Xisca
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If we share instead of repeating was has been said, well, can it be more interresting to create something new by sharing 2 things? Mix 2 cells and you have a new baby!
It is coincidence that those 2 are from the same website, as I collected them separately. If you considere the social drawback of the mindfulness trend, and add the gaslighting part of the next article, without the men/women aspect, then I can see 2 things:
- we make too many efforts to accept what is unacceptable,
- and at the same time, in the short term, this is life saving.
Beyond McMindfulness | HuffPost
A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not "Crazy" | HuffPost
We obviously have cultural or social problems that bring us stress. If we cannot resolve the problem, the best we can do is to reduce our stress. Imagine you live as a woman in a very restrictive society and try to protest: you can be killed promptly. So you have to be frustrated, find some joy in life, try to reduce your stress, and then hopefully find a social way out of the problem. Women who cannot do that will die and serve as an example to motivate further intents.
You can apply this extreme example to whatever you find inacceptable in your surrounding, as work, which is the example of the article about Mindfulness.
Then the problem quoted by the article is that Mindfulness is instrumentalized! “Stress is YOUR problem, just do some minfulness and be productive!” Groups are no more responsible for the problems! Of course both people and the sum of the people have to be taken into account, and change the route of a big group is as difficult as changing the route of a heavy boat!
Then comes the concept of gaslighting….
In the end this is the same problem: make you think that YOU have a problem, and that YOU overreact to a situation! Just meditate please!
Problem: this leads to dissociation, just because you treat your nervous system while you are not OUT of the damage that is done to you. You can nicely self-regulate, but in the end nobody stops the big boat nor turn its driving wheel.
It is coincidence that those 2 are from the same website, as I collected them separately. If you considere the social drawback of the mindfulness trend, and add the gaslighting part of the next article, without the men/women aspect, then I can see 2 things:
- we make too many efforts to accept what is unacceptable,
- and at the same time, in the short term, this is life saving.
Beyond McMindfulness | HuffPost
A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not "Crazy" | HuffPost
We obviously have cultural or social problems that bring us stress. If we cannot resolve the problem, the best we can do is to reduce our stress. Imagine you live as a woman in a very restrictive society and try to protest: you can be killed promptly. So you have to be frustrated, find some joy in life, try to reduce your stress, and then hopefully find a social way out of the problem. Women who cannot do that will die and serve as an example to motivate further intents.
You can apply this extreme example to whatever you find inacceptable in your surrounding, as work, which is the example of the article about Mindfulness.
Then the problem quoted by the article is that Mindfulness is instrumentalized! “Stress is YOUR problem, just do some minfulness and be productive!” Groups are no more responsible for the problems! Of course both people and the sum of the people have to be taken into account, and change the route of a big group is as difficult as changing the route of a heavy boat!
Then comes the concept of gaslighting….
In the end this is the same problem: make you think that YOU have a problem, and that YOU overreact to a situation! Just meditate please!
Problem: this leads to dissociation, just because you treat your nervous system while you are not OUT of the damage that is done to you. You can nicely self-regulate, but in the end nobody stops the big boat nor turn its driving wheel.