Sunday, March 11, 2018

Mass online meditation lets you zone out in cyberspace

For the past year I’ve been experimenting

with meditating live online with people around the world. Their chosen spot is not a temple or a church hall or a sitting room, but cyberspace.
Meditation is fast becoming this year’s favourite personal development tool. You can meditate alone, in face-to-face group sessions – both offline and online – or you can switch on an app. Arianna Huffington recently cemented a business partnership between the Huffington Post and the Hankyoreh Media Group in South Korea with a meditation session. And Google has been offering its employees “Search Inside Yourself”, a mindfulness meditation course, since 2007. Many other technology companies provide similar perks.