Now that our Top of Mind blog is up and running again, our vision is to create a safe place for community sharing on topics relevant to our practice of Mindfulness Meditation. Our time together in class is simply not long enough to learn about all the changes that meditation students are experiencing. So each month we'll start with a reflective question and encourage your responses. Why is this type of community engagement important? 1. Articulating your reflections helps balance your mind with positive reinforcement of your growing insights. 2. As people express their learnings, we realize that we are not alone in our experience of mindfulness. We begin to appreciate the range of life’s possibilities through sharing. 3. Supporting each others’ practice through sharing our insights creates a synergistic, dynamic, learning community for the benefit of all. So find your courage and your voice. Feel free to type in your "top of mind" responses in the comments section below this post so that we may engender a lively dialogue of different perspectives. Here's the reflective question for the month of September: How has the practice of meditation changed your perspective on life?
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Sandee
9/17/2015 04:58:15 am
The most obvious change to my perspective on life has been the enhancements that meditation made for all things by allowing my mind to remain quieter. The topic of "monkey mind" was discussed and that was certainly my plight, a brain voice that replayed a constant thread of negativity and a positive voice that battled back. Topics that were not fruitful to my life, but only had the effect of slowing positive changes, would play over and over until I found it unbearable and began to seek a way to gain control over my thoughts. I have tried many types of wellness therapies in my lifetime and I find that mindfulness meditation is a very powerful resource that is always with me as a "low hanging fruit" that I can easily access anywhere and at any time.
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1/23/2016 09:37:40 pm
This Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation by Sharon Salzberg is what I suddenly remember while I was reading this post. This is a very significant book to read for it clearly explains how meditation works, why meditation practice results in more resiliency, creativity, peace, clarity, and balance. Meditation is also important as it opens the door to accessible happiness.
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