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Very interesting article from the NYTimes on how mindfulness has taken hold in Silicon Valley encouraging tech workers and beyond to take time out, meditate even for a minute, and creating new apps to help you do it. Google has a course on mindfulness that sells out whenever offered. Rebranding mindfulness from groovey discipline to way to clear your head to increase productivity, prioritize to do lists, unclutter your work life.

a view on how mindfulness/meditation is used to manipulate us into complying with dysfunctional or unbearable workplaces

Kate Murphy talks about how we are now a culture of always doing something, and we avoid any reflective time because we are so unpracticed at it that we dwell on the negative when we do have quiet time without distraction. People will go far to avoid introspection - in experiments they give themselves electric shocks rather than sit quietly alone without anything to do. Research, especially the new neural research, all show that allowing your mind to drift is healthy and productive. Google, for example, has courses for employees in mindfulness, meditation, and "Search Inside Yourself". The research also shows that not giving yourself time to reflect impairs your ability to empathize with others. "Feeling what you feel is an ability that atrophies if you don't use it."

Another example of why reflection is important to well being, creativity, satisfaction with life, and connections to others

article by Samantha Whitehorne on October 23, 2015 on what associations are doing to ramp up the meditation, mindfulness, etc. at their meetings to help attendees boost their mental health

blog post from ProjectManBeyond, Self-Evolution for Men, posted 2/26/2016 with excellent ideas for growing willpower to do the things important to you. each essay offers a read time, ex. 7 minutes. By Mac Rivera, founder of a site for advanced self-development

interesting section on computer mediated communications that provides names of women researchers involved in this work, such as Susan Herring, Cheris Kramarae & Jeanie Taylor, Amy Bruckman, Kathleen Michel, and Gladys We. I will need to research more current work by these women since this article is probably from the early 2000s.

interesting section on computer mediated communications that provides names of women researchers involved in this work, such as Susan Herring, Cheris Kramarae & Jeanie Taylor, Amy Bruckman, Kathleen Michel, and Gladys We. I will need to research more current work by these women since this article is probably from the early 2000s.