MORE WARNINGS ON MINDFULNESS From the UK comes a report on some damaging effects from the fast-growing Mindfulness practice. These are the secular warnings. A spiritual warning should be issued as well since there is a spiritual dimension to this practice. Mindfulness is not just being aware of the present moment, which is a simplistic description of it. ==..... the dark night project at Brown University in the US, which has catalogued how some Buddhist meditators have been assailed by traumatic memories. Problems recorded by Professor Willoughby Britton, the lead psychiatrist, include cognitive, perceptual and sensory aberrations, changes in their sense of self and impairment in social relationships. One Buddhist monk, Shinzen Young, has described the dark night phenomenon as an irreversible insight into emptiness and enlightenments evil twin. .....Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford Universitys mindfulness centre, stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up extremely distressing experiences. .....They expect mindfulness teachers to train for at least a year and to remain under supervision. Some Buddhists have opposed the idea, arguing it is unreasonable to regulate a practice rooted in a religion.==
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:59:41 +0000
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