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Mindfulness is backed by thousands of years of evidence-based practice and millions of deliberate practitioners; this mind-wandering "movement" has, as far I ca
by applecore 11y ago
Mindfulness is backed by thousands of years of evidence-based practice and millions of deliberate practitioners; this mind-wandering "movement" has, as far I can tell, a couple of web articles written about it and very few people intentionally practicing it.
- lutusp 11y ago> ... this mind-wandering "movement" has, as far I can tell, a couple of web articles written about it and very few people intentionally practicing it. Every scientific theory, every invention throughout history, resulted from people "mind-wandering", imagining a reality other than the one in front of them. Mindfulness is not the only legitimate mental activity, in fact it's a fad with a name and some slogans surrounding one of many equally legitimate mental states. There's nothing wrong with it, unless people start thinking of it as the only legitimate mental activity, a human failing with a long sad history.
- tjl 11y agoOne can be "mind-wandering", but still mindful. One meditation technique is to let yourself think random thoughts, notice the thought, and let it go.
- adrusi 11y ago"Mind-wandering" is meditation. The way it is presented in this article is as a type of meditation that you do throughout the day, whenever nothing forced your attention to the present. And like all meditation, it is, in fact, enabled by mindfulness, and has its own prehistoric origins.