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Op-Ed: No, Mindfulness Is Not a Fad

By Ellen Langer — 2017

While it may be tempting to dismiss what some have called “mindfulness culture,” we should not dismiss mindfulness itself.

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Here, Now, Aware: The Power of Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the key to the present moment. Without it we cannot see the world clearly, and we simply stay lost in the wanderings of our minds.

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Joseph Goldstein
2007
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

The simple, although not always easy, practices of vipassana are all rooted in one important discourse of the Buddha: the Satipatthana Sutta. Satipatthana is often translated as “foundation of mindfulness,” but another, and perhaps more helpful, translation is “way of establishing mindfulness.

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Joseph Goldstein
2020
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How Mindfulness Can Help Engineers Solve Problems

New research shows that by promoting divergent thinking, mindfulness can help engineers strengthen their ability to generate new ideas, leading to new ways of thinking and better solutions.

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Beth Rieken, Shauna Shapiro, Shannon Gilmartin, Sheri D. Sheppard
2019
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The Mindful Revolution

Mindfulness says we can do better. At one level, the techniques associated with the philosophy are intended to help practitioners quiet a busy mind, becoming more aware of the present moment and less caught up in what happened earlier or what’s to come.

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Kate Pickert
2014
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Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness. But there’s so much mud and silt layering itself on top in the form of conditioned behavior and self-centeredness.

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Maia Szalavitz
2012
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Mindfulness Has Huge Health Potential – But McMindfulness Is No Panacea

Opinion by Jon Kabat-Zinn: Mindfulness has huge health potential – but McMindfulness is no panacea. This ‘way of being’ is no quick fix.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
2015
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Mindfulness: The Most Direct Path

Insight teacher James Baraz teaches how to train mindfulness with sitting meditation from the Vipassana tradition.

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James Baraz
2010
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Mindfulness Can Improve Your Attention and Health

A focus on the present, dubbed “mindfulness,” can make you happier and healthier. Training to deepen your immersion in the moment works by improving attention

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Amishi Jha
2013
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You’re Overwhelmed (And It’s Not Your Fault)

We’re living in volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous times. Neuroscientist Amishi Jha explains ten ways your brain reacts—and how mindfulness can help you survive, and even thrive.

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Amishi Jha
2020
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What Mindfulness Is—and Isn’t

Daniel Goleman responds to popular misconceptions of mindfulness.

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Daniel Goleman
2014
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