"To explore the influence of mindfulness and music on mentally fatigued individuals..." And what about preventative measures? Next steps: Dig out the roots of such mental fatigue by fundamentally transforming the unhealthy work culture in which it's grounded.https://twitter.com/NeuroscienceNew/status/1236041404377436162 …
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Replying to @NoaidiX
Yes. Unfortunately a band-aid mentality has monopolised 'mindfulness'. Painful in its near perfect irony.
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Replying to @AshokZaman
Well-said. I was that kid at recess telling the others who thought a band-aid would make the pain go away that it doesn't work like that!
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I've offered an essay on current takes on mindfulness, suggesting, a bit tongue-in-cheek, that I'm concerned that Western psychologists think they know what they're doing:https://thesideview.co/articles/deconstructing-mindfulness/ …
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Replying to @bodhidave3 @AshokZaman
Echoes much of the sentiment that convinced me to switch a fully-funded Ph.D. in neuroscience (studying a myopic version of "mindfulness") at one of the nation's top research universities into a terminal M.A. and leave to pursue full-time intensive practice with a broader lens...
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Replying to @NoaidiX @bodhidave3
In many ways this reflects the modern challenge that genuine practice (and its *real* fruitions) faces. Will it get subsumed in its appropriation? What would it mean for the future if it does? There's a case to be made for urgency in preservation (along with innovations).
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Replying to @AshokZaman @bodhidave3
The question of skillful means (upāya) is particularly relevant here, especially in terms of striking the balance between preservation and innovation.
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These are good points, and it's over-simple on my part but I'm reminded that, even when entered into with ulterior or misconceived motives, contemplative practice tends to have a kind of self-correcting character, as playfully suggested in this Sufi story:https://twitter.com/bodhidave3/status/1131527788563959810 …
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Ron Purser facilitated one of the first mindfulness conferences at which I presented. His work on "McMindfulness" (and some words of wisdom from Alan Wallace at an earlier conference through Mind&Life) shifted the gears significantly in my mind, re-routing my entire trajectory...
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