“Mindfulness of breathing is a wonderful beginning to cultivating awareness. It strengthens our ability to concentrate and steadies our tendency to get lost in reactive emotions and mental preoccupations.” – Gil Fronsdal, co-founder, Insight Meditation Center Mindfulness of Breathing is an awareness practice and not a practice in breathing. That is why, when the aim […]
“We found some dramatic differences between the group of experienced mind body practitioners and the inexperienced group. Specifically, 2,209 genes in the experienced practitioners were being expressed differently. The genes that acted differently have been associated with medical problems and premature aging.” – Herbert, Benson, M.D., Relaxation Revolution The aim of this exercise is to
I wrote a while back about seeing a widening crack in my basement wall that brought on stories my brain was telling of “doom and gloomâ€, with the dramatic ending of my becoming a bag lady. As I said, at the time it was helpful to remember that this was a “storyline†being told by
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It was a normal dash down to my basement to retrieve something I had stored there. But my eye was caught by a crack in the foundation wall that had clearly widened since the last time I saw it. What happened next in my brain is comical – looking back on it. It went something
Our brain responds to three types of attentional cues in our life: It notices what we need for our survival. It notices what appeals to our interests… or grabs our attention. It notices what we choose to notice. Most of the time, we function in the second category. We automatically respond to “demands and appeals”