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- Published on: 4 April 2018
- Published on: 4 April 2018Unconvincing claims in this article
On p.5 the authors comment on the use of mindfulness exercises as "a tool to relieve suffering
and increase functioning". They claim that "This goes against common epistemic values" where these epistemic values are described as "the sort of values that lead one to accept uncomfortable truths, and to be honest, even brutally honest, with oneself."
As far as I can see there is no argument given for that claim, and what is more, it seems to go precisely contrary to the purpose of mindfulness exercises in that these are intended to enable one to be honest with oneself and face uncomfortable truths (e.g.: "... we cultivate acceptance by taking each moment as it comes and being with it fully, as it is [...] receptive and open to whatever we are feeling, thinking, or seeing". [Kabat-Zinn, Full catastrophe living, p.28f: https://books.google.at/books?id=fIuNDtnb2ZkC]). Mindfulness is to a large extent a tool to enable one be "honest, even brutally honest, with oneself".There is a number of other strange claims in this article, I will mention only one: "Suppose an atheist was having trouble coping emotionally with a natural disaster in which there were many casualties. They might object to imagining the people who died in the disaster frolicking in heaven, even if doing so would help them cope. They do not believe in heaven, thus the imaginati...
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