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Why dont you try it for yourself? All it takes is 10 minutes to see the benefits of meditation, and yes the cognitive benefits are real.

>>10553226
Also as you can see the autists here dont care about this stuff, so dont expect any real answers on this board. Meditation will literally change your life if you make it a daily habit 30-60 mins/day.

>>10553232
how did it change yours, anon?

>>10553232
Also how old are you?

I meditate every day. It's like exercising, it takes a bit of motivation to start but once you're sitting in a quiet room with your phone off you just use that momentum to keep doing it. Just close your eyes and only think about your breathing. When you notice you are thinking of something else go back to the breath. You will find that it is very difficult to clear your head.

I tried meditating...nothing happened. at. all

it is just bull shit

>>10553201
Unironically, having ambitions or goals related to meditation will get in the way of meditation.

>>10555179
this.

>>10553226
>>10553232
>>10553247
>medidade xxDdxDD
"Meditation" outside the Christian eremitic tradition is woowoo orientalist shamanism for baizuo faggots too pussy to drop DMT

>>10553201
I’ve been trying to meditate these past few days using some random guides that I found on the internet, as several people have already recommended to me that I try meditation to help me cope with major depressive disorder. Some have recommended that I try “Samatha meditation”. Psychotherapy and psychotropic medication have proven to be ineffectual so I’m becoming desperate to try just about anything at this point. After trying to meditate for about an hour I simply end up feeling very lazy, tired, bored, sleepy, and mildly depressed.

>>10553247
So, that's it?

meditation is the science of the mind. Obviously there are as many techniques as there are subfields of science. Some of them are good and some are parapsychology. The goal of meditation (done right) is not just to "calm the mind." Calming the mind is for dumb thots who operate on a low level of self-awareness. Sometimes when these thos try meditation they find themselves having more anxiety or other problems- that's because they have done self reflection and don't like what they see. Meditation is a destructive process. It's like peeling back the layers of an onion, stripping away the programs of the mind and seeing what's under the hood. Mindfulness is observational science, except the subject is your own thoughts and emotions. Don't expect it to be easy, meditating successfully is like going to the gym, you have to work at it and put in effort. A good start is Sam Harris' headspace app, he gives you techniques and also insights on what to get out of it. Just remember to take his opinions with a grain of salt though, he is a Jew.

>>10555710
>>10555583
I forgot to add, 95+% of people won't get anything meaningful out of psychedelics unless they have the right basis to utilize the experience properly. Doing dmt without meditation or the appropriate knowledge beforehand is like attending a grad student lecture on algebraic geometry as a high schooler. Very few will understand it.