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Dealing with Shadows in Meditation

9/1/2018

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Article for Yoga Medicine by Tiffany Cruikshank about strategies for connecting with innate safety and resilience when encountering difficult experiences in meditation practice.  

Excerpt: From my years of sharing meditation with others, the notion that meditation equals blissed-out relaxation is one of the most common misperceptions. Although the pausing and breathing associated with meditation can initiate the physiologic relaxation response, relaxation is not necessarily a promised byproduct. 

As a relationship with innate awareness matures, so deepens the ability to include and recognize more life experiences – the pleasant with the unpleasant, the empty and the overwhelming. The teachings of mindfulness urge practitioners to maintain equanimity, clarity, patience, and loving care through it all, but at times the emotional tone can feel like too much.

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