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New Year Aspirations for 2012
The New Year resolution is a story as old as time. You are presented with an opportunity to reflect on the past and make goals for the future…the resolution to do better makes you feel motivated for a little while…then … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Beginning Anew, conflict, Good Will Hunting, habits, Mindfulness, New Year, Thich Nhat Hanh
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Being Peace
Greetings from Southern France. I’m in Plum Village for the next three months, embarking on the next chapter of what is shaping up to be quite a journey. I’m here for a variety of reasons, primary of which is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Being, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness, Mindfulness in Plain English, Plum Village, Thoreau, Walden
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Wake Up!
I’ve spent some time in the last year thinking through what I wanted my life to look like. This culminated recently with an aspiration to immerse myself within mindfulness practice and teaching, without quite knowing how I was going to … Continue reading
Raising awareness
There are a variety of definitions of mindfulness, but they all pretty much agree on one thing: practicing mindfulness leads to an increased awareness. If the ‘how’ centers around mindful practice, it is perhaps more relevant here to explore some … Continue reading
The Art of Conscious Living
I’m attending the Creating a Mindful Society conference this weekend, and am quite excited for it. One of the featured presenters is Jon Kabat-Zinn, and I recently had a read through of his first book: Full Catastrophe Living. It serves … Continue reading
Mastering failure
Failure. No one likes it yet we all do it. You set a goal in the present and then at some future time you don’t follow through as you had planned. Getting up early, passing an exam, calling someone back, … Continue reading
Who’s driving your bus?
A couple summers ago I was in Nepal riding a bus. It was a day long trip in a well-worn vehicle (this was no Greyhound), and we began our journey at dawn. This particular ride got off to a slow … Continue reading