“Many people do not feel that they can get through the day, or even the morning, without a cup of coffee (or two or three). Having a cup of coffee becomes a way of taking care of yourself, a way of stopping, a way of connecting with others or with yourself. It has its ownContinue reading “Reflections of Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Benefits of Coffee”
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Dylan’s Quote of the Day: Busyness as Self Destructive
“Filling up your time with busyness is another self-destructive avoidance behavior. Instead of facing up to your problems, you can run around like crazy doing good things until your life is overflowing with commitments and obligations and you can’t possibly make time for yourself. Despite all the running around, you may not really know whatContinue reading “Dylan’s Quote of the Day: Busyness as Self Destructive”
Jon Kabat-Zinn: “Full Catastrophe Living”: Toxic Thoughts
“To summarize, all the studies we have discussed and many others support the notion that our physical health is intimately connected with our patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves and also with the quality of our relationships with other people and the world. The evidence suggests that certain patterns of thinking and certain waysContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn: “Full Catastrophe Living”: Toxic Thoughts”
Jon Kabat-Zinn: “Full Catastrophe Living”: Negativity and Pessimism and a Reduced Lifespan
“Dr. Seligman’s overall conclusion from these and other studies is that is not the world per se that puts us at increased risk of illness so much as how we see and think about what is happening to us. A highly pessimistic pattern of explaining the cause of bad or stressful events when they occurContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn: “Full Catastrophe Living”: Negativity and Pessimism and a Reduced Lifespan”
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Doctors, Patients and People
“In mindfulness-based programs people learn to face their life problems and develop personalized strategies for working with them rather than simply giving themselves over to “experts” who are supposed to just “fix them” or make their problems magically disappear. Such programs are vehicles in which people can work to be healthier and more resilient, changeContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Doctors, Patients and People”
Jon Kabat-Zinn: “Full Catastrophe Living”: ,
“Remember, acceptance does not mean passive resignation. Not at all. It means taking a reading of the situation, feeling it and embracing it in awareness as completely as one can manage, however challenging and horrible it can be, and recognizing that things are as they are, independent of us liking or disliking the situation andContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn: “Full Catastrophe Living”: ,”
Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”; One Way of Practicing Mindfulness
“One involves the formal discipline of making a specific time in which you stop all activity, assume a special posture, and dwell for some time in moment to moment awareness of the inbreath and the outbreath. By practicing this way regularly, you naturally deepen your ability to keep your attention on the breath for aContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”; One Way of Practicing Mindfulness”
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