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#044 Headspace - Could Mass Meditation Change Everything? (with Andy Puddicombe)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

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Headspace Is a Perfect Product

I'm not surprised that people have warmed to the idea of practising meditation. It's been around for thousands of years. The need, people experience anxiety and sadness and anger back then, in the same way that they do now. So I think it's perhaps no surprise that more than ever, people are looking for that. My only concern about it is that in the sense of urgency and need, that it becomes, in people's minds at least, a fix. Rather so it's like, how I'm feeling stressed, how do I fix that? We're all feeling that squeeze, feeling more overwhelmed by all those things. In a way, Headspace is a perfect product.

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