Posts tagged present-moment
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What is Meditation; what are the benefits of it and how we can practice meditation?

“At its most basic level, attention – what we allow ourselves to notice – literally determines how we experience and navigate the world.” says Sharon Salzberg. But aren’t we all having a shortage of it, thanks to the weapons of mass-distraction: digital devices, smartphones, internet and social media, and many others…

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Deniz Gunizmindfulness, meditation, present-moment, awareness, self-reflection, sharon-salzberg, joseph-goldstein, inarticulate-hour, power-of-now, consciousnessComment
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Fieldnotes - 1

WHAT IS MINDFULNESS?

When we are busy dealing with daily tasks something like driving in the traffic, walking on the street, talking with a friend, waiting at a subway station or vacuuming at home, etc., our minds are often far away thinking about something else. Our minds are actively chattering. We may be fantasizing about sailing on a boat, or worrying about a future event or thinking about other things in the past.

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Mindfulness FieldnotesDeniz Gunizmindfulness, meditation, present-moment, power-of-now, awareness, stress-reduction, breathing, consciousnessComment