Tangled thoughts and frazzled feelings Mindfulness begins with meditation. Without a meditation practice, it's very difficult to stay present, meet the moment as it is, be compassionate, and connect with a nonjudgmental attitude. Meditation is the training ground for all the other things we collectively call a mindfulness practice. For many months, I've watched the [...]
The Up Side of Down
Why being up can get you down I fell in love with jogging when I was in my mid-20’s. Over-weight, miserable, and in a soul-devouring job, I took to the gym every day. This love affair with jogging has lasted all my life though, like anything that is not a full-hearted commitment, it has suffered [...]
Fostering the Mind of Poverty
Is it unethical to bring awareness to certain life circumstances? by Lynette Monteiro & Frank Musten The Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic Teacher Training Retreat brings out the best in our participants and this session was no different. One of the questions that arose from our examination of the impact of the various exercises we invite a [...]
Teacher Training Graduates 2012
Give It Away & Simply Love We are thrilled to introduce our new graduates from the 2012 Teacher Training Program in Foundations of Mindfulness. These amazing health care professionals, clinical psychology PhD candidates and medical students, and even an ethicist took part in the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Symptom Management program as participant-observers, wrote papers and reviews [...]
Lions and Tigers and Compassion. Oh my!
A Triad of Book Reviews: Understanding the “Yellow Brick Road” to Compassion Guest Author: Brittany Glynn, PhD(c) at University of Ottawa In the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, the central character Dorothy finds herself swept away by a cyclone and lost in the Land of Oz. With nothing but her small dog Toto, ruby-red slippers, [...]
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