The Hidden Price of Mindfulness Inc.

“THE other morning, I woke up and brewed a cup of Mindful Lotus tea ($6 for 20 bags). On the subway, I loaded the Headspace app on my iPhone and followed a guided mindfulness exercise ($13 a month for premium content). Later in the day, I dropped by Mndfl, a meditation studio in Greenwich Village ($20 for a 45-minute class).”

“These days it seems as if everyone is peddling mindfulness, a popular form of meditation.”

“There’s no doubt that as mindfulness has gone mainstream”

“Increasingly, mindfulness is being packaged as a one-minute reprieve, an interlude between checking Instagram and starting the next episode of “House of Cards.””

“temptations to indulge in spiritual materialism abound”