From Mindfulness To Heartfulness: Transforming Self and Society with Compassion

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As the mindfulness craze has spread in the West it's becoming too commercialized, intellectualized, and diluted. Mindfulness as stress-reducer and attention-enhancer keeps it on a purely cognitive level, missing the emotional, spiritual, and compassionate aspects that have traditionally been an integral part of the practice. In this book (a bestseller in Japan), Murphy-Shigematsu describes what he calls heartfulness, which returns mindfulness to its roots by adding seven additional elements-
Attention as respect and deep listening
Vulnerability as humility and courage
Authenticity as genuineness
Acceptance of things we cannot change
Gratitude for what we receive
Connectedness to ourselves, others, and the world
Responsibility for ourselves and othersAs the mindfulness craze has spread in the West it's becoming too commercialized, intellectualized, and diluted. Mindfulness as stress-reducer and attention-enhancer keeps it on a purely cognitive level, missing the emotional, spiritual, and compassionate aspects that have traditionally been an integral part of the practice. In this book (a bestseller in Japan), Murphy-Shigematsu describes what he calls heartfulness, which returns mindfulness to its roots by adding seven additional elements-
Attention as respect and deep listening
Vulnerability as humility and courage
Authenticity as genuineness
Acceptance of things we cannot change
Gratitude for what we receive
Connectedness to ourselves, others, and the world
Responsibility for ourselves and others
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu is a psychologist with a doctorate from Harvard University, with training also in yoga, meditation, and Chinese medicine. He was a tenured professor in Tokyo from 1989-2005, and has been faculty at Stanford from 2002-2005 and 2008- present. His publishing record includes books in Japan and U.S. He is the author of two books, Multicultural Encounters (Teachers College Press) and When Half is Whole (Stanford University Press). He has also published edited volumes in English, numerous scholarly journal articles, as well as magazine, newspaper articles.