What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. - Aesop
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.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
- Frederick Nietzsche
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.
Happiness is a kind of gratitude; it is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy what we have that really counts. - E. Edwards
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
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 flow of energy through a system serves to organize that system. - R. Buckminster Fuller
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Energy is an eternal delight
- William Blake
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.