Dr. Britton is one of the few researchers I've come across with real integrity. The way most researches cherry-pick date to fit their own agendas is simply CRIMINAL. People are being harmed and researchers / gurus / "experts" simply don't care. For someone who has been (mis) diagnosed with all sorts of mental health struggles by so-called "experts" it's beyond maddening. I feel so betrayed by the system. It's hard to trust anyone.
Meditation for me has been unbelievably awesome in every way. It has helped me sleep, work on my anxieties, find my center and work on my PTSD. I've learned how to process my feelings through meditation. Now, I just feel the emotion, and release it, while meditating. I get to listen to my intuition more and make better choices. Also, my insomnia is in the past. Now, I sleep like a baby. Maybe is not a fit for all, but overall, the majority of the people that I know that meditates have similar experiences with it.
I’m curious to know how long you’ve been meditating. I started about 2.5 years ago and in the beginning it was great and helped with all sorts of things. Now I find I’m having adverse effects. I can sense and feel energies moving around in my body. Makes me wonder if our bodies change over time with meditation.
@@billeepace7405 I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve been meditating since 2018. I am also currently getting certified as a meditation teacher because I could see the benefits from first hand and want to help others. There are different modalities. Maybe you should do research on what is the best fit for your need.
Given how unfathomably complex life and living it is, mind has to create simplifications to understand it all - this usually involves pulling a story from something quite obvious like meditation did this or therapy did this or the drug I was prescribed did this - its always way more than we can ever know but this doesn't stop us from making claims about these things no matter how simplified and often wrong it might be.
Good idea! I added it. This was an excerpt from the Indoctrination podcast with Rachel Bernstein: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indoctrination/id1373939526
I was wondering why Dr. Britton relies on what *one* (N=1) meditator told her at a retreat? If she had asked me at a retreat, I would have told her that mindfulness is very useful for sleep (this is probably because it quietens the mind and prevents unnecessary rumination of thoughts).
Wait but how about the benefits of meditation tho im sure they outweigh the cons it’s lowers cortisol in the body and physically changes your brain and increases neuroplasticity and all of that
Meditation was the worst thing that ever happened to me in my life. Perhaps light-touch meditation (I.e the basics such as watching your breath) in small doses may help, but deeper meditation seems to be a net negative for a sizeable minority of people, particularly in the West. It's become 'fashionable' to do meditation but that just goes to show the idiocy of most people these days.
This kind of research needs to be more popular considering how mainstream meditation has become
Agreed. There must be hundreds, if not thousands of people suffering out there as a result.
Dr. Britton is one of the few researchers I've come across with real integrity. The way most researches cherry-pick date to fit their own agendas is simply CRIMINAL. People are being harmed and researchers / gurus / "experts" simply don't care. For someone who has been (mis) diagnosed with all sorts of mental health struggles by so-called "experts" it's beyond maddening. I feel so betrayed by the system. It's hard to trust anyone.
Meditation for me has been unbelievably awesome in every way. It has helped me sleep, work on my anxieties, find my center and work on my PTSD. I've learned how to process my feelings through meditation. Now, I just feel the emotion, and release it, while meditating. I get to listen to my intuition more and make better choices. Also, my insomnia is in the past. Now, I sleep like a baby. Maybe is not a fit for all, but overall, the majority of the people that I know that meditates have similar experiences with it.
I’m curious to know how long you’ve been meditating. I started about 2.5 years ago and in the beginning it was great and helped with all sorts of things. Now I find I’m having adverse effects. I can sense and feel energies moving around in my body. Makes me wonder if our bodies change over time with meditation.
@@billeepace7405 I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve been meditating since 2018. I am also currently getting certified as a meditation teacher because I could see the benefits from first hand and want to help others. There are different modalities. Maybe you should do research on what is the best fit for your need.
@@billeepace7405 Just use calm app and also youtube channel called "declutter the mind". Everything else is new age stuff
Given how unfathomably complex life and living it is, mind has to create simplifications to understand it all - this usually involves pulling a story from something quite obvious like meditation did this or therapy did this or the drug I was prescribed did this - its always way more than we can ever know but this doesn't stop us from making claims about these things no matter how simplified and often wrong it might be.
I wish there was a link to the full conversation!
Good idea! I added it. This was an excerpt from the Indoctrination podcast with Rachel Bernstein:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indoctrination/id1373939526
Okay why not just meditate in the morning and then not at night and then see if it has the same effect
I was wondering why Dr. Britton relies on what *one* (N=1) meditator told her at a retreat? If she had asked me at a retreat, I would have told her that mindfulness is very useful for sleep (this is probably because it quietens the mind and prevents unnecessary rumination of thoughts).
Wait but how about the benefits of meditation tho im sure they outweigh the cons it’s lowers cortisol in the body and physically changes your brain and increases neuroplasticity and all of that
Meditation was the worst thing that ever happened to me in my life. Perhaps light-touch meditation (I.e the basics such as watching your breath) in small doses may help, but deeper meditation seems to be a net negative for a sizeable minority of people, particularly in the West. It's become 'fashionable' to do meditation but that just goes to show the idiocy of most people these days.
@@Paddehj oh like I’ve never felt any bad side effects of keeping your focus on ur breathe meditation is that the one she is talking about?