11-26-2017, 03:58 PM
Well, I suppose another thing to mention about meditation in general is that the first goal you want to go for is a clear state of mind. This sounds easier than it is, but it has long term benefits. As someone that's bipolar I can say that I know how hard it is to pull yourself out of a funk. I spent multiple years feeling so helpless that after a suicide attempt I realized even dying wouldn't solve how I felt. That's the bottom of the barrel in my opinion. Being so depressed even dying doesn't seem like a way out, that the suffering you're feeling will continue forever. Meditation has helped with that tremendously, possibly along with my partners.
It takes a deal of time to get it right, to figure out how to close your eyes, breathe, and clear your mind of all emotions and thoughts. The most common way to speed this process is with a mantra. It can be anything, the words don't matter, just that you repeat it over and over. The idea is actually to turn it into nothing by repeating it. You know, like how saying a word over and over again causes dissociation and the word starts to lose meaning? The goal there is that the repetition puts you into a sort of trance like state. It keeps you awake, you have to focus on your breathing and saying something, but it's repetitive and loses meaning so you kind of tune out a little. Once you figure out how it feels though it's pretty easy to get back to even without the mantra. To just close your eyes, relax, and drift. It becomes therapeutic too.
For a personal example there are some less than savory things in the Pony fandom, I think we all know them. A few in particular get me very worked up, they invade my consciousness and I find it hard to shake them. A single meditation session can completely rid me of these thoughts, as well as strengthen my partners. So, meditation is for more than just tulpa forcing and it pays to remember that. Even if you don't want to make a tulpa but you want to get a better handle on your emotions or a mental illness, meditation can help. Therapists in the US are even suggesting meditation techniques more and more for cases, instead of or along side medications. Believe me, they help a lot.
It takes a deal of time to get it right, to figure out how to close your eyes, breathe, and clear your mind of all emotions and thoughts. The most common way to speed this process is with a mantra. It can be anything, the words don't matter, just that you repeat it over and over. The idea is actually to turn it into nothing by repeating it. You know, like how saying a word over and over again causes dissociation and the word starts to lose meaning? The goal there is that the repetition puts you into a sort of trance like state. It keeps you awake, you have to focus on your breathing and saying something, but it's repetitive and loses meaning so you kind of tune out a little. Once you figure out how it feels though it's pretty easy to get back to even without the mantra. To just close your eyes, relax, and drift. It becomes therapeutic too.
For a personal example there are some less than savory things in the Pony fandom, I think we all know them. A few in particular get me very worked up, they invade my consciousness and I find it hard to shake them. A single meditation session can completely rid me of these thoughts, as well as strengthen my partners. So, meditation is for more than just tulpa forcing and it pays to remember that. Even if you don't want to make a tulpa but you want to get a better handle on your emotions or a mental illness, meditation can help. Therapists in the US are even suggesting meditation techniques more and more for cases, instead of or along side medications. Believe me, they help a lot.