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	Mindfulness: The practice of being “here” \| 43 Folders
		Mindfulness is the practice whereby a person is intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally.
		So, mindfulness will not conflict with any beliefs or traditions — religious or for that matter scientific — nor is it trying to sell you anything, especially not a new belief system or ideology.
		Mindfulness helps you to be sure that every bit of your talent, mind, heart and soul go into the things you choose to do (your whole person).
	www.43folders.com /2006/04/07/mindfulness (6303 words)

	Mindfulness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mindfulness is the practice whereby a person is intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally.
		She acknowledges similarities between the "Mindfulness" she investigates experimentally, but her research does not draw specifically on Buddhist or any similar tradition, and the practices she advocates for attaining mindfulness are not exactly the same.
		Mindfulness is a core exercise used in Dialectical behavior therapy, a psychosocial treatment Marsha M. Linehan developed for treating people with Borderline Personality Disorder, and is also used in some other newer psychotherapeutical methods, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mindfulness (437 words)

	Mindfulness
		Mindfulness is the center of Vipassana meditation and the key to the whole process.
		Mindfulness (Sati) reminds the meditator to apply his attention to the proper object at the proper time and to exert precisely the amount of energy needed to do that job.
		Mindfulness is attention to present time reality, and therefore, directly antithetical to the dazed state of mind which characterizes the impediments.
	dharma.ncf.ca /introduction/instructions/sati.html (3154 words)

	D:\@anson\cd_budsas\budsas_m\ebud\mfneng\mind13.htm
		Mindfulness is the observance of the basic nature of each passing phenomenon.
		Mindfulness is at one and the same time both bare attention itself and the function of reminding us to pay bare attention if we have ceased to do so.
		Mindfulness reminds the meditator to apply his attention to the proper object at the proper time and to exert precisely the amount of energy needed to do the job.
	www.saigon.com /~anson/ebud/mfneng/mind13.htm (3022 words)

	Mindfulness
		Mindfulness meditation is a practical form of meditation for busy people, because it does not require us to set aside any time for it; instead, we are simply "mindful" of whatever activity we are doing.
		Mindfulness helps us to "see things as they are" by developing an open, neutral stance from which our input is not distorted or repressed by biases.
		In mindfulness meditation, everything is equal; it is simply an occurrence to be observed in what the Buddhists call "choiceless awareness." For example, if we feel unhappy, we behold the unhappiness; if we are excited, we behold the excitement.
	www.dreamwater.com /watersedge/Stout/mindful.htm (2639 words)

	How To Lead A Mindfulness Group -- Behavioral Tech, LLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The description of mindfulness that follows is for anyone interested in the topic, although it’s written mainly for those of you brand new to the concept.
		Mindfulness is the anchor and chain that gently pull the boat (your attention) back each time the waves start to carry it away.
		Further, she has broken mindfulness into six specific skills that can be practiced by anyone to strengthen the capacity to pay attention in a way that leads to greater and greater awareness.
	www.behavioraltech.org /mindfulness/mindfulnessForClients.cfm (2494 words)

	Mindfulness Meditation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first facet is called Mindfulness of the Body: This means noting accurately and steadily the changing flow of sensations experienced throughout the body, such as muscle tension, touch sensations, pain, pleasure, etc. It also brings attention to body postures and movement
		In fact, the Buddha said that Mindfulness of Breathing is the most profound of all meditation techniquses for achieving enlightenment and ending suffering.
		Mindfulness notes the transient and insubstantial nature of mental experience; this awareness brings freedom from suffering.
	www.heal-all.com /pcarlson/meditate.html (509 words)

	Calgary Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Interest Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mindfulness is a simple but ancient approach to living, which Western medicine is now recognizing as a powerful tool for dealing with stress, illness, and many other medical and psychological conditions.
		Mindfulness is the foundation of the meditation tradition known as vipassana, or insight meditation.
		Since the inauguration of the Mindfulness Meditation classes at this Centre in 1995 until her retirement, Eileen was involved in the running of the classes.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~lcarlso/mindfulness (2535 words)

	fwbo :: the Mindfulness of Breathing
		As its name implies, the 'Mindfulness of Breathing' uses the breath as an object of concentration.
		It is a way to develop mindfulness, the faculty of alert and sensitive awareness.
		As well as this, the mindfulness of breathing is a good antidote to restlessness and anxiety, and a good way to relax: concentration on the breath has a positive effect on one's entire physical and mental state.
	www.fwbo.org /mindfulness.html (280 words)

