Engaging mindfulness - introduction

Engaging mindfulness - introduction

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Note 1: Mindfulness has become popular in Denmark and other countries, used in therapies for anxiety and depression, and implemented in various settings.
Related issues: Mindfulness-based psychotherapeutic interventions, Mindfulness in schools, prisons, and the workplace.

Note 2: The scientific research on mindfulness has grown significantly in the past two decades.
Related issues: Quantity vs quality of research, Foundational conceptual and methodological problems.

Note 3: Mindfulness is seen as a "first-person method" for studying the mind, aligning it with phenomenology.
Related issues: Relationship between mindfulness and phenomenology, Puzzling connection between Buddhism and phenomenology.

Note 4: Mindfulness is considered a "science of the mind" based on Buddhist observation of the mind in meditation.
Related issues: Transformation vs revelation in meditation, Repackaging and innovation of mindfulness practices.

Note 5: The connection between mindfulness and phenomenology has been critiqued.
Related issues: Detached meditative reflection vs immersed being-in-the-world, Mischaracterizing phenomenology.

Note 6: Mindfulness meditation actively shapes conscious experience.
Related issues: Mindfulness as a technology of transformation, Meditation as structuring the stream of thought.

Note 7: Mindfulness should be understood as a practice of concentration and structuring the mind.
Related issues: Awareness of engaging in structuring activity, Awareness of the results of meditation.


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