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Mar 2022
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Why Has Meditation Turned Me Sad?

Todd Perelmuter
About this episode

Sometimes, when we first start meditating, sadness and other extreme emotions may feel like they're being stirred up. But, these emotions aren't created by meditation, they are revealed by meditation. Most of our lives are spent distracted. We're always so busy doing, we don't pay any real attention to our inner world.

In this episode, Todd goes into why these emotions come up in meditation, how we can process what comes up in meditation, and why they are A-OK. Because they, like all phenomenon, are only temporary. And only by looking at them, healing from them, and processing them, can we move on to releasing them.

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