"meditation and mindfulness programs for temporarily calming down workers so they can be productive while experiencing abuse"
I am slightly less cynical here--I credit the emotional skills I started learning through a mindfulness meditation program in grad school with me starting to gain the self-awareness I needed to gtfo (of grad school, chemistry, and a destructive and neglectful life partnership). I think the therapist who was running it (and who I later started seeing individually) considered this a good outcome.
I expect they can be intended to have the effects you mention, but suspect that good ones may end up having the opposite effect eventually.
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Date: 2015-04-18 03:16 am (UTC)I am slightly less cynical here--I credit the emotional skills I started learning through a mindfulness meditation program in grad school with me starting to gain the self-awareness I needed to gtfo (of grad school, chemistry, and a destructive and neglectful life partnership). I think the therapist who was running it (and who I later started seeing individually) considered this a good outcome.
I expect they can be intended to have the effects you mention, but suspect that good ones may end up having the opposite effect eventually.
/optimist