Meditation| Is it normal to cry during meditation?

Know why crying during meditation is perfectly normal. Pic Credit: Pexels

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Meditation is the most powerful tool to achieve inner peace
It can sometimes evoke an emotional response, making people cry
Know why it happens and reasons it can benefit you

If you are someone who loves engaging in a peaceful union with your body, mind and soul, you must have experienced that practicing 15-20 minutes of meditation everyday is a real eye-opener. For those who just came here to kill their curiosity, it’s not too late to experience the wonders of practicing meditation.

Addressing the elephant in the room, crying during meditation is a phenomenon unknown to many but is not at all uncommon. In fact, people who engage in deep meditation often find themselves shedding a tear or two during the session. This makes us wonder, why do people sometimes end up crying during meditation and how does it happen?

First and foremost, it is crucial to know that tears are nothing but an outward sign of unresolved feelings that are subconsciously repressed. When you meditate, your thoughts become quiet, enabling your feelings to come to the fore and set off powerful emotional reactions that may result in crying.

Why do people cry during meditation?

You can access the deeper levels of accumulated emotional toxins during meditation because your mind is less focused on the ideas and events occurring around you. When you reach a condition of inner calm and silence, old feelings that you had previously tried to suppress or bury come to the surface and cause tears, which is a perfectly normal emotional reaction.

When we cry while meditation, it may be a result of unprocessed unpleasant emotions from the past or it may be a raw emotion from the present, which may be positive or negative. Accepting your feelings is crucial since sobbing as a result of your emotions is your body and mind’s way of purging and detoxifying.

Benefits of crying during meditation

Accepting the bitter truth

There must be something bothering you in the present or the ghost of the bitter past continues to haunt you even now. When you sit down to meditate, you are not just closing your eyes and try to ”zone out” from the world, you are allowing your conscious mind to take a backseat which makes space for the suppressed thoughts to take the stage.

This could be either a positive thought or a negative feeling which hits you suddenly and makes you evoke an emotional reaction in the form of crying. Now’s the time to give those thoughts a chance to be addressed rather than pushing them back into the darkest depths of your mind.

Letting it go

Now that your feelings are out in the open, any regret, guilt or emotions of the past can now be allowed to let go of your mind forever and crying might be the sign of bidding them farewell.

Confrontations

Our conscious mind does an excellent job of suppressing feelings and emotions you might not want to experience as you go on with your activities. However, during meditation these thoughts and feelings tend to jump on you and suddenly you are left with no other option but to confront them as they come. This phase might make a person cry as a result.

Connection with your inner self

Not at all reasons for crying during meditation are negative. A positive feeling is also equally capable of triggering such emotions. When you realize you have finally established a connection with your inner self and is able to meet them face to face, that particular moment may make a person tear up.

A divine feeling

Meditation has the power to establish a proper channel with the One which might not be possible in your ”woke” state. Feeling its presence and experiencing a divine connection can also make you cry.

A sense of peace

For people who have been struggling to keep their racing thoughts in check, meditation is one such medium where you are finally able to filter the unnecessary thoughts and make room for positive feelings, and absolute calm. This particular phase of feeling ‘light-hearted’ can also evoke an emotional response.

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