The Dark Side of Mindfulness

The dark side of mindfulness is not illuminating all the systems that have led up to your mental chatter, mental noise, anxiety in the first place. And what i believe to be a big part of that anxiety and noise and all those other things comes from some misguided efforts we have to self soothe. We're going to look at these things on a personal level and then what i call a sociobiological level. Instead of using much energy to try and calm ourselves, calm ourselves,. calm ourselves when we feel anxious or angry, or we're judging that other person and how they're reacting, instead of using all of this money that is now being spent in a lot of organizations to alleviate