What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate - Barnett Brickner
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman
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.
When I get to heaven, God will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" He will ask, "Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?" - Susya, a Hasidic Rabbi
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
Never waste a good crisis.
- Winston Churchill (attributed)
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.
The self may be said to be made up of reflected appraisals.
- Harry Stack Sullivan
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans - that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too ... Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now! - Goethe
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
- Franklin Roosevelt
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.