The Problem With Headspace and All Those Mindfulness Ads

The Problem With Headspace and All Those Mindfulness Ads:

bethbrotz:

Spiritual materialism is what happens when you try to turn your meditation practice into a spiritual fitness program. It’s when you turn meditation (or any spiritual practice) into a competition, into something you succeed or fail at, “do right” or “do wrong,” and regard with the punitive, puritanical self-aggression that American culture is so expert at teaching people. It’s also what happens when you try too hard to become...