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It also ignores the potential negative side effects of meditation. It's not without its own risks.



What are the side effects? Isn't meditation just observing one's own thoughts? Metathinking if you will?


I had never heard of anything either so I googled it and there’s quite a bit out there. Meditation induced psychosis seems to be a particularly bad outcome.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380174/


I had to stop meditating for a while because of the disturbing shit that would surface during it. Still happens sometimes, but I'm more ready for it now, and see it as part of the benefit. Had to change my mindset, though.




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