Scientists are confused about the concept of mindfulness, and overlook its social and existential dimensions. Mindfulness has become commercialized mindlessness and lost its soul. So says Håkan Nilsson at University of Gothenburg, Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion in Sweden. Håkan Nilsson is a lecturer in social psychology and the author of the […] Read more
Tags: ACT, body scanning, Buddhism, David Finer, discourse, empathy, ethics, exercise, Existential, Gothenburg University, Håkan Nilsson, health, health care, meaning, mindfulness, religion, social psychology, soul, spirituality, stress, stress management, sustainability, yoga– In a caring conversation with a patient, we may suddenly see them as fellow human beings with their own life story. That is a good prescription against burnout, said kidney specialist and author Astrid Seeberger during a theme day on altruism in Stockholm recently. Read more
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