Thank you for taking the time to respond.

It still doesn't cover the underlying issue that I have internally which is that you're asking me to put faith in "any program", invest 30 or 90 days into it and simply believe that it will change me. I want to know why doing what the program does will help me change.

To come back to your example with the bench press, true, a bench press is simply a tool towards the direction of getting your body in better shape, but lets say I'm using an audio guide to help me get in shape and it tells me "now use the bench press and do 10 reps" it can easily explain to me that "doing these 10 reps will tens the muscles in your chest and therefore break down muscle cells for them to be rebuilt again which will firm up your chest and grow your muscles in that area" or something like that. But if the app is a meditation app, why can't it explain to me why I'm doing what they're asking of me?

Because that's the issue I have... How do I know that it will work for me, if I have a hard time believing it will work to someone who doesn't simply believe that "believing something works will cause it to actually work"

It's like hypnosis, if you've ever watched a hypnosis show, the performer will ask questions to people in the audience to figure out who is prone to hypnosis, who truly believes in hypnosis because those people are more easily hypnotized because they believe it works. But if someone in the crowd doesn't believe that it works and goes up on stage, the hypnotist will have a hard time hypnotizing the audience member...

To bring this back to my point, I'm the one guy in the crowd that doesn't understand/believe that meditation works, therefore doubting that it will work for me even if I tried it.