Meditation isn't "listening to your body" BS, it's a discipline that needs to be taught and practiced and developed as a skill. You can't just sit, close your e

Meditation isn't "listening to your body" BS, it's a discipline that needs to be taught and practiced and developed as a skill. You can't just sit, close your eyes and try it on your own. And there are actual studies [1][2] that show the benefits (particularly related to stress and blood pressure), so not exactly pseudoscience either. It isn't particularly difficult to learn to recognize the feeling of different blood pressures in the body during meditation and develop some measure of conscious control over it. GP is absolutely right that we're a society that has taught ourselves to tune out important signals from the body. If we can unlearn that and better attune ourselves to the relevant sensations in the body, we'd be a lot healthier. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19798037 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19798037 [2] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/meditations-positive-residual-effects/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/meditations-p...