How I Meditated Too Much | And What Negative Effects That Had • Hard Lessons

I personally experienced how meditating too much can lead to various negative effects. In this episode of Hard Lessons I explain the main type of meditation I practiced, known as Advaita Vedanta and how meditating and relying on it too much eventually lead me to marriage problems, failure of business and more.

00:00 Intro
01:58 How I got into meditation
06:00 Understanding Advaita Vedanta type of meditation
09:49 How my over-meditation started
14:16 Understanding the “Zero State”
19:10 How I over-meditated
22:05 Negative impacts of over-meditation
25:28 Why over-meditation is a disservice
27:22 How over-meditating negatively affected my personal life

In the Lessons Learned The Hard Way series I share my most interesting and crazy stories how through my devotion to fulfill my goals and constant efforts to become better I tried, failed, succeeded and learned my lessons through experience.

Get to know how I used to be a spiritual teacher and how I eventually realized that spiritual teachers are full of s**t here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRjmP64W1uY

And also how after teaching Yoga for nearly ten years I came to realize that it has many blind spots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kivsGL6vkYA

Watch the previous episode on what I discovered Enlightenment to really be here: https://youtu.be/9MBa0Bi5Pa8

Find all the episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpYu1wrhxbcwoyQzGtj_Y_GZ0r5ONoMQO

Check out this video conversation where we discuss about Yoga myths and science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1cnmLGbuI

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