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MINDFULNESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS: Using a thorn to remove a thorn
Psychologist Abraham Maslow once said that, “Sickness might consist of not having symptoms when you should.” To expand upon Maslow’s…
EQUANIMITY: A higher state of happiness
What is happiness? To one person it means owning eight cars. To another it means being in a great relationship. To a third it’s about getting blissed out in kirtan. Happiness means different things to different people. But, despite the discrepancy, one thing is certain — nice things and experiences only offer temporary pleasure.
MOVING INTO STILLNESS: Stillness – The Peace Within
Imagine a spinning top. Stillness is like a perfectly centered top, spinning so fast it appears motionless. It appears this way not because it isn’t moving, but because it’s spinning at full speed. Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in – when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing
Practicing present moment awareness using the presence process
MINDFUL MOMENTS Connect through presence to disconnect automated conditioning Most of us sit on the fence; one leg dangling shamefully in hindsight, the other swinging longingly towards a future that may redeem itself. Both parts of our disjointed selves miss what’s right in front of us, inside us and between us. We miss the space [...]
What is mindfulness? Experientially explore the answer
I’m about to conduct a short investigation into the present moment. Would you care to join me? Wonderful. Welcome aboard. As you read these words, where are…
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