
Willoughby Britton - When Meditation Causes Harm
Mind & Life
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Meditation Related Adverse Effects?
Simon Goldberg used a 10-item questionnaire to measure adverse effects of meditation. In his study, he sampled people based on have you ever had a meditation related adverse effects? So that's not going to help in this case. But if you sample people who have more practice experience, you're going to elevate the numbers. And so within whatever a regular meditator is, within regular meditators, you know, unpleasant or adverse effects were reported actually in both studies by 25%.
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