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Jesus Malverde (4,142 posts) The mainstreaming of mindfulness meditationWhy is mindfulness so popular? It appeals to people seeking an antidote to life in work-obsessed, tech-saturated, frantically busy Western culture. There is growing scientific evidence that mindfulness meditation has genuine health benefits — and can even alter the structure of the brain, so the technique is drawing some unlikely devotees.<<<<<<<<<<< snip....blah, blah, blah, blah
Star Member PuraVidaDreamin (3,631 posts) 1. May all beings.... Be happy, be free... One part of me loves the thought of mindfulness meditation sneaking into the Hearts and minds of those who work in the Pentagon, or Wall Street. It is so sweetly subversive, how self inquiry can transform one into a kind and feeling being. QuoteThen there is the other part of me that wonders how those places will Try to mold it into some darker form to use for their own benefit.
Then there is the other part of me that wonders how those places will Try to mold it into some darker form to use for their own benefit.
quaker bill (7,385 posts) 2. A practice unprogrammed Quaker Meetings share with Budhists. I have been meditating this way for 30 years. We call it "centering down". It does work on health in the ways reported. My last check up at the MD involved about a 25 minute wait in the exam room. I "centered down" and meditated until he arrived. I got the best physical readings I have had in many years.
marions ghost (16,759 posts) 3. we take in a lot of information without time to process it...flush it out. Delete. Clear cache. Clear all. The collective mind is hyper, crazed, frenetic these days--nowhere more so than in America where people talk over each other, over-schedule, spend enormous amounts of time consuming (not only stuff to buy but stuff to think about), and never ever, have a sense of "being caught up." We are rarely what you'd call "present." So I think this is a useful and generally accessible meditation practice as an anxiety and stress reliever.
Sanders (551 posts) 5. Thai people, 98% Buddhist, and daily practitioners of mindfulness, have to be the most content and gentle people in the world, particularly in the Northern Lanna Kingdom....it is like living on another planet there. Watching people bear gifts to monks at 7 in the morning and hearing the gentle lecture received in return is plain awesome.
