This CBS Miami news clip from 30th May and accompanying editorial on Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is actually very good. Read the article Secrets to Mindful Meditation here or watch the video below.
A key component of mindfulness is the practice of bringing our awareness into the mundane, so that the stuff of everyday experience which lies between the extremes, becomes transformed by the quality of our attention. When we pause and look deeply enough to notice, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The video below by Dietrich Ludwig truly …
Despite being pressed into service day in day out, we rarely pay much attention to our feet even when we are using them to carry us from A to B. One reason for this is that the bottoms of our feet are about as far away as we can get from our head, which is …
Given all the hot weather we are having recently may I suggest some of this rather wonderful philosophy courtesy of Dharma Comics……hey, it made me smile! “F*** it! I’m getting in touch with my inner cat: embodied, present, impulsive, playful, emotionally straightforward. Forgive me if I’m slow to respond to email, unlikely to schedule meetings, …
Tibetan Buddhists describe our essential nature as like the sky; vast, luminous and clear. From time to time however we all find ourselves caught up in the complexities of our own mental elaborations and the clarity of our ‘essential nature’ becomes obscured by clouds of self absorption and the emotional storms of “I, me and …
This practice helps us to see how often we habitually take up a stance that is negative, oppositional or defensive in some way. This can take the form of thoughts (I don’t agree with what he is saying), body language (tensing muscles, arms crossed), speech (“That’s a stupid idea”), or action (shaking the head, rolling …
Mark Tully assesses Henry David Thoreau’s influence, 150 years after his death. Advocate of the simple life, champion of emancipation, and fervent opponent of government interference in the lives of citizens, Thoreau’s 19th century ideals have inspired civil rights leaders from Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King. He is also much revered in mindfulness circles …
An article setting out the rationale for MBCT and outlining the treatment approach has been published in this month’s British Journal of Psychiatry. Moreover, it also gives a brief overview of the efficacy of research to date in the UK and a glance towards future challenges in terms of delivery to a wider audience, specifically …