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Thirty years ago, "mindfulness" was a Buddhist basic principle typically obscure to the western world. Today, it is a favorite cure-all for Americans' daily problems. A massive and profitable industry promotes mindfulness atlanta divorce attorneys facet of life, however mundane or unlikely: Americans of various faiths (or none of them at all) practice conscious eating, mindful gender, conscious parenting, mindfulness in the office, mindful sports, mindfulness-based stress comfort and addiction recovery, and employ the service of mindful divorce lawyers. Mindfulness is touted by members of Congress, CEOs, and Silicon Valley technology gurus, and is even being shown in public colleges, hospitals, and the military services. Concentrating on such operations as the marketing, medicalization, and professionalization of yoga, Jeff Wilson reveals how Buddhism shed its countercultural image and was assimilated into mainstream American culture. The climb of mindfulness in the us, Wilson argues, is a perfect example of how Buddhism enters new cultures and is domesticated: in each circumstance, the new civilizations take from Buddhism what they believe will alleviate their specific distresses and concerns, and in the process create new kinds of Buddhism adapted with their needs. Wilson also tackles the economics of the mindfulness movements, analyzing commercial programs, therapeutic services, and products such as literature, videos, CDs, and even smartphone applications. Conscious America is the first in-depth analysis of this happening - invaluable for understanding how mindfulness had become put on such a massive selection of non-religious concerns and how it could be reconciled with traditional Buddhism in the us.

Category: Meditation

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Publisher	Audible Studios
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2014-09
Author	Jeff Wilson

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