One in four who meditate has 'particularly unpleasant' experiences
Meditation is not a panacea for all ills, and its benefits may have been exaggerated. That's according to the co-author of a new study that found one in four people who meditated reported “particularly unpleasant” experiences.
But some past studies have suggested that meditation may bring up uncomfortable feelings, while vivid accounts of unpleasant experiences are documented in traditional Buddhist texts. Of the total number of participants, 315—or about 25 percent—said they had a “particularly unpleasant” experience related to mediation. It wasn’t clear why, but these experiences were less common in women and in those who said they were religious, but more frequent in those who engaged in repetitive negative thinking, and who carried out deconstructive mediation techniques.
Study co-author Marco Schlosser, a research assistant in the division of psychiatry at University College London, told Newsweek: “Meditation is not a panacea, and its benefits might have been exaggerated; we should now be equally cautious not to encourage premature conclusions about its potential negative effects.”
Asked whether the effects were long-lasting, Schlosser said the data didn’t give an indication of the severity, type or the long-term impact of unpleasant meditation-related experiences.
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