The founders of the mindfulness movement have grown evangelical, predicting that the discipline has the potential to ignite a universal or global renaissance. Mindfulness enthusiasts believe that paying closer attention to the present moment without passing judgement has the power to transform the world. Yet, anything that offers success without trying to change is not revolutionary; it just helps people cope. It could also make things worse.

Mindfulness is problematic

Mindfulness does help reduce stress, chronic anxiety and other disorders. Becoming aware of automatic reactions can make people calmer and potentially kinder. Yet, the problem is how mindfulness has been packaged. Mindfulness is essentially concentration training. It is stripped of the Buddhism teachings on ethics that accompanied it, as well as the liberating aim of detaching from a false sense of self while having compassion for all other things. What remains is a tool of self-discipline disguised as self-help.

Worthy dimensions to mindfulness practice

Instead of setting people free, mindfulness help practitioners adjust to the conditions that caused their problems and reinforce its destructive logic. People are expected to adapt. Stress has been pathologised and privatised, and the burden of managing it is outsourced to individuals, causing the proponents of mindfulness to step in to save the day. But mindfulness can only be effective if they accept that personal stress also has societal causes. Failing to address collective suffering and creating change to remove it reduces mindfulness to something that keeps people focused on themselves.

Overturning a dysfunctional system

Instead of discussing how attention is monetised and manipulated by large corporations such as Google and Facebook, we are told to find the crisis in our minds, saying it is our failure to be mindful and resilient in an unsure economy.  If we are sad about being unemployed and losing our health insurance, the mindfulness revolution meekly accepts the circumstances, ruling out a way to critically engage with causes of suffering. This submissive position is framed as freedom without the genuine freedom found within a cooperative and just society.

Mindfulness advocates unwittingly provide support for the status quo

Proponents of mindfulness believe that the practice is apolitical and that moral inquiry should be avoided. It is assumed that ethical behaviour will happen naturally from practice, through the teacher's example of soft-spoken niceness, or through the chance of self-discovery. But it is flawed. The emphasis on “non-judgmental awareness” can prevent one's moral intelligence. This reduction in stress and increase in personal happiness and wellbeing are much easier to sell than questioning injustices.

The commodification of mindfulness

All that mindfulness promise is "cruel optimism", as cultural theorist Lauren Berlant shows. We are told that if we practise mindfulness and get our individual lives in order, we can be happy and secure. We are promised that stable employment and success will naturally follow. It is implied that we can gain self-mastery and thrive. Yet it is cruel to be promised to have it all if we can sit in silence, watch our breath, and wait. Because we neglect shared vulnerabilities and interdependence, we fail to imagine collective ways we might protect ourselves.

Promises of mindfulness

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Many of us, even if we don’t travel for work, do something similar by avoiding spending time in the home of our own minds. If being fully present—or in the parlance of modern meditators, being mindful—is boring, stressful, sad, or scary, you’re not going to want to do it very much. You can have a more pleasant time being psychologically out of town, as it were.But you should work to be more mindful anyway.

Being In The Present Moment Is Boring

<ul><li>Many psychologists believe that humans are wired to time-travel mentally into the future, to consider new scenarios and try out new ideas.</li><li>But avoiding mindfulness can also be an effective way to distract yourself from pain.</li><li>People’s minds are significantly more likely to wander when they’re in a negative mood than when they’re in a positive mood. </li><li>Some sources of unhappiness that lead to distraction and mind-wandering are fear, anxiety, neuroticism, and of course, boredom.</li></ul>

The Usual Way: Distraction

If you can't meditate, it boils down to two problems:You don’t know how to be at home in your head, or you do know and have concluded that home is no fun. If the former is what’s stopping you, then by all means, dig into the extensive and growing technology and literature on mindfulness. You might try formal meditation or simply pay attention more to your current surroundings.But if your problem is the latter, you need to face the source head-on. Avoiding yourself won’t work in the long run.Avoiding mindfulness to avoid emotions makes things worse, not better.

Avoiding Mindfulness

Mindfulness is not the same thing as navel-gazing. To be here now does not mean obsessing over yourself and your problems and disregarding others. Scholars have <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01481/full">shown</a> that excessive self-concern can increase defensiveness and the perception of threat. Mindfulness should work instead toward a sense of yourself as part of the wider world, and an observation of your emotions without judgment. As you work to focus on the present, remind yourself of two things: You are just one of more than <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/02/dalai-lama-gentle-transgressive-individuality-happiness/617901/">7 billion human beings</a>, and your emotions will come and go as a normal part of being alive.

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