Re:How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body
by jmckib on Friday February 19, 2016 @03:42AM
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How does mindfulness meditation surface unpleasant memories for you? When I do mindfulness meditation, I often have thoughts occurring, but they're exactly the same sort of thoughts I usually have when I'm spacing out. It doesn't surface anything that I don't already tend to think about. Of course, I don't have any traumatic memories. Could you describe what happens in your head?
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Re:How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body
by mercer on Friday February 19, 2016 @05:21AM
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At least twice so far I've spontaneously burst into tears, overwhelmed with sadness over things that happened earlier in the day or before that. In all cases I felt fine beforehand.
Now, for me the experience was really good, actually, because it felt like a relief to let these feelings out. But I can definitely imagine more intense and complex feelings coming to the surface that don't lead to relief but would require professional help and guidance.