What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis
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.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
- Edmund Burke
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur
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.
Wherever there is a ruin, there is hope for treasure - Rumi
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
Do you want to hear my favourite procrastination joke? I'll tell you later.
- Piers Steel
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.
We must all die. But that I can save (a person) from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself. - Albert Schweitzer
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
- Frederick Nietzsche
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
- Elbert Hubbard
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.