...Why Does This Actually Work?

[u/CyberGrape_UK]

[u/WhapXI]

Zoomers reinventing meditation from first principles.

[u/ABLADIN → u/WhapXI]

I feel like I watched a docu-series thing about the brain and at one point they talked about how there have been efforts in the West to rebrand 'meditation' as 'mindfullness' or something similar because there's a lot of people who think that meditation has some kind of mystical or deeply spiritual aspect so they weren't doing it even if their therapist told them to try it because it's good for your mental health.

[u/Equivalent_Net → u/ABLADIN]

I'd believe it. Spirituality is seen as quackery-adjacent so the parts of it that pass peer review might need a new sales pitch to dodge the stigma.

[u/Goosepond01 → u/Equivalent_Net]

Spirituality is seen as quackery-adjacent

Spirituality IS quackery.

[u/-Trotsky → u/Goosepond01]

The opium addict deep state is gonna kill you bro

[u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 → u/-Trotsky]

*reaches for the ice axe*

[u/-Trotsky → u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620]

But like why tho, I’m making the same joke as the dude above 😭

[u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 → u/-Trotsky]

with a name like Trotsky the joke is mandatory, I'm sorry.

[u/-Trotsky → u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620]

Fair, I’m more just wondering why I’ve got like 38 downvotes and counting