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When taught rooted in a mystical spiritual tradition, yoga and meditation are enormously important ingredients in quieting the influence of the ego.

When taught as productivity or wellness hacks, yeah, you'd get the result that this study did.

It's not about how good you look doing Downward Dog. It's about taking a break from the incessant mind-chatter, and getting a chance to experience the present moment, whether through movement or stillness.

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This is true for everything in life, I believe. Kind of reminds me Shatner’s epiphany post Blue Origin flight, compared to Bezos’.

Also, "quieting the ego" while also living in a western setting is a complicated thing at best and a bad mistake at worst. If you stop caring about success or material gain, then at some point the desire to be competitive and efficient just fades away.

What's this have to do with the title/research?,

which seems to be claiming that it's not a guarantee that you think less of yourself, statically,

but that it's more likely you weight yourself properly due to having taken the time to achieve enlightenment in that interval? (aka figure things out deeply/systemically)

Meditation is not for figuring things out (it can be, but I believe this context implies that this is not).

Meditation > ability to reason truly objectively > return to previously difficult situation newly capable to deeply reason without bias

Meditation is not a switch that you throw to turn off your emotions or ascend to a plane of perfectly rational reasoning.

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