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Mindfulness meditation is great. Stops me depersonalising so often, because it trains me to check in so I don't decouple from myself and the world around me

What techniques do you use? I haven't done it for a few months and there's been a noticeable difference.

I tried that mindfulness meditation crap years ago when a psych I was seeing advised me to try it. It didn't do shlt for me.

Vipissana.

Deep breathes, close eyes, sounds around me, weight beneath me, scan body head down to toes noticing how y body feels and my general mood, breathing exercise following upward and downward tides, counting breathes, noting dofferences between each one, back to bodily weight and sounds to bring me back into the space around me. Takes about 20 mins

The main thing is that it trains me to do that during the day too which means I'm less likely to float off so to speak.

Another benefit is it's increased the frequency of lucid dreams since I'm becoming more aware of my conscious state more often

-- Fri Aug 04, 2017 8:48 am --

Reaper wrote:I tried that mindfulness meditation crap years ago when a psych I was seeing advised me to try it. It didn't do shlt for me.

Might help your schizoid symptoms depending on how it's done.

Courtier wrote:Might help your schizoid symptoms depending on how it's done.

Why would I need help there?

My schizoid symptoms aren't a problem for me.

I remember you discussing a lack of motivation and anhedonia (Boredom that stems from lack of pleasure in many activities) which psychologists discuss as being related to schizoid depersonalisation. If you still think that you get in the way of yourself there then it'd be a good place to start

Courtier wrote:I remember you discussing a lack of motivation and anhedonia (Boredom that stems from lack of pleasure in many activities)

It's not anhedonia. It's apathy.

I can get pleasure from many activities. I just can't maintain it for long.

Lack of motivation is definitely an issue, but only when it comes to things I don't want to do. I've got plenty of motivation for things I like doing ...until I get bored of them anyway, which seems to happen far too quickly.

Reaper wrote:I tried that mindfulness meditation crap years ago when a psych I was seeing advised me to try it. It didn't do shlt for me.

Makes sense given you're not naturally introspective (antisocial-personality/topic183788.html#p1905029); even though mindfulness and introspection are different processes they basically function on the same cognitive operating system. And it wouldn't help that the psych probably prescribed something basic and introductory; for it to work, it's a lot of hard work.

-- Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:05 pm --

@Courtier - The benefits seem proportionate to the output, and you're already getting a lot out of it: have you considered doing a course?

Considered it vaguely but this is sufficient for now. I'd be using meditation for other means if I were to extend it any further which I'm not against but I also am not too invested in either.

Rehab seems like a great environment to make sure to keep some space for meditating. Why did you drop the practice?

JBP turned me on to the Future Authoring Exercise https://www.selfauthoring.com/. The data is apparently overwhelming for this stuff. I think Reaper would benefit from it.