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Mindfulness strikes me as total BS pandering to westerners obsession and reverence for Buddhism and some orientalist kind of ideas.

Don’t kid yourself and buy into all the marketing.

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Science disagrees with you. The commercialization may be pandering, but mindfulness itself is not.

To the extent that the science says it is one way (and it’s legitimate science and you interpreted it correctly), I take your view. I still find it totally ybsatisfting as far as actually understanding the source of stress and dealing with it in a healthy and long term way.

Thanks for the jab. Makes me hate you a little.

I don't actually hate you <3

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