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, …
This practice is about the art of waiting and pausing, checking your internal state and using situations, that in the past you may have found frustrating, to your own best advantage.
When the phone rings just STOP, PAUSE and BREATHE before responding to the call, using the sound itself as way of bringing yourself back into the present moment.
The third practice of 2012 asks us to bring awareness to our speech by noticing those conversational idiosyncrasies that, if attended to, can reveal interesting things about ourselves…