Who here /meditation/?
I don't do it that often but when I do, I note marked improvements in my cognitive functions. That is to say, I can focus better afterward. It's a small bonus but every bit helps doesn't it.
eh, I just take stimulates
>>25464097
Those are pretty good too, but when I combine both I'm unstoppable.
How do I into meditation, lads?
>>25464261
just sit in one spot and focus on your breathing
>>25464333
how can i into meditation with add?
>>25465155
It's not easy I'll give you that. Take some stimulants like adderall, methylphenidate or hell even caffeine will work, first. Makes it much easier to maintain concentration.
>>25463980
Focus is worthless without mind-wandering in pursuit of things to focus on which you are depriving yourself of by doing it.
>>25465247
Do explain. I'm pretty sure I already have a good idea of what to focus on, and this comes afterward.
>>25465292
I already have. You cannot consciously unfetter your mind; this is an inherent contradiction. The more you are conscious of your thoughts, which 'meditation' has been advocated and designed to cause, the less your mind is free to roam to spot, for instance, novel properties of the text you are working on: for instance, to notice that it needs a whole new run-through with respect to punctuation, possibly automatized. 'Meditation' only helps with focus in the sense of dumb perseverance, where your mind is fettered and clings to a mundane task such as of a human calculator: 'this plus that plus that minus that times that times I wonder what if WHOOPS my mind just wandered back to the task this plus that minus that minus that plus...'. As soon as your task is open-ended, however, for instance, to judge a book (with respect to many factors, such as quality of binding, of ink, of weight, ...), 'meditation' backfires.
>inb4 I can choose to unfetter your mind
It, of course, doesn't work like that. First, the thought to do that is conditioned as well, and second, the effectiveness of the wandering is impaired anyway.
But hey, who am I to object if you want to emasculate yourself.
>>25465477
In other words, self-awareness is harmful.
>>25465477
have you ever meditated before mr autist
>>25465574
I'm not into anecdotal evidence.
>>25465477
Ha ha it actually worked! You just can't resist a good meditation thread, can you?
>>25465604
I can hardly resist an opportunity to further clarify my expositions.
>>25465618
Expositions of WHAT?
Do you have any citations? Any sources for your claims whatsoever?
>>25463980
I used to, I found it to be quite helpful with composing myself and being able to function in a given environment that required me to in a top mental "condition".
What I did was along the lines of this:
>>25464333
Real simple and worked great for me.
>>25465680
In the face of intentional refusal of the academia to study adverse effects ('meditation' and 'mindfulness' *is* a huge business even if it weren't a religious practice), second best things such as interpolation, analogy, and studies with less reliability need to be used. Of course, you are going to arbitrarily dismiss those, because you don't realize that they are essential to scientific method already.
That said, sure, a handful of studies have managed to slip through. You just need to see through the superficial redefinition: reduced mind-wandering as 'focus', decreased standards as 'creativity', self-absorption as 'self-awareness', things like that.
The question is whether I want you to cry out your blanket 'insufficient! biased! flawed!' or not.
>>25465896
business? since when? your breath is free, and I hardly think the, I dunno, books and shit written on it constitute a "huge business" especially when you can find plenty of information for free.
>>25466026
>business? since when?
Let's see, the '70s-'80s?
About the time that interest in every other subject of study has begun to drop?
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Buddhist+meditation%2Cmindfulness+meditation%2CGreek+history%2CRussian+language%2Capplied+mechanics&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1950&year_end=2020&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2CBuddhist%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BBuddhist%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BBuddhist%20Meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BBUDDHIST%20MEDITATION%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cmindfulness%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bmindfulness%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BMindfulness%20Meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BMindfulness%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BMINDFULNESS%20MEDITATION%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2CGreek%20history%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BGreek%20history%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BGreek%20History%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2CRussian%20language%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BRussian%20language%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BRussian%20Language%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Capplied%20mechanics%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BApplied%20Mechanics%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bapplied%20mechanics%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BAPPLIED%20MECHANICS%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BApplied%20mechanics%3B%2Cc0
Note that it only gets to 2008, so it is eight years short anyway.
>>25466220
>>25466220
Half the results of "russian language". Is the russian language a huge business? Because meditation is far smaller than that. You have no idea if that growth trend will continue. After all, look at the ups and downs in the other subjects.
I can play that game too, by the way.
Wow look at that correlation between mindfulness meditation, neuroscience and fucking quantum physics. Man, it sure is killing every field of study huh?
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Buddhist+meditation%2Cmindfulness+meditation%2Cneuroscience%2Cquantum+physics%2Cquantum+computing%2C+recurrent+neural+network&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2CBuddhist%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BBuddhist%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BBuddhist%20Meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BBUDDHIST%20MEDITATION%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cmindfulness%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bmindfulness%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BMindfulness%20Meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BMindfulness%20meditation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BMINDFULNESS%20MEDITATION%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cneuroscience%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BNeuroscience%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bneuroscience%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BNEUROSCIENCE%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cquantum%20physics%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bquantum%20physics%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BQuantum%20Physics%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BQuantum%20physics%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BQUANTUM%20PHYSICS%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cquantum%20computing%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bquantum%20computing%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BQuantum%20Computing%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BQuantum%20computing%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BQUANTUM%20COMPUTING%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Crecurrent%20neural%20network%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Brecurrent%20neural%20network%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BRecurrent%20Neural%20Network%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BRecurrent%20neural%20network%3B%2Cc0
>>25465477
But the whole point of meditation is to stop your mind from wandering to random shit. I don't think you understand the point
