I have a question for this thread in general. I have been a very consistent meditator for about 4 years now. I also happen to be a third year medical student. Meditation has helped me in many ways. I agree that meditation isn’t a “happiness pill”. Those are SSRI’s (sarcasm)

Many people here will say something to the extent of, “It’s just a thought and it will pass. It is just an emotion it will pass. We are just insignificant blips in time, this to shall pass.”

While I do understand what the above means (at least in my own way), applying it to the real world, to people of different cultures, creeds, backgrounds can come across as a very very negative thing.

Would you say meditation is NOT for everybody? Or could you say things like therapy (CBT, GT, etc.) are just forms of guided meditation.

I ask this because some of the pt. I work with will say they read about meditation/mindfulness only to tell me it isn’t for them. A common answer I get from them is, “I have read that I should think of my feelings as non-permanent. Or that my feelings don’t really matter in the end. I just don’t agree.”

And I agree with them. Reading my feelings don’t matter as a trauma pt. Can be pretty messed up.