Mindfulness only works for women, study finds (truncated)

Daily Mail UK ^

[ronniesgal]

wait though.
My hubs thinks if he did something bad or stupid a long time ago, it did not happen. But it did. I do not understand the thought process. If he did something GOOD a long time ago, he still wants the atta boy. So what gives? I am serious when i ask, cause after 40 years, I still do not get it.
If it happpend, it happend, is how I see things.

[COBOL2Java]

Very interesting article. The title is misleading though. Mindfulness Meditation, as currently structured, works best for women (although men achieve some benefit). They believe they can eventually tailor the technique so that each sex can benefit equally. As the article says:

'While facing one's difficulties and feeling one's emotions may seem to be universally beneficial, it does not take into account that there may be different cultural expectations for men and women around emotionality.'

If that hypothesis is supported in further research, the findings may yield an important strategy for the designers of mindfulness curricula.

For women, the message may be to stay the course, but for men the best idea may be to tailor mindfulness differently.

'Mindfulness is a little bit like a drug cocktail - there are a lot of ingredients and we're not sure which ingredients are doing what,' Dr Britton said.

'But I think a strategy of isolating potential 'active ingredients' and using slightly more innovative designs to tailor to the needs of different populations is what's called for.'

For fellow mindfulness researchers, Dr Britton said, the study emphasizes a benefit to accounting for gender.

Having been married for nearly 36 years, I can relate to the notion that men and women process stress differently. My wife can ruminate on bad things that happened to her years and years ago, whereas I soon forget things and get over them quickly.

As for the posts about fighting, it's also true for us. When we fight, I can put it aside after a day, but there have been times when she reminds me of something I said or did years ago - and my response is "Huh?".

[hulagirl]

Yes that’s what I meant, the thread not the article, or to say the article was perceived by those reading it to be about the problems of men and women communicating.