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> There are other forms of meditation/concentration practice, but the practice recognized to be widely beneficial is Mindfulness/Vipassana/“Seeing things as the

• haswell 4y ago
  I definitely don’t mean to sound territorial! My comment was based on the fact that mindfulness meditation is the form that has shown the most promising positive outcomes in numerous studies and most likely to produce helpful results. My mindset was closer to what it would be if we were having a discussion about fruits and vegetables and someone extolled the virtues of eating corn and iceberg lettuce. The underlying point is that not all forms of practice have been shown to produce the effect that most people tend to look for. This isn’t to say that other approaches are invalid for their intended purpose. If your goal is to improve your health through better eating, starting with corn and iceberg lettuce might be better than some alternatives (like eating pizza every night), but nutritionists would be quick to point out that there are options that are far healthier and will give you much more value. I don’t think using other forms of meditation is doing it wrong at all. I do think choosing a path without understanding it and how it differs from other paths is less ideal, though, and for a practice that involves the investment of significant time and focus, understanding the landscape seems rather important going in. https://www.apa.org/topics/mindfulness/meditation https://www.apa.org/topics/mindfulness/meditation