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“What the culture is craving is
a sense of ease and reflection, of
not needing to be stimulated or
entertained or going after something constantly,” Soren Gordhamer, founder of the Wisdom
2.0 conference, told The New York
Times. “Nobody’s kicking out
technology, but we have to regain
our connection to others and to
nature or else everybody loses.”
Ahead, we breakdown why 2014
will be the year of mindfulness.
TRENDSPOTTERS ARE
GOING ALL IN FOR 2014.
According to JWT Worldwide,
one of the world’s largest marketing communications brands,
2014 will be characterized by a
movement toward mindful living.
A number of the items on JWT’s
“100 Things to Watch for in
2014” list reflect a growing interest in mindfulness — that is, the
cultivation of a focused awareness on the present moment —
and mindful living was named
one of 10 trends that will shape
the world in 2014 and beyond.
“Mindfulness is part of a much
larger trend we’ve been observing called mindful living,” Ann
Mack, director of trendspotting
at JWT, told The Huffington Post.
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“It’s kind of a counter-trend to
the past decade of overly stimulated, ADD-afflicted, tech-saturated culture that we’ve been
living in. What was once the
domain of the spiritual set has
filtered into the mainstream as
more people are drawn to this
idea of shutting out distractions
and focusing on the moment.”
Related trends forecasted on
JWT’s 2014 list include “survival
It’s kind of a
counter-trend to the
past decade of overly
stimulated, ADD-afflicted,
tech-saturated culture
that we’ve been living in.”
of the focused,” “rage against the
machine” — a movement characterized by a fear and resentment
of technology and desire for more
human experiences — and mindfulness in the classroom.
But just because mindfulness
has been labeled a trend, don’t
expect the movement to fizzle
out any time soon.
“[Mindful living] has staying
power, because our world is only
going to become more saturated