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Mindfulness: The Power To Transform
Your Life
What would you say if I suggested
that you were missing half of your own life? What if you were so
driven by your doing mind (the part of us that is trained
from an early age to be busy doing or planning or thinking about
something or someone in each and every moment) that you never even
noticed, or were unaware, that you were missing anything at all?
As an introduction to what
mindfulness is all about, I ask you to please click here to read
about a workshop. However, mindfulness is not
something you can experience simply by reading about it. Thinking
about mindfulness and DOING mindful practices are two very different
things. It is in the repeated and purposeful practice of engaging
in mindful activity that we can start to cultivate a state of
being mind. Most of our lives rush by without our full
awareness. Mindfulness seeks to deliberately keep us in the
present moment, and thereby, to block the tendency of our auto-pilot
minds to wander from place to place, thousands of times in an
hour or a day.
Mindfulness does not require any
changes in your spiritual beliefs. It is not a religion, although
it has its roots in Eastern Buddhist psychology. Mindfulness does
not require that you sit in a full lotus posture while burning
incense and chanting a mantra. Mindfulness is a lifestyle and not
just a therapeutic technique.
Take a look at the two handouts I use
in my workshops. You order a set of practice CDs from one of
the master educators on the subject (Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn) at
www.stressreductiontapes.com. You can attend a workshop
given by mindfulness training centers, which offer regularly
scheduled workshops in New York City, with information at
www.nyimc.org and
www.eomega.org.
For education professionals, consider
taking my introductory workshop. Please call me for dates.
To read more or to register, click on
this address:
http://www.wsboces.org/library/pdfs/iss1854.pdf
For an extensive bibliography on
mindfulness research and applications, click on this address:
http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=38&oTopID=38
ENJOY!!
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