There is an underlying ideology that bettering one’s own life improves the lives of others, a kind of spiritual trickle-down. A central tenet of mindfulness is what they call “acceptance,” which is theorized as the beginning of “real change.” Mindfulness also includes a concept called “allowing,” which is a kind of recognition that one does not know everything, and that there are realities, experiences, and understandings that reside in other people and other expressions of life
