Mindfulness can be a valuable healing tool, but it can also have unintended effects. Here’s what everyone needs to know, writes drjasonnlinder
strategies for potential risks have been largely limited to exclusion and informed consent. Both the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre have published recommended exclusion criteria for standard Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and MBCT, both excluding current suicidality and/or any current psychiatric disorder.
The reality is that we need many tools in the"mental health toolbox" for a variety ofsituations life will throw our way: what about the saw, screwdriver, or pliers? A contributing factor is that we live in a consumerist, capitalist country. It has been overly commodified, its origins partially distorted.
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