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Published 9 years ago by kxh with 4 Comments
by kxh
9 years ago 4

How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable

Corporate culture has stripped the ancient practice of mindfulness of its spirituality and re-branded it as a modern solution to over-work.

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  • fractal
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    Very interesting, the commodification of mindfulness. Soon, if not already happening, it would be just more noise on an already schizophrenic society.

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    • septimine
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      Already is. Just like other things that would make life better, they're coopted to keep people from pulling back from work.

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  • b1ackbird
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    This is just part of the work of taking responsibility for our lives. Mindfulness is a way of living, not a substitute for taking action. If we truly become mindful of our existence then our recurrent anxieties become not just a wave we watch pass through our minds, not something to be mastered in order to be a better servant, but a call to take action in order to be more fully alive.

    Wonderful share, and something for us all to be wary of.

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