When Meditation Has a Dark Side
Could there really be such a thing as too much mindfulness?
When meditation appears to have a dark side, a researcher named Willoughby Britton discovered that meditation could sometimes worsen sleep quality in participants. Despite personal benefits of meditation, Britton found exceptions where people became more anxious, unmotivated, or experienced mental-health side effects like paranoia, hallucinations, and dissociation.
Britton, now a researcher at Brown University, developed significant evidence that meditation could be harmful for certain individuals and at particular intensities.
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