It may be my neurodivergence but “mindfulness” has long driven me up the wall. I’ve come to understand better what the nature of my intrusive thoughts are and why I can never make them go away but instead that I can change myself, possibly quite radically, by replacing them with something else.
Well... believing that meditation and mindfulness are supposed to make you happy is a misconception. They are tools for helping you calm and examine yourself, so you can make happiness a possibility, because you are managing stress and anxiety and setting realistic, rational priorities on everything.<p>They are the broom that sweeps the path clean... the path still goes where it goes. Changing paths is a conscious effort... you have to do the work.
> Of the 532 studies that fit their criteria, only four were considered robust by today’s standards – defined as having at least 45 participants, as well as a clearly pre-registered plan at the start of the experiment to prevent later bias.<p>Ah yes, we should be applying today’s standards to yesterday’s knowledge. Give me a break.
Is this paid content from big pharma? Concrete jungles and the typical 9to5 make us happier than nature could ever do.<p>Perhaps some things simply cannot be captured by scientific methods and numbers.