Mindfulness
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Mindfulness
The study found that mindfulness helped the nurses experience fewer negative emotions and less rumination — repetitive negative thinking.
Claire Smith • New Research Reveals How Mindfulness Improves Your Sleep
Adoption of potentially consciousness-altering practices may be leading to a rise in emergent phenomena (EP): sudden unusual mental or somatic experiences often interpreted as spiritual, mystical, energetic, or magical in nature. It is unclear how frequently these altered states of consciousness occur and what the clinical implications may be.
... See morewhen the trauma label has been applied by outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place and our culture insists that it be traumatising. Sometimes this extraneous narrative resonates and provides a sense of relief, but in other instances disagreement and refusal of the label can lead to judgement from... See more
Niklas Serning • Trauma - the search for a poisoned chalice?
The unwanted and the shadow imagination are real and necessary parts of our inner landscape. They’re wisdom, dipped in discomfort. When teaching mindfulness, I’ve noticed people either move away from their unwanteds or get sucked into them. Those who move away have conditioned themselves to avoid what they don’t want to hear, see, feel, or think.... See more
Mary Martin • IFTF - How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
If you do this long enough, if you tune this instrument on the meditation cushion long enough, after a while that does become more your default mode. You live in the room rather than living in the agitation of your conceptual reality.
Sean Illing • How mindfulness went mainstream
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a path to less time pressure and more time affluence could consist in learning and practicing mindfulness.
https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aphw.12298
We argue that a denatured mindfulness divorced from
its soteriological context reduces it to a self-help technique that is easily misappropriated for reproducing corporate and
institutional power, employee pacification, and maintenance of toxic organizational cultures.
its soteriological context reduces it to a self-help technique that is easily misappropriated for reproducing corporate and
institutional power, employee pacification, and maintenance of toxic organizational cultures.
Ronald Purser • Mindfulness Revisited: A Buddhist-Based Conceptualization
You can do this practice not only thinking of people you care about, but also visualizing people you don’t like. It’s important to have an unbiased, compassionate attitude toward whatever is arising.