The secular approach to meditation is opening a lot of doors right now when it comes to brain health and stress relief,
Meditation has been around for more than 2,500 years, but it has taken a secular approach and scientific research — not to mention added publicity from technology companies like Google and Apple, which encourage employees to meditate — to reintroduce it into popular culture. But can meditation, and its cousin, “mindfulness,” become staples of urban life the way that yoga, a rarity until the early 1990s, has become a widespread activity? No Texts, Please, We’re Meditating http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/nyregion/no-texts-please-were-meditating.html?emc=eta1 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/nyregion/no-texts-please-were-meditating.html?emc=eta1 No Texts, Please, We’re Meditating http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/nyregion/no-texts-please-were-meditating.html?emc=eta1 Increasing numbers of harried New Yorkers are gathering to close their eyes and just breathe. View on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/nyregion/no-texts-please-were-meditating.html?emc=eta1 Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : The Hidden Price of Mindfulness Inc. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/sunday/the-hidden-price-of-mindfulness-inc.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/sunday/the-hidden-price-of-mindfulness-inc.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 The Hidden Price of Mindfulness Inc. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/sunday/the-hidden-price-of-mindfulness-inc.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 As the practice of mindfulness is packaged and peddled, it’s hard not to wonder if something essential is being lost. View on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/sunday/the-hidden-price-of-mindfulness-inc.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 Preview by Yahoo With so many mindful goods and services for sale, it can be easy to forget that mindfulness is a quality of being, not a piece of merchandise. ..while purists sometimes wrung their hands about its commercialization, their lamentations were in vain. Let loose in the American marketplace, yoga took on a life of its own. Now, she said, the same thing is happening with mindfulness. ..Though this may result in less signal and more noise, it doesn’t mean mindfulness can’t still be beneficial. Yoga may have changed over the years, but plenty of authentic teachers and ashrams can still be found. The same dynamic will most likely play out with mindfulness, too. Strange variations on mindfulness will proliferate, while pockets of traditional teachings endure. http://nyti.ms/1XDaPnu http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=InCMR7g4BCKC2wiZPkcVUsb75Xk4dusI&user_id=325d185f131a5d67e0cba86c1a05b2bf&email_type=eta&task_id=1458498522242278®i_id=0
