Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about the dark side of meditation. Please tell me that by this point you have a meditation practice installed in your life

where you're meditating every single day for however many minutes please tell me

you've got that going if you you don't, this is the number one habit that you can install

in your life that will completely transform everything. You cannot be following actualized.org

and not meditating.

All right, that's not going to work because the stuff I'm going to be talking about in the future

and already much of the stuff I'm talking about is going completely over your head

because you have no idea what

awareness or what consciousness really are and how little of it you have

unless you started meditating. So that's for the newbies, but what I'm talking

about in this episode is really some advice for those of you who've already installed the habit, have been meditating, and are now starting to reach into the intermediate and the advanced stages of meditation.

So this means you've been meditating consistently every single day

for at least six months or 12 months or a couple of years.

And then what's going to happen is weird stuff will arise as you meditate.

And you will discover, perhaps in a shocking way, that meditation is not all rainbows and butterflies, the way you initially assumed.

Some of the stuff that comes up is freaky, weird, downright alien, and very negative sometimes.

And it can blindside you and sabotage your meditation habit.

So what I'm going to talk about here is the dark side.

Stuff that's counterintuitive.

Stuff that you would not expect to arise from a simple meditation habit.

So what is this stuff? Well, there's a whole list. Now, before I tell you all this stuff, I want to preface it by saying that you're not necessarily going to encounter all this.

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