Autism and meditation?
Autism and meditation?
Are you autistic and also meditate?
What Is your meditation technique?
What effect does the meditation have on you?
What effect does the meditation have on your autism?
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Yes, I sometimes do. I use 7mind for it - as a student I can use it for free here in Germany.
My experiences depend on the day. It never harms, that's for sure. Usually it just helps me to understand how I feel. Sometimes for example I can't get into a meditative state at all - that usually means I'm somewhat distracted today and should be careful about large decisions. Other times I just breathe and enjoy being. It isn't particularly intense, but after opening the eyes I feel better and calmer. Only a few times could I really get into a meditative high - that was really amazing, not really comparable to anything else I've experienced. However, this high isn't a goal for me at all - if it happens, it's amazing; if not, that's also okay.
Tl;Dr - sometimes I meditate, when I feel like it. It usually gives good results and helps me to recognize how I feel.
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What are your answers to those questions?
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I'm a sperg and I meditate.
Shikantaza.
It gets me high, expands my world, makes things smooth.
It overcomes it the way levitation might overcome a limp.
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MediTate.
But I don't think I can do that, either.
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Meditation makes me feel worse actually. It stresses me ironically... lol
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Lol indeed
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https://meditofoundation.org/medito-app is not part of my morning routine as for the effects, results of meditation are never immediate or even obvious, just over time, if one persists, things get a little easier.
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... results of meditation are never immediate or even obvious, just over time, if one persists, things get a little easier.
Speak for yourself.
In fact, a classic warning is to beware of getting carried away by the bliss/high that commonly arrives.
So I gotta say. If it ain't getting you high, or producing even a little bit of noticeable effect, then you would do well to experiment with other techniques.
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That's like saying that if you don't walk out of the gym bursting out of your shirt you should stop lifting weights.
Not everything is immediate.
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Indeed, we must be speaking of different kinds of meditation.
The one I was referring to is mindfulness meditation, by practicing which one gradually develops a habit of noticing thoughts as they happen in one's mind and instead of being immediately carried away by them, have a tiny time buffer that allows to have a chance to decide whether to react or just let it dissipate as all thoughts do.
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I don’t meditate regularly but mostly it informally involves listening to music, using a sensory/fidget toy or petting an animal to ground myself. Or box breathing in a pinch.
Basically anything that lets me hone in on being directly present in the moment with a small focus in my physical environment. *Edit: the main draw for me is something I can directly control my reactions and engage with, if that helps.
I pretty much only use it to calm anxiety spikes or dissociative episodes from bad changes in routine, or sensory overload before hitting a meltdown if I can catch it in time.
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