Our phone vibrates with a Twitter notification and we do a stealth check even though we’re in a business meeting. Our heart speeds up at the sight of three new ‘likes’ on our latest Facebook status. We can’t get through the first course of our dinner without Instagramming our plate.
I just came back from a 7-day retreat with Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleague Saki Santorelli. They were teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for healthcare professionals at the Omega Center in Rhinebeck, New York.
Grab a medium-sized object—water bottle, cell phone, book—and grip it tightly, making your hand into a fist around it. Then, without opening your fist, use that same hand to try to pick up another object. What happens? When I tried this exercise, my fist knocked uselessly against the second object and I couldn’t pick it up without opening my hand and letting go of the first object.
Dr. Joe Flanders, the director of the MindSpace Clinic, discussed Mindfulness in 2 interviews on CJAD Talk Radio 800 in Montreal.
Dr. Joe Flanders, the director of the MindSpace clinic, was featured in the Life section of the Montreal Gazette on March 25th. The piece was written by June Thompson, a health columnist at the Gazette. Ms. Thompson, who has written extensively on her own experiences trying out different wellness practices, started practicing Mindfulness recently and declared 2013 to be “the year of Mindfulness.”
These three audio guides offer an excellent place to start your Mindfulness training. Simply click on the link below to play the audio and start meditating!
February is Mindfulness Month at MindSpace.
Research has shown that mindfulness reduces the extent to which we react to emotional events, which is reflected not only in the way we perceive these events but in the way our body physically responds to them.
We usually perceive everyday people and situations without appreciation or awareness, and through the lens of what we think we already know or understand about them. In contrast, beginner’s mind means experiencing people and situations as though for the first time, without the filter of history and established beliefs. There are several advantages to consciously cultivating beginner’s mind. Here are two ways to avoid mindlessness and increase mindfulness in everyday life.
Here are some apps that people from around the MindSpace community have found helpful for their Mindfulness practices. 1) Insight Timer: You can see who […]
