I wanted to share to you what is, in may experience, one of the most common mistake among meditators. Although many of you will find this "too familiar", it is natural tendency of the mind to work against it.
I will cite the John Ruskan from his book Emotional Clearing:
When feelings come up in meditation, they must be handled properly
if cleansing is to be effective. When I first began to meditate, I had
no understanding of this. My intention in meditation was to calm the
mind, expand my consciousness, and enter more blissful states – in other
words, to escape.
Whenever disturbing emotions came up, I assumed I was having a
bad meditation. I tried to avoid the feelings by bringing my attention
back to my focus point. I became upset and would get angry about the
anger, fearful about the fear, and so on. Meditation became a fight to try
to control my thoughts and feelings. What I was doing, I understand
now, was resuppressing negative energies that came up for clearing. I
had no concept of integration. I thought
that eventually I would get past the negative intrusions, but I never did,
and I became pessimistic about meditation. I was unknowingly practicing what is called “suppressive meditation.”
Thanks for sharing. I want to add, that this should best be watched, whenever emotions rise up. I experienced, that we are so used to supress emotions, that it happens without even thinking about it, on a very subtle level. One has to be really careful, to stay conscious about that matter whenever emotions rise up.
Try to avoid this common trap
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