Minisode: Grateful-ology is not a real word...

Dann sent this to me today..

'As a friend of a friend's hairdresser once said: "it's hard to be hateful with a plateful of grateful." Is it? In this pre-holidays quickie episode, Alie is grumpy as hell and decides to research the neuroscience of gratitude. Does it work? Who's studying it? Does she need to buy a journal? Find out how jotting down things you don't hate on the back of a receipt or opening a secret Twitter account may be worth more than whatever you get in your office Secret Santa exchange.'

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Start new workshop of 9 weeks Mindfulness tonight at 4 pm SLT

We start tonight with the introduction to Mindfulness... book available ♥

Short and Powerful ♥

Ty Dann for finding this little gem! Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche explains in 3 minutes 5 simple tips for meditation...♥

Joseph Goldstein and fear

"I stayed in the sort of places that are awe-inspiring and make your hair stand on end, such as park-shrines, forest-shrines, & tree-shrines. And while I was staying there a wild animal would come, or a bird would make a twig fall, or wind would rustle the fallen leaves. The thought would occur to me: 'Is this that fear & terror coming?' Then the thought occurred to me: 'Why do I just keep waiting for fear? What if I were to subdue fear & terror in whatever state they come?' So when fear & terror came while I was walking back & forth, I would not stand or sit or lie down. I would keep walking back & forth until I had subdued that fear & terror. When fear & terror came while I was standing, I would not walk or sit or lie down. I would keep standing until I had subdued that fear & terror. When fear & terror came while I was sitting, I would not lie down or stand up or walk. I would keep sitting until I had subdued that fear & terror. When fear & terror came while I was lying down, I would not sit up or stand or walk. I would keep lying down until I had subdued that fear & terror." ~ The Buddha Most of us, when there is fear, are apt to run away from it, or suppress it, control it, or turn to some form of escape. We do not know how to look. We do not know how to live with that fear. Most of us are, unfortunately, afraid of something, from childhood until we die; living in such a corrupt society, the education that we receive engenders this fear. Take your particular kind of fear, if you are at all aware, watch your reactions, look at it, look at it without any movement of escape, justification or suppression, just look at it. You know it is most difficult to look at things simply, for our minds are very complex. We have lost the quality of simplicity. I don't mean the simplicity in clothes, in food, in all that immature nonsense which the saints cultivate, but the simplicity of a mind that can look directly at things; that can without any fear look at oneself as one actually is, without any distortion, so that when you lie, you see you lie - not cover it up, not run away from it, not find excuses. When you are afraid, know you are afraid, be clear about your fear. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti "Happy the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed." -Virgil (70 B.C.-19.B.C.) The gift of the Dharma excels all gifts; The taste of the Dharma excels all tastes; Delight in the Dharma excels all delights. The eradication of Craving overcomes all sorrow.

The mirror neurons

Tatulie shared this with us in the last Mindfulnes Workshop and it is really amazing:

10 min Guided meditation

Perfect for a daily Mindfulness meditation, 10 minutes and nice, deep voice ♥

The Center for Mindfulness is open!

The Center for Mindfulness is open for the public from today. At the landing spot is the teleporter, you can visit the yoga room, the tai chi clearing, the swan pool and the cocooning.

Everyone welcome. We will start with daily guided meditations (only 10 min!) at 4pm SLT.

Mindfulness workshops start again in January so come and reserve your spot!

Join our group: Center for Mindful Learning

Visit the Center in SL here

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