Wildmind Meditation News
Dec 23, 2011
Jon Kabat-Zinn gives advice for unhappy news junkies
Jon Brooks: There’s been a lot of bad news in recent years with the economy decimated and unemployment high and budget cuts. For consumers of news who find themselves overly affected by negative reports, what can they do in terms of mindfulness?
Jon Kabat-Zinn: If they’re very affected by it and negatively affected by it, what mindfulness would suggest is that you start to look at that and actually experience how you’re being affected by it. How it’s affecting your body, how it’s affecting the rest of your day, how much of your …
Audio: Jon Kabat-Zinn on people negatively affected by the news.
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