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Mindfulness and Minefields: Walking the Challenging Path of Awareness for Soldiers and Veterans

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The application of mindfulness in the military context raises ethical questions, prompting much debate. Teachers and practitioners would benefit from understanding how mindfulness ethics and practices significantly diverge from those of the military and often conflict with military culture’s profound, comprehensive, and enduring impact upon soldiers even after they leave military service. This chapter compares mindfulness and military worlds by first looking at the ethics and practices of mindfulness and then explores mindfulness as ethics-in-practice. Military ethics are briefly examined. Viewing the military through an organizational culture template provides added insight into military culture and how it affects those who serve. Techniques used to indoctrinate soldiers along with other aspects of military culture are anathema to mindfulness ethics-in-practice. Consequently, mindfulness can have dark consequences when applied in the military context. Military culture also offers opportunities for mindfulness to assist soldiers and veterans to reconnect with themselves and the societies for which they serve to protect.

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Bruyea, S. (2017). Mindfulness and Minefields: Walking the Challenging Path of Awareness for Soldiers and Veterans. In: Monteiro, L., Compson, J., Musten, F. (eds) Practitioner's Guide to Ethics and Mindfulness-Based Interventions . Mindfulness in Behavioral Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64924-5_15

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