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How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable

  • Written by The Conversation
imageMindfulness is an ideal tool to induce compliance.Flickr/David Gabriel Fischer, CC BY

“If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.” Hsin Hsin Ming

Almost every person who walks through my practice doorway is anxious in some way. And so they should be. While their anxiety might be...

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