Tag: capitalism and well being

What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like

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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

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FromĀ In These Times: Over a third of British workers believe their job makes no meaningful contribution to the world. TheĀ risingĀ number of people who have...

“The Inner Level” – Linking Distress and Our Current System

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FromĀ The Alternative UK: Rod Tweedy's book The Political Self, as well as aĀ new book due out in 2018,Ā The Inner Level, discuss the ways mental...

ā€œMindfulness at Risk of Being ‘Turned into a Free Market Commodity’ā€

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The Guardian reports growing concerns from the Buddhist Society conference: ā€œJon 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 ā€˜sort of superficial ā€˜McMindfulnessā€™ 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.ā€™ā€