Everyday Mindfulness

Full Catastrophe Living Jon Kabat Zinn - useful as primary text prior to reading about MBSR studies - google searches, youtube searches

Actually I don't know, couldn't know, what it cost to go to Asia and join a monastery, as the loss of income from working varies person to person, or how long one can expect to serve in a monastery before being considered a teacher.

I'll have to be honest however, I find it feels really good to just slightly regulate the breath, kind of on the order of a gentle hug, but nothing more than that. It's easy to focus that way too. But only momentarily. Then i might let the breath roam free and lightly hug the mind. LOL

Kabat-Zinn method has become my core practice. I've been studying Buddhism for the last 12 years, but this "secular" practice keeps coming back powerfully. It seems it works better for me because it clears away the excess baggage and contentious issues found in religion and allows me to &q...

Hi! Welcome to the group.. Long ago I did TM (1972-1979) - but more recently MBSR (1999-2019). I felt unsupported socially doing MBSR solo too - so I just joined Thich Nhat Nanh's sangha, but i really preferred the totally non-judgemental nature of MBSR so i usually tended to do that instead. Mindfu...

Aha... you are witnessing the arising and falling away of thought, feeling, perception, experience. You can even watch the mind construct mental formations as they arise and fall away. You can see how the mind acts as a biased, flawed observer, but you are just watching, watching... It sounds like w...

I'd be very interested in hearing how Mindfulness works on fibromyalgia... status report?

Sometimes my practice lapses, then later I find myself in a bar wondering if life has meaning and remembering daily practice was better than this is.

Title has double meaning. "not what you think" e.g. it's not doing or thinking, it's just being

I am confused by this. It seems a misnomer: it really is the awareness of the judging that we do rather than non-judgment. But I can't see the difference between it and discernment. But what is the difference between the two? How is my judging not to cross the road in front of that lorry different ...