Any authentic mindfulness meditation teacher, and there are thousands of them, would never suggest that.
What we might call authentic mindfulness, I found, is a noble and potentially useful idea.
Authentic mindfulness is also humble in the sense that it places the self in its proper, minuscule place within each moment's infinitude.
This more authentic path of mindfulness seeks a happiness that does not harm and does not exclude.
She's writing up the results of a survey of 350 managers, with preliminary findings showing a relationship between mindfulness and authentic leadership – a transparent, honest management approach – and physical activity positively influencing that relationship.
Her talk on "spirituality and entrepreneurship" reflects her efforts to "see the person behind the entrepreneurs". And she thinks "it is time to deepen the 'inner box', one may call intuition, reflective zone, inner sense, the area of mindfulness or authentic self". The first, as I posted March 25th, many entrepreneurs start companies not for money but to change the world.
Although this study can't prove that mindfulness causes more authentic behavior, which in turn causes greater well-being, there's reason to believe this might be the case.
Compassion, mindfulness, gratitude, content, patient, authentic, kindness, community, calm, and strength are the mantras that I use regularly.
Greater is the power in discerning when mindfulness can lead to authentic choice and the removal of boundaries within yourself and the world than to continue to react in ways that have outlived their usefulness.
Can Mindfulness Help You Be More Authentic?
It's consoling to think that, beneath all these distractions, we'll discover our shining, authentic selves, or even achieve a state of "mindfulness". But I doubt it.
