Posted by alexandra_k on November 25, 2004, at 18:14:17
In reply to Re: no time to cry, posted by sunny10 on November 25, 2004, at 11:03:41
What got me crying was mindfulness meditation. The idea is to just focus on how it feels to breathe; in and out nice and slow and whenever your mind wanders to other things to just notice that and bring your attention back to your breathing.
I started out with doing 5 minutes and then built it up gradually over a period of weeks to 40 minutes.
Then what I found is that I would feel this immense pain and start bawling. There was nobody around to see me or anything. It was hard but I found that for a period of a couple of weeks I would just cry when trying to do meditation.
But for some reason I felt better after, though it hurt like hell at the time.
I learned that the feeling passed. After a few weeks the crying stopped. I guess part of not being able to cry for me was terror that if I started I would never stop.
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