Can Meditation Help You Cope with Loss and Pain? An Answer You Need to Hear

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AVAlexander VolchekMeditation practice and techniqueMeditationMeditation and the experience of lossChildren, parenting, and family lifeAwareness, observation, and perception

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• 00:00When someone experiences a loss, a breakup, the death of a loved one, or a very difficult period in life, they often naturally want to get through it more gently.Meditation
• 01:09If someone comes to meditation with a specific goal of experiencing particular states, it can hardly be called entering a meditative state.Death · Meditation
• 02:32We live in a world where everyone will obviously die. Every single person. Recently, I was talking with my wife and telling her that in my life…Wife
• 03:50Or circumstances in my life might lead me there, just as circumstances and cause-and-effect relationships lead people to prison.Death · Children · Dad / father
• 05:09We have even made that decision for their spiritual being. Yet the distress is our own selfish experience.Spirit · Ego · The human spiritual system
• 06:26Build your perception of your whole life on truth. Understand that the issue is not this person or that one.Meditation · Awareness
• 09:01People kidnap and sell children without feeling distressed. Everyone has their own perception of loss and of good and bad.Meditation · Children
• 10:06If your goal is to restore your current state, that will not lead you to genuinely expanded perception, the true understanding needed in a meditative state, or…Meditation · Expanded perception · Children
• 11:41From that perspective, meditation's purpose is to observe your state so that you can move into expanded perception.Meditation · Truth · Spirit
• 13:00For example, someone experiences a loss and comes to meditation not to stop suffering or relieve their personal…Expanded perception · Meditation

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• 01:09

  If someone comes to meditation with a specific goal of experiencing particular states, it can hardly be called entering a meditative state.

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• 02:39

  Recently, I told my wife that different events could happen in my life and I could disappear.

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• 05:04

  We have made that decision on his behalf.

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• 05:15

  Whoever we talk to as we examine their experience of loss will say, “Yes, this is my own selfish distress.”

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• 05:41

  When you die, believe me, your spiritual being will experience concern for that person very differently, from the perspective of its spiritual system.

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• 06:19

  The only way not to suffer this distress is to become aware—to learn the truth of what is happening.

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• 10:06

  If your goal is to restore your current state, that will not lead you to genuinely expanded perception, the true understanding needed in a meditative state, or what that state can really offer and lead you toward.

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• 10:29

  Suppose we understand meditation as expanded perception of everything happening and as something that should always be part of a person's life. Meditative consciousness should always be present.

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  We could spend a long time discussing intention, expanded perception, and what conditions it.

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• 13:49

  Someone can say, “I want to expand my perception,” and be driven by ego motives, while that same state is simultaneously shaped by a desire to know Christ's solar energy, all spiritual beings, and everything that is happening.

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