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There has been much made recently of the supersizing of American food. The high capacity plastic drinking straw has made a major contribution to the success of supersized drinks, alongside our supersized meals. High capacity eating and drinking have grown up together in America.

There are some drinks that are served with toppings - the head on beer, the whipped cream on hot chocolate - and the topping is savored on your lips and in your mouth. It's a part of the experience of drinking those liquids. And as a result, liquids like that are seldom drunk with straws, even today.

http:/www.stainlesssteelstraws.com.au

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Mindfulness Meditation Introduction

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Responsibility, Quitting Coffee, Not eating meat, Life Coaching

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To know where your effort should be directed in meditation, you must have a clear understanding of the goal. The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind. If you can understand that goal, then the place to apply your effort and the means to achieve the goal become much clearer. The effort is directed to letting go, to developing a mind that inclines to abandoning. 

One of the many simple but profound statements of the Buddha is that “a meditator who makes letting go the main object easily achieves samadhi,” that is, attentive stillness, the goal of meditation .1 Such a meditator gains these states of inner bliss almost automatically. The Buddha was saying that the major cause for attaining deep meditation and reaching these powerful states is the ability to abandon, to let go, to renounce.

During meditation,we should not develop a mind that accumulates and holds on to things. Instead we should develop a mind that is willing to let go, to give up all burdens. In our ordinary lives we have to carry the burden of many duties, like so many heavy suitcases, but within the period of meditation such baggage is unnecessary. 

In meditation, unload as much baggage as you can. Think of duties and achievements as heavy weights pressing upon you. Abandon them freely without looking back. This attitude of mind that inclines to giving up will lead you into deep meditation. Even during the beginning stages of your meditation, see if you can generate the energy of renunciation—the willingness to give things away. 

As you give things away in your mind, you will feel much lighter and more free. 

In meditation, abandoning occurs in stages, step by step.

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Thank you for your interest in Meaningful Mindfulness.

Can you please take a moment and send me an email with your story, so I know where you are at?

Take your time and share what it is you want to work on, as well as what you are seeking from Meaningful Mindfulness.

I am opening the inner circle from mid March as a focus group - for one to one as well as taking action as a small group.

You can send your confidential email over the next couple of days.  

Just write and share - just writing it out can give you an enormous sense of clarity and is the beginning of the growth process.

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I went out with a friend on the weekend - hadn't spent time with her for over a year now.  She said she was stuck - not exercising since Christmas, smoking cigarettes a bit again, anxious as ever, resistant to her husband starting a new business.  Talking about how tight her parents were, how no-one was generous, how she had no friends anymore - how she just netflix and chill all weekend.  She had tears in her eyes.  We hugged.  She went back to her life.

I wanted to do something - but I knew it was pointless.  Mindfulness Coaching Awareness Upgrade.  She had so many self limiting beliefs, and silly little rules and was so attached to her past story - she was basically doomed to be lost in a story of struggle and missing out for even longer.

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http://brenmurphy.net/doing-happiness/ 

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(via The Dip)

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(via Mindfulness Moments 001) New mindfulness cript here - read it along to yourself for some inner stillness.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn, a microbiology Ph.D. then teaching at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, was inspired in the late 1970s to apply the basic principles of mindfulness meditation to patients in a medical setting. His work developing the MBSR program proved effective in helping alleviate the suffering of chronic and previously debilitating medical conditions such as chronic pain. 

t also served as fertile ground for a systematic set of research investigations in collaboration with one of the founders of the field of affective neuroscience, Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Working through your sober recovery with special help from an online friend who understands what you are going through - priceless.  http://www.rimfirewinery.com.au/ 

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Join me every Friday morning from 6am for the #Newybeach #wellnesswalk - it’s about #mindfulness and #meditation and we explore archetypes, self mastery and personal growth!  go to http://www.mindbodycalm.com.au for details.

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Living in the moment

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Breaking Wood at NLP Academy Australia - #mindbodycalm - Mindfulness Training 

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So many negative self image problems - is money hard work to make or a struggle?

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Wellness Retreats Australia

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happy happiness