Holistic Health as means of Control - A critique of Sharma's Reading

I would  like to use this blog post to comment on Erika Ymana’s blog post The sedentary lifestyle of the desk worker. I would like to point out this post as I would like to offer a different critique of Sharma’s chapter, “Dharma at the Desk: Recalibrating the sedentary worker”. After reading this chapter I could not help but focus on how holistic wellness approaches to sedentary life may be regarded as a means of control. By such I mean, if workers are never encouraged to question the state of their workplace, they continue to work and comply with the ruling elite’s systems of capitalist power. Although holistic means of control may be more ideal than those of the past, none the less they still act as a means of keeping sedentary bodies from rising up and questioning the conditions in which they work.

Do we not gain more as citizens if we are constantly questioning the state of our being? Must we not always critique the systems of power which shape our daily lives in oder to maintain equality and fairness within such? I have to agree that holistic approaches to control are better than those of the past, but would still argue that as citizens we must not get too comfortable in our sedentary lives as this comfort is exactly what may lead to sites such as social media abusing our sedentary labour.