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@vanoooosa

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San Francisco, CA Beigetreten Temmuz 2015
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i wish i'd known earlier that there's a time for emotional release, and a time for emotional containment (ie just sitting with the emotion) both are ways of feeling what's unfelt. but the former helps the emotion move, the latter helps the emotion stay take rage: if your pattern is to choke it down, release gets it unstuck, while containment reinforces the belief that "i can't let this out". on the other hand, if your pattern is to lash out immediately, you need to learn how to just be with it; release merely reinforces the belief that "i must do something with this feeling".
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Sei and her soul are separated@canister_queen·
Nah. Plenty of people find liberation who aren't "healthy". Suffering is what brings people to practice. If you have a lot of trauma, that's a good reason to practice gently and with caution, not to avoid it entirely. I had a "worse case scenario" outcome from hardcore meditation practices, and I still have no regrets. The same practice that took me over that edge eventually brought me back home.
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most meditators would be better off doing more "relative" inner work (therapy, dance, bodywork, journaling) only a healthy, capable self can survive its destruction

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new post: i write about choosing a meditation path from my extremely unbiased vantage point of having already chosen one
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@stoliglobalese @Thomasdelvasto_ i said “more”! both are good, but most meditators would benefit from allocating some of their sitting hours to other practices
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most meditators would be better off doing more "relative" inner work (therapy, dance, bodywork, journaling) only a healthy, capable self can survive its destruction
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vanoosa@vanoooosa·
buddhism often draws a distinction between relative vs absolute truth. relatively, we live in a world of objects and selves; in the absolute sense, everything is empty of real, independent substance. typically, "relative work" aims at building up a healthy psychological self, which is still necessary and good even if from the absolute perspective there is no such thing
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vanoosa@vanoooosa·
@vimtor ime meditation strongly invites in whatever is present, especially what's being avoided. then the usual mechanisms used for dissociating from what's unpleasant no longer work, so meditation feels difficult
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vimtor@vimtor·
@vanoooosa do you think that's why people find it hard to meditate at their lowest moments? i've found that the more i need to meditate, the more i struggle to do it
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vanoosa@vanoooosa·
conversely, most people deep in relative inner work would be better off doing more meditation you are so much more than just your feelings, exquisite and sacred as they may be
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@CaryHawkins_ tldr: i think it ends up being fine for most people, just not beginners. i actually think it's a great container if your practice is decently far along enough to debug yourself. i just think the downside for some is asymmetrically bad, and it's hard to predict ahead of time
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@CaryHawkins_ i still came away having benefited greatly, but the message i got at the end of the retreat was "if you don't practice 2+ hours a day you're wasting your time". this was pretty demoralizing to hear
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my first blog post! in which i use all my PTO on meditation retreats and learn a few things along the way
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@ArtirKel poast the rest of your stack and let's compare
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the self is just one very long game of telephone
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