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Recently I attended an 8 week course called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. This is a course created by Jon Kabat-Zinn. I found the time spent learning mindfulness very nourishing. Every Wednesday afternoon for 8 weeks I sat in a circle with a dozen or so other people and we were led gently and without judgment to pay more attention to the life we are living in this moment.
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I was talking to a friend recently who is having heart problems. I was amazed as I listened to him. ”My foreman is out to get me to retire”. He said.
“The compensation board has screwed me over and they are refusing to pay me justly for the finger I partially cut off while working a couple of months ago.”
“I’m getting so depressed that I don’t really want to… Continue reading
Life is a decision. It has taken me many years to arrive at this awareness.
What I focus on grows in my awareness. We have all experienced focusing on a new car. The first thing you know you see this car everywhere.
Does that mean that car started to appear more often?
Or, does it mean I am now tuned into this car so I notice the… Continue reading
Often we hear it said that ‘what we think’ defines who we are. But we have to ask the question; who is doing the thinking?
If I don’t know who I am I will tend to be filled with fear, doubt and confusion don’t you think?
Who I am is so very important. I am meant to have a sense of ‘who’ I am.
I know, that… Continue reading
I desire to share with you a reflection I read by Ernest Holmes on the fact that we are not ‘bound’ by any mistake from our past. Freedom is for the taking.
“Let us now let go of everything and enter into the consciousness of that which we believe. The Spirit within each one of us is God, and it is perfect.
It is love, reason, life, truth and beauty.
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