How Repeating ‘Letting Go’ Prevents You from Truly Letting Go
Practicing meditation might worsen our inner depression. Ruminating too much information, we cannot take a breath from this energy-consuming society. Don’t be a victim of “Capitalist Spirituality”.
Spend thousands of dollars on a three-day mindfulness session, but you become depressed more? Resent yourselves for being unable to grow a strong mindset to embrace your current life? Keep changing the ‘Life Motto’ every day at work?
Enough is enough.
We all know we’ve been through every pitfall, and we should be proud of reminding ourselves of the effort we make.
It’s time to leave all this “Advice for leading a successful and happy life” behind. Only we can introduce a positive mindset to our lives without emotional burden.
Here is some scientific evidence on why we should align our learning from life to maintain a healthy conscious state.
- Extended periods of meditation result in hypofrontality, a state in which the prefrontal cortex comprehends incidents rationally, impairing the brain to maintain a coherent sense of self.
- Overactivation of the anterior insula, which causes interoception and emotional awareness, during mindfulness practices makes people oversensitive to every small thing, leading to mental fatigue.
- Meditation can disrupt sensory integration in the posterior parietal cortex, forming a distorted feeling toward reality.
- Intentional attention to thoughts or feelings during meditation can over-activate the amygdala, throwing our anxiety all over the place.
Have you done a little homework about the life backgrounds of the great philosophers from India? Surprisingly, or not, they are born into elite families. Without any financial pressure, responsibility for taking care of a family, and exhaustion of facing spiking housing rents and putting food on the table, they can ruminate “the meaning of life”.
While in reality, we need to resolve unfair, cruel, and unexpected accidents in this twisted society. Therefore, clearly recognizing our self-value and pat on the shoulders for our resilience, meditation is not that impactful in speaking of self-growth, let alone forcing our brains to be drowned in insecure pessimistic thoughts.
