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When deep meditative states trigger fear of losing oneself

I have been practicing concentration meditation for six months and sometimes I slip into this deep state where I lose all sense of time but then I panic that I am disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The ego-mind encounters its own boundaries and responds with survival-based resistance.

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