If so how has it helped you? How long have you been doing for?
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I used to meditate in the psych ward.
Also a few times when I was quitting nicotine.
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Noooooo. It makes my positive symptoms so much worse so quickly that I stopped doing it. Will never attempt it again. I make an empty space in my head and the crapfest on the other side of my skull makes itself at home there.
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I can’t meditate because I hear voices constantly
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I think @signless does
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I don’t really meditate but it is on my list of stuff to do. My goal is to do atleast 5 minutes a day.
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I meditate , so does @cdwithdcs … I used to do it a lot more than I do now. I try to every other day for 30 mins . Deep breathing helps… I hear stuff but it’s low and goes quiet after awhile.
Been doing meditations since 2016.
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I’ve been meditating for 20mins everyday for a while now. I can’t tell if it’s helping but I know that I’ve been feeling 0.05% better when I do. Don’t know what it is. I dont have voices but I’ve got a bad case of tinnitus which can be distracting when you try to follow your breath.
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Yeah that can be distracting… have you ever tried a guided meditation or maybe a sound meditation?
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I meditate every day and have been for years.
I tried a few methods in the past, but have settled with a non religous style.
Self discipline methods are like cutting oneself off from the universe and your complete self and are mostly self hypnosis.
Krishnamurti style, all attentive to the self is the way forward for me.
Meditation is mostly beautiful to me. In fact, i just did a session for 30 minutes after working out and having a shower. It was fantastic!
I also get up in the middle of the night every night, mostly to pee but have a cup of tea and then meditate in the silence of the dawn.
It is the best!
I couldn’t recommend it more.
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Yeah I use the medito app and do the guided meditation through there. They mostly do mindful breathing but some days they switch to a sound one. Where its just letting sounds around you come and go. I prefer the breathing one tbh
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The more you do it the easier it is to ignore the sounds … it takes awhile, don’t give up. I think it is worth it.
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Thank you!
Yeah Its become part of my routine now. Without it I don’t think I’d have the vigor to go to the gym. But thankfully I proved to myself that I have the will to do an activity for myself each day. Just gotta keep doing and it will get easier.
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I started meditating in 2013, it fixed my life, I got rid of depression. I don’t get much benefit from it today, I don’t know exactly why. You can’t (or at least in my experience) go as deep in meditation while on APs. Meditation is great, it can be the solution to suffering for many people. I wish I could become enlightened, but it’s not possible for me anymore.
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Thats interesting. How APs can interfere with the benefits of meditation. I never considered that, I know that the brain physicality is altered from meditating for long periods of time. I don’t know if antipsychotics hinder that process.
What do you mean by Enlightened?
I really like this description of the feeling of being really present: You’re in a movie theatre, you’re really involved in everything happening in the movie (your life), the movie is the only thing existing for you at that time, then you suddenly remember that you’re sitting in a theatre watching a movie, and that it’s all just an act.
Enlightenment is maybe just a feeling of this, the movie being your life?
I think it was Sam Harris or Alan Watts who described being present like that, can’t remember. 
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Thats pretty apt! It does kind of feel like that when you’re in the zone. Just following your breath and doing nothing else is kind of like a watching the heartbeat of time itself. There’s a lot of things happening during meditation.
Used to listen to Alan Watts in my uni days. Interesting guy.
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Yeah, Alan Watts is great! Man I miss those days where I was very present to the moment. Life gets so much easier when you feel that thoughts don’t affect you. I can’t get back to that state but I guess sitting and doing nothing for some minutes is healthy no matter what.
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Yeah my cousin and I were talking about how we’re all constantly stimulated by our phones and tv and stuff that we’ve forgotten how boredom feels like. He spent time just sitting with his thoughts for like half an hour, I think it is healthy.
What makes you say that you can’t go back? Is it the antipsychotics?
I don’t think it’s the APs alone, something has happened to my mind/brain over the years and I’m not sure if it’s SZ that did it or not, I just feel… foggy, the opposite of clear minded. My concentration is low, energy is low, yeah…
Yeah I know, I was in the forest with some friends some years ago and I noticed how restless I became being there lol, even with friends.