“Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavour I know that does not involve trying to get somewhere else, but rather, emphasizes being where you already are. Much of the time we are so carried away by all the doing, striving, the planning, the reacting, the busyness-that when we stop just toContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”: Meditation as Non-Doing”
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Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Commitment to Mindfulness
“The spirit of engaged commitment we ask of our patients during their eight weeks MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction) is similar to that required in athletic training. The athlete who is training for a particular event doesn’t practice only when he or she feels like it-for instance only when the weather is nice, or thereContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Commitment to Mindfulness”
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Non-Striving
“Although it takes a lot of work and energy of a certain kind, ultimately meditation is a non-doing, It has no goal other than for you to be yourself. The irony is that you are already are, this sounds paradoxical and a little crazy, Yet this paradox and craziness may be pointing you toward aContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Non-Striving”
John Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Acceptance
“In the meditation practice we cultivate acceptance by taking each moment as it comes and being fully, as it is. We try not to impose our ideas about what we “should be feeling of thinking or seeing in our experience. Instead we remind ourselves to be receptive and open to whatever we are feeling, thinking,Continue reading “John Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Acceptance”
John Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: The beginner’s mind
“To see the richness of the present moment, we need to cultivate what has been called “beginner’s mind”. Whatever particular practices we might be using, whether it is the body scan, the sitting meditation, or the yoga, we can resolve to bring our beginner’s mind with us each time we practice, so that we canContinue reading “John Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: The beginner’s mind”
Jon Kabat Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Patience
“We intentionally remind ourselves that there is no need to be impatient with ourselves because we find the mind judging ourselves because we find the mind judging all the time, or because we are tense or agitated or frightened, or because we have been practicing for some time and nothing positive seems to have happened.Continue reading “Jon Kabat Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Patience”
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Non-Judging
“Mindfulness is best cultivated by paying close attention to your moment-to-moment experience while, as best as you can not getting caught up in your ideas, opinions, likes and dislikes. This orientation allows us to see things as they may actually be rather than through our own distorted lenses and agenda. To adopt such a stanceContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Non-Judging”
Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”: the present moment
“….because the present moment whenever it is recognized and honoured reveals a very special, indeed magical power: it is the only time that any of us ever has. The present is the only time that we have to know anything. It is the only time we have to perceive, to learn, to act, to change,Continue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”: the present moment”
“Full Catastrophe Living”: Jon Kabat-Zinn: A little bit about mindfulness
“ Learning how to suspend all your doing and shift over to a being mode, how to make time for yourself, how to slow down and nurture calmness and self-acceptance in yourself, learning to observe what your mind is up to from moment to moment, how to watch your thoughts and how to let goContinue reading ““Full Catastrophe Living”: Jon Kabat-Zinn: A little bit about mindfulness”
Tara Brach’s : Radical Acceptance: Living your Life With The Heart of a Buddha”: Unreal People
“Once someone is an unreal other, we lose sight of how they hurt. Because we don’t experience them as feeling beings, we can inflict pain on them without compunction. Not seeing that others are real leads to a father disowning his son for being gay, divorced parents using their children as weapons. All the enormousContinue reading “Tara Brach’s : Radical Acceptance: Living your Life With The Heart of a Buddha”: Unreal People”
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