What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
People say how creative the All Blacks are, but creativity is just practice that's camouflaged. It comes from hard work.
- Wayne Smith, All Blacks rugby coach
Yesterday we had the twelfth & final session of this "Life skills" evening class. There was scheduled to have been a bit less than a three month gap since the last - eleventh - session. However the heavy winter snow we'd experienced had resulted in this last session being postponed.
And now, let us believe in the new year that is given us - new, untouched, full of things that have never been. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue
- Rollo May
I wrote yesterday about the first part of this tenth "Life skills" evening. I particularly discussed development of Goodwill practice - very much in the "Nourishing positive states" section of the "Four aspects" diagram (below). In the second half of the evening we moved on to the "Exploring & processing" section of the diagram with the introduction particularly of various forms of therapeutic writing.
Any unexplained phenomenon passes through three stages before the reality of it is accepted. During the first stage it is considered laughable. During the second stage, it is adamantly opposed. Finally, during the third stage, it is accepted as self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
- Albert Einstein
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Yesterday was the ninth evening of this "Life skills" training. I wrote about the eighth session last week. The sequence of regular weekly classes now moves on to increasing gaps between sessions - so it's three weeks until the tenth, a further five weeks until the eleventh, and then an additional eleven weeks until the final twelfth session. My hope is that we will be able to arrange occasional follow-up meetings even after that.
He who has a Why? in life can tolerate almost any How?
- Frederick Nietzsche
People think angels fly because they have wings. Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
- Anonymous
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate - Barnett Brickner
Yesterday we had the sixth session of this twelve evening "Life skills" course. I wrote last week about the fifth session. A dozen slides covering material we explored are viewable/downloadable at slides 1-6, Powerpoint or slides 1-6, PDF and slides 7-12, Powerpoint or slides 7-12, PDF.