This is the tenth and last video segment of the ‘Mindfulness for Life’ interviews by Jon Kabat-Zinn. The quote is also by JKZ, excerpted from a longer article that used to be on his Mindfulness CD website but is no longer there. Fortunately I reposted it back in September and you can read it in …
Bringing our attention to the senses with open-mindedness and curiosity is one of the very first practices in an 8 week course You can find the previous segments of this video series on the following links below. Segment 1: Mindfulness for Life – Interviews with Jon Kabat-Zinn Segment 2: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Segment 3: …
It’s not a question of finding the time to practice mindfulness, but rather of making the time; making the commitment to do nothing other than just pausing a little and being with your experience as it unfolds, from moment to moment. How does that sound as a resolution for the New Year? You can find …
Getting away from the drama of our personal stories and into an understanding of and intimacy with awareness itself; the realisation that there is no place to go, there’s nothing to do, and there’s no special mindfulness state to attain in order to become a whole person. You can find the previous segments of this …
Through mindfulness practice we learn to use our awareness to see how caught up we are with our likes and dislikes. We begin to notice how our tendencies to attach to the pleasant and to push away the unpleasant in our experience, are both harbingers of suffering. You can find the previous segments of this …
This video explores some of the mystery and wisdom inherent in the physical body and how the discipline of mindfulness based practice can enable us to get in touch and more intimate with all six senses and the ‘full dimensionality’ of human experience. You can find the previous segments of this video series on the …
In the fourth segment of this series Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about the practice of mindfulness as the path of liberation from our conditioned and habitual behaviours that we are, for the most part, unaware of. For the previous video segments of this series please see the following posts: Segment 1: Mindfulness for Life – Interviews …
A delightful and poignant gem from recently graduated UK animation student Tom Long. With over 1 million views on Youtube, other people clearly thought so as well. Take the three minutes to be thoroughly charmed; his examiners clearly were, as the film earnt him a first class honours degree from Southampton Solent University. An old …
For those who may have missed it, the excellent Horizon programme on the neuroscience of personality which explores whether negative cognitive disposition (the tendency to be pessimistic) can be improved by amongst other things…..mindfulness meditation. First aired Wednesday 10th July, 2013
Lovely TED talk from Dr Brene Brown on what it means move towards our own vulnerability rather than trying to numb or avoid emotional pain and discomfort. Well worth the 20 minutes.
Befriending Your Mind, Befriending Your Life: Mindfulness and the Endless Adventure of Growing into Yourself, Jon Kabat-Zinn. This excerpt comes from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s keynote presentation at the Feb 2013 Bridging Hearts and Minds of Youth from the UCSD Center for Mindfulness at the University of California San Diego School of Medecine.
The BBC Breakfast Programme ran a report on the emergence of Mindfulness in UK schools as a means of reducing curriculum and exam stress amongst teenagers. For more information please contact The Mindfulness in Schools Project, the UK’s leading organisation in this field. The piece was aired on Wednesday 27 March, 2013
Mindfulness for Life Interviews Jon Kabat-Zinn on how we can access and move towards the felt sense of our experience by attending to what is present in this moment, whether pleasant or unpleasant, good bad or ugly. This video segment also gives some background to the choice of title of his first book, Full Catastrophe …
In honour of John Kabat-Zinn’s forthcoming trip to the UK, I thought I’d post a series of mini-interviews that he recorded back in January 2013. If you want to see him in the flesh there are still tickets available to see him in London on the following dates. 27th March – International Mindfulness in Schools …
An engaging and entertaining TED talk on mindfulness by the irrepressible Andy Puddicombe, a former buddhist monk and the voice of Headspace, an organisation dedicated to demystifying the experience of meditation and getting as many people in the world as possible to take 10 minutes out of their day for the specific purpose of ‘doing …
This documentary from Jon Kabat- Zinn, the creator of the 8 week Mindfulness Based Stress reduction (MBSR) programme, was made in 1999 to commemorate 20 years of work done at the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre. Some 14 years later, the Stress Reduction Clinic has grown and expanded into the …
Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a philosopher, writer, and speaker. He wrote over twenty books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, and the pursuit of happiness, relating his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religions and philosophies. He also gave many lectures, …
A key component of mindfulness is the practice of bringing our awareness into the mundane, so that the stuff of everyday experience which lies between the extremes, becomes transformed by the quality of our attention. When we pause and look deeply enough to notice, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The video below by Dietrich Ludwig truly …