MPDR Archives Blog Post #353 - Aug 26, 2015

Pause in this moment and bring awareness to the next three breaths

image by M. Lee Freedman

“Mindfulness training is about your life. It isn’t about the time you meditate on a cushion or chair. It is about learning to be awake for each moment of your life. So bringing your training into the moments in the day is a necessary requirement.

The good news is that you can bring your training into everyday moments without adding any more demands on your already too-packed schedule. I like to call these moments Purposeful Pauses. It isn’t just about stopping, it is about noticing what is here to be noticed when you stop. And it is about redirecting the attention when it takes off into the future or the past.

This is a continuation of the attention training you experience when you are practicing meditation on your cushion or chair. These Purposeful Pauses allow you to step off the daily treadmill and perhaps find some spaciousness in the day to make more conscious choices.”

-Janice Marturano

Excerpt from post “5 Tips for Practicing Mindfulness at the Office”

To read the full post, including 5 suggestions for “Purposeful Pauses” please click on this link:

http://www.mindful.org/5-tips-for-practicing-mindfulness-at-the-office/?utm_source=Mindful+Newsletter&utm_campaign=edc92ae570-Mf_Weekly_Aug_258_25_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d03e8c02c-edc92ae570-21227937

Wishing you the benefits of purposeful pauses this evening

  

Lee

M. Lee Freedman, MD,CM, FRCP(C)

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/