Tag: Joseph Goldstein
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Owning Up
The goodbye speeches have been made and applauded. I have a couple of cards, with some beautifully written words in them and just the present I needed. I’ve hugged people I haven’t even touched in years of working with them and I put a box of photos and other memories in a box and driven…
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Practice diary: 2nd October
We are a busy culture. When people have arranged to drop in to see me they are often have to work out when they can squeeze half an hour extra time into their day. After work? Before food shopping? On the day the in laws have the children? “They’ve cancelled the meeting Thursday I could…
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Practice diary: 1st October
People pull some strange faces when I tell them I have made a playlist on Spotify for my funeral. But I think it is the sensible thing to do. All this ‘taking it easy’ time I have been fortuitously granted recently has given me the opportunity to think about the next years of my life.…
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Slowing down mindfulness
It is difficult to fully understand and accept the idea that there are no intended outcomes from practising mindfulness. It isn’t going to fit on a performance management sheet. It won’t sit easily as part of a self improvement plan. Instead, the invitation is to let go of the idea of not being good enough,…
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Now is enough
“I had a great mindfulness practice this morning, I felt really calm afterwards…….” (2 days later….) “My mindfulness practice was awful today. I had no calm or peace at all and was just away with the fairies. I wish I had a quieter room to sit in” Expectation is a sneaky feeling: the expectation that…
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