Announcing / reminding of the First Wednesday of the month “Drop-in” mindfulness meditation practice group at the Windmill Natural Health Centre TOMORROW at 7pm http://ow.ly/jESAa
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Most of our suffering comes from habitual thinking. If we try to stop it out of aversion to thinking, we can’t; we just go on and on and on. So the important thing is not to get rid of thought, but to understand it. And we do this by concentrating on the space in the mind, rather than on the thought.
– Ajahn Sumedho, “Noticing Space”
Points to a glitch in trad. CBT models: if we’re thinking “I mustn’t think like that”, then we are doing! Mindfulness informed approaches, like ACT, foster a spaciousness around thinking which allows the “observer of thoughts” to stay in the driver’s seat – rather than the thoughts getting a swervy grip on the wheel
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The Haven of Meditation
Meditation is a haven away from the ubiquitous world of self-improvement. It’s not just that there’s no such thing as ‘bad’ meditation, but there’s no such thing as ‘good’ meditation either. It is what it is.
– Barry Evans, “The Myth of the Experienced Meditator”
Then that’s a relief – less about self-improvement, more about acceptance. Time for being OK just as you, and your experiences, are.
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The Haven of Meditation
Meditation is a haven away from the ubiquitous world of self-improvement. It’s not just that there’s no such thing as ‘bad’ meditation, but there’s no such thing as ‘good’ meditation either. It is what it is.
– Barry Evans, “The Myth of the Experienced Meditator”
Then that’s a relief – less about self-improvement, more about acceptance. Time for being OK just as you, and your experiences, are.
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