How To Live Your Truth: Identifying Your Values & Mastering Mindful Living - Mrs. Mindfulness Do you know what the most common regret people express on their deathbed is? It’s “I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” This blog post is about how not to have that regret on your deathbed. So, what stops people from living a life that’s true to them? The Centre For Mindfulness Research And Practice What is 'mindfulness' and how can it help? Mindfulness is often defined as 'paying attention on purpose moment by moment without judging, (Full Catastrophe Living, - Jon Kabat-Zinn). This means developing the ability to pay deliberate attention to our experience from moment to moment. We learn to tune in to what is going on in our mind and body day to day without judging our experience. Becoming more aware of our thoughts, feelings and sensations may not sound like an obviously helpful thing to do, however learning to do this in a way that suspends judgement and self criticism can have surprising results.
A New Years Meditation On What Really Matters Most - Mrs. Mindfulness Happy Holidays! It’s such a potent time of year isn’t it? It’s a time of endings and beginnings as we close one year and begin a fresh new year. Many of us are thinking about new years resolutions and taking stock at this time, but how many of those typical resolutions are just ‘self’ improvement projects (which means we’re trying to get more, be more or have more) rather than ways to actually embrace the life we already have right here and now? I recently read this article about presence over productivity and it really struck a chord with me. Since we’re coming up to new years eve I found it to be a timely reminder that a life well lived is not about getting stuff, doing stuff and having stuff.
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy: University of Oxford Centre for Suicide Research Section maincontentent Background Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy has been developed with the aim of reducing relapse and recurrence for those who are vulnerable to episodes of depression. It is needed because the risk of relapse and recurrence in those who have been depressed is very high, and the amount of triggering required for each subsequent episode becomes lower each time depression recurs. When I was in college, I went off to the mountains for a weekend of hiking with an older, wiser friend of twenty-two. After setting up our tent, we sat by a stream, watching the water swirl around rocks, talking about our lives. At one point she described how she was learning to be “her own best friend.”
Mindfulness Exercises - Everyday Mindfulness Exercises For Stress Relief The practice of mindfulness can bring many benefits to your emotional and physical health, as well as to the relationships in your life. Mindfulness is an amazing tool for stress management and overall wellness because it can be used at virtually any time and can quickly bring lasting results. The following mindfulness exercises are simple and convenient, and can lead you to a deeper experience of mindfulness in your daily life. Mindfulness Exercise #1: Meditation Meditation brings many benefits in its own right, and has been one of the most popular and traditional ways to achieve mindfulness for centuries, so it tops the list of mindfulness exercises.
10 Recommended Books on Christian Meditation A Facebook friend recently asked me, “Hey Carl, what are your ten top books on meditation?” I hope this is a useful list. I’ve listed the books in the order in which I would recommend them. Many of these books I would not necessarily recommend as “stand alone” titles: for example, Ross’s book, which I think is very important, nevertheless needs to be read alongside Laird’s, for anyone seeking practical guidance in how to do meditation. Similarly, May’s book should be read alongside Tilden Edwards’. 10 simple mindfulness exercises I was eating at an Ethiopian restaurant yesterday. For those not familiar with that cuisine, the food is served on thin pancakes and one is supposed to eat one’s dinner with the right hand. For me it was a painful exercise in overcoming my conditionings. The table went quiet: a measure of the concentration we all needed to not eat warm food with knife and fork. We were suddenly fully there: eating.