Seattle wants to be mindful. With a very anxious populace, zen surrounds, and a desire, however aspirational, to be generally aware of things, the city practically invites this form of meditation. The secular gospel of mindfulness is embedded in local health centers and dating app descriptions and corporate wellness programs. Starbucks has offered its workers Headspace subscriptions, and Microsoft even embedded the unicorn app’s focused breathing exercises into one of its workflow products.
But mindfulness—or a heightened, nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment—may not always be such a good thing, according to research recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. A team that
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