Dangers Of Excessive Meditation?

[Edvard]

On 19.11.2017 at 11:04 AM, Shin said:

Then tell to all the people you regularly see to not expect to talk to you for 20 days.

How hard is that ?

@Edvard No. 
What I'm saying is that your mind is tricking itself to stay lazy.
You could look at your phone, that's not the problem ,the problem is that the only reason you presently would is to distract yourself.

What other people think of you is irrelevant, 99.99% of people will think you're stupid to just sit and meditate, so don't expect them to understand why you're doing a retreat.
That's one of the main reason people get stuck in this work, you really need to stop about what other people think of you. 
How could you do what almost no one is doing, if you think other opinions matters more than what you feel is right ?

OK, actually fine, I work on not letting what other people think of me effect me. I'm in a little special situation nowadays, though, I'm having contact with a lawyer in case there's something I need to hear.. So it's really just for practicle purposes that I would consider having a phone available.

But you have a good point, the phone itself is not the problem, but the distraction and craving for things to be a certain way, a lot based on fear. But still...