Yoga Journal - The Dark Side of Meditation

https://www.yogajournal.com/meditation/the-dark-side-of-meditation-how-to-avoid-getting-stuck-with-pain-from-the-past/ 

So people get too much trauma and even psychosis from meditation. I did little meditation at first in the 90s getting started with mantra beads. Later I could not concentrate and found it boring. Later as my kundalini got overactive, which triggered emotional trauma as described by meditators, I could not meditate due to headaches or similar. The last year and a half I have done it rather successfully to balance and develop that very kundalini energy and it seemed to help. I hope this can continue positively for me. Speed bumps come but they are a challenge. Each chakra and the merians along the body need to develop relatively equally. In yoga there are several basic directions: ' bhakti(heart centered), jnana( wisdom or mind centered), karma yoga( action centered perhaps from gut, arms and legs), tantra( erotic). I suppose that too much emphasis on any one path creates imbalances, just as in normal life one has a geek, jock, ladies man, sentimental person. Yoga means union, which emphasizes balance of the whole person. We all go through life phases where we change interests entirely, sometimes becoming a romantic or a bookworm or becoming very athletic or sensitive in love( pets, children). Through chakra and energy work we can accelerate these phases. Obviously the modern meditation craze focuses on mindfulness, a purely jnana type mental control practice like vipassana. Overdone this can throw people off balance. If they are easygoing and affectionate this might go against their habits and disturb their mental balance, especially an intensive course, as are often on offer. Heart based meditation might be better. For someone with childhood sexual trauma or a strong intellectual bent, heart based meditation could open up all sorts of problems. This must be approached slowly and with caution to avoid overtraumatizing oneself too rapidly by opening oneself up too quickly to normal loving and sexual feelings that an average person would be quite used too. Karma yoga is simply doing good deeds for others like volunteering in social causes but also opening up your body through sports, yoga asanas, wg

hich is at any rate extremely important to balance your energies, regardless of whether or not you do any type of meditation. 

https://www.heartfulness.uk/how-could-a-heart-based-meditation-practice-make-a-difference-to-our-relationships/

This article sounds good. Do research and try different types of meditation, yoga, etc to see what works best for you.