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One item that i found intriguing is the research that negative experiences are more common than people think. One must wonder, why this is not common knowledge
by IG_Semmelweiss 5y ago
One item that i found intriguing is the research that negative experiences are more common than people think.
One must wonder, why this is not common knowledge?
Also, are there causation links, or not?
My personal conclusion is that the sample is biased -- that is, some people seeking meditation are looking to self-medicate (subconsciously or not) on personal issues they wish to overcome.
It would seem that perhaps a non-trivial portion of meditation practitioners are ending up with worse outcomes than they started out.
One is left to wonder whether meditation practice should come with warning labels ( just like medication does for adverse effects)...
- ljm 5y agoA lot of it can come from those self-help books that are, in reality, thinly veiled sales pitches intended to market the author as some sort of consultant. You'll only ever read about the happy path or the success story, with some lip-service paid to how difficult it is to actually do in practice. You'll rarely get the raw detail of it, or a fully authentic account. I'm not talking about quality literature here, but the short 250-pager you'd pick up in an airport bookshop that makes you feel good by the time you finish.