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A critical aspect in mindfulness is the capacity to bring awareness to the present moment experience. However it is not just being aware cognitively of what one is experiencing but what is crucial is the capacity to have an embodied presence. To experience what is...
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“What makes things so? Making them so makes them so.” Our minds play a key role in how we see reality. We experience the world through our senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling and thinking. Our minds receive the sensation and initially...
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Meditation has been around for 4000 years! From the Buddhist perspective meditation reflects the Pali word bhavana that stands for cultivation. Cultivation of what? The present moment. What is the present moment? What you choose it to be! When one hears the word...
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*SET THE INTENTIONMeditation initially is about enhanced awareness. Before the start of the practice one might state: “May I have applied and sustained awareness of the present moment.” *SHUT the EYESOne can meditate with eyes open or closed. I would...
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*selfWe conventionally operate from the perspective of being the sense of self. We believe we are this constant solid and real entity. This is fraught with constant self-judgment and criticism of our actions and thoughts. We believe we are flawed and inadequate and... 
