Relational meditation: inner connection & interconnection
This approach blends moments of meditation and moments of sharing our experiences of meditating.
Here are articles that provide a different take on mindfulness.
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This approach blends moments of meditation and moments of sharing our experiences of meditating.
The egg is the archetype of generative space. It is a nurturing and transformative environment.
This article describes how the Polyvagal Theory gives us an embodied and relational perspective on mindfulness.
What does it mean to pay attention to our body? A lot opens up when we bring our awareness to the silent, invisible parts.
The phrase feels like a contradiction in terms: we think of lemmings following each other into collective suicide as they jump off a cliff.
I use the metaphor of a safecracker to describe how we can turn insight into action.
This article makes a case for thinking about mindfulness in the context of interaction.
A myth is anything but a quaint story. It is an organizing principle that makes it possible for a society to coalesce and function as a society.
How can we game the system? A mindful pause disrupts the status quo. As you notice that you are on autopilot, you are no longer totally on autopilot.
This short article describes contemplative thinking as an embodied process. To do so, we must go beyond the old cliche that mind and body are of a different order.
In this article, I am talking about shifting from a reactive mode to a proactive one.
Felt sensing is a natural ability that we all have. For many of us, it takes a special kind of attention to find it as we have been over-reliant on explicit cognition.
What we mean by Relational Implicit is the emergence of meaning in our interactions.
The phrase implicit relational knowing was first used to describe the way babies know how to watch and respond to their mothers.
We implicitly respond to experience as we live it. These responses can be called self-states. They are a bottom-up, whole-organism response, as opposed to a top-down response
What happens in the space where interpersonal connection takes place? To the untrained eye, it’s an empty space.
Myths are the glue that binds societies together, small tribes as well as countries or supranational entities.
What does it mean to be proactive, as opposed to reactive? And how can we do it?