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See how many times they write the word 'I'?

They've never meditated properly even once. Teacher my ass, these people do way more damage than help anyone.

How is one to write a story of their personal story in which they are the main, and for the most part the only character, without using the word “I” all the time?

"Rather than retelling it as a subjective narrative, you could retell it as an objective or omniscient narrator. It would sound completely ridiculous if the listener realizes that you're just telling your account from your perspective, particularly if you need to refer to yourself in the third person", said fluoridation as he thought how absurd the idea even is.

Do you meditate? Because if it leads to an attitude like you're displaying, it's not a great advertisment.

Well.

https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/study-links-mindfulness-medit...

I had a hard time with this article. The pool the subjects were pulled from is suspect to me. They also didn’t interview any Rabbis, Priests, Mullahs,…. They study spirituality of a small subset of people pursuing it.

Mindfulness as practiced by the typical western audience (largely secular, young professionals) is well represented.

If you want to take something else away or are looking for alternative discussions about the nature of spirituality itself: go ahead, but that's not the study for that.

Only mindfulness meditation as practiced in western society in the fashionable way.

I disagree. The pool seems to be derived from students and professionals of mindfulness. I believe mindfulness can be practiced outside of that group. That group also seems like the most confused group of people practicing mindfulness.

Mindfulnesss practiced in a fashionable way seems like the bottom of the barrel of mindfulness.

Maybe I did read the article with the wrong point of view. I thought it was posted to support the notion that Mindfulness is flawed.

Mindfulness as practiced by people in the west in the fashionable fashion gives people a sense of superiority.

Thats the crux of what is spelled out at length, could the study be improved? Maybe.

But I see no evidence here of anything else, so until it is replicated or failed to replicate it will be my opinion.

Maybe secular young professionals all share some trait that can be associated with sense of superiority? And it’s not really about mindfulness or meditation?

study controls for that.

I didn't go back to read check but my memory is that it was around 531 participants. So with that sample size who know how small the control group is. In any case it certainly is dominating more of my life than I'm comfortable with right now.

What would be acceptable an acceptable number? Zero? More than zero? How is it determined, and why is it important?

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