Why is this "mindfulness meditation" meme being pushed so hard at universities to deal with stress despite it being a pseudoscience? How is pretending to forget about all your worries and problems in your life going to make you less stressful?
Why is this "mindfulness meditation" meme being pushed so hard at universities to deal with stress despite it being a...
Elijah Johnson
Jonathan Collins
I tried mindfulness. it didnt do shit. meditation is a meme. wanna know what truly helps me? ASMR, SSRIs, lifting and increasing your test
Benjamin Butler
But forgetting about your worries does help. I don't tend to have many worries or much stress as I am a math major and life is as easy as can be. But the last time shit piled onto me what I did was do something I had not done since high school, binge watch a shit ton of anime in my room with my door locked.
Having all those stories in my mind made me forget about everything and after I came out of that I finally solved the issues I had not been able to solve for the past 2 weeks.
Obviously, I don't even value that new age bullshit but distracting yourself is a good method. Call it anime therapy.
Brayden Lewis
>mindfulness
>pretending to forget
How are you able to rationalize to yourself that paying more attention to your thoughts equates to pretending to forget things?
This is one of the most retarded Veeky Forums posts I've read this week.
Thomas Gomez
Cameron Carter
I don't much like the idea of (semi-)permanently altering the way my mind works to increase (((productivity))). I've seen some negative articles about it too, but not much research into adverse effects of mindfulness/meditation has been done.
theguardian.com
cultresearch.org
I don't think there can be any doubt about the motivations of those who want to raise your stress-tolerance.
Logan Collins
>((()))
Why do you do this to yourself? Just stay in your board. Everyone here thinks you are a freak. You are the internet version of a crazy guy screaming THE END IS NEAR on the streets. Just stay in your board and be happy. There everyone is also a crazy person so you can share your misery. Here, I'll even give you the link:
Oliver Rivera
>another poster spooked by the /pol/ bogeyman
Austin Nelson
I'm not even a poltard, I searched for better words to express this but that meme is literally the most succinct and clearest. Can't expect everyone on here to have read Debord or whomever but surely we all recognize the meme parens.
Ryder Mitchell
It does help with managing mental disorders, a lot of research confirms it
But anyone saying it improves any aspect of cognition is full of shit and retarded, no research has been able to prove it
Luis Gomez
Yeah let's definitely trust the guy who claims to speak for an entire board while delivering a tribalist and delusionally dismissive argument based entirely on identity.
You don't sound like a shill at all.
Michael Stewart
>Everyone here thinks you are a freak.
Speak for yourself.
Luis Richardson
Mindfulness is more of an anti-dissociative thing.
>ASMR
ASMR is basically meditation though. There's like two ways to meditate: you can either focus on one sensation to the exclusion of others, or be in a highly receptive state in which your attention can flow from one sensation to another seamlessly. Either way, the point is to empty your head. ASMR, at least the no-talking kind, gets the job done.
Right. Stress is your brain wanting to solve problems it can't solve right now. "Distracting" yourself is another way of saying not ruminating, allowing you to reinforce other pathways for a while.
Which is productive, because whatever you were doing before wasn't a solution, otherwise you wouldn't be stressed. Gaining fresh legs is never bad.
I promise I'm not a new age fag guys, I just got kidnapped by zen assholes a couple years ago.
Alexander Flores
>I promise I'm not a new age fag guys
Why the homophobia?
Jaxon Wood
My friend was converted to one of these meditation and spirituality dude. He believes in ghosts, demons, angels, and shit like that now. This thing gives you schizophrenia or at least schizoaffective traits.
Owen Anderson
maybe if your IQ is below 100
Landon Collins
How do you know it isn't new age phobia and I'm just legitimately a fag
Kevin Fisher
He's an Ashkenazi and he is smarter than I am.
Cooper Ward
then you both are under 100 IQ
im sorry to hear that
Luke Kelly
Considering you think meditation causes people to believe in angels, I'm not sure being smarter than you is much of a benchmark.
Charles Diaz
>How do you know it isn't new age phobia and I'm just legitimately a fag
Real gays don't use homophobic slurs.
Ryder Nguyen
Mock me all you want. Consider yourself warned about "mindfulness".
Nathaniel Russell
That's not remotely true you enormous shitchugging queer.
Josiah Allen
Wrong. Fags love to be called faggot as I split their ass.
Angel Richardson
>ASMR is basically meditation though
wrong
I do not listen to ASMR to empty my head. I listen to it to relax
for example when I study I begin with something fast and energizing youtube.com
and at no time while I listen to ASMR do I ever empty my head
Chase White
>2 hours nightcore compilation
kek
Matthew Kelly
>That's not remotely true you enormous shitchugging queer.
>Wrong. Fags love to be called faggot as I split their ass.
Nice LARPing you heteros.
Lincoln Martin
Stop eating the bait
Caleb Hernandez
it's actually a good mix if you would listen to it before judging. or are you are a /mu/tard who only listens to obscure trash noises? I have this theory that more intelligent people listen to faster music because the only people I know who listen to slow music are unintelligent. it should come as no surprise that blacks and hispanics listen to hiphop, rap and dubstep while asians produce a shitton of great EDM
Cameron Perry
I was just listening to some pretty fast music but I also like slow music, and music of moderate tempo.
Wyatt Moore
>2 hours nightcore compilation
who let you in here?
Charles Lee
>at no time while I listen to ASMR do I ever empty my head
If you're listening to it to go to sleep then you probably are, but okay.
For everyone who isn't you, ASMR can be essentially a mediation track (wierd girlfriend roleplays notwithstanding). I really wasn't talking about you personally, I was talking about ASMR.
Nicholas Cooper
you