The 5 Biggest Myths of Mindfulness
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen busts the 5 biggest myths of mindfulness
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Mindfulness is everywhere these days. Mindfulness headlines like “Healthy Mind, Healthy Life” or “The Medicine of the Moment” are trumpeted from grocery store checkout stands, right next to celebrity gossip and thinner thighs.
In many ways, this is a good thing: mindfulnessis improving lives the world over. Recent studies have found mindfulness benefits everyone from emergency room nurses to law students waiting for their bar exam results to pregnant women—to the extent that their babies later showed less negative social-emotional behavior than the babies of less mindful women.
But as the mindfulness movement gets bigger and more unwieldy, misconceptions sprout like mushrooms after the rain. Therefore, this week, we’ll tackle the five biggest myths of mindfulness.
The 5 Myths of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is meditation. Mindfulness is about taking time out to rest and relax. Mindfulness is having no thoughts. The ultimate goal is to be mindful all the time. Mindfulness is bliss.Let's explore each in more detail.
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