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#Mindfulness=Attention+Awareness Tag

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Posted on May 5, 2025
in Meditation, Spirituality
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This month we’ll focus on Mindfulness and Neuroscientific research related with meditation. Mindfulness is part of an ancient tradition with countless benefits. It teaches how to calm down and pause, instead of reacting with your anger or irritability, you act without getting stressed or anxious. But originally the practice was not intended for such purposes. These are simply its side-effects. Easy and brief meditations are its spinoffs that have been adopted only recently. The original aim of meditation, still embraced in some cultures and circles, focusses on deep exploration of the mind to get insights into human consciousness.  A woman undergoing electroencephalography. Using fMRI and EEG (explained below) and a battery of cutting-edge data analysis for the last thirty years or so neuroscientists have been studying minds of Tibetan monks by...

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Posted on March 3, 2025
in Meditation, Meditation & Journaling at Ashby Ponds, Spirituality
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By now you know the meditation we practice is Vipassana or Insight meditation. Vipassana is pure exercise in attention and awareness. When we practice it, we have to toss everything in our mind except pure awareness of sitting. This is not easy to do. We keep practicing diligently and one day our conscious thought, the ego, moves like a cloud and lets the sun of awareness shine. The pure awareness hides behind our ego which is nothing but our reactions to people and events and mental images that hide awareness.  To clear the cobwebs of ego we focus on our breath, the inhalations and exhalations at the tip of our nose. Such focus takes us deeper and deeper and makes us aware of our sensations, feelings and thoughts, in short our life experiences. We learn...

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Posted on February 10, 2025
in Journaling, Meditation, Meditation & Journaling at Ashby Ponds, Spirituality
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Some notes on Attention and Awareness. ATTENTIONWe are born with limited conscious power. But there is a way we can expand and strengthen it. Fortunately we are already practicing the two of these breathing exercises (which will eventually train us for meditation) and journaling. The job of attention is to focus on one object at a time outside of the general field of consciousness. It is energized by our conscious power. For instance, as you breathe, you pay attention to the sensations of air going in and out of the nostrils; as you journal, you pay attention to the words you are writing; and finally when you read you step into a literary dream the book creates.   AWARENESSLike attention, awareness also gets its energy from conscious power. As you pay attention to the...

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