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by occultist_throw 3176 days ago
"Mindfulness" is an occult method. End of discussion. It can be, and has been studied not by science, but by people working with the occult.

And mindfulness is more of a byproduct of meditation, controlled breathing, or other techniques that Shiva told Shakti.

We'll eventually be able to analyse these things in the words of science. But not yet. If you're looking for proof, you will be looking for a very long time, unless you're willing to do the research on yourself. And then, N=1 research usually isn't looked highly upon.

EDIT: How nice. -1's and hidden by a moderator. Somehow, something I said was "wrong", or more likely disagreed with someone's world view. But instead of discussing, it's easier to hide. Pity. I expected better from a group of people who claimed to like science.
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owebmaster 3176 days ago
As we say in Brazil: "monkey that can't eat a banana will say it's unripe". Some people try medidation and succeed, some don't and think that the ones succeeding are faking it.

> And then, N=1 research usually isn't looked highly upon.

Genius!

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occultist_throw 3176 days ago
What's interesting is that "mindfulness" via what westerners think of meditation is only one of 110 different techniques. Some of them don't work now (wrong time), some wont work in the future, and some won't work for certain people.

When going this route, its best to try different techniques until you feel a change. Once you do, start working with the technique for a time. 3 minutes starting, then 3 days, then 3 months, then 3 years. That provides mastery... Then you can work on another one.

And no, meditation via breath doesn't work on me. I've tried with lamas. Nope. However when I started working with visualizations (think Hololens without hardware), I had other people near me that could tell me the shapes I was projecting. That was -- neat.

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jaclaz 3176 days ago
>As we say in Brazil: "monkey that can't eat a banana will say it's unripe".

JFYI and as a side note, more or less every country has the same, possibly derived from Aesop:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes

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