It's the Ides of March! This date has a dark meaning for us because it refers to the assassination of Julius Caesar. However, it is just a way of referring to the day itself - the 15th of March. It's only by association with a negative event in history that the date takes on such [...]
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5 things that need your attention in an MB course
Getting through a mindfulness-based intervention program is a challenge for many reasons. We bring a lot of expectations that it will change our life in one way or another. We hope that we will find an answer to the questions that plague us and brought us to the course. We anticipate we will develop skills [...]
Pervasive awareness
Recently, there was an interchange on a mindfulness listserve about the appropriateness and/or usefulness of movement during meditation (rocking, swaying, etc.). John Astin of the Baumann Institute offered this very important insight to practice: Apropos this whole discussion about rocking during meditation and what it might mean, I thought I would share the following... Whether [...]
5 things to practice during a mindfulness course
Here are five things you may want to practice as you go through a Mindfulness-Based intervention (MBSR, MBCT, MB-anything): 1 - Practice! Try your best to do the "homework". We play around with the word, calling it "homework" may lead to feelings of being back in school. So we call it "home practice", "gifts", "suggestions", [...]
Practice for the week
Being in the present moment can be an opportunity to be skillful in our relationships. It can also be an opportunity to deny, deflect, disengage. Being skillful about being skillful is quite a challenge!
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