Last weekend, I attended the second residential weekend for the MSc Insight module at Samye Ling. The main focus of the weekend was working with the destructive emotions of anger and desire- and I walked away from the weekend with a whole new set of skills. Daniel Goleman defines destructive emotions as “those that cause…
Christmas came to the Mindfulness Association HQ this week! After a weekend of MSc teachings in Samye Ling, Heather and I made our way down to Whaley Bridge for Helen’s going away party/ our Christmas lunch. On Monday, Helen and I worked our last day together in the office before she headed off for her…
Musings of an MSc Student… by Anna Kane The beautiful river at the foot of Samye Ling I have taken to a daily practice of mindfulness in my late thirties. I suspect that it will take me the rest of my life to get somewhere closer to mastering the art of mindfulness. Will my Studies…
The Breath The breath is always with us and it is the thread that connects all moments in our lives. We can live for days without food or water but deprive us of breath and we die in minutes. In view of this is, it is quite incredible how little attention or importance we give…
Mindfulness and Compassion Every one of us responds to kindness, even animals. A dog can be taught to behave using a stick to beat it, but it will become neurotic and stressed when told to do something. Yet the same discipline can be achieved through kindness and compassion and the dog will be calm and…
On the 2nd November we completed the first One Year Mindfulness Association course to be held in Brussels. We also held two Friday evening Mindfulness sessions that were open to the public which attracted interest from people who may do the course when it runs again in 2015. For some participants this was their introduction…
On Wednesday, I am presenting at a ‘Beyond Diagnosis’ conference at University City Cork (UCC)’s school of nursing and midwifery. The subject that I am covering is how compassion based practices create the conditions for psychological resiliency. While I was putting together my power point, I was struck by how my research was very much…
My brother is arriving from Canada for an 8 week visit today. I haven’t seen him in a year and a half. We were always close growing up and we’ve remained close from a distance, as he lives in Toronto and I live in Wicklow. So, you can imagine the excitement in the house. The…
Traditionally, Halloween is known for being the night when the veil between the worlds of the dead and alive is thinnest. The concept of dead and alive can be equated quite easily with awake and asleep. Indeed, the acronym R.I.P. found on headstones and obituaries stand for Rest in Peace, suggesting that death is a…
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