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When You Use Manipulation to Market Spiritual Products

I work in marketing for a meditation app and the irony of using psychological manipulation to sell mindfulness is not lost on me but I tell myself at least it's helping people find peace.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The commodification of spiritual practices creates ethical paradoxes where the means of distribution may contradict the essence of what is being offered.

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