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Re:Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anythi... by chewz on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:30AM (#18692524)
Exactly, very good question.

Why not just do pushups, walk the stairs or just go running, cook for yourself and your friends, know yourself instead of paying for therapy. Even doing taxes yourself isn't such a burden.

Re:Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anythi... by iovrthoughtthis on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:33AM (#18692529)
I feel like your human experience may be significantly different from many other human experience.

Glad you can just decide to do those things, do them and stick to doing them! Well done.

Re:Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anythi... by yoz-y on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:01AM (#18692584)
It's really not that hard to find out at least one reason for each of these.

Because just doing pushups is not enough and even those can de done badly. Because cooking yourself is a completely different experience from going out to eat, part of the experience is precisely _not having to cook and clean_. Because some people can't help themselves and could end up in really bad places, because for some people spending time doing taxes could be very well used otherwise...

Re:Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anythi... by chewz on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:32AM (#18692676)
I advise everyone reading Die Kunst des stilvollen Verarmens. Wie man ohne Geld reich wird [The Art of Growing Poor Stylishly] by Alexander von Schönburg.

This is a book about why you do not really need all this stuff that commercial capitalism is trying to sell to you. It has inspired me years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander,_Count_of_Sch%C3%B6n...

https://www.rowohlt.de/fm/592/sample%20translationSchoenburg...

https://www.amazon.de/Die-Kunst-stilvollen-Verarmens-reich/d...

Re:Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anythi... by mojuba on Sunday December 16, 2018 @08:05AM (#18692895)
Skimmed through the sample translation and to my surprize not everything said there was as obvious as I was expecting it to be. Thanks!
Re:Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anythi... by ramchip on Sunday December 16, 2018 @09:55AM (#18693268)
The samples are hilarious and thought-provoking. I’ll have to brush up my German to read this. Thanks for the recommendation!
Re:Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anythi... by bananatiger on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:02AM (#18692588)
Except most people don't, wont, or can't.

I got myself fit as I was able to plan for a healthier lifestyle and see it through. Not all folks can.

I wasn't able to get myself mentally healthy however, and without paying for mental health support I would never have had the mental stability to get myself physically healthy.

If you find life easy, good for you, but assuming everyone skips through life as easily as you is arrogant at best.

Headspace is great. Is it as good as heading to a monastery and studying for years? No.

Could you get the same experience without guidance? Sure, but most people haven't got the will power to stick to it. That's not a weakness. That's just human.

Re:Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anythi... by hug on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:28AM (#18692667)
If you honestly can’t think of why anyone would do any of those things, you lead an incredibly blessed life.
Re:Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anythi... by interfixus on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:41AM (#18692698)
Spot on, and I would have written that comment if you hadn't beat me to it. Once or twice a year I find myself in a restaurant setting, often reluctantly. The other three? Never.