Joyfulmind Newsletters 2024 and 2025

2024 and 2025

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2024

​Issue 17
March-April 2024
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From my fruity neck of woods to Yours  
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• A fruit theme. An ashram lychee orchard story; why I love sour cherries; health benefits of cherries.
• The Finding Spaciousness meditation course in full swing. 
• A relaxing, soothing ten-minute hand breathing practice.
• Links to Jon Kabat-Zinn and Tara Brach.
• Film recommendation: Rolling Thunder Revue (2019) by Martin Scorcese about Bob Dylan. 
• The Yoga Nidra Network​

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Issue 18
May-June 2024
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​Nautical issue
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• Sailing tales.
• Mindful in May
• A mindfulness podcast
• An historical home in Ashby, NSW, Australia ("Morningside")
• Treasure from our recent Joyfulmind meditation voyage, Finding Spaciousness.
• Anchoring awareness to the breath in meditation.
• The 8 Pillars of Mindfulness 
• Ditch shampoo to retain natural scalp oils
• Ponlop Rinpoche, Nature of Mind. "The most important thing is not to look too far away."
• Nia dance
•  "The Life of Pi" (2012) directed by Ang Lee
• Yoga nidra recommendations: Bethany Auriel-Hagan Breathing Into Sleep | Bethany Auriel-Hagan (insighttimer.com); Leonie Raddatz's ocean-inspired Yoga Nidra

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​Issue 19
October-November 2024 
 
​The Pneumonia issue
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•  The upside of having just had pneumonia.
• The Pneumonia diet
• Tergar's Joy of Living online meditation program with Mingyur Rinpoche
• I've just started the teacher training for Tergar's Anytime Anywhere Meditation program.
• An early video assignment ​Mindfulness versus Awareness.
• Nightmare of the year: the 2024 US Presidential Election.
• Conclusion of Joyfulmind's 2024 Enjoyathon.
• A hindi home movie festival on Netflix.
• A new grandson.
• Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans (John Lennon).

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Issue 20
​December-January 2024/25

The WTF issue
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• Swearing is good for you.
• The Barbie Movie.
• A prang.
• Do certain activities always remind you of someone in particular?
• The F Bomb.
• "All stitched together" craft project.
• "Othering" and compassion.
• Compassion as connection; Sharon Salzberg link.
• Elise Gravel illustrator
• Jewish Voices for Peace
• A timely Turkish proverb.
• Film recommendation: One Day (2024) on Netflix.
• A housesit gone wrong!

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​2025
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Issue 21
February-March 2025
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​The Othering and Anniversaries issue

• Othering.
• A landmark year.
• More about the Anytime Anywhere Meditation Program.
• Get a screen protector for your phone!
• Ditch the cozzie
• A mini lie-down.
• "Let Them" .
• The "selfing" part of "othering".
• Father David, The Danger of Certainty
• The basted turkey.
• Triggering rage and grievance,.
• Film: "The Lost Daughter" 2021, Netflix.

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Issue 22
​April-May 2025
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​The Brainrot Issue

• Information Superhighway
• Brainrot: word of the year 2024
• Judson Brewer: addiction and curiosity.
• Plato and the invention of writing.
• Urge surfing.
• Film: Stuck Together (French language) 2021, Netflix.​

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​Issue 23
June-July-August 2025

The Washing Machine issue

• The mind is like a washing machine
• Mindfulness and washing machine haiku
• Soft-focus laundry moments
• Yurong Jiang's Harvard graduation speech.
  
• Film: The Elephant Whisperers, 2023
  
• Amy Kisei Sensei, Yung Pueblo, Dr. Rick Hanson.
  
• Ocean Vuong
  
• Coming up at Joyfulmind: Exploring Enoughness (online course)

Issue 24
​Sept-Oct-Nov 2025 
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The Digital Detox issue

• Customise your ringtones.
• The "info"besity epidemic.
• Want to delete your Facebook notifications?
• Investigate sensation.
• Film: An Almost Perfect Town (Italy) 2016, comedy.
• Dharma Lab, Dr Cortland Dahl.
• The Kingdom of Shambhala, Joanna Macy.
  
• Anytime, Anywhere Meditation, my upcoming course.
  

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