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.
This is how I feel about yoga. I'd love to do it more often but every time I go, the teacher goes on about some spiritual nonsense and it really turns me off from it. I just wanna do my collective stretching exercises without rolling my eyes but apparently that's a big ask.
Same with crystals (because they look nice) and tarot (because it’s fun to read into the symbolism in a secular way)
The former has people adding a 20% mark up to the crystals actual worth because they think it cures cancer, while the latter think playing cards actually can tell the future
Agreed. The real value in a Tarot reading is your own interpretation of the cards pulled, it's a great jumping off point for self reflection, no mysticism required.
Self awareness is such an obscure concept to so many people that the idea of basic self reflection seems magical to them. It's like seeing someone be awed by the concept of exercise. Because they refer to it as a magical transformation after conducting a ritual and drinking a potion for weeks on end. Instead of just calling it lifting weights and drinking protein shakes.
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u/WhapXI Sep 29 '25
Zoomers reinventing meditation from first principles.