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Do you meditate? Because if it leads to an attitude like you're displaying, it's not a great advertisment.
by nayroclade 4y ago
Do you meditate? Because if it leads to an attitude like you're displaying, it's not a great advertisment.
- dijit 4y agoWell. https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/study-links-mindfulness-meditation-to-narcissism-and-spiritual-superiority/ https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/study-links-mindfulness-medit...
- detourdog 4y agoI had a hard time with this article. The pool the subjects were pulled from is suspect to me. They also didn’t interview any Rabbis, Priests, Mullahs,…. They study spirituality of a small subset of people pursuing it.
- dijit 4y agoMindfulness as practiced by the typical western audience (largely secular, young professionals) is well represented. If you want to take something else away or are looking for alternative discussions about the nature of spirituality itself: go ahead, but that's not the study for that. Only mindfulness meditation as practiced in western society in the fashionable way.
- detourdog 4y agoI disagree. The pool seems to be derived from students and professionals of mindfulness. I believe mindfulness can be practiced outside of that group. That group also seems like the most confused group of people practicing mindfulness. Mindfulnesss practiced in a fashionable way seems like the bottom of the barrel of mindfulness. Maybe I did read the article with the wrong point of view. I thought it was posted to support the notion that Mindfulness is flawed.
- dijit 4y agoMindfulness as practiced by people in the west in the fashionable fashion gives people a sense of superiority. Thats the crux of what is spelled out at length, could the study be improved? Maybe. But I see no evidence here of anything else, so until it is replicated or failed to replicate it will be my opinion.
- manuelmoreale 4y agoMaybe secular young professionals all share some trait that can be associated with sense of superiority? And it’s not really about mindfulness or meditation?