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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

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4 Criticisms of mindfulness

Towards the end of the reading ‘Mindfulness’ you learned that there have been many criticisms of the ways in which mindfulness has been applied so far. In the Radio 4 Beyond Belief programme you will listen to shortly, you will hear three experts discussing mindfulness applications, and the issues with them. The speakers are Buddhist teacher Christopher Titmuss [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] from Gaia House Buddhist Retreat Centre, Chris Cullan from the University of Oxford Mindfulness and Rebecca Crane from Bangor Centre for Mindfulness Research. Chris and Rebecca are key UK researchers in this area, and have been involved with the Mindful Nation UK report and the development of mindfulness-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Now listen to BBC Beyond Belief: Mindfulness. We recommend that you listen to the final section of the programme, from 18 minutes and 30 seconds. However, the whole episode, with more discussion of what mindfulness is and how it relates to meditation and other spiritual practices, is available at this link.

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