One of the founders of Headspace was a buddhist monk and then became a circus clown. How can you teach meditation in a fun way?
1 mio users. Fashion that’s going to die? Meditation has been around for a long time, just normal evolution of an age-long practice to be able to do it with your phone.
We understand more about what the impact of meditation on the brain is. So… brain fitness just like we have body fitness.
Little meditation session. Incredible how quiet the main room was.
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Actually I’d say it’s an important tendency in occidental societies more than a fashion.
People have turned their backs on religions but I hear more and more about laic meditation both in the press and in day-to-day practice reported by people around me: meditation with no Buddhist (or other religion’s) approach, only the principles have been kept, like compassion, calming oneself down, focussing, etc.