Originally published in the Washington Post on the 5th March this interview with Sharon Salzberg, a New York Times best selling author, teacher of meditation and mindfulness and one of the co-founders of the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts is so elegant in its simplicity that it deserves a repost. The interview is on …
Mindfulness is in the news. Ruby Wax and Julie Myerson have sworn to its efficacy in helping them with depression and anxiety. But mindfulness programmes aren’t just being used within mental health. Similar interventions are taking place in education, criminal justice and the workplace. This year over 70 MPs and Peers attended mindfulness classes and …
In every interaction you have with another human being—doesn’t matter who—you always have two main choices. (The keyword is choice.) One choice usually leads to logical (boring) interaction, politeness, formalities. And, more importantly, a lack of connectivity. The other usually leads to interesting discussion, love (yes, love), aliveness, friendship, gift giving. And connectivity. In every …
Suffering is everywhere. We see it in people’s faces, hear it in their voices, see it on the news. As we attempt to pay attention to suffering we can hear it in our own thoughts, feel it in our bodies and see it in the face in the mirror. Often people balk at this practice …
This fifth mindfulness practice will take us into the month of February, a time of year that is more often met with a groan of complaint than with a compliment, so what better way to bring joy to others…. Pay someone you know a compliment….how hard can it be?