What is mindfulness?
Last updated on 3rd November 2011

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Gandhi
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.
Everything is, and almost bursts with being so. - Anonymous
Wherever there is a ruin, there is hope for treasure - Rumi
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 we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. Dalai Lama
Only dead fish swim with the stream. - Anonymous
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.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
- Henry Ford
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner
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.