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25.01.2022 Eating as mindfully as we might on a retreat or in a mindfulness course is not realistic for many of us, especially with families, jobs, and the myriad distract...ions around us. This is not to mention that our friends, family, and colleagues might not have the patience to eat with us if we take five minutes with each bite. So have some self-compassion for yourself and consider these six informal mindful eating practices to bring our bodies and minds back together. See more

24.01.2022 Saturation Coverage can create anxiety. Be conscious of your intake of news and media.

24.01.2022 Please Book through the Book Now button on the Zen & Now facebook page (please select Sunday Yoga and Mediation)

22.01.2022 From anxiety to curiosity.

21.01.2022 To do mental health work, you have to go to where the people are; you cant wait for them to come to intimidating places far from home, run by people who appea...r to be judging them. Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce visits the Centre for Mindful Studies in Toronto where frontline workers train clients in mindfulness. See more

20.01.2022 Tomorrow 1-2:30 at Cygnet Community Hub and then again 6-7:30pm Huonville council chambers - free info session on how to prevent and manage stress and depression- practical, realistic, evidence based info and strategies. No need to rsvp, just rock up. There will be cake...!

20.01.2022 Then, Now & the Future of Americas Mindfulness Movement.

19.01.2022 This was one of the meditations taught when we were little kids growing up in Sri Lanka.

18.01.2022 This is not what mindfulness is all about.

17.01.2022 Only a few more spots left for Sunday.

17.01.2022 If there is to be peace in the world There must be peace in the nations If there is to be peace in the nations There must be peace in the cities... If there is to be peace in the cities There must be peace between neighbors If there is to be peace between neighbors There must be peace in the home If there is to be peace in the home There must be peace in the heart Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)

16.01.2022 I will be teaching this course, starting on May 2nd. This is only for Tasmanians. I am also teaching an online 8 week MBSR starting on May 5th. PM me if you are interested. Check out Mindful Tasmania page for more in for on MPA programs.

16.01.2022 Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world - Eckhart Tolle

15.01.2022 The Guest-House This being human is a guest-house Every morning a new arrival... A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor Welcome and entertain them all! Even if theyre a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house Empty of its furniture, Still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you Out for some new delight The dark thought, the shame, the malice, Meet them at the door laughing, And invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, Because each has been sent As a guide from beyond [Say I Am You: Poetry Interspersed with Stories of Rumi and Shams, Translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks]

14.01.2022 Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky - Hafiz

14.01.2022 Why loving kindness meditation is important during these anxiety filled days.

14.01.2022 Mindful Eating!

14.01.2022 Spring is here. Pay attention to everything around you.

14.01.2022 Lasting gains from meditation where Participants showed improvements in attention and psychological well-being.

14.01.2022 Each night is a new night. Be open and try something different! What you have been doing to this point is probably not working well - Jason Ong.

13.01.2022 This is what minds do. "The mind is the most capricious of insectsflitting, fluttering" - Virginia Woolf.

11.01.2022 (Un)resistance training. Part 4. From a pragmatic standpoint, lets continue with the resistance training metaphor. This will help us define our metrics so we c...an track our progress as we navigate through our own lives. Simplistically, when training in a gym, we gauge how much we lift, how often we lift it (i.e. a number of reps), and how long we hold it against gravity (resistance). Each of these contributes to the strengthening of our muscles. If we think of our young monk at the beginning of the chapter, he lifted his mental burden once, yet kept holding and holding it up, until it was too heavy. When he couldnt take it anymore, he angrily threw it down at the feet of his colleague with a thud. When starting to do any type of un- or anti-resistance training, whether taking a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course or otherwise, we can look at these three types of gym metrics as applied to our own reactivity as we go about our day. How often do we react, as in taking something personally? The simplest way to measure this is looking for some type of an internal contraction, denoting some type of urge or attachment remember this covers both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. How heavy is it, as in how contracted do we get? And finally, how long do we carry it around? Clearly seeing our reactivity will also naturally point to its opposite: letting go. Here, too, we can use the same metrics. How often do we let go, or not even habitually react in a way that we used to? When we do pick something up, is it not as heavy, as in do we not get as caught up in it? How long do we carry it around? And if we see that weve been carrying something around, when we notice this, how quickly do we drop it (and not pick it back up)? We can think of anti-resistance training as an exploration more than a dogmatic framework that will achieve some result. Orienting to stress and its opposite doesnt lead us to something in particular. Instead, paying attention helps us keep moving in a particular direction. The more we become familiar with our compass, the more we can learn how readily available this mode of being is, all of the time. We dont have to do anything special or go somewhere to get something. We simply have to learn what its like to get in our own way, and the rest begins to take care of itself. T. S. Eliot wrote at very end of his magnum opus, the Four Quartets, We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; What are we looking for? He tells us a few lines later: Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) What happens when we shed our subjective bias, letting go of our own world-view, completely getting out of our own way? He finishes: And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. Sounds pretty rewarding.

11.01.2022 "Intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a persons life - Anthony Zanesco, U of Miami.

10.01.2022 No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest - John ODonohue

08.01.2022 I try to follow these every day...

07.01.2022 Attend to what is - Focus on the breath - Attend to the body

06.01.2022 MBSR in May and June.

06.01.2022 The body is your only home in the universe. It is your house of belonging here in the world. It is a very sacred temple. To spend time in silence before the mystery of your body brings you toward wisdom ~ John ODonohue, Anam Cara.

06.01.2022 A mindfulness retreat in a beautiful place in Tasmania.

05.01.2022 Try to realize its all within yourself No-one else can make you change And to see youre really only very small And life flows on within you and without you.

04.01.2022 Mindful Politics - We need this in Tasmania.

04.01.2022 Glimpsing the mindful brain.

03.01.2022 "We do metta, we learn metta, we teach metta, we live through metta. But the piece that elevates metta to the terrain of connection with each other, the univers...e, nature, so that we are not separate from any of it, is compassion. If one connects into the compassionate heart, its going to, at times, bring one to a place where you have to be present with personal suffering and the suffering in the world. And that can be a place that oftentimes is so difficult that we find all these ways to turn away from it. The only way we can actually meet each other and meet the world and whats happening is by strengthening the heart." DaRa Williams #metta #darawilliams #spiritrock #spiritrockmeditationcenter See more

03.01.2022 "Mindfulness is an inherent human capability that belongs to anyone irrespective of race, creed, gender, you name it. It is our birthright."

02.01.2022 The present moment, whenever it is recognized and honored, reveals a very special, indeed magical power: It is the only time that any of us ever has. The present is the only time that we have to know anything. It is the only time that we have to perceive, to learn, to act, to change, to heal. Jon Kabat-Zinn

02.01.2022 Judson Brewer shows us how Curiosity can help us deal with stress and anxiety during the Holiday Season.