[Practice] I've been practicing for years and have had no insights or jhanas or anything. How come?

Hi forum,

I read this forum sometimes, and I've also read a lot on these websites:

https://alohadharma.com/the-map/

https://www.dharmaoverground.org/dharma-wiki/-/wiki/Main/MCTB/en

About the path, the jhanas, insights, the dark night, etc....

I started meditating for therapeutic reasons. It has really helped me. I've had a lot of interesting experiences during meditation, and it has helped me after meditation as well, mostly to regulate my emotions. Eventually I found forums and those websites that explained about the path.

Reading through them recently, I realize I've never had a single experience described in those pages. I've been meditating about 1-2 hours per day for over a year, and before that I was meditating daily but for less time. I was doing vipassana.

My meditation was really great for the first few years, and I could tell I was getting better at it. But the last eight months or so, it's been really crap. As in, I feel like I am just sitting there thinking, the way I felt in the very beginning. It's like I lost any meditation skills I gained and am now back to the start again.

Well my question is, what does someone have to do to have any of the jhanas? What does someone have to do to have any insights? What does someone have to do to proceed along the path? I've been meditating for years and haven't had any of the things happen for me.

Thank you.