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[G-nan]

I am so glad to have found this forum. I have been working on the "non judgmental awareness of the present moment" including my body in space and my feelings and breath. I have not begun meditation yet, but it is a goal. I am presenting to a diverse faculty this month and want to make this topic as accessible as possible. What are your thoughts about mindfulness as a perception change? I am working with the quote "change is inevitable, struggle is an option" In addition to looking forward to this community as a professional resource, I am committed on a personal level to growth as well. Thanks for being here!!

[JonW]

Hi g-nan,
Welcome to the forum.
I recently interviewed Elisha Goldstein for this site. Here's one of his quotes:
'It’s natural for our minds to judge. In my new book and in The Now Effect, I quote Victor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist/psychiatrist who chronicled his experiences as a concentration camp inmate in the book Man’s Search For Meaning. One thing Frankl said was, “In between stimulus and response, there is a space; in that space lies our power to choose our response – there lies freedom.”
'In essence, the practice is to notice when the judging is happening so we can recognise the space in between what we’re judging (the stimulus) and the judging itself (the reaction) and choose to make a change. The power to choose our responses comes with an awareness of that space.'

The full interview can be found here: http://www.everyday-mindfulness.org/int ... goldstein/
My other interviews for Everyday Mindfulness can be found here: http://www.everyday-mindfulness.org/interviews/

Plenty of wisdom to be found in those talks.
All good things,
Jon, Hove

[G-nan]

Thank you, JonW. I am looking forward to reading many of those interviews-- didn't even know they were there!

[sunflowers894]

That's brilliant. This site is invaluable. Thanks so much.