Guess Who Is Using Mindfulness Now

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What institution would you expect to be the last to adopt mindfulness-based stress reduction? My answer would be the US military. Well, it seems they are on the way to using it to help their soldiers and Marines.

A post on psychcentral.com describes a recent study, “University of Pennsylvania researchers found mindfulness training, or MT was associated with improvements in mood and working memory…. The study found that the more time participants spent engaging in daily mindfulness exercises the better their mood and working memory, the cognitive term for complex thought, problem solving and cognitive control of emotions.”

The military is seeing mindfulness as building “mind fitness.” As anyone who has done mindfulness meditation knows, your mind not only becomes more relaxed, it performs better.

Imagine what would occur if mindfulness was as common as calisthenics. Because it works and it is cheap, I expect we will see continue adoption of mindfulness throughout our institutions.

Where have you seen mindfulness adopted?

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