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At one time or another, we’ve all experienced rushing mindlessly through our daily routines, missing how there are many opportunities to turn routine activities into moments for mindfulness, (How To Practice Mindfulness (No Matter How Busy You Are)... Via Brenda Bentley
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The operational word is: Practice. Pema Chodron would say one is learning from the Busy Buddha or the Rushing Buddha. 
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Dealing with human suffering and an exhausting schedule often leaves many development workers burnt out. Via Brenda Bentley
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When one is had by their Vision and is working on their competence of accepting themselves and at the same time with the commitment to be better tomorrow than I was today at being me and being better at the work I do it changes one's perspective. We each have a unique contribution because no one has had another person's experience. Being present. Being aware. Being intentional. Mindfulness like any human endeavor is about practice. Regular practice. No matter how I am feeling it is there as my teaching. Can I slow myself down? Can I focus on doing here doing what I need to be doing. We are mindful or mind full. It is always a choice
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The practice of mindfulness has been shown to counteract the heavy toll of anxiety, stress, chronic pain, and illness on the body and mind; and if kids could
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In some ways we are never too young to start learning. It's something that every child does from a very early age. It's about learning the right things that need to be learned. ozzie Mindfulness.com
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Mindfulness: 5 Practical Methods for Your Daily Life Huffington Post Mindfulness implies balance, focus and living in the moment. We often associate mindfulness with meditation and dedicated practice. Via Brenda Bentley
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Do c heck out Brenda Bentley's MIndfulness for Everyday Living.
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Exercise Your Mind Just Like Your Abs With 10-Minute Mindfulness Huffington Post As Konnikova recently wrote in the New Yorker, achieving mindfulness can be just as easy as "10-Minute Abs." Faithfully practicing mindfulness for 10 minutes each day... Via Brenda Bentley
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A reminder that Mindfulness is a "practice."
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February 20, 2014 6:51 AM
Core Mindfulness Core Value Core Abs ROI =Breathing for Business.
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It's not so much: "Creating value in our lives and work requires the courage to delay immediate gratification" To me even more important: it requires time out to reflect. It requires times to allow the brain to rest so mind/body/spirit can from the quiet place within imagine the impossible...and create it. Ozzie Mindfulness.com
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It's not so much: "Creating value in our lives and work requires the courage to delay immediate gratification" To me even more important: it requires time out to reflect. It requires times to allow the brain to rest so mind/body/spirit can from the quiet place within imagine the impossible...and create it. Ozzie Mindfulness.com Would you please give me a time when the world was manageable? When has it ever been manageable? A statement from along the Camino that goes beyond food and is a good metaphor for Life: You order what you order; and you get what you get. I don't learn from my experiences. I learn from my interpretations of my experiences. Always have. Always will be. No matter what I order, I get what I get. In work my measure of performance is: Performance. I heard years ago a quote that has stayed with me: Be a non-anxious presence in an anxious world. There are a number of wonderful speakers to listen to from this February conference; Wisdom 2.0. I am wondering: Did my Wisdom 1.0 hold some awarenesses that I wasn't ready to hear? Truth be told the only think/thing I can manage is myself, and often I do a poor job at it. This is where many of the speakers share what they do to create their non-anxious presence. I know that anxiety and fear drive out my innovation and creativity. This is where a mindful approach begins. It is the spaces between the words and the quiet between the musical notes and the meditation, naps, breaks, vacations, more sleep between work and the "unmanageable" world that allow me to create what was never there before. Wisdom 2.0 is about technology. From the mind/brain barrier: Am I creating signal or noise? Maybe we are getting back to Wisdom-Ground Zero. A man of knowledge learns something everyday. A man of wisdom gives up something everyday. And how did you labor your thinking on this Labor Day weekend?
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Instructing somebody to meditate -- to release or dis-identify with his or her thoughts -- is like trying to instruct somebody to instantly sneeze, or like telling someone just not to think, when the mind but built to do little else but that. Via Annette Schmeling, ozziegontang
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June 20, 2013 7:49 PM
What Ira shares is mirrored in understanding communication and communicating with understanding. It's not what we know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know that just ain't so that does.
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As I type this there are tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. This same thing happens when I read a poem, ...
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Virtuosity comes from doing something that others would say is impossible. The performance one witnesses is only a moment. And to achieve that moment it has taken a practice of being present and in the moment.When the impossible is achieved, it shows what is humanly possible and how limiting our self-limiting beliefs can be. Mindfulness is a practice.No words need to be said. No thoughts thought.
