Tim at A Life Coach’s Blog has an interesting post about The Skinny Of Raw Food. The photos he has selected are reasons enough to go there but it is also a post well worth reading.
As I mention in Milk and Sugar I have started to gradually change what I eat. I am a long [...]
Yoga and my spiritual development makes me change gradually what I eat. The two things I focus on at present is to eliminate or at least cut down on sugar and dairy. When it comes to sweets I do not like the concept of artificial sweeteners, I avoid them completely.
Zen Habits has a great post [...]
A while back I finished a book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever you go there you are - Mindfulness Mediation in Everyday Life. I love Jon’s low key style. The book which consists of very short chapters, most of them only a few pages long, covers different aspects of mindfulness and meditation. There are also practices [...]
Mindfulness for Beginners is a set with two CD’s with Jon Kabat-Zinn, each CD lasts around 70 minutes. The first CD is an introduction to mindfulness, awareness and to MBSR, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. The second CD has five guided meditations.
The first CD has sessions about:
• The only moment we have
• What is mindfulness
• Awareness, a sixth sense
• Being present [...]
I am reading Arriving at your own Door - 108 lesson sin mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn. The book consists of qoutes (verses) that are compiled from Coming to our senses: Healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness. On the back of the book it says:
A quiet trust in awareness sometimes requires inspiration and gentle reminders. [...]
Google has a collection of company videos at YouTube. There are a lot of sessions worth watching.
I came across Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn which is terrific. The workshop is an hour long but is well worth that time, it also includes a meditation session. Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about mindfulness and meditation, awareness, non-doing, beginner’s mind, [...]
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I have been browsing around blogs and also doing comment surfing, reading a comment in one blog and then checking that persons blog. It is interesting to see where one ends up when just going with the flow.
One of my favourite blogs is Zen Habits, it has to be in a post about Zen-related blogs.
Goodlife [...]
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I came across the post Mindful Eating which has a great quote:
And when you chew, chew only the carrot, not your projects or your ideas. You are capable of living in the present moment, in the here and the now. It is simple, but you need some training to just enjoy the piece of carrot. [...]
I am reading a book whose full title is The Power of Your Other Hand: A Course in Channeling the Inner Wisdom of the Right Brain. On the back of the book it says:
Through the exercises in this book you can discover the power that lies hidden in your other hand. The exercises will help [...]
I love this quote from The 5-minute Meditator, a book about ’spot meditations’:
A person in a Buddhist centre, sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed for an hour, may be completely unfocused and not meditating at all. He could be daydreaming, falling asleep or thinking about everything at random. Conversely, someone who is fully present while [...]
