Happy Mindful Monday!
Last week I had the great pleasure of meeting Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn (JKZ) at a meeting on Wednesday with a group of 20 educators, on Tuesday with 500 people for an all-day retreat, and on Friday at the Northrop for a lecture with 2000 people. He is the founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and author of many books on Mindfulness.
It was inspiring to meet JKZ in person. His quotes, like the ones I listed below help me to live more mindfully. But what really struck me was the number of people who showed up at the retreat, at the lecture and how many teachers the 20 of us represented at the meeting on Wednesday. It is super cool to know that there are so many people who are interested in mindfulness and taking steps to practice mindful living. I am inspired by this community and I am filled with gratitude.
If you missed his lecture last week, you can find several of his lectures online. Here’s one that I found on the Mindful Schools website. Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn speaks about the role of Mindfulness in Education in CA in 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEINtdXIqns
Quotes from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”
“Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
“look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.”
“Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.”
“Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?”
Jon Kabat-Zinn defines mindfulness as “paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally”.
If you would like more information on where to take a class to further your own practice and/or to learn how to bring mindfulness to students please let me know.
in training and with gratitude,
Ann
Last week I had the great pleasure of meeting Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn (JKZ) at a meeting on Wednesday with a group of 20 educators, on Tuesday with 500 people for an all-day retreat, and on Friday at the Northrop for a lecture with 2000 people. He is the founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and author of many books on Mindfulness.
It was inspiring to meet JKZ in person. His quotes, like the ones I listed below help me to live more mindfully. But what really struck me was the number of people who showed up at the retreat, at the lecture and how many teachers the 20 of us represented at the meeting on Wednesday. It is super cool to know that there are so many people who are interested in mindfulness and taking steps to practice mindful living. I am inspired by this community and I am filled with gratitude.
If you missed his lecture last week, you can find several of his lectures online. Here’s one that I found on the Mindful Schools website. Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn speaks about the role of Mindfulness in Education in CA in 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEINtdXIqns
Quotes from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”
“Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
“look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.”
“Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.”
“Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?”
Jon Kabat-Zinn defines mindfulness as “paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally”.
If you would like more information on where to take a class to further your own practice and/or to learn how to bring mindfulness to students please let me know.
in training and with gratitude,
Ann
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