Thank you for sharing this! Do you think your program will work better for people with significant meditation experience? Do you think your own experience was somewhat contingent on the meditation work you did in the Finder’s Course (beyond the discovery that you benefited from loving-kindness meditation, something more along the lines of the benefit from the meditation “reps” you’d been through)?
Good question! It’s hard to say. I suspect that meditation experience won’t be particularly relevant because most of the time when people “meditate”, it’s just concentration practice, which is not particularly relevant to these techniques.
I had probably a sum total of 1.5 hours of loving-kindness practice under my belt before this, so I don’t think that’ll be particularly relevant either.
Could be an interesting thing to measure though if I end up doing more studies on it.
Thank you for sharing this! Do you think your program will work better for people with significant meditation experience? Do you think your own experience was somewhat contingent on the meditation work you did in the Finder’s Course (beyond the discovery that you benefited from loving-kindness meditation, something more along the lines of the benefit from the meditation “reps” you’d been through)?
Good question! It’s hard to say. I suspect that meditation experience won’t be particularly relevant because most of the time when people “meditate”, it’s just concentration practice, which is not particularly relevant to these techniques.
I had probably a sum total of 1.5 hours of loving-kindness practice under my belt before this, so I don’t think that’ll be particularly relevant either.
Could be an interesting thing to measure though if I end up doing more studies on it.