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How Mindfulness Can Turn You On
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It is more about a love affair with life. Jon Kabat-Zinn shared:"Ultimately, I see mindfulness as a love affair -- with life, with reality and imagination, with the beauty of your own being, with your heart and body and mind, and with the world." A wonderful series of moments where mindfulness can be practiced and made part of one's love affair with life.
elysha lenkin's curator insight,
March 15, 2014 8:33 AM
Getting #mindful in the bedroom makes a major difference
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Dr. Vanderwater captures the kernels of wisdom from Depak Chopra's book, Grow Younger,Live Longer
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Some awarenesses when thinking about your practice.
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The more I practice mindful awareness, the more I learn what it is and what it isn't. What it isn't is hours spent in the lotus position, eyes closed, blissfully deep in meditation.
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It is the little things. As Buddha shared in the Kalama Sutra: However, after thorough observation, investigation, analysis and reflection, when you find that anything agrees with reason and your experience, and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, and of the world at large; accept only that as true, and shape your life in accordance with it; and live up to it.
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Finding focus is rapidly becoming the biggest workplace challenge. We highlight a handful of apps to help cure internet addictions and better manage your time. Via Howard Rheingold
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The Cyclops had only one eye. He had outsight but no insight. Finding focus is quieting the brain chatter, becoming present to the moment, breathing, and doing what needs to be done to accomplish what needs to be accomplished.
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February 10, 2013 12:20 PM
There is growing evidence that mindfulness, which is typically associated with religion, mysticism and the contemplative traditions, has specific benefits for corporate and individual leadership. The capacity to quiet the mind, awareness of the present moment and full presence (mind, emotions, spirit & physical) will help people move along the personal/professional developmental ladder. |
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Caring for the Future My daughters from early childhood were raised with the saying: If you want to know the future, create it.
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Leah Kalish and a growing group of teachers and educators have committed to bring a mindfulness approach along with movement to school children of all ages from early childhood development through K to 12. UCSD Center for MIndfulness holds it yearly conference in early February: Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: MIndfulness in Clincal Practice, Education and Reserach where the growing number of educators, researchers, and clinicians come together to share what is working. Google "Mindfulness & Children" to see what is being done around the globe. So much good information and sharing is available.
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March 17, 2014 6:04 PM
Leah Kalish and a growing group of teachers and educators have committed to bring a mindfulness approach along with movement to school children of all ages from early childhood development through K to 12. UCSD Center for MIndfulness holds it yearly conference in early February: Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: MIndfulness in Clincal Practice, Education and Reserach where the growing number of educators, researchers, and clinicians come together to share what is working. Google "Mindfulness & Children" to see what is being done around the globe. So much good information and sharing is available.
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At Cesar Chavez Academy in East Palo Alto, Calif., 7th graders are learning yoga as a way to cope with the stress of life in a community rife with homelessne... Via Brenda Bentley
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The practice of Mindfulness can begin at any age and in any situation. Here is an example.
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To remember use: VISA: Vulnerability, Intimacy, Spiritual Awakening. Besides listening for most of us it is more beneficial to be in what is hidden in 'Listen." That is "Silent." ozzie Mindfulness.com
Brenda Bentley's curator insight,
March 4, 2014 4:21 AM
Tara Brach on #Vulnerability as a Path to #Authenticity. Good stuff! You can listen to this podcast on any device.
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At first glance you might not put mindfulness and fear together or think that one can counterbalance the other. But while mindfulness invites us to be present with fear rather than run from it, it also frees us from being stuck in fearful thoughts an... Via Brenda Bentley
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This article by Deb and Ed Shapiro is part of their sharing from RevolutionaryMindfulness.com.
Brenda Bentley's curator insight,
February 19, 2014 6:03 AM
This is a great article. I believe on of the most powerful aspects of adopting a mindfulness practice is making fear your ally.
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Two broad categories of results can sum up most people’s purposes for meditating. The first is to fully experience the present moment and to encounter thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment. The second is to enter a place of calmness away from the reactivity that can overwhelm us. One meditator sails into the maelstrom, the other seeks a temporary shelter from the storm. The most interesting thing is that each result comes from the same basic techniques. So what the meditator seeks, and how much time he or she is willing to put into it, determines the outcome.
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Dorothy Mitchell, a dear friend and professor of counseling for 30+ years at Long Beach State shared this which is on my wall as a reminder: Am I awake and fully present and living my life intentionally? I have always enjoyed this quote: If you want to live your dream; WAKE UP.
