meditation

"As for the seperation that I describe, detachment, it's my sense that it's something that meditators practice for years to experience:well being, clarity, and strength to feel emotions fully and chose to act on them rather than reacting to them. It's effortless once achieved, but hard to hold. That's my experience of detachment. It's more than observation. It's a completely different physical and mental state. It's from that place that trauma can be experienced and healed because emotions cease to rule."

I think prolonged abuse can serve as a sort of meditative practice. The trick is retaining the skills of "meditation" while discarding nonfunctional dissociative habits.

In my experience (personal and anecdotal) it can be difficult for very dissociative persons to engage with meditative teachers or communities: so many of our experiences are, as a friend put it "out of sync with our overall spiritual development". Substitute "emotional development", if you like.

That's a general comment only. I am blessed with a therapist who encourages and understand meditation, and wonderful meditation teachers and peers. Any confusion and distress in my last post was entirely self generated, "just thoughts". :) I didn't mean to imply any inadequacy on the part of my therapist or on the part of emdr.

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Re:meditation, by Barbara, 10/25/02 Re:meditation, by missusscarecrow@yahoo.com, 10/25/02

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