I’ve been doing meditation for more than 40 days and I think it’s helping me.
Some people say that the benefits of meditation just come after one year meditating, but I’m feeling myself calmer when I’m talking to people. Just went out with a friend tonight and I could listen to him and be more aware of what he was talking. It helped me to be more empathetic.
I’m meditating everyday, but I’m looking for a mentor to help me with that. There are some people who even get psychotic due to meditation (it seems it’s because you dig emotions that can trigger you during the process).
But I like the way things are going on. I just lost my best friend this month and I was passing through some hard times. Talking to this other friend and listening to him was very good for myself. He could also listen to what I was talking and we shared many stuff together.
I’ll keep my meditation practice because, even if it’s just a placebo benefit, when I kneel to meditate, I feel myself in a much better state.
I’d like to try meditation, but I’m afraid that I cannot tolerate closing my eyes and staying static for a long time…how can you do that…? If there are a guidance or some people joining, maybe I can do that.
I’ve been meditating for three years now. It helps me to stay calm in emotional situations. I do fifteen minutes of timed, breathing meditation twice a day, every day.
I started with guided meditation that is possible to find on YouTube. I did some 5-6 minutes of guided meditation. Then after 21 days, I increased it to 10 minutes with no guided meditation, but just by closing my eyes and paying attention to my breathing. Sometimes I do more than 10 minutes. It depends.
It’s important to sit in a very comfortable position and with straight back.
That’s quite a discipline. I use an app called Temporizador do Insight in Brazilian Portuguese. It’s an app that gather people all around the world. When you finishes meditation, other people can see you did it and then you can share messages with them.
I like it as well. I bought a book about Mindfulness that I want to read.
I got an app, Insight Timer, that helps you meditate. You can build your own meditation with music, bells, or chanting of you like. When I feel ready to explode I go to my bedroom and put on the headphones
I have been meditating about 1hour and 20 minutes everyday (2x30min, and a 20 minute session) now for over a year and half. Most of the time it is so pleasurable that I even feel high from it. Other times when a memory is triggered it is difficult to sit with.
It has helped me feel much happier about myself and my predicament. I start my morning after a cup of tea with 10 minutes of Sudarshan Kriya yogic breathing and then 20 minutes of mantra meditation and it is a joy.
The people who rarely get psychosis from meditation are those who go to a silent retreat for some prolonged mediation session. For me it has done wonders.
You have to build up your time, like you are doing. Just sitting down for the first time and expecting Nirvana is simply not going to happen, but a pleasure and a joy can be gained after persistent effort.
Yeah, there are many Vipassana retreats that don’t accept people with a mental disorder background. People who suffer psychosis after meditation may be experiencing The Dark Night of the Soul (a term used to explain such experience).
I experienced that and that was actually my illness
now I am better and doing sitting meditation everyday and because after that phenomena subconsciousness has been unburdened I don’t experience them again
I know Osho. Just watched some videos of him on YouTube. He wrote a book about creativity that interests me. He seems to be a Turquoise teacher (if you consider Graves spiral dynamic).
Edit: once I did a meditation created by Osho. I had to scream a lot during the process.
Yeah
it seems you did dynamic meditation
I did a lot
You feel tranquility after doing it
It unleashes subconscious with awareness and that is why you won’t become nuts after doing it
I did transcendental meditation for about a year and a half while I was at school. I was functioning at a much higher level, but I still was in anguish. It seemed like TM helped me do math. I struggled with math in high school, but it came much easier while I was in college. I was going to AA and drinking very little coffee too. My grades plummeted when I started drinking again.
There are many mysteries about psychosis and meditation, but the individual needs to accept the exploration of these mysteries and also be ready, because it seems they are scary.
Maybe because meditation also helps with concentration.
