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New Framework Shows Why Mindfulness is a Foundational Capacity for Meeting the Challenges of Our Time

Check out this guest blog post for the Mind and Life Institute from Jamie Bristow, Director at The Mindfulness Initiative.

Jamie suggests that we think of mindfulness as a foundational capacity and proposes that the contribution mindfulness practice makes to improving our agency is what underpins all of the positive benefits it can produce.

This short piece is a summary of findings from one of The Mindfulness Initiative’s recent papers, Mindfulness: Developing Agency in Urgent Times.

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Published: 19th February, 2021
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