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deleted_user 04/04/2008

How many of y'all meditate? When I first came back from residential treatment, I tried to meditate daily . . . Not always possible, so I meditated atleast five times a week. I got out of the habit around December when we went on vacation. Thought I would pick it back up in 2008, but just haven't been motivated to do so.

Why the lack of motivation? Hmmm . . . My couples therapist had a thought about that. In her opinion, it might be that I got to the point in my practice where all the ugly, unfun, turmoil inducing thoughts popped up everytime I meditated. She asked if I had a spiritual advisor. I said no and that I didn't think I needed one. Now, this woman is also recovering from and ED. She said that it is a good idea to get a spiritual advisor to serve as a guide and a teacher. She said they are helpful when you get to that point in your practice where everything seems to be negative or closed off (just to opposite of what you hope to gain with meditation).

So, anybody out there used a spiritual advisor? If so, how did you go about finding one? Good experience or bad experience?

As always, any help is appreciated.

deleted_user 04/04/2008

I dont meditate, I have a book of Buddhist offerings for 365 days. Each page is dated and you read the page for the corresponding date. Very often it's just 1 line and not a whole page of text.
Todays page read "It is the place of feeling that binds us or sets us free"
I look at a page each day and think about what I'm being told.
Buddhism is an interest of mine but I'm unsure whether I could embrace the total concept of it.

deleted_user 04/04/2008

I have just started meditating myself. In the second week of March I signed up for a course in Primordial Sound Meditation taught by an instructor from the Chopra Center. So far, it has been a struggle to do it habitually because the Center recommends a half hour in the morning and in the evening, which is time that is difficult to carve out. I've been doing it for fifteen minutes at a time. I've noticed that it has been extremely difficult to quiet my mind, and difficult images, thoughts and feelings to arise when I meditate. But I realize that I have to learn to consider all that arises with detachment. So that will be my next focus. I have not been meditating long enough to judge whether it has been helpful or not though. That remains to be seen, but I suspect that it will in the end.

deleted_user 04/04/2008

I do want to ask in addition, are you thinking of learning different forms of meditation? If you have already begun a practice, please don't give up. I agree with cherryb, that any feelings or thoughts that arise are places where we can heal, and are not necessarily elements that block us.

deleted_user 04/04/2008

My mind can never shut up so I tried meditation for the first time a few weeks ago. Imagine my surprise that I actually was able to stay with the teacher's instructions almost all the time. It was wonderful, but what I didn't know before was that it was a buddhist meditation and since I'm Christian I didn't go again. But our public hospital offers "nutral" meditation classes. Too bad I work at those times. But try calling hospitals in your area or maybe even people who teach yoga. My yoga teacher is the one who gave the meditation class.

deleted_user 04/07/2008

Thanks for the suggestion about contacting local hospitals and yoga center. I'll try that.

I guess I just got frustrated because my meditation was making me more anxious. I mean, really. Isn't meditation supposed to make you more calmed and centered? UGH!

deleted_user 04/07/2008

I've just started doing yoga once a week for relaxation (at the sugestion of my therapist)...I needed something to slow my mind down and Yoga seems to be doing it (if only for a couple of hours)...

deleted_user 04/07/2008

I meditate a lot. Prayer (me talking) Meditation (me listening) My brain is nonstop also so I find things that I consider meditation. Ride a bike. You'll see how you have no distractions and all you have to concentrate on is your safety and awareness of the things around you. That in itself is a meditation. I love the yoga idea too. I'm a yogaholic! XOXO

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