Here’s why you may not be getting the benefits you expected from mindfulness
Hali Kil, Assistant Professor, Psychology, Simon Fraser University
You’ve probably seen the word mindfulness everywhere these days, from the news, to magazines, to social media.
Mindfulness is sometimes packaged as a mental health cure-all, and studies do suggest that mindfulness-based therapies support mental health. Your friends or family may even have told you that mindfulness has changed their lives.
But if you have tried mindfulness and feel like it isn’t working for you, our developmental psychology research might explain why.
In our recent study, we...