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Meditation

Kate Kestrel

Hi,

For a long time now I’ve been trying meditation to try to lower my anxiety and deal with the effects of ptsd, and also to improve my well being overall. However I have got to the point where I’m beginning to wonder if it can actually help me. I struggle so much to focus and to get my mind to calm and settle. I’m wondering if meditation is particularly difficult for autistic people.

Has anyone on here had much success with meditation? And if so - what kind of meditation practice did you use? I’d really appreciate some advice on this. Part of me feels that I might as well give up with it because all that’s happening now is that I feel like a failure for not benefiting from something that so many other people say is so wonderful. 
Thanks :) 

  • I can normally use a simple mental routine to focus and enter a meditative state but if I’m really wound up I struggle. In this case using a guided meditation usually works. There are many meditation apps that offer this. I think it’s the guiding voice that works for me. It gives me something more to latch on to. Maybe that would work for you. It’s also important to meditate regularly. Even for just 10 minutes a day. Leave it too long and I find it’s harder the next time. 

  • Hello Kate.  Lovely to "see" you.

    Ever the contrarian (perhaps)......after some reflection on this topic, over many years - and on the basis that I am, first-and-foremost, an analyst....it would appear that I can achieve a meditative state ONLY when I am in a form of "forward motion."

    Driving works.  Jogging works.  Running works.  A train journey works.  Walking works.   Cycling works.

    fwiw.....I would encourage you to keep trying to find a meditative state for yourself.  ALL the ACTUAL people whom I like, respect and cherish, seem to report (universally) that meditation (or a meditative state as I prefer to coin it) is VERY important to them.

    Sometimes Kate, I just NEED - and I mean REALLY NEED to go for a walk or a drive.  When I return, I ALWAYS have more spoons and a calmer and "more in control" demeanour about myself.

    As always, I wish you very well.

    Kind regards

    Number.