Welcome to Mindfulness Meditation
What is Mindfulness meditation?
  • Formal practice of meditation

What is meditation?
  • The intentional focusing of one's attention.

What is Mindfulness?
  • Primarily, it's about awareness and just paying attention.
  • Paying attention, on purpose, to each moment/experience as it unfolds without judgement.
  • A practice that cultivates deep joy and compassion in response to life by bringing us into living life in real time, rather than living life on autopilot while our mind is caught in the past or the future.

What might be some benefits of mindfulness meditation?
  • Cultivating an intimate interior awareness of our being and nature of the oneness of mind and the body.
  • Experiencing the vividness of life as we live it in the present moment.
  • Cultivating the capacity to embrace all aspects of life with increasing degrees of calmness, wisdom and compassion.  Cultivating the capacity to live our daily lives mindfully.
  • While deep relaxation can be experienced, the cultivation of mindfulness practice is best seen as a way of being, a way of life.
  • The benefits, you discover for yourself.
Join us for mindfulness meditation Monday mornings at 8 am at the Acupuncture Studio.
In mindfulness, we concentrate on an object of attention (sound, phrase, breath, etc.).  The mind's natural tendancy is to "wander away." Mindfulness meditation gently returns the focus to the chosen object of attention. This method promotes profound calmness, inner stillness and non-reactivity of the mind.
Mindfulness meditation also expands beyond this to observe and inquire about the natural wanderings of the mind without judgement.  Working with the wanderings of the mind with acceptance and repeated refocusing of attention is as much a part of the meditation as staying focused on the object of attention. 
Rather than ignore, analyze or judge thoughts and feelings that arise in the field of awareness, you simply, intentionally note what arises as they arise, as best as you can, and return to the object of attention.  Paradoxically, this inclusive noting of where your mind wanders to and what's on your mind can lead you to feel less caught up in the thought streams about the past and future.  This offers a deeper perspective on your reactions to events in one's life and can inform you of action you may or may not need to take.
"If you want a brief defintion of meditation, it's about paying attention. It's got nothing to do with Buddhism, Mysticism, the East, the West; it's about paying attention."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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