By Dr. Ron Passfield
In an interview with Tami Simon, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach share their insights on The Power of Awareness to Change Your Life. In exploring these ideas, I will be building on my previous post based on Albert Flynn DeSilver’s ideas about developing mindfulness and awakening through writing. Jack & Tara have developed together an online … Continue reading “The Power of Awareness”
In my previous post, I discussed mountains and rivers as a source of meditation and their predominance in Chinese landscape art. I also focused on the Shan shui tradition of landscape painting where the artists expressed their thoughts and emotions about a physical landscape in their painting. In this way, they revealed something of their … Continue reading “From Outer Landscape to Inner Landscape: The Growth of Awareness”
As we grow in mindfulness, we become more aware of the multiple ways mindfulness is manifested in other people’s words and actions. We may be reading a novel and notice one of the characters tuning into their senses through open awareness or stopping to watch a sunset. We could also come across the biography of … Continue reading “Seeing Mindfulness Everywhere – Awareness Grows with Practice”
Diana Winston in a recent meditation podcast was joined by Michael Perricone, musician and Master of Tibetan Singing Bowls. Diana provided guidelines for meditating with singing bowls as Michael generated music from the bowls. At the outset, she indicated that meditating with the singing bowls was a pathway to natural awareness, a process of open … Continue reading “Using Singing Bowls in Meditation”
George Mumford, Mindfulness and Performance Expert, recently presented during the Embodiment@Work online conference coordinated by the mindful leader organisation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to encouraging and supporting mindfulness and compassion in the workplace. George works with elite sports teams and individual elite athletes, business leaders and academics to help them to achieve their very best. … Continue reading “Being in the Zone Through Mindfulness”
It’s so easy to become agitated in this fast-paced and demanding world. The environment we live in with its constant changes – economic, social, financial, climate, legal, electronic and political – demand incessant adaption. We can become so easily agitated by our daily experiences – our expectations not being met, having an unproductive day, managing … Continue reading “Overcoming Agitation – A Calming Meditation”
So often we end up engaging in conversations that are based on assumptions that are never made explicit. Each party to the conversation assumes they know what the other person is thinking and feeling but does not make this assumption known to the other person. The result is a parallel conversation – a conversation lacking … Continue reading “Parallel Conversations: Hidden Assumptions, Thoughts and Feelings”
In this day and age of hectic living, people are constantly tired or exhausted – basically drained of energy. In the absence of a conscious effort to re-energise ourselves, we can become prone to all kinds of physical and mental illness. Meditation provides multiple ways to re-energise and restore physical and mental balance. The daily … Continue reading “Re-energise through Meditation”
In my previous post, I identified five strategies I could use to establish and maintain a daily practice of Tai Chi. The strategies can be applied to any form of mindfulness practice, whether some form of meditation or a practice such as mindful walking, mindful eating or open awareness. In reflecting on these strategies, I … Continue reading “Reprioritising Your Mindfulness Practice”
Diana Winston in her meditation podcast, Mindfulness of Thoughts, explains the role thoughts can play in our lives and provides options for using mindfulness meditation to control our thoughts. Thoughts have a powerful influence over our lives – they can be positive or negative with consequential impacts on the way we see and experience the … Continue reading “Being Mindful About Our Thoughts”
