What Nobody Tells You About Meditation

Why more meditation equals less peace.

Meditation has become a treadmill: more effort, more sweat — and no real progress.

Over the past forty years or so, worry, anxiety, stress, and depression have skyrocketed in Western society. Alongside this rise, the popularity of meditation has grown and flourished — and today it is a multi-billion-dollar industry.

Everyone is meditating — from high-performing executives and elite athletes to schoolchildren, office workers, and hospital patients, all trying to cope with modern life. But meditation was never meant to be reduced to a coping mechanism, like a sedative to get through the day.