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Cultivating Ideal Mentalities in Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Feature Bringing Challenges but More Contributions

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Objectives

As an important trend in the research on and practice of mindfulness, second-generation mindfulness-based interventions (SG-MBIs) expanded components and emphasized ethics and wisdom. The current article proposes another important feature of SG-MBIs, the cultivation of ideal mentalities, such as the nondifferential four immeasurables (i.e., equal prosocial attitudes toward different people) and mentalities of emptiness or oneness.

Method

The current article theoretically discusses and analyzes the challenges and contributions of SG-MBIs in cultivating ideal mentalities.

Results

The new feature of SG-MBIs, cultivation of ideal mentalities, leads to five interconnected challenges for research and practice: (1) providing empirical and theoretical support for new elements; (2) matching the purposes of interventions with the needs of trainees; (3) achieving ideal mentalities during interventions; (4) assessing ideal mentalities in proper ways; and (5) clarifying the ethics and values for trainees.

Conclusions

These challenges posed by the new feature need to be discussed and addressed in the future. Nevertheless, SG-MBIs effectively embody the objectives of ideal psychology and illustrate methodological principles in research on ideal mentalities, which will benefit research on other ideal mentalities rooted in different traditions.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to express our gratitude to Prof. Oei P. S. Tian and the students in our laboratory for the valuable suggestions they provided for this paper.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32200896).

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XZ: conceptualization, funding acquisition, supervision, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. JZ: writing—original draft. YL: writing—original draft. YW: writing—review and editing. All authors reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Xianglong Zeng.

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Zhou, J., Liu, Y., Wang, Y. et al. Cultivating Ideal Mentalities in Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Feature Bringing Challenges but More Contributions. Mindfulness 15, 505–517 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02297-z

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