Abstract
The use of mindfulness meditation as a well-being and clinical tool is being deeply challenged on various fronts. The recent failure of showing its salutary effects on schoolchildren, in a large-scale study, which stands as the most expensive study in the history of meditation science (£6.4 million), is accompanied by growing evidence of potential adverse effects associated with mindfulness practice. It is suggested that the heightened enthusiasm surrounding the benefits of mindfulness led academics to use facile metaphors to promote it (such as comparing the mind to a muscle) and distorted its presentation - both in disseminating overhyped findings and in neglecting the report of adverse effects.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 422-423 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Child and Adolescent Mental Health |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 2 Oct 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2022 |
Bibliographical note
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.Keywords
- Mindfulness
- adverse effects
- mental health
- children
Themes
- Faith and Peaceful Relations
