Friday, 3 April 2020

How coronavirus turned competitive meditation into a global sport

How coronavirus turned competitive meditation into a global sport

March Mindfulness is Mashable's series that examines the intersection of meditation practice and technology. It culminates in our meditation competition, which this year took on a new spin.


With every major event from the Olympics in Tokyo to March Madness in the U.S. canceled, it's fair to say that the coronavirus pandemic has not been great for sports. But there is at least one whimsical new sport that has received a shot in the arm in our new Zoom-filled world: competitive meditation. 

I invented the meditation tournament known as March Mindfulness in 2018, using a meditation wearable called the Muse. Via its app, the Muse produces the sound of birds when your mind gets calm. It seemed to me that some fan of both meditation and mischief should use the Muse to make a bracket contest of one-on-one meditation games decided by bird score; the calmest meditator goes through to the next round. So I became the deeply ironic contest creator I wanted to see in the world.  Read more...

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