Mindful Meditation! I began meditating on Feb 12, 2015, and am keeping this blog as a personal scrapbook and rolling progress report.
I began practicing mindful meditation on Feb 12, 2015.
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I’m listening to Gil Fronsdal’s five Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation podcasts, which were recommended to me as good listening for novice meditators. My prior posts were about “Posture and Breath”, “The Body”, “Emotions”, and “Thinking”. This post is about the final lesson, Week 5, “Daily Life Practice”.
Read MoreI’m listening to Gil Fronsdal’s five Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation podcasts, which were recommended to me as good listening for novice meditators. My prior posts were about Week 1, “Posture and Breath”, Week 2, “The Body”, Week 3, “Emotions”. This post is about Week 4, “Thinking”.
Read MoreI’m listening to Gil Fronsdal’s five Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation podcasts, which were recommended to me as good listening for novice meditators. My prior posts were about Week 1, “Posture and Breath”, and Week 2, “The Body”. This post is about Week 3, “Emotions”.
Read MoreI’m listening to Gil Fronsdal’s five Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation podcasts, which were recommended to me as good listening for novice meditators. The last post was about Week 1, which focuses on Posture and Breath. This post’s about Week 2, focusing on "The Body”.
Read MoreI mentioned in the last post that Gil Fronsdal’s five Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation podcasts were recommended to me as good listening for novice meditators. Each podcast is an hour and a half long and a recording of a class taught at the Insight Meditation Center. I don’t know how good a course it is overall, but I’m listening to it and will note my takeaways as I go. This post’s about Week 1, Posture and Breath.
Read MoreThis Google Talk is Dan Harris' full presentation on mindfulness and his book, 10% Happier. If you watched Charlie Rose's interview of Harris (posted here a few weeks ago), you should know the content of that interview is basically a condensed version of this talk—Harris even uses the same jokes, in the same places. Though a lot of this talk was familiar to me, I still found it worthwhile because the full talk goes into greater depth and is followed by some interesting Q&A.
Highlights and takeaways, after the jump.
Read MoreDaniel Brauer. Reader Writer Doodler Mensch. I read fiction, write fiction, and draw comics and other miscellany.
