Thank you Eustace for the 60 Minutes link. I watched the show - a good plug.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is looking peaceful. :) If Anderson Cooper can surrender his
mobile devices and keep coming back to his breath, than so can I. And, I
practiced this morning and I do feel calmer. If it is good enough
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In theory, theory and practice
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No, that's it. Thanks for your reply.
What were you hoping for?
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...In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not
(Yogi Berra) In
Hm.I am hitting the pause button today.a small skill I'm learning
when I am in danger of reactingjust me.will get back to you tomorrow. :)
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Great article and great concept, Emily. Thanks for posting both.
I don't talk about my time with the Rama guy much here because some are averse
to it and freak out, but one of the things I'm most grateful to that teacher
and that whole trip for is that my time there taught me to laugh at
The ability to laugh at oneself typically increases with age and experience. I
thought you would appreciate this. Absurdity is everywhere in the human
condition, but there are those that can't objectify (at least to some degree)
or pick up on the often subtle nuances of a situation to see it as
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The ability to laugh at oneself typically increases with age and
experience. I
of a swimmer. :)
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O.K. Get ready...do you mean controlled foolishness? I've gotta
take my dog
BTW, compare to definition #2 below. :-)
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In my experience (given all possible observations, a rather microscopic slice
of life) those that have loosened up or (possibly) lost a straight jacket sense
of limited and static identity, tend to laugh a lot. Not (necessarily) in dumb
and silly reactive ways, but more towards deeper,
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...In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not
(Yogi Berra) In theory, I love science and its methods, despite severe
limits. Particularly neuroscience, broadly defined. However, in practice, I am
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SEER: In my experience (given all possible observations, a rather microscopic
slice of life) those that have loosened
Re: With most others, in daily life - not so much. Probably because all that
deceptive conditioning sets in subconsciously. Know thyself is a very large
concept.
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not (Yogi
Berra) In theory, I love science and its methods, despite severe limits.
EM: I posted this article because I like the topic; personally, I think the
test they used, based on what they mentioned of it, is a bunch of BS. There
are no black and white answers. The article itself is lousy and dumbed down
for public consumption.
SD: I think the premise of the
Let me try out some mindfulness (no, not a TM'er - no hope for enlightenment
here) and see if I can answer you coherently.
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EM: I posted this article because I like the topic; personally, I think the
test they used, based on what
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