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That's what meditation tries to correct. It's all the constant unchecked thinking that is going on that's the problem. When I first started meditating, it was shocking to see just how much chatter goes on it the mind that we never notice until we try to actually look at it and manage it. In other words, you weren't doing anything wrong. You were seeing what is the normal state of affairs for the first time. The mind tends to freak once you are actually seeing what's going on unchecked by anyone in there. "Oh no! You don't want to do that! Leave me alone!"It would probably do me good, but I've never been able to practice meditation. The few times I tried didn't work out. I must be doing something wrong.
The poll needs another option. I meditate for spiritual reasons. That is neither "secular", nor is it "religious". I identify mostly as an SBNR, spiritual but not religious.
State what applies to you in the poll and/or thread.
This could probably be it's own topic, but what is the difference (if any, aside from words) between meditation we put in "religious" box and meditation we put in "secular" box? Are the practices different? The intention? The types? The goals? What's different? What makes it one not the other?
I have meditated habitually as a part of both my spiritual and secular practice. I attended group meditation for a few years in the middle, but nowadays I just do it in the middle of regular life. Comes naturally to me.State what applies to you in the poll and/or thread.
State what applies to you in the poll and/or thread.