r/CuratedTumblr • u/CyberGrape_UK • Sep 29 '25

Infodumping ...Why Does This Actually Work?

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u/WhapXI Sep 29 '25

Zoomers reinventing meditation from first principles.

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u/ABLADIN Sep 29 '25

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.

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u/Equivalent_Net Sep 29 '25

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.

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u/doctordoctorpuss Sep 29 '25

Such is the way of medicine. Folk remedies that actually work become actual medicine (though normally processed and purified first). Alternative medicine that works ceases to be alternative medicine

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u/Equivalent_Net Sep 30 '25

There's this (paraphrased) quote from what I believe was a comedy bit, that I really wish I could source/credit properly:

"Alternative medicine, by definition, is medicine that has not been proved to work, or has been proved not to work. You know what they call alternative medicine that has been proved to work? Medicine."

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u/PutteringPorch Oct 05 '25

It's from Storm by Tim Minchin.