My first mindfulness event of the year will be on Saturday 27th January in Wynns Hotel in Dublin. It’s at 11am and runs for two hours. Most of my events are in the mornings, and I have found that this […]
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”Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.” When I included this quote from Thich Nhat Hahn’s book The Miracle of Mindfulness in my Daily Bell, it got a wide […]
“At some point during the day, taste the coffee,” she explains. “Notice it and that’s already disciplining your mind. Your mind wanders? It’s supposed to. Just bring it back to tasting the coffee, over and over again, and that’s like […]
Mindfulness means deliberately returning your awareness to the moments of your day while cultivating acceptance in your life. How can you cultivate these qualities in 2017? Use these seven tips to make your year mindful: 1. Remind yourself every morning […]
“While this may sound passive to our action-oriented ears, the ability to rest comfortably in the present moment regardless of its imperfections is the foundation of all true happiness.” I really like this quote from Sharon Salzberg’s book, Real Happiness […]
The Buddhist magazine Lion’s Roar has republished (from 2010) an article by Thich Nhat Hahn on mindfulness. Some quotes: “Our true home is not in the past. Our true home is not in the future. Our true home is in […]
Lion’s Roar (a Buddhist magazine) has just published a good explanation of the Buddhist approach to mindfulness. The article mentions the “four foundations of mindfulness.” These are instructions contained in a document first written about 2000 years ago. The foundations […]
Photo by Elizaveta Korabelnikova That line, I don’t have to believe everything I think, jumped out at me from Elisha Goldstein’s 2010 post on PsychCentral’s Mindfulness & Psychotherapy blog, and it still holds true. Goldstein writes about a correspondent who, […]
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 […]
“Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.” ― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom Thought seems to say, “I am far more important that what you are seeing, hearing etc. […]
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