Meditation Doesn't Calm You Down: Why Emotions Intensify After Practice

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Meditation practice and techniqueMeditationStates and effects of meditationIntensified emotions after meditationSpiritual development and the spiritual pathSpirit

What is said here

• 00:00That brings up another question. There is a common view that if you meditate, you should get angry less often and be more—I don’t know—effective.Anger · Meditation
• 01:27“Why do you think that feeling arises—the feeling that you should not get angry?” “Why do I feel that I should not get angry?” “Yes.”Anger · Meditation · Truth
• 03:31Or they are angry and try to work with it because they were assigned to mark checkboxes and not get angry.Meditation · Truth · Anger
• 04:58It does not matter whether you sat down to meditate as a separate, independent practice or spent the past year doing ordinary everyday things without once even…Anger · Meditation
• 06:17Not because everything is happening truthfully, but so other people will not crush their faith. They are afraid of losing that faith. When that state arises—just now, when you…Anger · Spirit
• 10:00Depicted in some visual form. Galya, this is a very interesting point. On many icons, we can see depictions of both light and dark worlds.Spirit · Galya (meditation channel participant)
• 11:15What is that energy? Where does it come from? Where is it coming from? Who is its source, and what is its source? This is a very important part of what is happening.Truth · Meditation
• 12:27Can you get angry because you have realized you are deceiving someone? Your perception has expanded; you have realized it, and anger or aggression arises. Why not?Garden / plants · Mom / mother · Time
• 18:37That is why, for people, this is an age of unhappiness. A book called The Age of Happiness is published to show that joy is possible in this state.Health · Spirit
• 20:31“Can you be spiritually mature and still want power and influence?” “That is a very big question, enough for a separate episode.”Spirit · Galya (meditation channel participant)

Claims made here

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• 03:04

  It is a very interesting issue. We were filming a video about this.

  Alexander Volchek

• 05:28

  If the feeling arises that you should not be angry because you practice, you are stepping off that sunlit path.

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• 12:06

  When people begin meditating, it is important to understand that, on one hand, this is an expansion of perception, a movement toward freedom, toward knowing the world, toward truth. Toward truth.

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• 16:53

  I said, “Do you mean people do not have that at seventy, so you associated it with a particular age?” That is exactly what happens.

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• 17:06

  Enormous numbers of people suffer at forty because they see their age as a problem, a missed opportunity.

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• 18:40

  A book called The Age of Happiness is published to show that joy is possible in this state.

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• 20:21

  If you are not in the reality of the present, things will only get worse for you, not better.

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• 20:41

  Let us look at it briefly, because it is a very large question about people’s desires within their system.

  Alexander Volchek

• 21:56

  The question is that people see spiritual development as a box checked in society, a material box.

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• 22:45

  If you regard spiritual development as another checkbox, we need to say clearly, straightaway, that this checkbox says nothing about a person’s kindness.

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