Mindfulness studies raise the prospect, as yet untested, that using fashion pieces with open attention and knowledge might lead us to want what we already have."
~an excerpt from Kate Fletcher's Craft of Use
"Open attention to and awareness of the clothes in our wardrobes, like that which occurs as we mend, offers the prospect of a changed relationship with fashion consumption. It works with a similar mechanism of influence as mindfulness and its attention to the present-moment, to savouring experience, which in turn reduces desire for external pleasures that depend on money and material goods. Psychological studies suggest that a capacity for mindfulness-that is attention to and awareness of internal states and external events in the present moment- results in less emphasis being placed on materialistic values, like image, and greater emphasis on internal aspiration, such as community involvement and personal development, that don't require major material inputs. What is more, may conduce to a greater acceptance of self and one's circumstances: a perception that what one has is sufficient.
Mindfulness studies raise the prospect, as yet untested, that using fashion pieces with open attention and knowledge might lead us to want what we already have." ~an excerpt from Kate Fletcher's Craft of Use
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