I wholeheartedly agree, and to the extent that a program is simply soothing, then there isn’t any actual mindful attention training happening. That’s my primar

I wholeheartedly agree, and to the extent that a program is simply soothing, then there isn’t any actual mindful attention training happening. That’s my primary point, that attention training isn’t a salve, it’s awareness building. The problem with a lot of mindfulness “training” is that it’s really just group relaxation without training the kind of awareness that should be useful in any context.