What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
Do you want to hear my favourite procrastination joke? I'll tell you later.
- Piers Steel
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.
It might be well for all of us to remember that, while differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal. - Karl Popper
How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!
- Terence
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.
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. - Aesop
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
- Miles Davis
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.
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. - Walt Whitman
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- J. K. Galbraith
Greatness is achieved through the discipline of attending to detail. - Twickenham Fitness Room Poster
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.