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When meditation goes wrong: part two

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When meditation goes wrong: part two

All In The Mind

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All In The Mind

All In The Mind

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Meditation sickness, meditation-related adverse effects or meditators in distress – you probably haven't heard these terms, even if you do meditate. Yet research finds adverse effects occur in half of all meditators. For one in 10, it impairs their functi...

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Meditation can help many people, but it can also produce serious psychological harm. This episode examines adverse effects through research and personal accounts, asking who may be vulnerable, what the evidence shows, and how meditation communities should respond.
00:41
Meditation is not always hunky-dory
05:20
A terrifying dissolution of self
12:22
Adverse effects can affect overachievers
17:46
The evidence was behind the enthusiasm
25:09
Meditation is a potent intervention
27:24
A problem being systematically ignored

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When meditation produces serious harm
00:00
Who may be vulnerable, and when discomfort becomes danger
10:25
What the evidence says about mindfulness programmes
16:41
A potent intervention requires responsibility and consent
24:12

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