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Conventionally when we talk about ourselves it is from the first person perspective. It is from our personal point of view. We use “I, me, my, mine, we and our.” One can also describe what is happening from the third person perspective. In this scenario...
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Non-self-referential Labeling In labeling one is trying to use an objective description of what is happing rather than a self-referential perspective. Describe what is noted without the use of the word I. In describing a sensation from the I perspective will only...
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Mahasi Sayadaw was a Burmese Buddhist monk in the late 1800’s who popularized the idea of LABELLING that was a support for Vipassana or Insight meditation. Historically sustained awareness and deep concentration states of Jhana were believed necessary before one...
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I would like to offer a practice that encompasses the totality of the components of mindfulness that includes awareness, an experiential relationship with discernment and compassion resulting in skillful action. Importantly this practice is linked to the breath as a...
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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... 
