Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation

Re:Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation by mettamage on Friday November 04, 2016 @07:42AM (#12871801)

Thanks for the nuance.

Meditation is like exercise, actually it is mental exercise. (Mental) injuries can happen, just like any other form of (mental) exercise. It is indeed an issue that there's less awareness about it compared to physical injuries with physical exercise.

Also, when you do the beginner level, you do need to have done the introductory level. This means that you at least have meditated for half an hour per day, for 5 weeks at a minimum. That's what those derivatives of MBCT and MBSR tell you to do.

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Re:Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation by littlethrowaway on Sunday November 06, 2016 @02:48AM (#12884054)

Yip, I totally agree that it's like exercise, and I totally totally agree that you should start slowly.

However! where I did it (in New Zealand) vipassana specifically started you at the 10 day course (or did 8 years ago), there was no option to do a shorter one. Or if there was, they certainly didn't stop you jumping straight into a 10 day.

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Re:Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation by mettamage on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:01AM (#12900724)

Good point. If I have to make an analogy it seems like putting a person not physically suited for the military into a strict military 10-day brutal survival bootcamp. They need to be more careful with this indeed.

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