by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn Generosity is an inward feeling, a feeling state a willingness to share your own being with the world. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient… only the Universe arranging itself. It is useful at times to admit that you don’t know your way and to…
Category: Mindfulness
20 Min Full Body Relaxation Meditation (Notes)
by Thích Nhất Hạnh Lie down on your back with your arms at your sides. Make yourself comfortable. Allow body to relax. Be aware of the floor beneath you… and of the contact of your body with the floor. Breathe. Allow body to sink into the floor. Breathe. Become aware of your breathing, in and…
Power of Nunchi (Notes)
by Euny Hong Nunchi is the art of creating round pleasant atmosphere in which everyone benefits: subtle art of gauging other people’s thoughts and feelings to build harmony, trust and connection art of reading a room and understanding what others are thinking and feeling context – body language, facial expressions, tradition, who else is in…
Mindfulness Revolution (Notes)
Edited by Barry Boyce Mindfulness means mind is fully attending to what is at hand, what you’re working on, person you’re talking to, surroundings you’re moving through. Attention Non-judgmental Receptive awareness Respectful Pay attention to breath Practice cultivating nonjudgmental awareness in day-to-day life Mindless means to stray from awareness of present moments. Autopilot
Thích Nhất Hạnh (Notes)
Looking Deeply: Mindfulness and the Presence of God. With the energy of mindfulness, we can see deeply. With the Holy Spirit, we can see deeply. Mindfulness is the energy of the Buddha. The Holy Spirit is the energy of God. They both have the capacity to make us present, fully alive, deeply understanding, and loving….
Welcoming the Unwelcome (Notes)
by Pema Chödrön A friend recommended this book, and it came at the perfect time. I was overwhelmed with sense of heaviness and discouraged by the seemingly endless cycles of bad news punctuated with unprecedented gun violence, racial injustice, police brutality, political hypocrisy, habitat destruction, species extinction, and finger pointing, all while millions are experiencing…