I wondered if any experienced meditators - one of the instructors possibly? - could help me with an issue I have. I've tried several times over the last couple of years to meditate as I suffer from anxiety. However, whenever I meditate, either with a c.d, alone or now using demandFitness, although I feel fine and relaxed at the time and immediately afterwards, the following day I tend to wake up feeling dreadful. By this I mean that I will experience panic attacks, even though I may not have had one for a long time, I become extremely agitated and have very angry 'flash' thoughts and just generally feel really screwed up. I have noticed it as a definite pattern the day following a meditation and I can be affected in this way for several days following. Needless to say, this puts me off meditating massively and I usually avoid it for a long time. Then I try again, in the hope that it will be different this time, but it never is! I did Katie's intro to Kundalini yoga and the cleansing mediataion class last Tues or Weds (the 'ONG' one) and I felt fantastic during and afterwards, thoroughly relaxed as one should be after meditation, but I was screwd up for 3 days after! The first day is always the worst, then it just gradually eases unitl I feel back to normal again. I have looked on the internet for stuff related to this but I can't find anything that discusses what I experience. 

Can anyone enlighten me? Thank you for reading

Hi Marie:

I don't know why you are experiencing these feelings after meditation but expect meditation is bringing forward something from your past.  I know of a psychiatrist who teaches her patients meditation as a way of healing themselves.  I don't know if you are seeing a mental health practitionner for your anxiety, but if you found one who teaches meditation, they could probably help you understand what is going on after you meditate and probably would be able to help you work through those feelings.

Hope this helps.