Do you benefit from or appreciate meditation and mindfulness?

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Before I took ill with schizophrenia, I used to appreciate meditation and mindfulness - I’d really get something out of these practices. I also felt calmed down, relaxed, and spiritually enhanced by yoga.

Now, I don’t really get nearly as much out of meditation and yoga - I sometimes feel a small effect, but for the most part, I’m so flat and dull that these practices just don’t have much of an impact. It’s like I’m not conscious enough to experience much benefit.

Does anyone else relate to this? Or do you still appreciate mindfulness, meditation, and yoga?

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I used to feel benefits from yoga, but am not feeling so well now and the thought of even trying to do, well, anything…no.

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Last time I meditated I think I became possessed by an evil spirit and it took a long time to get rid of it so I don’t meditate anymore.

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The yoga brain handles the racing thought great as you know how to shut it off. Hold some of the poses and try it again.

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I’m way into vipassana-style (self-observing) meditation and various mindfulness techniques like those I’ve picked up from Kabat-Zinn, Linehan, Marra, Chodron, Levine, Trungpa, Deikman, Tart, Brach, Somov, Kramer, Watts, Ram Dass, Krishnamurti and others. It’s the single most relevant and effective thing I do for myself now.

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maybe you have just moved on from that, i did it when i was sick and it did help, i had a tape or cd i would listen to that helped me relax and cleared my mind but it only lasted for how long the tape was on, i now realize that it could have been the med i was on at the time that was holding me back, and i switched my med and now i can take breaks and relax a lot more, i dont practice mindfulness anymore though except when i am at church but its very good, take care.

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have u tried osho’s dynamic meditation…???

kundalini…

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Yeah I appreciate mindfullness , but only in its simplistic state. IE stopping thought and interpretation just sensing( listening , feeling , etc)

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Yes, I know and do quite a bit of mindfulness, find it really helpful. Although I like to vary the exercises a little bit, not always just conscious breathing, although that is a core part that I do often come back to.

I’m also familiar with Osho’s active meditations, they are very good for when your mind has been busy with things and its taking a long time for your mindfulness to settle down.

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I use this machine to 'meditate ’ and find it helps a bit.

http://www.mindplace.com/Mindplace-Procyon-System-Meditation-Machine/dp/B000X2BSJM

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I’ve thought about quitting caffeine and getting into transcendental meditation again. That relaxed me for a while in the past. It seemed like I was better at math when my caffeine consumption was low and I meditated. My grades at school were much better, but that was also because I wasn’t drinking.