The more I think about it, the more I'm coming to embrace the use of "mindfulness".
The problem with meditation is that it isn't open.
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My problem isn't that mindfulness is too accessible or marketing-like.
The problem is that people conflate "mindfulness" with "meditation".
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The best way to popularize meditation isn't to shun scientific investigation, but to broaden its scope.
We need more on concentration.
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Why is it that if I sit for an hour repeating a word over and over, I am doing something religious, but if I sit passively it's science?
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Mostly because popular science hasn't caught up with reality. These things are being studied, but they are not being popularized.
Not yet.
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And perhaps that is how we get people forward, get them moving, get them meditating.
PSA: you are on the frontiers of popular science.
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Which is the best place for a normal person to be, because being at the frontiers of actual science takes some serious intellectual chops.
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There is nothing wrong with popularizing what others have already discovered. You don't need rigorous training to do that.