#mindfulness #meditation #psych #pop-psych #consultants #cohost-repost
2023-06-23

thinking about how the concepts of 'mindfulness' and 'mindfulness meditation' being decontextualized-noun'd (and by extension, in a sense, enclosed) being talked about the way they are is the opposite of mindfulness

mindfulness is paying attention to what you're experiencing, when you're experiencing it, it's focusing on the food you're eating, or the people you're with, or the experience you're having, and not 'time to go be mindful :) im so glad I'm able to practice being mindful two hours a day :)"

it's the opposite of habituation-desensitization -- when you eat you pay attention to the aspects of the food instead of the food just being a thing while you do other stuff, etc. mindful sex being when you pay attention to the other person instead of it being just a thing you do, etc.

and it's stunning how fast it's been consultant-ized into what it is