Exercise common sense

Recently I watched John Kabat Zinn lectures at Google. For those who don't know Kabat Zinn is Professor of medicine Emeritus at the Faculty of medicine at the University of Massachusetts. He is known more for his work with meditation mindfulness and reducing stress.

See his free got me aching to get back to my practice mindfulness. I once "mindfulness: stress reduction and recovery overview niorossintivik the benefits of meditation and how to apply it to modern medicine. Second, "mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn" is more of a, goes over the guidelines for establishing mindfulness practice, and how to overcome potential obstacles.

If you have absolutely no clue what is mindfulness, great starting point for the second link. Usually also I recommend the book "mindfulness in plain English" Gunaratna hinibola respected.

However the concept of sanity really very clear: non-judgmental awareness. For taste, try this: get a piece of paper and pen and then writing all sounds can be heard over a period of 5 minutes.

Incredibly simple process, but skillful listening helps grow and make you aware of things in the world your audio you otherwise unconscious. Here is an example of two short exercise session I did on that day. In the afternoon, and later that night:

Seems 23 September-2: 00 pm-2: 05 pm-out-backyard-sunny

Blanisoind in cherbingkrikitt vinsibirds trisoind push against chirping (dimmed) driving chimiskars werkoind construction (in distance) bosingmotorsikli fly (run speed) hilikobtirwatir hosidog barking

23 September-look clear night-9: 30 pm-9: 35 pm-out-backyard.
Blanisbond waterfall (loud) crickets (lots!)Eminem song blayingsomioni koghagati ratlingdor aubinkars drivingmotorsikli

(Error) I expect that night session is calmer, but it turned out he wasn't. The neighbor Eminem and couldn't make any subtler sounds in my environment.

-But what meditation is all about-not-so I meditated on the song Eminem as if nothing else.

People tend to believe that the meditation I needed to go somewhere really quiet away from technology and cars and so on-but that couldn't be further from the truth. These technologies are part of our world, and an extension or our, just like any other object of meditation (either "OM" or pot vocals).

We must reflect and accept what is, not idealize what meditation is ideal. Jon Kabat Zinn and gentleman hinibola Gunaratna as well as other teachers sanity emphasize the importance of applying common sense to all aspects of life.