The claim that meditation is good for you and can help improve or enhance one’s mental and physical health is quite a remarkable claim. How can sitting still and paying attention to one’s breath have such an enormous impact on so many conditions we suffer from?
When I ask people asked what they think it means to be healthy, I often get responses like: “It’s when you’re not sick” “To be fit” “When all your parts are working properly” These definitions seem focused on one’s physical body and see health as a state in which going to a doctor is not necessary.