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joy

Experiencing Joy: A Foreboding Mindfulness Practice

Weekly ChallengeBy Mindfulness AssociationSeptember 20, 2018Leave a comment

Experiencing Joy: A Foreboding Mindfulness Practice A few days ago, I was sitting in my kitchen with my two best friends unpacking a very difficult moment in one of their lives. As she spoke, my other friend and I listened, empathizing with her. She has been hit with not one life crisis, but 3 or…

the benefits of mindfulness

Nothing to Add, Nothing to Take Away: A Mindfulness Online Course

Weekly ChallengeBy Mindfulness AssociationSeptember 13, 2018Leave a comment

This evening I am sitting in my big green chair preparing to teach the first session of the Mindfulness Association’s latest Level1: Being Present online course. I feel excited and inspired. This is the online course’s second run, and as I look over my notes from its maiden voyage, I am shifting things, making changes and…

mindfulness meditation

Peace is Flowing: A Mindfulness Meditation

Weekly ChallengeBy Mindfulness AssociationSeptember 6, 2018Leave a comment

Peace is Flowing: A Mindfulness Meditation. Life has been feeling a bit uphill these days… well, these months. There has been a litany of struggles over the past year, and without listing them all here and risking this post becoming one big moan, I will sum up my year by saying ‘I’m tired’. This became…

Sitting Like a Fool: A Mindfulness Exercise

Weekly ChallengeBy Mindfulness AssociationAugust 30, 2018Leave a comment

I have this fond memory of the first time I was introduced to the mindfulness exercise called ‘Resting in the Midst of it All’. My colleague Choden was teaching on the MSc: Studies in Mindfulness, where he had all of the students turn towards the window, face the expansive landscape and rest with a mind…

The Potential of Each Moment: Choosing your own Personal Mindfulness Curriculum

Weekly ChallengeBy Mindfulness AssociationAugust 23, 2018Leave a comment

If you were asked to pick your mindfulness curriculum for the day, what would it be? If your job was to choose a practice or create a module to work through, based on your needs, what would be included? No need to follow any rules, no timetables, no prescriptive manual. What would it be? Maybe…

Mindful Eating

Mindful Eating: Sweet, Sweet Pie

Weekly ChallengeBy Mindfulness AssociationAugust 16, 2018Leave a comment

When it comes to Mindful Eating, my cousin paves the way. I am sure if she reads this, she will contest; however, she consistently and diligently tries her hardest to stick to the 100- mile diet (only eating foods grown within 100 miles of where she lives). This means she eats seasonally as much as…

the benefits of mindfulness

A Bounty of My Own Making: The Benefits of Mindfulness

Weekly ChallengeBy Mindfulness AssociationAugust 9, 2018Leave a comment

Last week, as I was scrolling through my Facebook feed, I stumbled upon this quotation from the Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue, which I feel really emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness: It is far more creative to work with the idea of mindfulness rather than with the idea of will. Too often people try…

what is mindfulness

What is mindfulness – The spark within

Weekly ChallengeBy Mindfulness AssociationAugust 2, 2018Leave a comment

Whenever I am moving about the world and meeting new people, I often get asked the question “What do you do?” This question mostly refers to what I do to financially support myself. Though, I am tempted to list off all of the things that I do in a day. There is often a small…

Equanimity

What is Meditation? It’s NOT Adding Fuel to the Fire!

Weekly ChallengeBy Mindfulness AssociationJuly 24, 20181 Comment

Last week, we were lucky enough to have Choden, co-author of the book Mindful Compassion, and the upcoming book From Mindfulness to Insight, stop by the membership to answer the question: ‘What is Meditation?’ Well, that is a wee bit misleading- he was actually delivering an online teaching to our members on Deepening Insight, and…

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