What is mindfulness?
Originally added on Wed, 28/09/2011 - 05:36Last updated on Thu, 03/11/2011 - 06:52
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.- Marilyn Vos Savant
M: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 12
Yesterday we had the twelfth & final session of this "Life skills" evening class. There was scheduled to have been a bit less than a three month gap since the last - eleventh - session. However the heavy winter snow we'd experienced had resulted in this last session being postponed.
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Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: memory and the autobiographical self 1
Originally added on Mon, 10/01/2011 - 08:06Last updated on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 07:08
The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquillity as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.- Brother Lawrence
L: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 11
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- AnonymousThe will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
K: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 10 (part 2 - therapeutic writing)
I wrote yesterday about the first part of this tenth "Life skills" evening. I particularly discussed development of Goodwill practice - very much in the "Nourishing positive states" section of the "Four aspects" diagram (below). In the second half of the evening we moved on to the "Exploring & processing" section of the diagram with the introduction particularly of various forms of therapeutic writing.
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When you were born, everyone was smiling but you were crying. Live such a life that when you depart, everyone is weeping but you are smiling.- Sa'di of Shiraz
J: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 10 (part 1 - goodwill practice)
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.- Dhammapada
I: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 9
Yesterday was the ninth evening of this "Life skills" training. I wrote about the eighth session last week. The sequence of regular weekly classes now moves on to increasing gaps between sessions - so it's three weeks until the tenth, a further five weeks until the eleventh, and then an additional eleven weeks until the final twelfth session. My hope is that we will be able to arrange occasional follow-up meetings even after that.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.- Mahatma Gandhi
H: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 8
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Who will prefer the jingle of jade pendants if he once has heard stone growing in a cliff?- Lao Tzu
G: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 7
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A bird will drop frozen from a bough without once having felt sorry for itself.- D.H. Lawrence
