Overview
For decades, mindfulness and meditation have been promoted as miracle cures for stress, anxiety, and burnout. Apps, corporate wellness programs, and bestselling books promise calm minds and happier lives. But what if the story you've been told is only half the truth? In Myths of Mindfulness: Exposing the Hidden Dark Side of Meditation, D'Mara Ellington draws on cutting-edge neuroscience, clinical research, and ancient Buddhist texts to reveal the risks rarely acknowledged by teachers or marketers. From anxiety, dissociation, and depersonalization to psychosis and retraumatization, Ellington exposes how silence can heal some and harm others and why informed consent is long overdue in the mindfulness industry. More than just critique, this groundbreaking book offers a balanced, evidence-based account of meditation's light and shadow. Readers will discover how studies from PLOS ONE, Clinical Psychological Science, and Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica document significant rates of adverse effects, why trials like the MYRIAD study on 8,000 adolescents failed to deliver promised benefits, and how profit-driven "McMindfulness" culture silences stories of harm. Written with compassion and clarity, Ellington dismantles the myth of universality and calls for a new era of transparency, ethics, and trauma-sensitive practice. For seekers, teachers, clinicians, and anyone curious about the real science of meditation, Myths of Mindfulness is both a warning and an invitation: to move beyond illusion and embrace mindfulness in its full truth. light and dark together.
- | Author: D'Mara Ellington
- | Publisher: Independently Published
- | Publication Date: Sep 25, 2025
- | Number of Pages: 126 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-13: 9798267131506
