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*meditation*-- has anyone with autism found meditation to be of benefit

aidie

A few months before my diagnosis I had started trying Meditation because I was sliding into depression.  I think my meditation, slowed, then stopped, my depression. My anxiety has also reduced.  I dont really know if it was because of the meditation or it is a coincidence. Afterall, I had just found out what the issue was. autism,  which in itself  is a really useful thing to know as you can read up on it.

Anyways - does anyone else practice Meditation on a regular basis ?

Has it helped your autism and/or  its associated depression, anxiety, shutdown, meltdowns etc ?

all replies will be most welcome

Heart

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  • in reply to NAS65871

    this is why I am asking ! could autistics actually be better at say focus based meditation  for example?

    In short,, is there a new type of meditation  more suitable for autistic candidates ? The only research I found applied Mindfulness Meditation to a range of Autistic people, which did help them  but could this be fined tuned/improved to return even better results ?   

    I should have done psychology at uni. I can never spell the feckin word, thats probably why !

    Heart

  • in reply to NAS65871

    to be honest I found meditation really difficult it took me months to achieve anything because my autistic mind was so set against it. But the evidence in scientific studies appealed to my scientific side so I kept going. Parts of Zen ( koans ) are so weird and mind bending I kept reading more and more. I have tried "out of body mediations" and they where fun. So enjoy them.

    about 5 years ago. The best fun thing I ever did, and it only worked once, was a regression self hypnosis back into a past life. I was suddenly walking around a Roman village ( I was a  Roman ! )  I had a family dog house etc it was such fun. I stood looking at my footwear for at least 10 minutes !  Of course its all in your head. I tried it again but it never worked again :(  

    I miss my Roman family lol

    Heart

  • in reply to NAS65871

    Wow, how could you possibly know that? Truly curious to hear your answer.