What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011
Man, sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourselfl
- Miles Davis
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.
If you don't change, you don't change.
- Coen de Koning, psychedelic guide
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. - T. E. Lawrence
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.
Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.
- Pablo Picasso
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
- Edmund Burke
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.
When you were born, everyone was smiling but you were crying. Live such a life that when you depart, everyone is weeping but you are smiling. - Sa'di of Shiraz
Everything is, and almost bursts with being so. - Anonymous
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry Thoreau
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.