Mindfulness and culture

the UK, researching NHS mindfulness courses, therapist training programmes, parliamentarians’ mindfulness practice in Westminster and political advocacy for mindfulness in public policy. She shows that the popularity of mindfulness results from broader transformations in ideas about the self, mental health and human flourishing. People across society increasingly think of mental health as ‘something we all have’ that we can actively support through cultivating a kindly relationship with our minds: that we can effect positive change on ourselves, our habits, impulses and reactions by learning to relate differently to our minds