Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

It turns out that we don't have to succumb to the addictive appeals of external absorptions in entertainment and passionate dist ...

that the formation trails out far to the east, where the early November sun is hugging the horizon. As the first of them fly ove ...

Nature is showing me as I come to work today how things actually are in one small sphere, reminding me how little we humans know ...

we find ourselves caught up in turbulence, itself containing, like rapids and waterfalls, order of a more difficult and subtle l ...

as a spiritual discipline in itself: "It was a religious exercise, and one of the best things I did." Benjamin Franklin also ext ...

The power of waking up early in the morning is so great that it can have a profound effect on a person's life, even without form ...

keeps us honest and reminds us that there is far more to life than getting things done. Discipline provides a constancy which is ...

counts. Even five minutes of mindfulness practice in the morning can be valuable. And even five minutes of sacrificed sleep is l ...

no matter what time it comes, as a moment of mindfulness, the very first of the new day. Before you even move, try getting in to ...

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Thoreau, Walden TRY: Making a commitment to yourself to get up ea ...

Direct Contact We all carry around ideas and images of reality, frequently garnered from other people or from courses we have ta ...

Several years ago I received an invitation to give a series of lectures at the University of Arizona at Tucson. I was delighted ...

photographs before. As I looked at all that, I realized that the room had begun to fill with people, and one by one they too pee ...

Is There Anything Else You Would Like to Tell Me? Of course, direct contact is hardly of minimal consequence in the doctor-patie ...

word he used), and didn't make any attempt to examine her real, in-the-flesh hip and leg or to even acknowledge her complaint un ...

end of the medical interview. We encourage them to pause, for quite a while if necessary, leaving the patient enough psychic spa ...

In virtually every clip, while the student was saying what he or she had been taught to say to close the interview, namely: "Is ...

studied casualness across the back of the neck and shoulders. But working in the stress reduction clinic, the white coat would b ...

trust is all too frequently a missing ingredient in medicine. We call it "mobilizing the inner resources of the patient" for hea ...

all our good qualities for granted, or fail to acknowledge them at all. Perhaps we get stuck in the often deep and still bleedin ...