Are you worth cooking for? Hold the meatballs!
Imagine a new romantic interest invites you to his home for dinner. You get all dressed up and over you go. Maybe you buy something for dessert to show your appreciation. When you arrive he pulls out a chair and you sit down at the table. He goes to the kitchen and...
A better moment? Could this be it?
“We have a strong need to be on the way to some better moment, some better time when it all will come together for me. We can so easily become impatient and driven. Of course, this prevents us from being where we already are.” Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for...
When thoughts hurt – a lesson from Ruby Wax
In mindfulness practice we are often encouraged to observe our thoughts and let them float by. It’s a way of disengaging from unhelpful or hurtful thoughts. But when Ruby Wax went to Cape Town to teach mindfulness to young girls who had been badly abused, she...Four exercises in self-compassion
Well-wishing Take a couple of minutes now and then, perhaps with your eyes closed, to do this exercise based on an old Buddhist practice: Observe your breathing calmly for short while. Now imagine that somebody has sat down in front of you, facing you. This is someone...What quality am I bringing to this moment?
This question can bring you straight into the practice of mindfulness – so long as you don’t answer it. By asking the question, you step out of habitual responses for that moment – out of the light trance in which we all spend a good deal of time....
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