by Mark Williams & Danny Penman
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindfulness-pra ... ntic+world
FPIAFW is the book I read which brought the concept of Mindfulness into my life. The book contains an introduction to mindfulness and goes on to lay out an 8 week course with accompanying guided meditations.
It is almost a year now since I completed the course for the first time and since then have mostly continued my formal practice using silence. I feel that going back to basics and spending some time following this course again is a good idea for me right now.
So, after discussing it on a couple of other threads I am going to post up a new thread every week for the next 8 weeks. A few people have expressed their intent to join me in exploring the course. Originally I was going to post up 8 threads at once so other community members could access any week of the program. Having thought about this I realised I don't have enough time to write 8 decent, properly prepared posts in 1 day. So instead I am going to go one week at a time and not jump ahead. I have already found how useful it can be to approach this kind of thing in this way. Over on the How To Train An Elephant Thread, Steve and I are starting week 20 of a year long course. Each week we are presented with a new task, a new way to bring moments of mindfulness into our lives, new ideas to consider and reflect on.
For around 5 months now we have kept up with these tasks day in and day out. Some have been easier than others, rewarding or frustrating. The point is, the thought of daily tasks for an entire year might feel overwhelming and frustrating but broken down into a week, a day, a moment it feels far less intimidating. So I hope the same will be true of FPIAFW. In the forward to the book, JKZ makes an important point, 'to be effective, mindfulness requires an embodied engagement on the part of anyone hoping to derive some benefit from it.'
Starting tomorrow I will post a new thread each week with some details of the reflections on the theme for the week and the guided meditation. I encourage any and all contributions, thoughts and experiences to be shared as we feel able. Each Sunday I will then post up the next weeks thread. Let's have a go and see how it goes.
I guess my question was more relevant to week two!
