Can Meditation Destroy Your Family and Relationships?

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekMeditation practice and techniqueMeditationCouples and healthy relationshipsMeditation and familySpiritual development and the spiritual path

What is said here

• 00:00Specifically: can meditation break up a family if one partner develops and the other does not? This fundamental question always comes up.Spirit · Partner
• 01:16“If we are not there together with our partner, no development will happen.” That is where the question originates.Spirit · Truth
• 02:36Without that separation, when we say someone is working on spiritual development, they are simply doing certain exercises that, in material society…Spirit · Sister
• 03:46I get ten thousand steps around the house, the property, walking here and there, and with the dog. Going into town, taking the children outside, walking to and from the car. All of that.Children
• 05:01I observe the different impulses, the energy around me, what is moving. We could call it meditation and say, “I am doing exercises; I am in…”Meditation · Friend / friends · Love
• 06:06I deliberately chose an odd comparison to show that it depends on what bothers whom. If your husband or wife is bothered by your beer drinking, the relationship may break down.Wife · Husband · Time
• 07:25Why would someone say that? Because when a person drinks alcohol, they narrow their perception. With narrower perception, they become much easier for others to understand.Freedom · Expanded perception
• 08:44What freedom is, its levels, and what lies beyond it. When you reach freedom, you need to understand that it can lead to completely different actions.Freedom · Spirit
• 09:58Unacceptable. Completely unacceptable.They are not happy with them, yes.

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 00:22

  If you are in business, people ask whether your business partners practice, whether your wife—or your husband—does.

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• 01:04

  Especially people working on spiritual development tell themselves, “We will be in the spiritual world, and since we will be there, our partner needs to be there with us.”

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• 01:28

  People say someone who practices spiritually becomes more elevated, calmer, more impressive, smarter, or more developed, and consequently their path diverges from their wife’s or husband’s.

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• 02:36

  Without that separation, when we say someone is working on spiritual development, they are simply doing certain exercises that people in material society have given a label. Just a label.

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• 03:00

  Whatever I do each day involves a lot of walking, but not because I went out to exercise.

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• 06:30

  I remember a good example from my own life. I used to drink alcohol.

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• 06:48

  I remember a fairly recurring situation in which my wife said, “It would be better if you drank.”

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• 07:19

  Wishing that your husband drank is a little strange. It is strange.

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• 07:40

  It is much easier to understand the charger lying on my floor, or this microphone, than a person.

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• 09:39

  When people speak about freedom, spiritual freedom, and spiritual development, there is an incredible amount of lying.

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