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Archive for December, 2011

Introducing Reflections from Bodhi…

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

  Bodhi is a ‘knowing’ little bear who will bring you and your children simple reflections in everyday mindfulness. Each week Bodhi will share new insights and lessons about our dynamic qualities of mind and of being. There will be illustrations & musings to help parents & children open curious and meaningful conversation about what […]

Awakening

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

  ‘Receptivity’ is our intentional openness to whatever arises in awareness.

Practice: “Being” This Holiday Season

Monday, December 5th, 2011

~ Inspired by author & educator, Jeffrey Brantley, MD This holiday season, take some time each day to stop and to be present with yourself and life…  just as it is… remembering that inner peace & stillness exists inside of us all regardless of the outer circumstances. Here is a personal mindfulness practice in breathing: […]

Awakening

Monday, December 5th, 2011

  Self-regulation’ is an integrative function that balances thought, emotion, and attentional focus in our mental world.

Awakening

Sunday, December 4th, 2011

When we intentionally attune with ourselves- maître– ‘be-friend’ ourselves unconditionally- we sense a resonance that can be contagious with other relationships.

Awakening

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Refined ‘mindsight’ can bridge the reverberant connection between our ‘experiencing’ or ‘living self’ and our ‘observing’ or ‘witnessing awareness’.

Awakening

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Cultivating our capacity for ‘mindsight’ helps to illuminate the nature of our own minds. It brings into focus internally and relationally the thoughts, feelings, intentions, attitudes, etc. of ourselves and of others.

Awakening

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

‘Filtered experience’- invariant representations signaled by our brain casts a veil upon the capacity to make clear distinctions in the present moment. Without the ‘filter’, the ordinary can become extraordinary.