What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
Energy is an eternal delight
- William Blake
Yesterday we had the twelfth & final session of this "Life skills" evening class. There was scheduled to have been a bit less than a three month gap since the last - eleventh - session. However the heavy winter snow we'd experienced had resulted in this last session being postponed.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebhur (adapted)
There isn't any secret formula or method. You learn to love by loving, by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
- Aldous Huxley
I wrote yesterday about the first part of this tenth "Life skills" evening. I particularly discussed development of Goodwill practice - very much in the "Nourishing positive states" section of the "Four aspects" diagram (below). In the second half of the evening we moved on to the "Exploring & processing" section of the diagram with the introduction particularly of various forms of therapeutic writing.
My house having burnt down, nothing now impedes my bright vision of the moon. - Zen saying
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. - The 14th Dalai Lama
Yesterday was the ninth evening of this "Life skills" training. I wrote about the eighth session last week. The sequence of regular weekly classes now moves on to increasing gaps between sessions - so it's three weeks until the tenth, a further five weeks until the eleventh, and then an additional eleven weeks until the final twelfth session. My hope is that we will be able to arrange occasional follow-up meetings even after that.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions" ... we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle/Durant
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
- Margaret Atwood
Yesterday we had the sixth session of this twelve evening "Life skills" course. I wrote last week about the fifth session. A dozen slides covering material we explored are viewable/downloadable at slides 1-6, Powerpoint or slides 1-6, PDF and slides 7-12, Powerpoint or slides 7-12, PDF.