Is it helpful to monitor the quality of one's mindfulness practice ... and, if so, what should one be monitoring?  I've raised this question with experienced mindfulness teachers before and been answered with the concern that monitoring practice quality might increase an "achievement orientation" state of mind that could actually interfere with the "non-judging" benefits...

I do enjoy writing these blog posts ... real fun having the opportunity to think around subjects that currently intrigue me.  So in the first post in this sequence on the value of a therapeutic focus on strengths rather than weaknesses we looked fairly broadly at...

I wrote an initial post on "New research suggests ... focus on strengths rather than weaknesses" a couple of days ago.  I discussed various reasons for thinking that better matching of patients to more personalized treatments could be...