Hope Said I Will Survive This Molt

because I teach meditation and this is 100% objectively true If you're in pain, especially chronic pain, you are already way too aware of your body. Doing a meditation that is focused on your body is the opposite of helpful, and especially body scan meditation (the one that starts with notice how your toes feel and moves up through the body). Any meditation that is about focusing on a single thing to the exclusion of everything else I call black spot meditation (my term, but it works)

There is a meditation that is all about leaving your body entirely and forget it exists, and I call it white spot (I promise there's a reason I name them that). White spot is what I was doing when I would ride my motorcycle. It's about trying to maintain as much awareness of the world around you and not yourself. It's like situational awareness turned up to eleven. And just like with black spot, this isn't going to be good for everyone or every situation

The problem is that far too many meditation teachers have learned a method or two that work for them, and try to teach that as the One True Way. There are very few things that the right meditation can't make easier, but it has to be the right meditation for what you're trying to improve

(meditation is complicated. Anyone who says it's simple is lying)