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Old Sep 10, 2018, 09:38 PM
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What mental health care staff faisl to inform is that mindfulness is a type of meditation. I don't know why they hide it or if they don't know it themselves. I have nothing against meditation but I don't like mindful meditation, I prefer other kinds. But they are like, that will do you no good because that is meditation and is useless while mindfulness is great! But it IS meditation!!! A type of it.

Then I ask what it is and they just go very vague about it, usually they want us to go for walks in the woods for some reason to be mindful. And sort of make ourselves extraverts, looking at each and everything, in the moment. I'm just unable. First of all, our woods are full of junkies so no thanks. But if I walk where it is safer, I prefer to talk to myself, the higher power, or I just daydream. It depends. This also relaxes me. I call this method, jokingly, mindlessness, but it fits me.

When it comes to pure meditation I like sound meditation, for instance 528 or 432 meditation. I assume health care says it is stupid, I don't know.

Walking meditation is basically making you an extravert, when in fact if you are an introvert, this might violate your cognitive style.

And if you do formal, sit down mindful meditation, this will strengthen your low latent inhibition, in some contexts it is good, but sometimes we need to actually do the opposite, weaken low latent inhibition. People already with low latent inhibition such as people with some types of ADHD, autism and schizophrenia might rather get worse from this method.

I hate when a method is so popular it is meant to cure us all, no matter how are brains work differently. I find that it violates who I am. Shouldn't good health care look at the individual more?
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