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Mindfulness.com - A Practice
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They climb highest who lift as they go. Sharing wisdom from the past and present to let go and be present in the present.
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Karen Sothers, teacher of the MBSR program at Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine talks about takiong moments to be mindful.
ozziegontang's insight:
While written in 2009, what is shared is appropriate for: NOW. It is about taking the time to be present, aware, awake and living our lives intentionally. Mindfulness is a Practice. And an integral part of our being human and being present. As a practice it is about being aware of what we are doing when we are doing it. 
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Historically, the majority of stressors facing humans were physical (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!), requiring, in turn, a physical response. "We are not particularly splendid physical creatures," says David Spiegel, M.D., director of the Center on Stress and Health at Stanford School of Medicine, who explains that plenty of other animals can outrun us, overpower us, out-see us, out-smell us. "The only thing that has allowed us to explore the planet is the fact that we can respond effectively to threats." Via Maggie Rouman
ozziegontang's insight:
Without the stresses of life we would not be here today reading this article. The issue is that when I stress in situations that are not life threatening or overreact to situations and events that shoot a squirt of adreneline into my system 200 times a day, I am training myself to be anxious...almost all the time. I like to say: When this occurs I am swimming in an adreneline stew. When you stew me enough, my autoimmune system gets compromised. My normal and natural defenses wear down...andI wear out. The trick is to train myself to become a non-anxious presence in an anxious and overstressed world. The aphorism is: I learn from my experience. The trust should I look a little deeper is: I DO NOT learn from my experience. I LEARN from my interpretation of my experience. Two people can have the same experience. One sees it as a learning lesson, grows from it and continues on with life. Another person sees it as a horrible experience that they will never get over, and remain a victim of that experience for the rest of their life. This is where an attitude of gratitude and appreciation come in. Take a breath in, and then out. Move on to the next breath. I only have this moment.
Maggie Rouman's curator insight,
July 16, 2013 2:00 PM
It is important to understand how our brains and bodies react to stress. This article also includes an infographic. 
Shadow Quill 's curator insight,
July 31, 2013 11:11 PM
The evolution of the fight or flight response is no longer as adaptive as it once was
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We’ve all got some idea of what mindfulness is but do we all mean the same thing? Some of us have practiced meditation taught by Buddhist teachers: maybe from this tradition or that tradition."
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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