Koos 🆗 @koos@octodon.social
I like making things. I live in Berlin. I work as a designer. I'm married. We have a little son and a little daughter.
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@daniel_bohrer apparently Zeit.de also does post-truth everybody is entitled to have an opinion reporting.
This stackexchange answer offers some security reasons, but even the author isn't convinced of its use:
This neural network is great fun.
http://fotogenerator.npocloud.nl/
https://octodon.social/media/iglfaVHUo3ToVmSNCHk
Brother Ali: did he make the best #hiphop #album of 2017?
http://brotherali.bandcamp.com/album/all-the-beauty-in-this-whole-life
@SuzanEraslan mmh. I started looking for adverse effects of meditation and found this: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/23/is-mindfulness-making-us-ill
TL;DR it's not uncommon to mainly get negative effects and if you have a mental condition it can be dangerous.
@s02303947 I do experience differences with before I meditated, but I'm just not sure if that is the meditation or the relaxing part of my meditation.
@s02303947 yes! I just meant that a 4 week study may be too short to show significant results.
I'm meditating irregularly for almost a year and regularly for about 2 months now. I find it hard to notice the effects. I don't have the feeling I'm getting better at meditation, whereas the people promoting meditation do claim that practice does change you.
@s02303947 sure I also think that it is in many ways a very subjective activity and of course there at many techniques. That said, I think it is helpful to recognize a difference in relaxing and meditation. I find that meditation requires more effort, so I hope it has benefits over *just* relaxing.
@s02303947 and here is the thing: if I would actually have a psychological problem, by definition that could affect my thoughts and thus my ability to objectively assess what is good for me. I'm not saying I would be wrong per se but I would like to have someone with a medical education confirm that my reasoning makes sense.
On top of that I have no clue about all (side) effects of medication and that's that reason why pharmacists are trained, right?
@s02303947 I believe even a friend or neighbor would be better at assessing what is wrong with my mental/psychological state than I am myself. I wouldn't take any medication based on their view though!
@s02303947 I just learned about this as a phenomenon because if your toot. My gut feeling is that it is dangerous, and quite stupid. People generally are bad at assessing what's wrong in their life and mind. I have no reason to believe that people who actually need meds are better at it than others.
Mastering meditation takes years, so this 4 week experiment really isn't very meaningful.
This tiny (n=83) study suggests that meditation can have a small benefit over other relaxation techniques:
"mindfulness meditation may be specific in its ability to reduce distractive and ruminative thoughts and behaviors, and this ability may provide a unique mechanism by which mindfulness meditation reduces distress."
Despite all the studies that show that meditation helps to be more mindful and less stressed, I can't help thinking that perhaps the most important part of regular meditation is having time to actively relax, alone and without distraction.
On the other hand, it doesn't really matter. Much of meditation is conscious relaxation.
@chr look at me tooting like the Buddha. I totally suck at meditation and often on days I meditate I'm grumpier than ever. But still it makes me more aware of my environment, senses, my emotions and what causes them.
@chr also, meditation makes you see in reality there is no you, as in the person who we describe in the stories we tell ourselves, to begin with.
@chr have you ever tried meditation? It helps accepting what (one) is, without judgement.
@chr when I read this correctly, research shows that introspection is usually quite useless 🙂
