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I'll acknowledge some bias on my part as someone who has experienced more disassociative episodes (unrelated to meditation) than I care to have had but I think
by leksak 5y ago
I'll acknowledge some bias on my part as someone who has experienced more disassociative episodes (unrelated to meditation) than I care to have had but I think some of the replies here are very callous given how scarring I've found those experiences to be.
My first contact with mindfulness-based meditation was cognitive behavioural therapy through mental health professionals and haven't received any warnings to heed.
Seemingly, the author has had to endure their fair share and maybe a modicum of sympathy is warranted - at least.
- Rastonbury 5y agoIf anything some of the comments here prove his point that those invested in the practise have an interest to protect it and therefore say the author was meditating the wrong way. It's honestly so weird reading comments like those on HN of all places.
- denton-scratch 5y agoI also did CBT; and I also was passed on to an 8-session mindfulness course. I hated CBT; and having 30 years' experience of mindfulness training from a proper Buddhist teacher, I found the mindfulness sessions awfully shallow.