Yeah maybe because your mind was too full. Don’t be too full of mind. Just meditation. Very simple. Let go. It’s not easy, for most people I think, but it is simple.
Good to see so much sensible awareness and respect of the powerful nature of these practices here in the comments! It gives me hope.
Also, I really wanna wholeheartedly agree with what one person said which was that the people are probably not getting a lot of exercise during that time. I think physical activity exercise is so essential to mental health and the body's ability and the mind's to regulate itself. Our bodies were evolved and designed to require certain amount of movement every day, or fairly fucking regularly and without that I mean, you just get mentally ill, really. I mean, mostly. I mean you need regular physical activity to maintain good mental and emotional and I believe energetic health. So the physical activity is one thing that’s really important and actually one main point of hatha yoga is to provide that physical activity foundation and to prepare the body to be able to support those kinds of meditation practice.
I think another thing that’s happening is our solar system is passing through the galactic current sheet so there’s more high energy, radiation and particles impacting The earth, effects on the magnetosphere as well as an uptick in solar events affecting earth and so all of the stuff will drive people a little bit more crazy.
Add that to as other comments, said how these meltdowns seem to happen after intensive‘s. Also, consider the economic aspects of these intensive that are normally high outlay sort of transformation type workshop things that are at least from one level, essentially designed to generate a large amount of money from participants. I’m not saying everyone who creates those things is shady at all, but I think there is that there’s an economic aspect of those things that is intensive as well, and sometimes that probably coincides with less Karen attention to authentic and safe practices, and consideration towards the participants… and in any case for someone joining that it’s not the same as if you’re just going to yoga class three times a week or less for 90 minutes or whatever.
People don’t realize how powerful some of these simple practices are and they’re playing with things they don’t know how to control and they don’t know what they are and things get out of hand. So doing those intensively day in and day out, the sort of like the energetic equivalent of basically taking people to Everest base camp and saying “well you know you’ve seen the intro video and here’s a map we will be with you in radio contact. you’re ready to go! up there is your direction.”
The other thing I think is going on is that the Indians as in people from the subcontinent, you know Hindus and others from from India, I think well aware of the powerful effects on subtle energy that these types of practices can have and people are playing with energies and abilities and information that they have no framework to understand or interpret, and they have no ability to control, or even the awareness of what they’re doing on an energetic level. And things are bound to go wrong, especially the sort of commoditization of commercialization of a lot of these practices, at least in western countries although it’s probably happening in many places, things are bound to go wrong in that case, where these powerful techniques are divorced from the whole context of teaching and awareness for what they’re actually doing, and how do use them in a safe and sustainable manner. That may sound to woo for some people but it’s real and I think some of what is happening is it by participating in the such practices people are unwittingly unlocking and plugging into these sorts of abilities, energies, information, and they don’t have the training or the framework or the ability to be able to handle that and so they go nuts.