Category: Mindfulness

  • En visualiseringsövning

    Detta är en visualiseringsövning för att stimulera kroppens egen läkning som kommer från W. Brugh Joy’s bok Joy’s Way: A Map for the Transformational Journey, ss. 150–154. Joy rekommenderar att denna övning görs tre gånger per dag — på morgonen, mitt på dagen och på kvällen: Slappna av fullständigt. Inte bara tänk utan känn det i hela…

  • A visualization exercise

    The following visualization exercise for healing is from W. Brugh Joy’s book Joy’s Way: A Map for the Transformational Journey, pp. 150–154. Joy recommends that the following six steps are practiced three times a day—in the morning, at midday, and at the evening: Relax as completely as possible. In the end, all tension in the…

  • Book Review: Sky Above, Earth Below

    Principles John Milton wrote Sky Above, Earth Below: Spiritual Practice in Nature in the hope that the practices and principles he shares will “greatly enrich your life” (p.229). Over the years he has identified the following principles for natural liberation (pp.8—15): The fundamental truth: All forms are interconnected, constantly change, and continuously arise from and…

  • The ecology of perception and language

    Here is a seminar on The Ecology of Perception and Language with David Abram.1 He is author of two books – Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World – and is best known for his work bridging phenomenology with ecology. Specific topics covered in…

  • Fear and anxiety

    Here is a conversation between Evita Ochel and Friedemann Schaub about fear and anxiety, how these manifest in our lives, and how to use the subconscious mind to heal them. Friedemann Schaub is author of the book The Fear & Anxiety Solution. Here are also some guided meditations from the book on Sounds True.

  • Mindfulness and aliveness

    We are only alive when we are alive!1 —Jon Kabat-Zinn Notes: 1 Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Healing Power of Mindfulness, YouTube (6:23)

  • What is Dialogue?

    The following quotes are from posts by Susan Taylor at What Is Dialogue (emphasis mine). The process of Dialogue is designed to create opportunities for new understandings — a space where new knowledge can be born. Through active listening, treating people equally, balancing opinions with inquiry and suspending judgement — by speaking honestly, noticing your…

  • The Elements

    The Elements with Joseph Jaworski is an interesting series of short videos on: Generative Strategy — integrating experience along the strategic path as it unfolds Discovery — The heart of the entrepreneurial impulse is your capacity to discover new ways to grow a business Power Of Intention — opening doors with commitment Generative Dialogue —…

  • Doing versus being

    Mindfulness may initially seem difficult to fully grasp since it has to be experienced to be understood. Mark Williams and Danny Penman lists seven characteristics of the doing and being modes of mind in Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world (pp. 36—44). These characteristics might help us understand the differences…