Holy Dooley: i get a write-up in the current Australian Yoga Journal issue on Mindfulness! And contribute six mindfulness tips. Here they are:
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Savouring is the magical ingredient for sustaining a joyful mind. Much of the time we don’t pay much attention to life’s ordinary little joys. They slip by unnoticed. Savouring brings a mindful awareness to our daily experience, meeting it in a new way and inviting it to deeply affect us. Body, breath and senses, the reliable three anchors of Mindfulness, provide a safe haven when we’re blown about by the wind of mindlessness.
Zen Student: “Master, when troubles come, how should we greet them?” Zen Master: “Welcome”. What? Put out the welcome mat for unwanted feelings and emotions? What a crazy idea! But seeing that it originates from Zen, a famous wisdom tradition, it might be worth a squiz. I’ve just started a game of cards with my teenage son. It’s Jim Rummy, a game we’ve enjoyed together since he was seven.
Calm, focussed and coping: these are three major dividends a mindfulness practice will deliver.
As we establish a mindfulness practice, we will notice calm becoming our daily companion. Calm is a result of befriending our mind and supervising our inner chatter. At the same time we will notice our brain getting brainier as focus naturally develops. As a result, mindfulness will become a flexible tool that steers us through life’s ups and downs, a reliable coping mechanism. Mindfulness helps steer a clear course through life by bringing attention to our here and now experience with an attitude of interest, openness and receptiveness. Mantras are traditionally Sanskrit and sacred in origin. But there’s no reason why we can’t make up our own when the occasion calls for it.
Here’s a totally unique Christmas gift: a brief hand-illustrated
guide to beginners yoga. I made it for my classes but you might find it useful too. Read on for an interview about the booklet with the local newspaper. Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. Hokusai says says there is no end to seeing |
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