Tag: capitalism and well being
What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like
From YES! Magazine: "To address the dramatic increase in mental and emotional distress in the U.S., we must move beyond a focus on the...
Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Busy Work
From In These Times: Over a third of British workers believe their job makes no meaningful contribution to the world. The rising number of people who have...
“The Inner Level” – Linking Distress and Our Current System
From The Alternative UK: Rod Tweedy's book The Political Self, as well as a new book due out in 2018, The Inner Level, discuss the ways mental...
âMindfulness at Risk of Being ‘Turned into a Free Market Commodity’â
The Guardian reports growing concerns from the Buddhist Society conference: âJon Kabat-Zinn, who created the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts medical school, warned last week that some people feared a âsort of superficial âMcMindfulnessâ is taking over, which ignores the ethical foundations of the meditative practices and traditions from which mindfulness has emerged, and divorces it from its profoundly transformative potential.ââ