Mindfulness is a type of Buddhist-based meditation in which you focus on being aware of what you’re sensing, thinking and feeling in the present moment.
A 2022 study, using a sample of 953 people in the U.S. who meditated regularly, showed that over 10% of participants experienced adverse effects which had a significant negative impact on their everyday life and lasted for at least one month.
According to a review of over 40 years of research that was published in 2020, the most common adverse effects are anxiety and depression. These are followed by psychotic or delusional symptoms, dissociation or depersonalization, and fear or terror.
While this is happening, the Loma Linda School of Behavioral Health is promoting ‘mindfulness’ to reduce stress, including ‘guided’ discussions. As one person said in 2013 “Whatever the world can do, the church can do ten years later — and worse."
Research also found that adverse effects can happen to people without previous mental health problems and to those who have only had moderate exposure to meditation, and they can lead to long-lasting symptoms.
The Western world has had evidence about these adverse effects for a long time. In 1976, Arnold Lazarus, a key figure in the cognitive-behavioral science movement, said that eastern meditation could induce “serious psychiatric problems such as depression, agitation, and even schizophrenic decompensation.”
The western world is engaged in the domestication of pagan myths for the psychological ‘help’ of the masses, and our world-loving institutions are right there, feeding at the hog trough. Innately religious but destroying Christianity. The real problem is not behavior — it is a worship problem (Romans 1:25).
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“They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen” (Romans 1:25).
