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27Lower priorityEvidence: mixed
Meditation
10–20 min/day.
Priority Matrix
The numbers.
Four dimensions, scored 1–6, where six is always the good end: cheapest, quickest, easiest, highest impact. Priority is Impact squared, divided by what it costs you in energy, money and time.
CostFree
Time20 min/day
EnergyHard
ImpactModerate
How sure we are
MixedReal studies disagree, or the effects are small and noisy.
Kept separate from the priority score on purpose: confidence in the evidence never raises how worth-it something is.
What we read
- Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-being: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
JAMA Internal Medicine · 2014
Across 47 trials and 3,515 adults, mindfulness programs produced small-to-moderate improvements in anxiety, depression, and pain; effects on positive mood and sleep were weaker, and much of the evidence was low-quality.
- Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation
Perspectives on Psychological Science · 2018
A consensus paper from meditation researchers: popular claims outrun the evidence, outcome measures are noisy, and a minority of people experience adverse effects that trials rarely report.
Research from Johns Hopkins University · University of Melbourne. We cite their published work. They have no involvement with Anew.
Where this falls down
Still unknown. Ten to twenty minutes a day is a common protocol, not a dose that has been shown to beat five, or to change hard outcomes.
Topics
Where it fits.
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