First I think I found the link and posted it for you.

https://onbeing.org/

Mindfulness has been stolen by the "spirituality" gang it does seem that the practice has been corrupted into a grand marketing scheme.

I'm an atheist but one that meditates mostly for my physical and mental health. I mainly practice a walking form of meditation. I take hikes of at least two miles everyday. During those walks my mind clears of the mundane crap of daily living to experience the world around me.

I should note that I walk in the state park that is literally in my backyard. That helps.
Having that "time out" helps coping with the daily crap. Noticing and appreciating the wonders surround us. The little things, the different calls of the birds, the mosses growing and helping decompose trees that died and have fallen. The intricacies of nature or should I say the science of nature.

I've been doing this for a very long time. I dislike the way that "Mindfulness" has been co-opted by commercialism.

Thank you for posting your take is enlighting and shared by more than you may realize.

I'm very confident that "mindfulness" in its traditional application is, as you note, rather different from the version that's been repackaged and rebranded for a western market.

I also have nothing against meditation, in large part because it has clear and demonstrable benefits for people who practice it.

Thanks for posting the link and for your supportive comments!

I can see the usefulness of meditation. But "mindfulness" seems to be the New Coke of the spiritualism crowd.


But it's not like we haven't seen this before.

From 1977:

Also "Touch my heart. With your foot."

I listen to it on my local NPR station on Sunday mornings whilst I make coffee. That's about the extent of my religiosity for the week. She is good and sometimes you can tell she is just full of her self and leads her guests with loaded questions..
As for mindfulness to me it's just a gussied up form of meditation practiced for thousands of years. Got to have a new spin to sell it to the newbies. Like TM and work out routines touted in the gym and the tv machine. Just a variation on on an old theme.. Ommm y'all

That being said I try to meditate 2x a day.. Helps keep my head screwed on straight.
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- "If you chew a wad of gum and you bite it in half and swallow half of it, how come you still have a full wad of gum in your mouth?"
- "Wow!"

as a practice to calm down and go to sleep easier. It is like meditation in that you focus your mind on something and keep it there as you breath slowly and deliberately. I do it with my dog. As I look at her I use all of my senses...how she smells, her soft fur, her warm body, etc. instead of petting her and thinking about doing my laundry. I have never heard it used in religion. Therapists like to use it with their patients who have anxiety/depression.

And, as noted, I have no objection to it as a meditative practice or as a component of one's religion.

But the formulation put forth on the program, which I summarized here, is little more than trite slogans and feel-goodism. And, again, the speaker is an acknowledged expert on the subject.

I thought that it sounded odd since I have read many articles in magazines like Time and Newsweek about it in the past when it was first suggested to my by my therapist years and years ago since I have anxiety and difficulty sleeping. I never read anything even close to what you described.