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Mindfulness-based Intervention
our post on The Four Types of Psychologist, we would argue that the same principle
applies to the majority of psychological therapies. If the clinician knows their own
mind, has genuine compassion for the client, and is skilled in helping the client
understand their problems, then the choice of therapy becomes less important.
Although preliminary findings (including from some of our own clinical case
studies and qualitative studies) support the notion that the mindfulness teacher is
one of the (if not the) most important ingredients of MBIs, there is clearly a need
for further research investigating how the instructor influences outcomes. However,
in the absence of extensive empirical investigation into this subject, we hypothesise
that what participants of MBIs need most (and therefore respond best to), is the
unconditional love and spiritual wisdom of a teacher who is without a personal
agenda, and whose mind is saturated with meditative awareness.