Our obsession with mindfulness is only stressing us out. It’s time to reject cultural snobbery and embrace the mindless. Here's how!
Roxane Gay is a self-confessed Real Housewives fan.’s beauty director Shannon Peter says, “I’m the biggestof anywhere and everywhere fan and I often tell people that it’s my conscious form of self-care.” Fellowstaffer Chloe Gray says, “I tend to curl up in bed with YouTube rather than The Crown or the ten o’clock news. Give me a Q&A or day-in-the-life vlog from an OTT influencer any night for mind-numbing escapism.
Dr Jonathan Pointer, chartered psychologist at therapysanctuary.com, explains that switching off, however you choose to do it, is hugely helpful. “It allows us to disconnect from the stresses and strains of our lives,” he says. “Escapism can even be used as a form of pain management, because when people become focused on something that takes them to another place in their mind , their experience of pain will often decrease.
Mindfulness is totally different from escapism, granted; one is the awareness that comes from purposefully paying attention and using it to better deal with the world; the other is being distracted and letting your mind travel to other places. But the key here is not seeing them as an either-or scenario. It’s simply about reframing mindfulness and approaching it more creatively, harnessing whatever tool you see fit to lose yourself in an activity or pastime.
Because mental salvation can come in any form as long as you’re living in the moment. Horizons aren’t only expanded through ballet, sophrology and books written in 1705.lays bare the perils of no-strings dating and suggestions of what to do when you get mugged off just as bracingly as any Shakespeare play.
It wasn’t until I turned 30 that I stopped waiting until someone else brought up reality telly rather than barrel in with my opinions about who had been voted off. Why? Because as I formed my own sense of identity throughout my 20s, I looked to generalised cultural markers of intelligence in order to impress those around me, and those markers never seemed to include. Those markers were set by people who still believe that television does nothing other than rot the mind.
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