Mindfulness, Rafi Anteby

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My wife is dead spiritual. For a date night she said we should do some mindfulness. I asked: what did that involve? She said we need to sit together for half an hour in silence. I asked, isn’t that what we normally do anyway?

(Tony Vino, The Observer, 10.2.2019)

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Rafi Anteby is a martial arts expert who has worked with celebrities suffering from anxiety and insists that the products he has on offer are answering a genuine need.

“Serenity breaks” range from spa holidays at Bali’s Royal Purnama hotel – where stressed out celebrities can be covered in healing black sand before being cleansed with holy water – and meditation trips to Costa Rica’s Rythmia Resort, where guests work with a shaman, herbalists and doctors to reduce stress and “reach states of optimum tranquillity.”Also provided are safaris to Uganda where A-listers’ contorted minds can be soothed by “gorilla therapy.”

“You literally submit yourself to the gorillas. You don’t move and they come over and touch you and it’s a really grounding thing to have the most powerful creature in the universe realising you are not a threat and being gentle with you.”

If you don’t have time for that there’s always cannabidiol (CBD) which claims to calm and reset in 20 to 40 minutes – depending on how you administer it.

(The Sunday Telegraph, 2019)

  Does the martial arts expert have any medical qualifications or expertise?