	Charles T. Tart : Initial Application of Mindfulness Extension Exercises in a Traditional Buddhist Meditation Retreat ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The cultivation of mindfulness, clear moment-to-moment awareness of what is actually happening, as opposed to the typical distortions of perception caused by desires, fears, attachments and other psychological defense mechanisms so characteristic of ordinary consciousness, is an essential element in personal and spiritual growth.
		The discussion of difficulty in practicing mindfulness in daily life presented elsewhere (Tart, in press) emphasized that everyday life was quite different in the stimulus configuration presented to people, such that it failed to remind them of the high degree of mindfulness they may have developed in the special situation of a meditation retreat.
		Mindfulness is the ability to notice clearly what is happening in the moment without clinging to the pleasant, condemning the unpleasant or identifying with the experience (taking it to be "my" or "mine").
	www.paradigm-sys.com /cttart/sci-docs/ctt95-iaome.html (5594 words)

	MINDFULNESS IN MENTAL HEALTH
		Mindfulness is a word from the English language, meaning awareness or heedfulness.
		In this way, mindfulness is a tool and wisdom (or enlightenment) is the goal and is seen as the perfect state of mental health in Buddhism.
		Through mindfulness one realises that the mind is filled with thoughts that constrict and distort our awareness as if in a state of being hypnotised by them.
	www.priory.com /psych/mindfulness.htm (2347 words)

	Mindfulness Meditation: Its Role in Health Care and Medicine
		The cultivation of mindfulness requires a significant degree of concentration, but is not limited to the cultivation of concentration.
		The goal of mindfulness practice, if there can be said to be a goal at all (since the practice emphasizes non- striving), is simply to experience what is present from moment to moment.
		The cultivation of mindfulness is an arduous challenge in which one learns to face and work with the full range of human emotions and mind states.
	www.pamf.org /health/toyourhealth/mindfulness.html (1530 words)

	Mindfulness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mindfulness relieves suffering because it is filled with understanding and compassion.
		They have led mindfulness retreats in the United States since 1988 and in 1992 were among the first students to be ordained as meditation teachers by Thich Nhat Hanh.
		The Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax is located in the Program Building of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, 2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton, VA 22124.
	crpcv.org /mpcf (539 words)

	Mindfulness in the Mainstream -- Beliefnet.com
		Mindfulness training is a staple at seminars, retreats and spas.
		Hospitals and psychologists are teaching mindfulness as a means to handle everything from chronic illness and addiction to stress and depression.
		Spiritual trend watchers say mindfulness has become to the 2000s what angels were to the 1990s.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/153/story_15324_1.html (526 words)

	Mudita Journal: The Essence of Mindfulness
		As a major Buddhist virtue, mindfulness has been practiced and refined for more than two thousand years, and even today some of the best writings on the subject are by Buddhist authors.
		Non-judgment is critical because the central goal of mindfulness is to raise one's level of awareness (and, of course, to enjoy the subsequent benefits).
		In fact, mindfulness is sometimes used as a synonym for mindfulness meditation.
	www.zader.com /mudita/archives/000024.html (1312 words)

	Foundations of Mindfulness
		With this method of mindfulness, we're trying to bring our mind to the realization and understanding of what this existence is, what this physical form is. We're trying to bring it to the state of mindfulness, bring it to the most physical level of our experience of body.
		The Mahayana discipline of mindfulness of body is strongly related with the notion of selflessness, strongly related with the notion of the non-existence of body, rather than relating with the existence of body.
		The mindfulness practice here is to contemplate or meditate on suffering and the three expressions of suffering, and to therefore experience their nature.
	www.nalandabodhi.org /mindfulness_body.html (3688 words)

	Mindfulness: An Inner Resource for Recovery from Child Abuse
		People who cultivate mindfulness are pleasantly surprised when they discover just how many thoughts and feelings that previously seemed so compelling, and seemed to absolutely require and justify habitual reactions, are much better understood and experienced as sources of information about mental habits which have actually been increasing their suffering.
		Intensive mindfulness practice refers to meditating for several hours a day, for several days or even weeks in a row, in a setting that is away from the usual pressures and demands of one's life.
		Mindfulness is about, among many other things, increasingly mastering your attention and freeing your mind, about being free to choose positive and constructive actions, no matter what anyone else has done or is trying to do to you.
	www.jimhopper.com /mindfulness (14677 words)

	WoodMoor Village Zendo: The 14 Mindfulness Trainings
		The Fifth Mindfulness Training: Simple, Healthy Living Aware that true happiness is rooted in peace, solidity, freedom, and compassion, and not in wealth and fame, we are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying.
		The Tenth Mindfulness Training: Protecting the Sangha Aware that the essence and aim of a Sangha is the practice of understanding and compassion, we are determined not to use the Buddhist community for personal gain or profit or transform our community into a political instrument.
		The Twelfth Mindfulness Training: Reverence for Life Aware that much suffering is caused by war and conflict, we are determined to cultivate nonviolence, understanding, and compassion in our daily lives, to promote peace education, mindful meditation, and reconciliation within families, communities, nations, and in the world.
	woodmoorvillage.typepad.com /zendo/2004/06/the_14_mindfuln.html (1522 words)

