find when I go into detail I can get some really great suggestions. Always grateful and always thankful for your comments NyxCC!


P.S. Any suggestion on how I can get myself to be right side up? I tried my best but at one point I was upside down going round and round like a ferris wheel when I tried to 'will' myself right side up.