Jon Kabat-Zinn 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, talks about the 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness, how to use them in our Mindfulness practice and daily life.

Jon is the founder of the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founder of it's renowned Stress Reduction Clinic. He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in various venues around the world.

 

Resource: Minds Unlimited / Mindfulnessgruppen

2021 Calendar Positive Thinking in Second Life

 Who doesn't like a good group gift in SL? ♥

CHEZ MOI ♥ 2021 Calendar Positive Thinking

Generalized Anxiety Self-Help Resources

Shared by Tat in our discord group: 

Self-help resources for generalized anxiety disorder, written by clinical psychologists at the Centre for Clinical Interventions in Perth, Western Australia.

https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Worry-and-Rumination

Goodbye rumination

Have you ever found yourself unable to sleep or relax because unwanted thoughts and worries fill your mind?

The video 'Micro Lesson' below describes some techniques for displacing unwanted thoughts with different thoughts that are more productive or pleasant.  It requires fine tuning to find what works for you but provides the general framework to get you started.

I used to be good for three hours of rumination before I could fall asleep.  Now, I tell myself that repeated worrying is not productive and to save thinking about problems for a better time.  One of the things I fill my thoughts with is visualizing a favorite route for a bike ride.  It has actually been years since I rode my bike along that route, but as I remember it in great detail the worries fade away, replaced by nice memories.

https://scottadams.locals.com/upost/338260/a-micro-lesson-on-getting-rid-of-unwanted-thoughts

 

New Rewards for your CfM Coins!

 We start the New Year with new rewards for your CfM coins (you get them for joining our meditations and events, yes, that easy!) Remember the Christmas gift from the Center? Now you can earn this wonderful HUD to change the textures of your Meditation Corner

8 beautiful versions and I included matching textures for the rug. Hope you like it!  I also added the Futon bed, the dreaming swan, the wishing tree and...

Tadaaa! Cyrile the Worry Eater, on touch you tell him your worries and he takes care of it! And you can get him for only 1 coin , yes, you read that right, only 1 coin! 

Have no idea what to do? Read here

 

The beginning of life

Yesterday I was looking at a documentary on Apple+, The beginning of life (Netflix link). Breakthrough technology allows neuroscientists to research how environment and caretakers have a huge influence on young children and how that shapes that not only their future but also ours. 

Babies always make me melt so I watched and learned a few wonderful things (if you have a baby, talk to it as much as possible ♥) About 3/4 into the documentary they film this little girl in the slums of India, no parents, perhaps 8y old, taking care of her little brother and sister, as all Westerners I can stomach all of that, I mean we see it so often yet we don't care at all. 

 

But then the interviewer asked her: What is your biggest dream? And with a smile on her face she said: 

I don't have dreams...  and then that smile faded as she possibly became aware of the hard reality of what she just said. I burst out into tears and cried for two hours, the unfairness of this poor girl hit me so hard and I felt like I need to help her. Made a clip of it for you:

 

The documentary was made in 2015 and a quest to find who she is led to nothing but I did find a site to help children in poverty: Sponsor a Child in Need

I found a child and payed the first amount for him, Prince 3y old and awaiting his picture and package to get to know what he needs

 

 

 I will continue to try to find the little girl in the documentary and find a way to help her and her siblings. Please if you can afford, consider helping one of those children too, or find a family near you that needs help. No child deserves to live in poverty.

I usually don't make New Year resolutions, I am fairly good at planning what I want in my life and do what is needed to reach my goal. This year I do to honor this little girl.

 From now on I will be grateful for all I have and not complain. No more whining and moaning about futile things, feeling down for things that don't matter. Enough with the selfishness and the greed. A ray of sunshine, the smell of grass... everything is a reason to be grateful, specially for us Westerners. 

I will keep all my wishes for her, that her life gets better and maybe one day this child has a dream again ♥