Mindfulness: everyone is talking about this these days, to the extent that it seems to be politically incorrect not to either know what it is, or be aspiring to master it.
The development of mindfulness as a contemporary practice can be attributed to Jon Kabat-Zinn who, as well as being a distinguished scientist, was a student of several Buddhist teachers including Thich Nhat Hạnh.
Kabat-Zinn created a ‘Stress Reduction Relaxation Programme’ that he later remodelled into ‘Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction’ (MBSR) — thus removing the Buddhist connections to place it within a nonideological framework, grounded in science and arguably therefore more accessible for the purposes of health and wellbeing.
Meditation is often something that people feel may be attached to a religious belief system or is otherwise unavailable to them; some lofty ideal only attainable by those accomplished enough to conquer it. I have heard so many people say “I can’t meditate” only to find that with the right approach, it can be accessible to everyone. I suggest that if mindfulness practice can be sustained in the Houses of Parliament, it can be sustained by anybody, anywhere.
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