Question: I've heard that meditation is dangerous. What are the dangers of meditation?
There CAN be issues. They could include:
You will be changing or perhaps dissolving negative habitual patterns that you may believe are central to your ideas about who “you” are.
It is possible that it will stir up emotional trauma that you have not properly processed.
These are probably the most extreme that you are likely to encounter if practicing at the most superficial level. Keep in mind that meditation is also the most effective tool you could have to work with/through these issues. Deepening and applying diligence to your practice will increase both the benefits, the processing, AND the effectiveness of the practice as a way to work through any issues.
Understand that meditation is not just about making you feel good, or more relaxed - though these are common effects, and sometimes the only ones. This technology is a tool for transforming your understanding of self, and how things are. To do this you need to let go of tightly held beliefs around who you are (especially the “you” you create). This takes some work, and it requires the diligence of your practice but in the end is transformative and very rewarding.
These aspects of meditation are only down sides because of the clinging, attachment and judgements around past events that have been raised by them. It is, of course, nothing to do with meditation and EVERYTHING to do with the strange and twisted up self we carry with us.
Ultimately traumatic events are just events like any other event - it is the feelings we STILL carry around them those events, and how we carry them into THIS moment that causes blockages to our seeing reality.
When we can be 100% present in this moment, and let go of the “self” we build around past events and the tint that it brings to how we see this moment, we can be truly liberated.
You will be changing or perhaps dissolving negative habitual patterns that you may believe are central to your ideas about who “you” are.
It is possible that it will stir up emotional trauma that you have not properly processed.
These are probably the most extreme that you are likely to encounter if practicing at the most superficial level. Keep in mind that meditation is also the most effective tool you could have to work with/through these issues. Deepening and applying diligence to your practice will increase both the benefits, the processing, AND the effectiveness of the practice as a way to work through any issues.
Understand that meditation is not just about making you feel good, or more relaxed - though these are common effects, and sometimes the only ones. This technology is a tool for transforming your understanding of self, and how things are. To do this you need to let go of tightly held beliefs around who you are (especially the “you” you create). This takes some work, and it requires the diligence of your practice but in the end is transformative and very rewarding.
These aspects of meditation are only down sides because of the clinging, attachment and judgements around past events that have been raised by them. It is, of course, nothing to do with meditation and EVERYTHING to do with the strange and twisted up self we carry with us.
Ultimately traumatic events are just events like any other event - it is the feelings we STILL carry around them those events, and how we carry them into THIS moment that causes blockages to our seeing reality.
When we can be 100% present in this moment, and let go of the “self” we build around past events and the tint that it brings to how we see this moment, we can be truly liberated.
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