Zaine comments on A Less Mysterious Mindfulness Exercise - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MixedNuts 19 September 2012 10:40:59AM 3 points [-]

Bug report: Meditation (all types) is terrifying. I try to accept the slight anxiety... fear... mind-devouring terror, but twitching, jumping up and running away all interfere with practice. I do not become aware of them before they happen. Accepting them after the fact, or going back to my sitting position and starting again, have the same effect.

Comment author: Zaine 19 September 2012 06:53:25PM 1 point [-]

Try Bikram yoga. For first-timers I think they offer a week of unlimited access for twenty dollars US - a fairly low-cost test. It's quite physically taxing - in the 90 minutes of the session, for perhaps only ten interspersed minutes, if that, does the sympathetic nervous system even have a chance to give way to the parasympathetic. I assume that those times would be the most risky for you, and of course cannot speak to your experience, but I find it difficult to imagine your imagined stress will be sufficient enough to convince your sympathetic nervous system to activate during those times; it will be quite exhausted already.

Comment author: MixedNuts 19 September 2012 07:45:57PM 1 point [-]

I found a place that offers 90-minutes classes for $30, which sounds worth a try.