RSA - Mindfulness: The key to a healthier society?

RSA - Mindfulness: The key to a healthier society?: "Attempting to assess individual wellbeing and social progress via financial or economic yardsticks is gradually falling out of favour. Governments are paying more attention to alternative measures of our quality of life, like the 'Gross National Happiness' indicators in Bhutan.

Exponents argue that in placing more importance on the mental wellbeing of a society, such indicators may provide a truer account of the resources countries need to operate well. Against a backdrop of pervasive clinical depression, anxiety and dissatisfaction, a growing body of evidence suggests that the practice of 'mindfulness' might be the answer.�"