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I bought one of those Dumies book on meditation
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I bought one of those Dummies book a while ago and never really read it. Until today, Its actually pretty good its by Stephen Bodian and he is refering to a lot of authors that I have heard the names of here (ie: jon Kabat Zinn and Thich Nhat Hanh) It has a few good meditations in there - but Im curious has anyone read this or tried this. I've just read an exercise in there called 'reflecting on your life' sort of where your thinking your about to die and reflecting on things you would do differently!
Has anyone tried a wide variety of them and then had a bad experience? See if its one thing i've learnt about myself while doing my basic meditations is that im pretty good at bottling things up. And then post meditation i start thinking about stuff.
light lotus
I bought one of those Dummies book a while ago and never really read it. Until today, Its actually pretty good its by Stephen Bodian and he is refering to a lot of authors that I have heard the names of here (ie: jon Kabat Zinn and Thich Nhat Hanh) It has a few good meditations in there - but Im curious has anyone read this or tried this. I've just read an exercise in there called 'reflecting on your life' sort of where your thinking your about to die and reflecting on things you would do differently!
Has anyone tried a wide variety of them and then had a bad experience? See if its one thing i've learnt about myself while doing my basic meditations is that im pretty good at bottling things up. And then post meditation i start thinking about stuff.
light lotus
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And if anything, a bad experience is actually a good experience. You have obviously just obtained some insight into yourself, and found a way you can improve yourself. What is the bad experience in that? My worst experience was after I had started meditating daily, and after about a week, I started meditating and got about 5 minutes into it before I started to feel this profound, extreme sadness. I understand it is not bad now, it is only getting in better touch with myself and seeing my true inner emotions so that I may correct them, but at first it scared me because I didn't understand it and thought meditation was supposed to make you happy.