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> There’s only the strength of the programs and how much value people derive from them, and if 20 executives are able to sleep and handle their stress a little
by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> There’s only the strength of the programs and how much value people derive from them, and if 20 executives are able to sleep and handle their stress a little better, there’s nothing wrong with that.
Mindfulness cannot fix the underlying problems that lead to mindfulness being useful to capital in the first place. Personally I’d rather my CEO make work less miserable and sleep that way (say, hire people for fewer hours and raise wages) than sleep well because they paid for someone to soothe them through the arduous travails of being a high paid executive.
That said, anyone who didn’t see capital swallowing this is dense. Anything that can be commodified will be. Arguing over it is pointless.
- anbende 7y agoI wholeheartedly agree, and to the extent that a program is simply soothing, then there isn’t any actual mindful attention training happening. That’s my primary point, that attention training isn’t a salve, it’s awareness building. The problem with a lot of mindfulness “training” is that it’s really just group relaxation without training the kind of awareness that should be useful in any context.
- TheCowboy 7y agoDo you recommend any books or resources that are, in your view, teaching mindfulness more effectively?