A bad meditation session
I’m equally enjoying the short meditations throughout the day, as well as the mid-length ones I do typically early in the morning and also mid afternoon to rejuvenate my mind and body.
But some times, once in a while, I have a “bad” meditation experience during the mid-length ones. The worst one was this last Monday night’s class. To finish the class, we were going to do a mid-length breath meditation. I’m usually pretty good at breath meditation, which I think I developed during yoga, but this one time it was horrid.
I started to feel claustrophobic, anxious, frustrated, antsy, and generally horrible. I couldn’t sit still and all I wanted to do was bolt. I’ve had this feeling before, and I usually do interrupt the meditation and come back to it later on in the day, but this time I was in class, and I didn’t feel as if I could leave, so I sat through it.
It was probably the worst 10-12 minutes I’ve had in a loooooong time. When it was over, I mentioned it to Eric and he explained that these “bad” meditations do happen, and what I have to determine is whether it gets better as the meditation goes along, in which case I stick with it, or if it gets worse, in which case, I should stop the meditation. He said it tends to happen to younger folks who meditate who may have more energy in them.
Thankfully I haven’t had another bad meditation session, in fact, I just came out of a very nice one a few minutes ago…. lovely.
I am also have the same feelings during meditation sometimes, but it is not so often. I guess sometimes we need to be there and now and forget about our problems then we can avoid having these bad experiences. hehe i am trying my best to do this. Have a good meditation session
I have had similar experiences during longer meditations sessions… that sensation of just needing to bolt after experiencing a strong feeling of claustrophobia.
While that is not a common event for me anymore, I found that introducing some body movement such a slow rocking or even just flexing my feet helped a lot.
I am thinking about signing up for Yoga and meditation class…How would I find out if the instructor is qualified and whether or not he or she believes Yoga and meditation can supplement one’s spiritual practices…Is there a website I could check out for references or reviews?
Hi All,
I recently did a 10 day vipassana meditation course. During 10 days everything is changing, happy and sad things come and go and this is important here i think. Maybe do this vipassana to look inside.
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