Practicing Mindfulness
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This document discusses practicing mindfulness for happiness, healing, and liberation. It provides an overview of mindfulness, describing it as intentionally paying attention to the present moment without judgment. The document outlines a mindful day, including mindful activities like waking, eating, and walking. It also discusses understanding our true nature through concepts like impermanence and interrelationship. The document concludes with introducing mindfulness meditation and thanking the audience.
Practicing Mindfulness
- 1. Practicing Mindfulness For happiness, healing and liberation of mind Shiju Varghese
- 2. ● Helping people to heal from chronic diseases, by leveraging mindfulness practices. ● Conducting mindfulness based training programs. ● Interested on spiritual philosophy, Neuropsychology and mind-body healing. About Me
- 4. Agenda ● Mindfulness ● A Mindful Day ● Understand Our True Nature ● Mindfulness Meditation
- 5. Do you want to experience highest level of happiness? Do you want to improve efficiency? Do you want healing? Do you want ultimate liberation?
- 6. Practice Mindfulness and Compassion The simple and pragmatic answer
- 8. Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- 9. MINDFULNESS is intentionally paying attention, being fully aware of what is happening both inside yourself - in your body, heart and mind - and outside yourself in your environment. Mindfulness is awareness without judgement.
- 10. Mindfulness ● Awareness without judgement ● In the present moment ● With acceptance ● Witnessing sensations, thoughts and emotions ● With kindness and curiosity
- 11. “I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.” - Thich Nhat Hanh “
- 12. “Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.” - Thich Nhat Hanh “The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
- 13. Mindfulness Can Transform ● Boredom into curiosity ● Distressed restlessness into ease ● Negativity into gratitude
- 14. Mindful wake up A Mindful Day Mindful Bath Mindful Eating Mindful Travelling Mindful Breathing before meeting Mindful Drinking Mindfulness Meditation Mindful at Work with compassion Mindful Walking 10 minutes Mindful body scanning before sleep
- 17. Understand Our True Nature
- 19. Impermanence
- 20. Non-Self
- 21. Inter-relationship “You are me and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we inter-are? You cultivate the flower in yourself so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself so that you do not have to suffer. I support you you support me. I am here to bring you peace you are here to bring me joy. “ - Thich Nhat Hanh
- 23. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is the unknown. Now is the knowing. THANKS Shiju Varghese