Posts tagged with 'meditation'
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. …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (7th post) - fifth week's practice
26th January 2012
I wrote about chapter eight in Mark & Danny's book last week. This post is about chapter nine - the fifth week of meditation practice - "Turning towards difficulties" (pp. 159 to 182). In their week-by-week programme summary (p. 59), they write "Week five introduces a meditation - Exploring difficulty …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (6th post) - fourth week's practice
19th January 2012
Last week I wrote about chapter seven of Mark & Danny's book. This post is about chapter eight - the fourth week of actual meditation practice - entitled "Moving beyond the rumour mill" (pp. 134 to 158). In their week-by-week overall summary of the whole programme (pp. 58 to 60), …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (5th post) - third week's practice
12th January 2012
I wrote recently on "Using Williams & Penman's book ... as a self-help resource (4th post) - second week's practice". Today's post looks at the third week's practice described in chapter seven "The mouse in the maze". The authors state "Week three builds on the previous sessions with some non-strenuous …
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). …
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 …
Learning MBSR: eighth evening of the course - how did it go & where from here?
25th November 2011
So yesterday was the final evening of the eight session Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course. Most of us will go on to complete a full day's practice later as well. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the sixth session in "MBSR ... making time for reflection, and the overlap …