Meditation advice? How about: make sure you drink plenty of water AND go to the toilet before high-determination sitting.
A teacher who will not tell you this is a sham. A sham, I say.
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If you aren't at the level that you can self-induce blackouts during meditation - i.e. if you're among 99.5% of meditators - bodily functions can easily take you for a ride.
Some of the more severe practices are very sophisticated forms of self-harm, if taken too seriously.
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It can do awesome things for your concentration to work up contempt for your bodily functions and their various alert mechanisms - just like punching gravel really can boost your pain tolerance a lot - but that doesn't make it a good practice.
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Discomfort, fear, uncertainty and doubt are often harbingers of progress, just like in any exercise. There is a palpable sense of dread when you really start pushing yourself.
Pain... not so much a good sign, necessarily.
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