A quarter of people who meditate have negative mental states
If you’re trying to feel calmer and more zen, turning to meditation might seem like an obvious choice.
But new research has found that not everyone has an enjoyable time while mediating in fact in a new study, it was found 25 per cent of people have 'particularly unpleasant' experiences, like feelings of fear and anxiety, while meditating.
For the research, a team from University College London focused on 1,232 participants, and asked them if they’d ever had any particularly unpleasant experiences which they thought may have been caused by meditation. Anxiety, fear, distorted emotions or thoughts and altered sense of self or the world were all given as examples of unpleasant experiences.
They were also asked to share how long they’d been meditating for, how often t...
