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Fully agree, mindfulness can help one come up with even more radical actions. It can be a tool for activists to cope with the pressures of activism. It doesn't
by ptah 7y ago
Fully agree, mindfulness can help one come up with even more radical actions. It can be a tool for activists to cope with the pressures of activism.
It doesn't sound like the author has done any mindfulness practice
- AstralStorm 7y agoDoes it though? Do we have any kind of data about it? If it helps one activist and million corporate drones and people looking for status quo, the practice is not on the whole a friend of activism. So what are the numbers?
- ptah 7y agoYou are adding the goal of turning status quo warriors into activists. Mindfulness is not designed for that and has never claimed to do that
- AstralStorm 7y agoNo, more like not turning activists into content status quo followers. But it's problematic to discern the two. Perhaps a study on how many activists quit when using or not using mindfulness techniques. Though the confounder is huge, people trying this have some sort of a psychological problem most of the time...
- ptah 7y agoit doesn't work like that. you should try it for yourself
- thesz 7y agoAuthor (and anyone else) don't really need that. Good walk for two-three hours would do better than mindfullness session. (hint: after about 25-40 minutes of intensive walking you start to burn fat primarily; this process has a side effect of endocannabinoids' release [1]; you get healthier and get high at same time; I am not including here release of brain-derived neurotrophic factor for you to discover it and effects of BDNF serum level increase on the mental state and thinking) [1] https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/38/5/536 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/38/5/536