Tag: Letting go
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Practice diary: 11th October
I have said it before, but people just presume I will always be mindful because I teach mindfulness. They are wrong. Over the weekend the heater for the shower sprung a leak. The ceiling on the floor below developed some brownish patches and the cupboard the white box was in was drenched. The house electrics…
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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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No definitions
Mindfulness can help us live better lives both for ourselves and for others. So a definition of what it is is not nearly as useful as what it does how it functions. Mindfulness “helps us develop a capacity for flexibility rather than rigidity, responsiveness rather than reactivity” Feldman and Kuyken in “Mindfulness: ancient wisdom, modern…
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7 Attitudes to Mindfulness
“Full Catastrophic Living” by Jon Kabat Zinn is so frequently described as landmark or classic or masterpiece that there is almost an obligation to have it on your shelf if you are at all interested in secular mindfulness. But then it’s size at 600+ pages means it can be left untouched. So maybe, like a…
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