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This just in: those prone to lose touch with reality ended up losing touch with reality after engaging in practices that help you lose touch with reality.

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That’s... not what this kind of meditation is about. Nor is that necessarily what happened.

Shockingly ignorant and dismissive of you.

I read the article.

> For a cumulative ten hours and forty-five minutes, she sat cross-legged on a rug, her spine erect, and tried to focus on her breath.

This practice _will_ cause disassociation at some point, which is precisely what happened when she broke out into psychosis after engaging in the practice for 60+ total hours.

...so you're qualified to make that sort of statement? Got any publications to back it up for example? Concentrating on something for a cumulative 10 hours and 45 minutes is actually not uncommon in the slightest. Does everyone who focuses on something for that long disassociate? Or just people who focus on their breath? Why is it that good posture and focusing on one's breath in particular would cause 'disassociation' if that's your claim?

Maybe you go through life constantly asserting and believing things that are in no way true....with no experience nor credentials nor having even read any literature to back any of them up...

Meditation-induced psychosis. Look it up. Don't act so ignorant and dismissive.

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