• Meditation,  Psykoterapi

    Hindrances in Meditation: Trauma is NOT a hindrance

    On Trauma-sensitive Mindfulness by David A. Treleaven This book is a ‘must-read’ for everyone working with mindfulness and meditation. It is easy to read and understand, even for people with no knowledge about trauma. Additionally, it includes case descriptions of practitioners  after having experienced being re-traumatised during mindfulness practice. This book is very accessible for everyone. Over the last weeks I have been talking about hindrances in meditation and the proposed way to work with them is to watch them  without judgement and to investigate them. However, there are people that experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress when working with mindfulness and meditation. Mindfulness has been described as the cure for everything – improving…