Meditation's side effect?

Mindfulness Meditation
#1

Hi, yesterday I meditated for 15 minutes while listened “getting into the vortex” part “general well-being”. After this short meditation I felt angry and very anxious. Today a whole morning I felt very anxious as well, but I don’t know why, can’t understand from where this anxiety come from, also in the morning I didn’t feel emotions (love, happiness) as strong as I used to.

Sometimes when I start meditate scary thoughts pops up in had like I’am going to suffocate, die or something bad will happen. Some people think it’s a good sign and it will go away because it’s only old repressed emotions.

Guys, write what You think about this. I’ am scared to meditate again. Thanks.

#2

We have layers of emotion , feeling , meditation helps us expose these layers , I suspect you are feeling anxious and angry , not unusual for humans , its ok to feel this , perhaps enquire as to why you are anxious and angry , lovingly with kindly awareness.
There is nothing to be afraid of , what might happen ? I know it can seem scary , shifting held perspectives of who we thought we were. It all sounds normal and fine . peace

#3

Sometimes when I start meditate scary thoughts pops up in had like I’am going to suffocate, die or something bad will happen. Some people think it’s a good sign and it will go away because it’s only old repressed emotions.

pray for a second then, surrender the mind, the body, feel the depth of suffocation, feel the death. u wont die, u know, but then its so true, i know. see everything, no worry, be on meditation, and gradually you’ll rise to thoughtless deep concentration, and so many. friend, its just the beginning, your subconscious mind is getting purification. love.

#4

Thanks guys, I feel calmer.

#5

Hope you have mastered pratyahara before trying to achieve a meditative state. For if you haven’t, attempting true meditation will remain a steep path. Very few peole are born with a natural ability to detach from sensory awareness and still remain fully alert. That is pratyahara. It enables holding oneself in the state of meditation.

If you haven’t earned the ptratyahara state nor carry that as past legacy, you mmay need to follow the 8-fold yoga-practice path for some time. (I have an article about it on this forum) Yoga brings about a change at the cellular level. This doesn’t happen easily or quickly. The unwilling cells rebel, memory bounces back and old habits die hard. A balanced practice of Yama, Niyama, asana and pranayama purifies the body and that becomes a vehicle for pratyahara to occur smoothly. After that dharana, dhyan (meditation) and samadhi are deeper and deeper states.

To “do meditation” is a misnomer. One is ‘in meditation’. If you have learned any process to get there, finally you have to leave that process behind for being in meditation. Meditation doesn’t have any (bad) side effects; the emotional swings and scary thoughts occur [U]because[/U] you are not in true meditation.

#6

Suhas Tembe, I’am not really meditating, I just listen some guided meditations for 15 or 30 minutes and thats it. I can’t understand why I felt this way. I just want to relax by listening cd’s I don’t want to be as best meditation gurus.

#7

I listened that cd for the first time and to Me it was the deepest state.