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Here are the basic Instructions:
Whenever all or part of a sensory experience suddenly disappears note that. By note I mean clearly
acknowledge when you detect the transition point between all of it being present and at least some of it
no longer being present.
If you wish, you can use a mental label to help you note. The label for any such sudden ending is “Gone.”
If nothing vanishes for a while, that’s fine. Just hang out until something does. If you start worrying
about the fact that nothing is ending, note each time that thought ends. That’s a “Gone.” If you have a
lot of mental sentences, you’ll have a lot of mental periods – full stops, Gones
Exploring the wider range of meditation is no longer reserved for the monasteries. The new science of meditation is just getting started.
HUMAN NATURE, BUDDHA NATURE
On Spiritual Bypassing, Relationship, and the Dharma
An interview with John Welwood by Tina Fossella
McMindfulness and Frozen Yoga:Rediscovering the Essential Teachings of Ethics and Wisdom
Dr. Miles Neale
Over the last several decades, the popularity of yoga has grown tremendously in the West. Anemerging need tomanage the stress and dissatisfaction of busy lives by looking inward for peace and stillness has motivated many to participate in the yoga revolution, whichhas become a multibillion-dollar industryin America. People of all ages are turning to yoga to relax, recover from health problems, ease the difficulties of pregnancy, improve sexual vitality andintimacy, sharpen mental focus and generally look and feel better. More recently, there has been a similar upsurge of interest in meditation, particularly in a Buddhist form of practice called mindfulness. On the heels of theyoga boom, the mindfulness fad seems to mirror the motivating factors that initially drove people toward yoga: namely enhanced health and happiness. While meditation offers less immediate gratification (no endorphin rush or image-enhancing results) than its physical counterpart, it also leads to inner peace. During the mid-1990s, rising interest in mindfulness meditation culminated in an explosion of scientific investigation by healthcare professionals and researchers seeking to determine the clinical effects and health benefits of this ancient practice. Nothing has been the same since.Focus on meditation has reached critical mass. A large body of reliable evidence nowsupports claimsand demonstrates the mechanisms that makemindfulness effective. Most major hospitalsrun some sort of outpatient meditation program,dharma and spiritual centers are attracting more people than ever,and as many as one in four psychotherapists incorporate mindfulness into clinical work with patients. As greater numbers of people engage in yoga or meditation, their lives are transformed for the better. But is something being lost in translation?Are these practices, brought to the West from India and other parts of Asia in the early nineteenth century, being diluted? In our attempt to secularize, make culturally accessible and mainstream these ancient spiritual practices, we may bethrowing the baby out with the bath water. It behooves us to consider what, if anything, has been sacrificed in the effort to satisfy our voracious appetite for Asian contemplative techniques. Americansare notorious for extrapolating what theyidealize,plucking the desirable from foreign cultures and simply disregarding the rest. We are also prone to seeking quick fixes and inciting temporary trends, lacking the patience and long-term commitment needed for lasting change. Arethe yoga boom and mindfulness fad yet othersinstances of these Amerocentric inclinations? Itwould be an enormous loss for us to water down or, worse, jettison the essential transformative ingredients that constitute the Indic liberation traditions, turning them into colorfully packaged bite-size morsels for our mass consumption. Is this the dawning of the age of McMindfulness and Frozen Yoga?What exactly is being lost as yoga and meditation wendtheir way into America’s diet? And what, if anything, can we do about it? I propose that we are losing therich and sophisticated psychological context underpinning the practices of yoga and mindfulness, and that by reuniting them with their original matrixes we can turn the yoga boom and mindfulness fad into a spiritual revolution unlike any we have seen in our young country.
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It is a fundamental tenet of neoliberal mindfulness, that the source of people’s problems is found in their heads. This has been accentuated by the pathologising and medicalisation of stress, which then requires a remedy and expert treatment – in the form of mindfulness interventions. The ideological message is that if you cannot alter the circumstances causing distress, you can change your reactions to your circumstances. In some ways, this can be helpful, since many things are not in our control. But to abandon all efforts to fix them seems excessive. Mindfulness practices do not permit critique or debate of what might be unjust, culturally toxic or environmentally destructive. Rather, the mindful imperative to “accept things as they are” while practising “nonjudgmental, present moment awareness” acts as a social anesthesia, preserving the status quo.
https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-stop-negative-thoughts-in-180-seconds-without-meditating-4ef29cda09d1
mostly bull... but interesting links in the comments :
Probability of an Obese Person Attaining Normal Body Weight: Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302773
A review of the bioactivity of coffee, caffeine and key coffee constituents on inflammatory responses linked to depression.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28455046
The 70,000 Thoughts Per Day Myth?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2012/05/09/the-70000-thoughts-per-day-myth/
RAISIN MEDITATION
https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/raisin_meditation#
The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science (Culadasa (John Yates))
https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Complete-Meditation-Integrating/dp/0990847705
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/
Meditation for Beginners
http://drewscanlon.com/meditation-for-beginners/
Cognitive reframing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_reframing
Eckhart Tolle - Transcending The Ego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1tDGtfwZtw&feature=youtu.be
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Rick Hanson)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385347316/