Why Feeling Unsafe with your Teacher or Community
Hinders Your Meditation Progress
"Sometimes, making the decision to leave your teacher and community is the most helpful and compassionate thing you can do for yourself, and for your spiritual path."
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What if you're stressed out by your own teacher or spiritual community? How does this affect your ability to meditate? In this presentation, Sean McNamara discusses the idea that your "survival brain" is active even while you're in a "spiritual" situation, such as attending a meditation retreat or class.
Meditation should aid the body in reaching an increased parasympathetic (relaxed) state, which helps the mind open, grow, and receive deep insights. But if you're in a situation where the teacher or community increases your stress level, the chemical reaction in your brain and body takes you into fight-or-flight or otherwise invokes a traumatic response.
No matter the degree of that response, it profoundly reduces your ability to experience a helpful state of meditation and mindfulness.
Sometimes, making the decision to leave your teacher and community is the most helpful and compassionate thing you can do for yourself, and for your spiritual path. Click here to watch the specific portion of the presentation where he address these issues.
Get Sean's Online Video Course for Guided Meditation FREE by clicking here.
Meditation should aid the body in reaching an increased parasympathetic (relaxed) state, which helps the mind open, grow, and receive deep insights. But if you're in a situation where the teacher or community increases your stress level, the chemical reaction in your brain and body takes you into fight-or-flight or otherwise invokes a traumatic response.
No matter the degree of that response, it profoundly reduces your ability to experience a helpful state of meditation and mindfulness.
Sometimes, making the decision to leave your teacher and community is the most helpful and compassionate thing you can do for yourself, and for your spiritual path. Click here to watch the specific portion of the presentation where he address these issues.
Get Sean's Online Video Course for Guided Meditation FREE by clicking here.
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