Tag: mindfulness industry
Mindfulness and Complex Trauma: The Rewards and the Risks
What media hype and those selling mindfulness donât tell you is that mindfulness is a process that can radically transform you, and itâs not always safe, nor is it easy or straightforward. We make it safer by being aware of the risks and learning to listen to our own bodies about when it is or isnât okay for us. No one else actually knows.
McMindfulness: Buddhism as Sold to You by Neoliberals
From The Conversation: Removed from their ethical and contextual roots, mindfulness-based practices are increasingly being used to reinforce the individualist ideals of capitalist societies.
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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