Thursday, August 18, 2011

Getting results from mindfulness...and letting go of them | Mindful

Getting results from mindfulness...and letting go of them | Mindful:

it's important not to get carried away by all the data, sucked into viewing meditation as a quick-fix solution.

To fall into this goal-oriented mindset is to fundamentally misunderstand what meditation is, and how it helps. Indeed, expecting meditation to “make me better,” perhaps based on the results of clinical studies, may well sabotage the practice, whose benefit comes partly from letting go of the tendency to grasp for results.