What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
Life is a sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus
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.
My house having burnt down, nothing now impedes my bright vision of the moon. - Zen saying
Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue
- Rollo May
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.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. - George Bernard Shaw
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
- Henry Ford
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.
Without numbers, stories are just anecdotes, but without stories, numbers are just dry statistics. - Tara Lamont
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
- Terence
Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.
- Pablo Picasso
Yesterday we had the sixth session of this twelve evening "Life skills" course. I wrote last week about the fifth session. A dozen slides covering material we explored are viewable/downloadable at slides 1-6, Powerpoint or slides 1-6, PDF and slides 7-12, Powerpoint or slides 7-12, PDF.