Posts tagged with 'compassion'
Personal experience (2nd post): caution over "goodwill " & "mindfulness" practice
8th February 2012
"No man was ever wise by chance." Lucius Seneca Yesterday I wrote a post about working with personally difficult information ... in this example, challenging group feedback. There are so many research teams and streams of fascinating information emerging that look at how to cope well in stressful situations. I …
Personal experience (1st post): feedback, group work & learning from difficulties
7th February 2012
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P. Jones I'm a member of a "therapists' group". We currently get together for a three hour meeting once a month. I wrote about this initiative last year in the post "Setting …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (8th post) - sixth week's practice
2nd February 2012
I recently wrote about the fifth week of meditation practice - chapter nine in Mark Williams & Danny Penman's book. This post is about the sixth week of practice and chapter ten "Trapped in the past or living in the present?" (pp. 183 to 208). The week-by-week programme summary (p. …
Recent research: articles from January journals
1st February 2012
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 17,200 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Recent research: articles from December journals
6th January 2012
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 17,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (4th post) - second week's practice
29th December 2011
Last week I wrote about "Using Williams & Penman's book ... as a self-help resource (3rd post) - first week's practice". It's time now to move on to the second week's practice described in chapter six - "Keeping the body in mind". Read through this chapter (pp. 91 to 110). …
Encouraging recent research on social anxiety: being embarrassed can lead you to be judged more, not less, positively by others
24th December 2011
There is a steady river of emerging new research on social anxiety. So earlier this year there was the paper "Social phobia and subtypes in the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement: Prevalence, correlates, and comorbidity" with its finding that, in a representative sample of over 10,000 US adolescents aged 13 to …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (3rd post) - first week's practice
22nd December 2011
Time to roll up our sleeves and start turning Williams & Penman's book's "meditation recipes" into genuinely nourishing meals. I have already written a first blog post on why we have good reason to be optimistic about the benefits we can achieve with this kind of self-help venture. The second …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (2nd post) - getting ready
15th December 2011
I wrote a week ago about using Mark Williams & Danny Penman's excellent book "Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" as a self-help training in mindfulness practice. In today's post I want to look more practically at getting started with this process. Obviously you have …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (1st post) - introduction
8th December 2011
This is the first in a series of intended posts about using Mark Williams & Danny Penman's excellent recent book "Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" as a self-help training in mindfulness practice. My hope is that these blog posts will provide some back-up resources …