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Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie and Arianna Huffington swear by mindfulness - and they are not alone: Buddhist mindfulness has become a trendy doctrine of salvation. The US molecular biologist Jon Kabat-Zinn is considered the father of the movement. He is a guest of Barbara Bleisch. 🔔 Subscribe to SRF Kultur on YouTube now 👉 https://www.youtube.com/srfkultur?sub... Jon Kabat-Zinn is the "superstar" of the mindfulness movement. His stress reduction program is taught in courses around the world. Companies such as Google, Walt Disney and Monsanto offer their employees mindfulness meditations. At this year's WEF in Davos, Kabat-Zinn also urged the world's powerful to live in the here and now. He originally developed his mindfulness teachings for chronically ill patients, who are supposed to reduce fears and endure pain better thanks to the exercises. Today, however, the demand for mindfulness comes primarily from stressed, sleepless people who lose sight of the moment because they are so rushed around. Critics warn that the mindfulness movement is making itself an accomplice of a world geared towards efficiency: instead of criticizing the system, people are being trained to bear the stress calmly. Barbara Bleisch asks Kabat-Zinn: How much calmness is healthy? And is meditation just a means to an end? English version: • Jon Kabat-Zinn: Mindfulness – The new... Sternstunde Philosophie from February 14, 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More culture on YouTube 🔔 https://www.youtube.com/srfkultur?sub... More culture on Facebook 👥 / srfkultur More culture on Twitter 🐦 / srfkultur More culture on srf.ch 👉 https://www.srf.ch/kultur ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The “Sternstunde Philosophie” cultivates an in-depth and critical exchange of ideas and gets to the bottom of the burning questions of our time. The “Sternstunde Philosophie” draws a broad arc from socio-political topicality to the fundamental questions of philosophy: Who is responsible for what, what does human freedom consist of, what determines the meaning of our life? Guests include personalities from science, culture, politics and business – voices that stimulate thought and reflect on and classify current events. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Media Netiquette from SRF: ► https://www.srf.ch/social-netiquette #SRFCulture #SRFSternstunde #Philosophy #JonKabatZinn #KabatZinn #Meditation #Mindfulness #Achtsamkeit #Yoga #SRF