Our hands are always busy. They have a tendency to reveal our states of mental ease or discomfort. Many people make nervous hand gestures, such as rubbing or wringing their hands, touching their face, tapping a finger, cracking knuckles, or biting their nails. When people first learn to meditate, they often find it difficult just …
Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, has been a man on a mission ever since he did a 5 day mindfulness retreat back in 2008 led by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. His new book which was published last month ‘A Mindful Nation – How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, …
We tend to take their existence for granted and see them merely as a decorative part of the wallpaper of our lives, however trees are indispensable to our continued existence as a species. Be aware that what trees breathe out, we breathe in. Their very presence oxygenates our world and enables humanity to exist. It …
Mark Tully meditates on the art of being still, and the benefits of quiet contemplation, as medical science borrows from the practices of religious traditions. He talks to Mark Williams, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford who teaches ‘Mindfulness’ techniques and whose research has shown that daily meditation can reduce the occurrence …
This is a fascinating practice and says something quite profound about how we have this habitual tendency to get mentally ahead of ourselves. I’m not going to say too much more about it at this stage, but I look forward to your observations with an eager sense of anticipation…. Instructions The shorthand for this practice …
This mindfulness practice acts as a bridge between formal meditation practice, (where we take time out to sit with thoughts, feelings and sensations in the body) and the heat of battle as it were – our moment to moment experience, where we don’t always have the time or opportunity to go off and sit formally, …
Generosity or the act of giving is of immeasurable benefit to the giver for it opens up the heart, diminishes for a minute one’s self absorption and places value on the well being of others. The simple gesture of offering a flower, a few hours of volunteer work, a kind thought or a simple meal …