My first experience meditating (finally)

[Kramer]

I came to tell my first experience meditating and ask for your opinion on it. I decided to try the empty meditation again (I have a very hard time calming my mind, also because I'm anxious). But this time I tried something different during meditation. First I thought of trying to meditate listening to soothing music with an ambient sound of nature in the background. I don't know why, but I seem to have had an easier time calming down this time. In fact, I almost fell asleep several times lol, my head felt a little "heavy", as if I had fallen asleep, but I was still conscious, I can't explain. I had a few seconds or at most 1 minute with an empty mind and also managed to sort of focus my mind fully on the present. Then still during meditation, I decided to try something new. I decided to try to feel my aura in my hands. I started to feel a certain pressure around my hands and sometimes tingling. Then I decided to try to expand to the arm, to try to feel the aura in the arms. And again I felt a certain pressure around my arms and hands. Then I tried to feel it in my shoulders, I started to feel some tingling in my neck, in my shoulders I felt it more difficult to feel something. I felt just a tiny bit of pressure in the last thousandths of a second. Then I went back to trying to meditate only on emptiness and out of nowhere I found myself inside my mind, or something like that. I don't know how to explain it very well, suddenly I saw in my mind the image of a very beautiful, peaceful place. And I still managed to stay calm and think nothing. Just with the mind in the present. Obviously I couldn't keep my mind empty the whole meditation, but it's the first time I've really had an experience during meditation, calming my mind during meditation, and still feeling something around my hands and etc... In the last second of meditation, I felt pressure and tingling around my entire upper body. So I was so happy that I ended up losing focus and decided to finish the meditation Well, that was finally my first experience. Has anyone felt similar things? Does anyone know if I'm going the right way? After I finished, I saw that I meditated for an amazing 20 minutes for the first time haha, I never went more than 5 minutes before because my mind wouldn't stop, so I'm really happy. I found this meditation, the experience kind of addictive

 

[AFODO]

Good job Kramer!
This tells that you was able to go into a medium trance.
It's kinda hard for a beginner, and it takes time.
The beautiful place might have been a gift from your GD.
You did well, but do not be sad if cannot be able to this again just as how you did it now. As you practice it more you will be able to do this again and again, but this takes effort.

You can start other meditations like aura cleaning, than you can start opening your chakras.
Good luck!