Study: Yoga, Meditation Makes People More Egotistical, Which Contradicts The Purpose

There exist whole swaths of liberal elites who use Yoga and spiritual “meditation” as ways to achieve enlightenment in the pursuit of selflessness. The traditional teaching says that such people will become more detached over time, becoming less concerned with material affairs as well as their self-image. A recent study in the journal Psychological Science says all of that is complete nonsense; in fact, the people who use Yoga/Meditation become more egotistical. Here’s how Quartz reported the findings:

They recruited yoga 93 students and, over a period of 15 weeks, regularly evaluated their sense of self-enhancement. They used several measures to do this. First, they assessed participants’ level of self-enhancement by asking how they compared to the average yoga student in their class. (Comparisons to the average is the standard way of measuring self-enhancement.) Second, they had participants complete an inventory that assesses narcissistic tendencies, which asked participants to rate how deeply phrases like ‘I will be well-known for the good deeds I will have done’ applied to them. And finally, they administered a self-esteem scale asking participants whether statements like, ‘At the moment, I have high self-esteem.’