What Did Weisser and Alsop Say Meditation Should Do?

On Crazy Wisdom, in the conversation with Julian Weisser of Virta Health, meditation is described as a way to connect the rational and the emotional. If many more people practiced, the hope is a calmer, less angry public. The hope is tied to Weisser's framework for frustration, the gap between what you expected and what is real. Acceptance may be meditation's part in closing the gap.

The same conversation refuses to treat the practice as a luxury. Yoga and mindfulness can sound like something only wealthy people have time for, when the stress in front of most people is rent, sleep, and more than one job.