{"id":5880,"date":"2021-09-18T06:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/?p=5880"},"modified":"2021-09-18T06:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:24:39","slug":"can-mindfulness-have-downsides-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/can-mindfulness-have-downsides-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Can mindfulness have downsides too?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We may not be able to savour full-flavour of mindfulness in context of our individualism as compared to being group or community oriented. Michael J. Poulin, says that mindfulness when practiced with focus on \u201c<em>I<\/em>\u201d rather than \u201c<em>WE<\/em>\u201d might not lead to positive outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For accomplishing the core purpose of mindfulness, let\u2019s focus more on terms like \u201c<em>we<\/em>\u201d, \u201c<em>what we want<\/em>,\u201d \u201c<em>who we are<\/em>\u201d that are community centric instead of self-centric terms such as \u201c<em>what I want<\/em>,\u201d \u201c<em>who I am<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mindfulness practices that naturally include thinking about other people over ones own self, make us more kind, helpful and generous thus leading to positive social outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may not be able to savour full-flavour of mindfulness in context of our individualism as compared to being group or community oriented. Michael J.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[37,38,39,40],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samucchraya","tag-echome","tag-mindfulness","tag-positivepsychology","tag-selfcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5883,"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions\/5883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echome.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}