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"The guided meditations from QuietKit offers three main benefits to anyone who uses them: Decreased stress and anxiety Increased focus Increased mindfulness

"The guided meditations from QuietKit offers three main benefits to anyone who uses them: Decreased stress and anxiety Increased focus Increased mindfulness (the ability to be aware of what's occurring at any given moment, but being able to choose how to act, as opposed to just reacting)" Are those three benefits purely anecdotal?

bananabill 10y ago
My money is on yes, unless they've developed a unit of measurement for focus and mindfulness which seems unlikely.
ASpring 10y ago
There has been quite a bit of research surrounding mindfulness meditation for a couple decades now. Here are some cursory studies addressing your three questions. They are easy to find on Google Scholar. Decreased stress and anxiety http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2010.0142 http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2010.0142 Increased Focus (specifically for people on the ADHD spectrum) http://www.ahc.umn.edu/img/assets/20825/MindfulnessADHD-Zylowska_et_al.pdf http://www.ahc.umn.edu/img/assets/20825/MindfulnessADHD-Zylo... I have to imagine mindfulness is a difficult concept to disentangle from meditation itself, however there do seem to be attempts to create measures for this: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1073191107313003 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1073191107313003 Here's a meta-analysis summarizing many studies about the effects of meditation. Effect sizes seem consistently positive albeit on the smaller side: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-012-0101-x http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-012-0101-x
eagletusk 10y ago
Is your question addressing QuietKit or meditation in general?If the later the results, some of which you have mentioned, are definetly not purely anecdotal see:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation
InclinedPlane 10y ago
No, there's a ton of science on the benefits of meditation and mindfulness in treating stress, anxiety, depression (where it is as good or superior to any medication) as well as ADHD, drug addiction, etc. It's really a shame that American/Western culture denigrates meditation/mindfulness as "hippie dippie shit" because it is an astoundingly, life alteringly powerful life skill that absolutely everyone should learn.

bananabill 10y ago

My money is on yes, unless they've developed a unit of measurement for focus and mindfulness which seems unlikely.

ASpring 10y ago

There has been quite a bit of research surrounding mindfulness meditation for a couple decades now. Here are some cursory studies addressing your three questions. They are easy to find on Google Scholar. Decreased stress and anxiety http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2010.0142 http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2010.0142 Increased Focus (specifically for people on the ADHD spectrum) http://www.ahc.umn.edu/img/assets/20825/MindfulnessADHD-Zylowska_et_al.pdf http://www.ahc.umn.edu/img/assets/20825/MindfulnessADHD-Zylo... I have to imagine mindfulness is a difficult concept to disentangle from meditation itself, however there do seem to be attempts to create measures for this: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1073191107313003 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1073191107313003 Here's a meta-analysis summarizing many studies about the effects of meditation. Effect sizes seem consistently positive albeit on the smaller side: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-012-0101-x http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-012-0101-x

eagletusk 10y ago

Is your question addressing QuietKit or meditation in general?If the later the results, some of which you have mentioned, are definetly not purely anecdotal see:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation

InclinedPlane 10y ago

No, there's a ton of science on the benefits of meditation and mindfulness in treating stress, anxiety, depression (where it is as good or superior to any medication) as well as ADHD, drug addiction, etc. It's really a shame that American/Western culture denigrates meditation/mindfulness as "hippie dippie shit" because it is an astoundingly, life alteringly powerful life skill that absolutely everyone should learn.