There are really side effects of meditation?
Everything is a little bad reads the text of a nice piece of Afterhours.
Like any activity even meditation can have side effects, often slight transient entities and in rare cases of intense disintegration.
In today's episode we talk about these effects and how to avoid them, it is because most of these are then known, predictable and preventable.
Good listening
Since there is a willingness to explore their own interiority through meditation practices are theories related to its possible dangers.
From the most convoluted practices such as Tibetan Buddhism to those more like Zen dry, we know that there is the possibility of having problems during practice.
But in those traditions it comes to passing situations, often framed as dellapprendimento stadiums and the inner journey.
Inside a traditional setting these small and big problems of meditation become predictable and be faced, because they are not mental problems.
Today the practice is used more and more often by my colleagues to improve the balance interior, these problems are more difficult to understand.
They say Afterhours and add, if you can not manage it or use it inappropriately.
As everyone knows, even the beneficial and vital water, if taken in excess can be harmful.
Whatever he does well if used the wrong way can hurt and in my experience this is what often happens with meditation.
It's true, there are people who should not meditate, are people who have personal problems related to major psychiatric disorders.
But those who practice really recommended are very few, also because research has shown that meditation can have benefits even with psychotic disorders.
Such situations must be followed by mental health professionals c otherwise the risk of getting hurt.
We make a pretty apt analogy
Many know that back pain can be treated by means of specific physical exercises.
Many pain in the spine are caused by errors in posture and movement.
A good trainer, physical therapist or orthopedic, they know how to use physiology to go to offset these imbalances.
Many yoga teachers say they know how to use their practices in order to relieve back pain.
This means that if tomorrow you have back pain you just do some exercise posture (you can find it online) or maintain some asanas?
(Yoga Physical Locations).
If you are especially lucky maybe it works, but it would be better that these exercises you counseled them a professional after unaccurata diagnosis.
A few years ago I held the course together with a nutritionist, this good professional often took cases of diseases treated with diet alone.
And it was true, we had in common that patients suffering before his treatment of headache, stomach ache and diabetes.
After some months of ferra diet many of these problems disappeared or became manageable.
Good nutrition can really do wonders.
At the same time there are people who, during a nutritional treatment develop eating problems like anorexia or dellumore disorders (anxiety and depression).
Whether the exercise physical that good nutrition can do a lot for our well-being, but in some cases and under certain conditions, can do more harm than good!
Why such a thing as meditation can be harmful?
Among the many ways that can hurt you meditate there is one to say the least paradoxical: the increase of awareness!
But how Genna as possible that the main benefit of the practice is also its barrier, explained better !.
Awareness can become difficult to manage as well as in many other contexts: from the simple need to tell the truth to a friend to realize our limitations.
If we meditate we are really observing our mental movements, then it could emerge memories that we buried in the past.
I do not speak of devastating injuries but despite that fact to our colleague whom we buried pieces of guilt emerges anything good and / or bad.
It is clear that if approaches to the practice of meditation with the idea to feel good, to try states of bliss and relaxation, bad parts!
Why now should know how it is not seeking any blessed and pleasant, but simply to observe all that c and there you would be there.
Knowing it essential to start, it is a constant opening to themselves, to reverse our dear experiential avoidance to make The exact opposite.
Addressing whatever comes!
Again, all of this was already known in various contemplative traditions of the past, only that they had pseudo-religious explanations.
Just as well as for years we felt certain mental disorders such as demonic possession, in different traditions we talk about demons of meditation.
In today's episode I told you that meditation a magnifying glass, perhaps lanalogia does not fit right so much, more like a special viewer.
These glasses can make you see beyond loscurit or beyond the fog created by the mental content, the continuous and incessant planning for the future and the revision of the past.
One of my personal sources of inspiration in the traditional meditation was S.N.
Goenka, which compared the practice to a surgical operation.
He was referring to his most known withdrawal 10 days of silent practice, which he said as unoperazione surgical time to bring out the pus of impurities (I know not a pretty picture).
And to work you have to cut and during this operation, you can try small and great pain.
I like to think more nightvision Although clearly his bloody metaphor already refines the mindset necessary.
Another aspect that is sometimes overshadowed that of compassion and acceptance of what emerges during practice.
It is also traditional mix different principles as: lequanimit (the feelings of the game), the compassion and the ability to be with.
The prticante should know that this is not new age crap, to be compassionate, not a fair-minded and accepting nice way to look at yourself
but in fact the only real way to be able to face their own inner world, to reverse the continuous experiential avoidance.
Most of the problems related to the practice continued struggle with the inner contents, a struggle that has only one battlefield yourself.
And what happens if you fight with yourself or unable to be sufficiently accepting and compassionate self?
They start to judge yourself and you carry out the practice.
Everything becomes a sort of personal struggle to try to have some kind of control over their thoughts.
This is the best way to go crazy!
The purpose of meditation do not have experiences without judgment, but realize when they emerge from such judgments.
If you expect not to judge you quickly discover that you are wrong and this can get you into a sort of silent continuous spiral of negative self-judgments.
But how, I meditate for a few months and I continue to judge me harshly and bla bla bla.
When you go to the gym straight the workout?
That day, after day, after card board, continues to have similar effects?
The answer is no!
It is clear that initially there may be a positive spiral of changes, but even these are linear and regular.
There will be days where better performerai, maybe you slept well, ate well and have the stars on your side.
But this is not the rule, indeed!
Who expects a steady growth in the gym is likely to drop.
Why will have to come to terms with harsh reality, there are levels of growth.
Pi will become good at it you do and more discover that there are successive levels more difficult to reach.
If you take any complex skill you will realize that you will never linear.
The beginning, when it passes from a zero knowledge to the knowledge of one.
If you play the guitar, I do not know how to do anything to be able to tour Daccordi does not take much.
But then you play the guitar?
Not a chance!
4 Do you know strumming chords!
The very different thing, subjective experience of proven pleased to learn those early agreements become increasingly difficult to acquire.
The first year of practice you will be happy to learn more and more chords, phrases, scales, rhythms etc.
But as diverr increasingly difficult to go to the next level.
In meditation this immediately apparent, because already the first step to reach: the ability to observe one's thoughts without judging them staying in the present, already a high level of practice.
What happens if you play the guitar (or other instrument) recently and you're suddenly forced to play for 5 hours straight?
If you have not yet developed the necessary strength you'll get hurt.
But I spoilero just one thing if you want to play the guitar: the fingers and hands will hurt you anyway unless you have no intention of continuing as a real turtle.
The initial pain need, and indeed the signal you are really exercising your hands.
Beware if you're a guitar player you know you need to develop the ability to stop to rest.
Even in meditation may initially would hurt your hands, which emerge things you would not want to face: limpazienza, anger, anxiety and so on.
But part of the game, the surgery to Goenka, need to know, so how do you know if you go to the gym after a long time, the following days will experience pain (more or less large) to the muscles.
As you practice like you're constantly inside delleroe of a journey that from time to time at home brings new parts of s.
In an ascending spiral of self-awareness.
Today we can plan trips dream in the most remote places, venture with the backpackers where we please, not only because the costs are lower but increasingly also for the increasing digitization of the world.
But one of the most exciting trips certainly that within ourselves, and in Qde (exercise book) will continue this conversation on from here
Central looking for any personal growth, know yourself.