Mentioned in an article about Jon Kabat-Zinn who is known pioneering mindfulness to treat pain and depression while "taking the Buddhism out of the practice".
Mindfulness courses are being rolled out in the UK to school pupils, convicts, civil servants and prescribed on the NHS to prevent recurrent depression, with 2,256 people completing eight-week courses last year.
The BKs - who have a long history of using other religion's concepts and terminology - are exploiting the interest in the idea as a marketing term, e.g their "Mindful Kitchen, or Increasing mindful awareness, to outrightly pirating it, or here, here and here (Mindfulness in Nature or Mindfulness Meditation), applying it to and selling their practise with it.
Mindfulness is also being used in conjunction with Cognitive Therapy in Prevention of Depressive Relapse.
Mindfulness courses are being rolled out in the UK to school pupils, convicts, civil servants and prescribed on the NHS to prevent recurrent depression, with 2,256 people completing eight-week courses last year.
The BKs - who have a long history of using other religion's concepts and terminology - are exploiting the interest in the idea as a marketing term, e.g their "Mindful Kitchen, or Increasing mindful awareness, to outrightly pirating it, or here, here and here (Mindfulness in Nature or Mindfulness Meditation), applying it to and selling their practise with it.
Mindfulness is also being used in conjunction with Cognitive Therapy in Prevention of Depressive Relapse.
Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation by Nicholas T. Van Dam, Marieke K. van Vugt, David R. Vago and others.
Abstract
During the past two decades, mindfulness meditation has gone from being a fringe topic of scientific investigation to being an occasional replacement for psychotherapy, tool of corporate well-being, widely implemented educational practice, and “key to building more resilient soldiers.” Yet the mindfulness movement and empirical evidence supporting it have not gone without criticism. Misinformation and poor methodology associated with past studies of mindfulness may lead public consumers to be harmed, misled, and disappointed. Addressing such concerns, the present article discusses the difficulties of defining mindfulness, delineates the proper scope of research into mindfulness practices, and explicates crucial methodological issues for interpreting results from investigations of mindfulness. For doing so, the authors draw on their diverse areas of expertise to review the present state of mindfulness research, comprehensively summarizing what we do and do not know, while providing a prescriptive agenda for contemplative science, with a particular focus on assessment, mindfulness training, possible adverse effects, and intersection with brain imaging. Our goals are to inform interested scientists, the news media, and the public, to minimize harm, curb poor research practices, and staunch the flow of misinformation about the benefits, costs, and future prospects of mindfulness meditation.