| You make several wrong assumptions from what I've written. - You asked for verification, I gave you my own, if more 9 people do the same, you have a statistic.
Yes, I'm kidding here, but first hand "investigation" also have its merits. Never did I want to imply this prove (scientifically) any benefits for everyone.
But I can do that now if you are into it - logical reasoning can be a powerful tool. - I said "I could guess you never read a study about the benefits of oral hygiene". Never did I say that there were no studies about this. Your response makes me think my assumption was correct.
Moreover, I may have failed to make my point clear: you do things that are what science recommends in order to be healthy, but you learn it, not from peer-reviewed articles but from people near you. > It is quite clear you don't care about peer-reviewed science. That's your prerogative.
"Ad Hominem" argument and we don't need this. I, specifically, said I didn't care about "peer-reviewed studies about this", this referring to Mindfulness. Though I don't support my own attitude for people that are curious and want to learn more about Mindfulness. > That is an easy claim "in a few years, you'll all be scientologists" is just as simple.
True, my bad. At that point I was digressing. > Can you show scientific evidence that meditation improves the achievement of flow?
What I said was, again, from my personal experience (I play(ed) a lot competitive sports).
But a quick search lead me here:
http://mrsmindfulness.com/how-you-can-enter-mindfulness-in-4...
(cannot attest for the site credibility or the studies it mentioned, but I found the explanation quite interesting and clear) PS - I hope you take this in a good way but you could use some Mindfulness in order to help you see what it is instead of seeing what you think it is (honestly, we could all use some). |
I'm generally a little touchy about western misappropriation of and imperialism towards eastern religion under the service of capitalism. As such the original article resounded with me, and 'mindfulness' meditation in some of its rhetoric strikes me as deeply bigoted and colonial.
Thank you for the other clarification. I'm sorry that I read your article as trying to respond to what I was saying. I didn't realise you were just trying to make your own points.
E.g. "- You asked for verification, I gave you my own" - I didn't ask for verification, I asked for scientific studies that demonstrated the claims were verified, because I was responding to a claim about science. If you weren't interested in demonstrating the point scientifically, so be it, but then your response was irrelevant afaict, since that was the topic, before and during my post.