There's many misconceptions that needs to be cleared up, when we speak about these terms. Firstly, the word mindfulness as being pushed as "modern meditation" was a Jewish invention, pushed into USA with the help of an Indian Guru that barely meditated enough. That is why mindfulness and mindfulness meditation are trademarked terms.
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If you want to learn proper meditation, read books about meditation, learn it from a master or just sit on your butt and don't move until it becomes uncomfortable, that's when the meditation starts.
Mindfulness meditation is normie meditation. "Sit and relax, think of the things that happens in your life and contemplate how you can better your perspective…", which is not meditation, it's philosophy. You can get the same result by going to YouTube and listen to a guided meditation with fancy pouring water music.
Real meditation is about being silent in the mind so that you can focus on your aura. Then make the aura disappear and start feeling things beyond the human skin. In silent, dissolved meditation, great insight comes to the practitioner which makes the person aware of illusions of the world and mind. The biggest difference being: Mindfulness is for Jews wanting to sell an idea of meditation, Buddhist/Zen/Arcane meditation being for people who want to see beyond the veil.
The reason why mindfulness meditation can create false memories is because the subject enters a deep brain wave state while entertaining imaginative thought. Mindfulness will make the subject recall an event that triggered emotion, but because of imaginations way of spicing things up; we may add, remove or change memories by playing with imaginative scenarios that are spin offs from the memory. You can remember any event in your life and then shift into imagination based on the choice you didn't make. This is delusional and imaginative, and without mind control, the subject may start believing the imaginative visions as memories, because technically, you have experienced them when you imagined them.
During meditation, you have to remember that the things you see are just visions. If you identify or attach yourself to the visions, suffering will come shortly. Meditation is not about running away from your problems so that you can accumulate more problems working the Mo-Fri job and stress yourself out. It's about meeting the fears head on, like a warrior in a battlefield. Without darkness, you won't know brightness. Without the devil, you won't know the heaven. Mindfulness meditation is a quick way to continue suffering in all aspects of life.