[owebmaster]

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!

[occultist_throw]

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.

[jaclaz]

>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