This works sometimes, but sometimes meditation brings up a lot of underlying problems, both mental and physical. That is good if you have the time and energy to

This works sometimes, but sometimes meditation brings up a lot of underlying problems, both mental and physical. That is good if you have the time and energy to deal with them, but if you don't it can complicate your life. Specially when you live in a society where meditation is not an engrained part of it, so you have no social structure that tells you which meditation experts are good and which are scams. For me it brought up that I'm carrying a lot of tension and knots in the back and shoulders, which is a good thing to realise, but during meditation it would build up a lot of "pressure" or "tension" on my head, which according to some traditions is "bad". According to other traditions you just "power through" with more meditation. I have explored different things but reduced how much I meditate for now.