Mediatation Bad For Yu

Mediatation Bad For Yu

Speaking Outline
Public Speaking
Nikki Jenkins
Persuasive Speech
Comm-1110-09
April 18, 2011

Speech Category: Persuasive

Speech Title: Meditation is bad for you

General Purpose: To persuasive the audience to believe or at least accept

Specific Purpose:                     The specific purpose of my speech is to persuasive the      
audience to believe or at least accept that meditation is not
good for you

Central Idea:                             Meditation is not helpful and can also have harmful effects

Speaking Outline

  I. Introduction
      A. If your only source of information is the mainstream American media, you may very well think that meditation is a time-tested, scientifically proven stress-reducer and anxiety-buster.
      B. Getting in touch with your true nature, de-stressing, and being happy are all possible without suppressing negative emotions.
      C. I’ve never really practiced meditation. I’ve always assumed meditation was wholly good; what could be wrong with centering oneself?
      D. Meditation is not helpful and can also have harmful effects
TRANSITION: Now, I will share with you facts about meditation
  II. Body
      E. According to Stats.org, this week, Newsweek regurgitates that line, with a story sub-titled,  "Science shows that meditation, massage, yoga-even laughter-can change bad habits in the brain." This follows hard on  pro-meditation articles in The New York Times and The Washington Post citing a brain-imaging study of stressed workers, which found that they shifted their thinking patterns from the negative-focused right prefrontal brain areas to the happier left side through meditation
        1. But in a rare departure from this trend, John Horgan, in a Slate essay explaining why he Buddhism mentions that meditation has not been definitively shown to be helpful and can even have harmful effects.
        2. According to Stats.org, even more alarming is that there has...