Sitting Meditation: Open Awareness. Awareness of EmotionsIntroduction: Our inner life can become fascinating if we practice mindfulness of emotion in the Body. If we ever become bored during this exercise, label it “bored.” Boredom always changes to something else when we linger with it long… Read More »MBSR Awareness of Emotions
Introduction to the sitting meditation – Awareness of body and breath Intention – Practice waking up to automatic pilot. Allowing thoughts and feelings to come and go without getting caught up in them Attention – The breath, the body, the sensesAttitude -Non-striving, non-judging, allowing the… Read More »MBSR 3 – Awareness of Body and Breath Meditation
Intention – Practising waking up to automatic pilot, befriending the body as we gather our scattered minds into the senses.Attention – Practising bringing the attention back, gently turning towards our experience at this moment.Attitude – Curiosity, openness (beginners mind) acceptance and kindness. Settling into a… Read More »MBSR – Awareness of our senses
Script for ~30min MBSR Mindful Movement.This is a key practise of MBSR. Other guided MBSR meditations I offer are:Bodyscan, 3-Step Breathing Space, Awareness of BreathMindful movement can be practised standing, lying down, seated or a combination of these.This particular guided mindful movement practice focuses on… Read More »MBSR Mindful Movement – done seated
The steps of the Breathing Space I am guiding you through are 1. Gathering/ grounding in the present moment 2. Exploring what is here 3. Opening up to engage with the world againIn the Taking a break – Taking a breath guided meditation I am… Read More »MBSR 3-Step Breathing Space
Awareness of Breath – or mindful breathing is an essential practice in the MBSR curriculum.It is a calm, non-judging awareness, allowing thoughts and feelings to come and go without getting caught up in them.Intention – To practice waking up to automatic pilot and coming to… Read More »Awareness of Breath – Guided Sitting Meditation
This is the second try of the vegan chocolate banana muffin, and while the first round was good, I think I stepped up my game with this one. As I usually only follow recipes vaguely, I’ll produce more iterations, but this one was good enough… Read More »Tasty Vegan Chocolate Banana Muffin Recipe
Ich saß im Zug und die Frau neben mir trank 4.5h Kaffee. Naja, sie trank nicht direkt, teilweise schlief sie auch oder las. Wichtig ist, dass sie die gesamte Fahrt ihre Maske am Kinn hatte, um jederzeit trinkbereit zu sein. Das war am Rand des… Read More »Menschlichkeit ist kein Menschenrecht
The Body-Scan mindfulness meditation asks us to pay attention to each part of the body one by one – not to what we think we should feel but to what is already there. Like the weather, the sensations in the body keep changing. As thoughts… Read More »MBSR Guided Body-Scan Meditation
… it could be way worse?… if only happens occasionally?… life is way better with the abusive person than without them?… I could have done XYZ differently to avoid it?… they are such a good person and try really hard to do well, but they… Read More »Is it still abuse, if …