	Mindfulness of Mental States
		The objective of mindfulness of mental states is to realize the nature of the mind, i.e., arising of the mental states, fading (or ending) of mental states.
		Due to this awareness or proper mindfulness of the nature of the mind mental states are not grasped with craving.
		The first mindfulness, mindfulness of body, is easiest due to the gross nature of the bodily functions.
	houstonbuddhist.freeservers.com /fridaymind6.html (863 words)

	Right Mindfulness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Right Mindfulness is the seventh of the eight path factors in the Noble Eightfold Path, and belongs to the concentration division of the path.
		There is the case where a monk remains focused on the body in and of itself — ardent, alert, and mindful — putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.
		Mindfulness of in-and-out breathing, when developed and pursued, brings the four frames of reference to their culmination.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-sati (1022 words)

	How to do mindfulness meditation. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In my last column I discussed why mindfulness is essential to spiritual practice, for no matter what spiritual tradition we follow, we must have a mind that is able to stay in the present moment if our understanding and experience is to deepen.
		Through mindfulness practice we are just developing and strengthening it, and eventually we are able to remain peacefully in our mind without struggling.
		For strict mindfulness practice, the gaze should be downward focusing a couple of inches in front of your nose.
	www.shambhalasun.com /Archives/Columnists/Sakyong/SakyongJan00.htm (1416 words)

	Center for Transformational Psychotherapy: Mindfulness Meditation
		One of the benefits of practicing mindfulness is learning the practice of being in the moment, the practice of letting go of our hold on the past or of our obsession with trying to figure out the future.
		But mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
		For meditation, and especially mindfulness meditation, is not the throwing of a switch and catapulting yourself anywhere, nor is it entertaining certain thoughts and getting rid of others.
	www.forhealing.org /meditation.html (3288 words)

	Mindfulness
		The development of mindfulness skills was seen to hold a key role in the development of change.
		Mindfulness meditation training program can enhance functional status and well-being and reduce physical symptoms and psychological distress in a heterogeneous patient population and that the intervention may have long-term beneficial effects.
		The techniques of mindfulness meditation, with their emphasis on developing detached observation and awareness of the contents of consciousness, may represent a powerful cognitive behavioral coping strategy for transforming the ways in which we respond to life events.
	www.mindfulness.be /nl/wet_ond.html (6884 words)

	Sharon Salzberg on the meaning of mindfulness in Buddhist practice -- Beliefnet.com
		To understand mindfulness, imagine yourself doing something very simple, something that doesn’t arouse a compelling interest--like, say, eating an apple.
		Mindfulness is the quality of fullness of attention, immediacy, non-distraction.
		Another component of mindfulness is what we call “spaciousness,” the quality that allows us to observe without reacting.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/58/story_5823_1.html (427 words)

	Amazon.com: Mindfulness: Books: Ellen J. Langer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Encouraging the application of mindfulness to health, the author affirms that placebos and alternative, mind-based therapies can help patients and addicts move from unhealthy to healthy contexts.
		mindfulness to acheive mindfulness....mindfulness is always there, if you see it...her book is an amazing book that needs to be reread and is truly a psychological study whose premise needs to be advertised to those who are afraid of adopting mind sets which can make them happier human beings.
		In the case of Langer's two books, she mostly infers mindfulness from her studies rather than spell out the specific instrument she used.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201523418?v=glance (1793 words)

	The Centre For Mindfulness Research And Practice
		The Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) aims to alleviate the effects of ill health and encourage physical and mental well being, by promoting good practice in the teaching and researching of approaches based on mindfulness practice, as the central part of clinical treatments in health care and arrange of contemporary settings.
		The Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice is a self-funding organisation based in Institute of Medical and Social Care Research, which is part of the University of Wales, Bangor.
		Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives, paying attention with intention and without judgement.
	www.bangor.ac.uk /mindfulness (275 words)

	The Mindfulness Bell Home Page
		The Mindfulness Bell is a journal of the art of mindful living.
		The Mindfulness Bell is an inspiration and teaching resource for those practicing mindfulness in daily life.
		Also included are stories and teachings by teachers and students in this lineage, based on the author’s direct experience of transformation through the practice of mindfulness.
	www.mindfulnessbell.org (153 words)

	Mindfulness (sati)
		Mindfulness reminds you of what you are supposed to be doing.
		Mindfulness sees the true nature of all phenomena.
		In Pali these three are called Anicca (impermanence), Dukkha (unsatisfactoriness), and Anatta (selflessness - the absence of a permanent, unchanging, entity that we call Soul or Self).
	www.vipassana.com /meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_english_15.html (3066 words)

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