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Posted by: Whtm
Date: December 10, 2018 02:22PM
Corboy could you please explain trance and dissociation? Is this permanent and would the resulting state be considered “liminal?” Is it possible to undo?
This article might be helpful.
[www.minddisorders.com]
I am not trained as a professional, am a concerned participant.
The wisest course is to contact a university medical school tell them your situation and that you want to get trustworthy information.
You can heal from this, the effect is not permanent. Getting the right advice and support matters a lot. Building a community of friends who are not into guru centered stuff is very important.
What is very good news is that a lot of current research indicates that our brains remain plastic and capable of healing throughout our lives. Many people have emerged from cults suffering from dissociative problems after years of chanting and damaging methods of meditation and have healed.
One can retrain oneself to focus, to concentrate and re integrate oneself.
This following advice is strictly non professional - its just my own suggestion.
These days, there is a lot of extra distraction due to social media, non stop news, that did not exist in the days before the internet became a pervasive part of our day to day lives.
We read differently online than when we read books and documents on paper,
[www.pri.org]
Regaining ability to concentrate and focus our attention may require some very disciplined limit on the amount of material one reads online. Reading paper books and hard copied documents entails less distraction than reading the same material online - online reading is full of distracting colors, pictures, advertisments, colored hyperlinks.