Zen and the Art of Change
The meditation approach developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn and brought to the UK by Dr Mike Willaims at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre
“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him or her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” ― C. JoyBell C. This is last of the seven attitudes […]
Read More Attitiude 7 – Letting Go“Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted ― Charles Bukowski This is the sixth of the seven attitudes that Jon-Kabat-Zinn believes are the basis for Mindfulness. So what on earth is the idea of Acceptance? Definition: Simply put, coming to […]
Read More Attitude 6 – Acceptance. . . My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it. My greatest happiness consists precisely in doing nothing whatever that is calculated to obtain happiness: and this, in the minds of most people, is the worst possible course. I will hold to the saying that:”Perfect Joy is to […]
Read More Attitude 5 – Non-Striving“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection […]
Read More Attitude 4 – Trust“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is […]
Read More Attitude 3 – Beginner’s Mind“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People This is the second of the seven attitudes that Jon-Kabat-Zinn believes are the basis […]
Read More Attitude 2 – Patience“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People This is the first of the seven attitudes that Jon-Kabat-Zinn believes are the basis […]
Read More Attitude 1 – Non-Judging“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night I have been trying to cultivate my own Mindfulness practice now for over two years, trying to do formal as well as informal practice on a daily basis; sometimes successfully, sometimes not. […]
Read More How attitude helps with Mindfulness“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” ― Lao Tzu We spend so much of our lives living inside our own heads, it’s a wonder we ever have the time to […]
Read More This is the Now“You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.” ― Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro I was talking to a friend the other evening about what age we were living in. Our parents experienced the mass production industrial age […]
Read More What age are we living in? The age of the mind
Martin Summerhayes 