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Mindfulness At Work: 5 Tricks For A Healthier, Less Stressful Work Day
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A good read to help better understand how to integrate mindfulness into daily practice.
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No need to add.. Read Annette Schmeling's insight. For those that have read Melanie's blog post, it is a good reminder and also a good piece to share with others inquiring about Mindfulness. Thomas Aquinas said when asked how do you explain the world. Explain the world in terms of God. The follow on question flowed quite naturally: How do you explain God. He said: You explain God in terms of complete and absolute Mystery. Lee Thayer's next book in process is on Mental Hygiene. All that we address and talk about are human explanations and interpretations. What we speak of as reality is something that we will never know as it is always seen through the eyes of the beholder. We say: I learn from my experience. What we mean is: I learn from my interpretations of my experience. I realize I may have the same near death experience as you and our interpretations of that experience may be polar opposite.
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June 20, 2013 8:46 AM
Greenberg provides basic concepts of mindfulness. A mindfulness practice fosters a deeper connection to self and grounds your very being in the present moment. In the Christian tradition centering prayer opens oneself to the presence of God within and deeply into the experience of the sacrament of the present moment. Learning to say 'Yes!' is an invitation to living beyond words, emotions, and thoughts and leading from within. 
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August 22, 2013 8:23 AM
Mindfulness is a way of being present to yourself and the present moment. It is also a process of becoming your true self.
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Which do you choose when these two positive processes collide?
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Want to thank Ryan for getting me out of my flow. We are realizing that we are mind/body/spirit. and it is so interesting to get caught in one area forgetting that we are not three different parts. I am a human or as Pat Murray would say quoting Wilfred Bion: We are herd/pack animals. George Sheehan MD often called the Mark Twain in running shoes reminded me: We are poets, philosophers, artists, saints, inventors. But first and foremost: Be a good animal. It is hard to move the body when I am in the flow in front of my computer screen. Trust, I can have a stand-up desk and I can have a treadmill stand-up desk. And as he reminded me: The brain, like heart, lungs, stomach and all vital organs are secondary organs. Each important for sustaining Life. My brain would like me to think that it is the most important. Hmmmmmm, who is telling me that story?
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It is all about awareness. It is about my awareness. Am I awake, fully aware and living my life intentionally? It is always about and will always be about choice. Thanks to Paul Childs for sharing.
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Mindfulness -- paying attention to one's current experience in a non-judgmental way -- might help us to learn more about our own personalities. It may be one potetial strataegy for improving self-knowledge.
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The writer, Hilary MacGregor, was asked to look into body-mind balance. She set out "to find some simple exercises that can be integrated into everyday life to restore my mental and physical balance — and to see if there is a link between the two." Here is what she found.
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Carl Jung's words have stayed with me since I first heard them in the mid-70s: The mind reflects the body reflects the mind. As the first Running Therapist trained by Tad Kostrubala, psychiatrist and author of The Joy of Running, those words have been at the foundation of my work as psychotherapist and a running coach. Intertwined with the Jung's words has been the words of Buddha in the Kalama Sutra. I could begin with the body: Let's go for a walk/easy run. Then on the walk/easy run I might ask: What's going on in your life that's giving you this stress and anxiety? Or sitting in my office with a patient: What's happening that's creating all this pressure and stress you're feeling? You know, it might be easier for you to talk about it if we go for a walk and talk about what's happening. The mind reflects the body reflects the mind. Let's go for a walk or easy run and talk about it.
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People who meditated 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had changes in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. Via Maxine L
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Science is a metaphor. A way of interpreting what we humans sense and experience so that we can explain our interpretations. From the research comes our explanations of what is seen through the perceptions of the researcher. As Lee Thayer reminds us: We don't learn from our experience; we learn from our interpretation of our experience. As homo sapiens sapiens, I only know what I know. And what I don't know I can theorize or create metaphors that help me explain to others what I am attempting to communicate. It all comes back to the way I think influences who I am and who I am influences what I do. Beyond the Do Be Do Be Do of Life is the simplicity of Mindfulness: A Practice. It is nice to go back to breath. Breathing in I breathe in. Breathing out I breathe out. Present, awake, aware and living life intentionally.
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February 19, 2013 4:07 PM
A "translated into English" version of the neuroscientific findings on how meditation may affect the brain (changes in gray-matter density, etc.) |
How can you practice mindfulness today? It's simple really, and here are a few very simple ways to enjoy the benefits of living a mindful life.