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Originally Posted by DoroMona
I can't really say too much more, as I've only just begun meditating. But it's easy to get distracted when you meditate and you're always supposed to sort of pull yourself out of the thoughts you get stuck on and return your attention to your breath. So with regular practice, it does teach you how to break away from intrusive or cyclical thoughts and just let them go without getting emotionally involved or trapped. Maybe that would be helpful--certainly for me it's critical. But I'm not trying to push meditation or mindfulness on anyone. I was just trying to clarify something in general for jeremiahgirl.
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Ok but I have pain with an empty head. I don't need to think to have pain. What I call distraction sounds like this meditation practice, because it's the same with blocking out the painful world. It is not helpful to me because it just makes me stay in a vegetating state (=not doing anything useful, just peacefully distracted).
I guess maybe I just have too much pain to block out so that's why I end up doing nothing for too long in the calm distracted state. So sure, it that sense it works... it works to not have to feel the pain. It doesn't work to solve anything. It doesn't work to allow me to be able to live life in this world.
But I'm sure it's good practice for those who just need to get rid of a bit of stress. I'm not saying it's entirely useless for everyone! (For me either, I'd probably have already died without this ability to block out the pain.) I hope your posts helped OP.
