Is Mindfulness Right for You?

I'm really disappointed in the creators choice to show young beautiful, skinny women in revealing swimsuits, "meditating" scattered through this film. What was the point of that? While a traumatized man describes his childhood trauma they are showing these hot women as a visual backdrop while he tells horror stories. Totally inappropriate and unnecessary sexualizing of women while a bunch of men talk about how meditation helped them. You managed to piss me off and make me not want to meditate and instead get on IMDB and tell you where to shove it. Totally zen. 🙄 Ohm!

My thoughts can cause me to lose sleep, get sick to stomach, cause a headache, or intensify any other ache in my body. That is because those thoughts that spring up from nowhere tend almost always to be negative thoughts from my past, that really hurt. Sometimes, really bad experiences would whirl around in my head for days, and I felt powerless to stop them. Sound familiar? I realized that the part of me that was observing this madness has the power to say, yeah, ok, you popped into my mind, but I just do not have time for you. It may linger for a while, but maintaining an attitude of....thoughts have no power over you, unless you let them. This lovely presentation, is a great place to start for anyone curious about controlling their reaction to their thoughts. It is in no way preachy, or biased. Just some people talking about how mindfulness practice has dramatically changed their lives. Just watched this, and am already recommending this to family. I recommend it to you too.

I could not agree more with one of the previous reviews. Although the message about mindfulness is quite interesting and often powerful by those who are actually discussing this form of meditation, I simply can not get past these posers who are used as examples to meditate. I see this a lot in these types of documentaries. Most who are used as examples are young and beautiful. They almost appear to be perfect against a beautiful and almost magical backdrop of natural beauty... why not show the the average person in their apartment, back yard, etc? It's offensive, a turn off, and moreover, ridiculous.