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Such is a spontaneous awakening of consciousness that can happen by grace when we make efforts to meditate, and gives us glimpses of ‘higher’ types of awareness. This type of awakening can spontaneously occur not just in the physical plane but also in the astral plane. Since this happened, the feeling passed somewhat, but it never entirely disappeared, and it has always been there in the background, or it surfaces again when I'm in meditation or go for long walks in nature. This spontaneous and personal event of awakening has always been a profound frame of reference when I've felt a little imbalanced or needed answers. Our language does not have enough words to describe such an experience; what I felt in those moments was a powerful expansion of love - love being the blissful emotion of the body that naturally arises when the mind surrenders to reality, rather than trying to constantly conjure up its own dream realities instead. When you reach such a state in meditation, you realise that 'love' is your natural state and not something that needs to be 'found'. It is only really 'found' when you let go and allow yourself to stop adding your own narrative to life, to what is. This is why love can come in many forms in life, because different things have the ability to make our minds still enough so that we can perceive closer to that truer reality of ‘oneness’; whether it be a loving partner, pets, children, beautiful scenery in nature, a hobby etc. Such things can help us reach that inner tranquillity in life, but it’s also important to note that we need not rely on external things or people for such states. We can connect to those states through meditation and our relationship with ourselves. Through tapping into that source of love within, we unleash a divine source of energy to live by which benefits all living beings, rather than relying on other people for our peace of mind, which