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In 2010, an interesting headline appeared in hundreds of sources, including Scientific American and the National Institutes of Health: “A wandering mind is an unhappy mind”. In 2018, very different headlines, including one on the same National Institutes of Health website, read: “Mind Wandering Boosts Creativity”. What gives? Is mind wandering good or bad? A Read more
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Last week, I wrote about 3 reasons why I hate teaching meditation. This week, I want to share 3 reasons why I love teaching meditation. The first reason why I love teaching meditation is that there’s a method out there for everyone. For instance, my favourite app, called “Insight Timer” contains a library of over Read more
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I’ve taught meditation to many hundreds of people over 35 years, so why do I hate it? In this blog, I’ll explore this question, but first I want to clarify a few things: Given these 3 points, you would think that I would love teaching meditation, right? Not necessarily. Each of those points is true Read more
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One of the essential skills of paying attention is meta-awareness: the ability to notice where your attention tends to go. It can be quite surprising to see where your attention goes when you stop trying to control it in any way. I like to use the metaphor of letting a puppy off the leash and Read more
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Last week, I suggested that you pay attention to complaining – yours and that of other people around you. I hope that you tried this practice and increased your awareness of just how pervasive and pernicious complaining can be. For this week, I want to propose a practice that isn’t really a “practice”: play with Read more
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