Guided ? Other ? Body scan? Loving kidness? Etc…there is a lot of them.
Just curious What your favourite is.
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I do breathing meditation it’s simple and most effective. Trying to leave everything outside and focusing on breath
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I don’t do meditation. I gave up because whenever I empty my mind my positive symptoms use it as an opportunity to move in. Mediating always makes my positive symptoms worse, which in turn makes it more difficult to maintain insight. Keeping my mind busy is what punches my symptoms back down, positive and negative.
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I don’t sit and meditate, I find that boring. I do empty my mind and try to really look at things without using word’s. That’s how I meditate.
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Ive tried mindfulness meditation but my mind is too chaotic to focus on the practice. Shame because id like to experience the peace of mind which some people get from it.
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Okay. Interesting.
I mostly like the clarity of mind.
Im happy meditation exist. 
I’ve done various kinds of meditation through the years, single point focus (focus on breath), open monitoring (observing all sounds, sight and sensation), loving kindness.
I don’t get anything out of meditation nowadays so I don’t do it. The medications don’t work well with meditation either, you can’t get as deep.
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Some meditations are dangerous for those with SZ, such as kundalini stuff, psychic stuff which is designed to make people more sensitive (super bad idea for SZ people!), doing pranayama for too long (anything more than ten minutes).
I do a lot of counting (100 to zero in my head for concentration), I do some mild breathing exercises for short periods of time (to ease anxiety), and lots of “grounding” meditations (visualizing roots and sending negative energy down them to be cleansed by the Earth). This makes me feel less spaced out, and more in my own body.
Sometimes I just follow the breath in and out. I like progressive muscle relaxation. I practice a mantra before falling asleep, and it’s gotten rid of nightmares during the first part of my dreams. I have a book on nightmares I’m working with right now.
The most effective practice for managing the voices I found was Zazen. It trained me to let thoughts come and go without following them into la la land (though one book on PTSD recommends against doing Zen stuff if you’ve suffered trauma, because it will make memories much more clear).
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I meditate by studying myself. i do this by watching my thoughts and seeing what comes up. I sit with it and let it pass.
This leads to states of bliss between thoughts.
I also use EMDR on myself to ‘brainwash’ myself into positivity and gratitude, as well as dealing with troublesome thoughts.
Sometimes I do both in a day.
I meditate between 30-60 minutes a day.
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Loving and Kindness I can do tasks and meditate on this at the same time
You must have a typo because I read loving kidness, I also like to meditate like a child. Like the things I used to meditate on when I was a Kid.
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Prayer. 151515151515
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My mind is too busy to keep still so I try and keep occupied. Reading…even tele or computer games. Keeps me occupied but trying to do mediation really just doesn’t work for me.
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I read books on meditation and they are always about breathing meditation. I can’t do breathing meditation but I’d recommend it. I was once super eager to do it and now I couldn’t care less.
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İ do every type of meditation it is my favorite hobby it gives me internal peace lowers my stress calms me down and makes me happy
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Ive done heart math and guided through headspace. Heart math was basically breathing in and out as a ball scrolls on waves. I liked that the best cause it wasn’t weird. Headspace is also good. Taking time out to focus on your body and breath. I did the Sam Harris one but it got weird fast and I said f this.
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I mostly try to relax my eyes as much as possible since they are big tension centers in my body. When I relax my eyes, my sinuses and other parts of my body’s also seem to become less tense.
I am getting better with dealing with my arthritis by accepting that I am going to often have sensations of pain and not attaching danger or fear to this.
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Do you get relief from negative symptoms if your busy? I thought yours were always constant?
I went through a period where I was doing transcendental meditation, drinking very little coffee, getting about the right amount of exercise, and going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. I won’t say I was in Nirvana, but I do think life was better. Math came a lot easier to me at that time. But I started drinking again, and it all came crashing down.
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More like distraction from them. Combatting negs is also a matter of building up and then maintaining momentum. If you stop it’s so much harder to get going again. Just best to keep going. For me, meditating means stopping.
I see, when you say negs are you referring to motivation issues? What ways do you combat flat affect and anhedonia or does this improve for you when your motivated?