Success and sex can sell most things and the disciplines of meditation and mindfulness based practices are no exception. There is a lot of press concerning mindfulness nowadays, ostensibly concerned with the task of raising awareness, selling its therapeutic benefits and establishing its efficacy through scientific research. For any mindfulness or meditation teacher, myself included, …
A vital, but often understated part of mindfulness practice is to slow down long enough to actually notice and appreciate the richness and meaning of what is before us in the present moment. If we pay attention with enough allowing in our heart, there is beauty, pathos and grace to be found in the mundane, …
On newstands this week, the cover story of the February issue of Time Magazine investigates the Mindful Revolution, a detailed look at the exponential growth of Mindfulness Based Approaches in the United States. The article, written by journalist Kate Pickert, is top and tailed by her own personal experiences of the MBSR programme and pays …