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LJ Thompson

Mindfulness Exercises For Everyday Life - 0 views

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    • Robert Coady
      Robert Coady on 29 Sep 13
       
      The thought of brining mindfulness into anything you do is both amusing and insightful. Instead of trying to adhere to a routine of mindfulness, you can find time to be mindful in your daily tasks.
  • and make it an exercise in mindfulness by really focusing on the sound and vibration of each note
  • Mindfulness Exercise #3: Listening to Music Listening to music has many benefits — so many, in fact, that music is being used therapeutically in a new branch of complimentary medicine known as music therapy. That’s part of why listening to music makes a great mindfulness exercise. You can play soothing new-age music, classical music, or another type of slow-tempo music to feel calming effects, and make it an exercise in mindfulness by really focusing on the sound and vibration of each note, the feelings that the music brings up within you, and other sensations that are happening "right now" as you listen. If other thoughts creep into your head, congratulate yourself for noticing, and gently bring your attention back to the current moment and the music you are hearing.
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  • nd vibration of each note, the feelings that the music brings up within you, and other sensations that are happening "right now" as you listen. If other thoughts creep into your head, congratulate yourself for noticing, and gently bring your attention back to the current moment and the music you are hearing
  • and make it an exercise in mindfulness by really focusing on the sound and vibration of each note
    • Anna Delapaz
      Anna Delapaz on 11 Oct 13
       
      Repetition of words having to do with what mindfulness can bring you. This emphasizes the usefulness of mindfulness and it's ability to bring clarity and focus into your life
    • LJ Thompson
      LJ Thompson on 14 Oct 13
       
      I really should have used this in my essay. Didn't even think of this.
Tara Picudella

Mindfulness and music | Memorising Music - 0 views

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mindfulness music

shared by Tara Picudella on 29 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • “a moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness“
  • We are essentially absent in our own lives, failing to notice the experiences as they occur. Put simply, mindfulness is a way of paying attention.
  • Musicians spend unusually large amounts of time alone practising, in a state of what pianist-composer Rolf Hind calls “solitary absorption”.
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  • Neuroimaging studies indicate that MBSR is associated with increased grey matter in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotional regulation, and self-referential processing
  • People have also reported that mindfulness meditation heightens “their listening experience by increasing their ability to focus on the music without distraction”
  • Constant micro-judgements about how to play each note, or how to shape each phrase, are crucial during practice but destabilise our ability to actually make music during a performance.
  • benefit of mindfulness in music,
  • Tara Picudella on 29 Sep 13
     
    benefits of practicing mindfulness before practicing or playing in a concert
Tara Picudella

The Journey: The Pianist: Music, Mindfulness and Compassion - 0 views

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music mindfulness journey

shared by Tara Picudella on 29 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • The soldier was connected with the man behind the piano, and they were both sharing the present moment,
  • It allows for a gap in thinking, in which thoughts are observed, but are not labeled.  It creates a space where time doesn’t matter and only what is happening in the present moment; within the body is all there is.
  • Listen to the music of life.
  • Tara Picudella on 29 Sep 13
     
    This mother relates the movie The Pianist, and its mindfulness of music and how music captures us, to how we need to just "be".
Tara Picudella

difficulties of being mindful while listening to music - 0 views

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mindfulness listening music difficulties

shared by Tara Picudella on 29 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Even before actually listening to music, I have found that the act of choosing the music I want to hear to varies considerably depending upon the degree to which I’ve been present in the moment.
  • judgment tests
  • put me more at ease and I started to perceive the music in a much more dimensional way.
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  • t is as if the simple act of being present in the moment can make everything seem just right.
  • completely different a song I have already heard many times has sounded depending on my mental space.
  • proceed to not really allow the sound in—but to just register each portion of it as familiar.
  • present and in the moment, I have heard some very familiar songs almost as if they were new to me, and I have also found that I can hear many different things I never was aware of before in them. It actually has seemed to create new feelings or impressions for me when I have really listened to older music in the present moment.
Tara Picudella

Dr Ian Ellis-Jones ... Living Mindfully Now: LISTENING TO MUSIC MINDFULLY - 0 views

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living listening music mindfulness

shared by Tara Picudella on 29 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • It’s about the presence of the choiceless awareness of, and bare attention to, the action of, among other things, one’s body and mind ... for never forget that Mindfulness is a whole-body-and-mind awareness of the present moment
  • ultivation of awareness, bringing one's attention to the moment over and over. So, music therapy and Mindfulness involve no passive listening to music but a state of awareness.
Sierra Messina-Yauchzy

Mindfulness, Music Appreciation and Empathy | Patrick Groneman - 0 views

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mindfulness music empathy

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  • Sierra Messina-Yauchzy on 30 Sep 13
     
    This touches on music, and what emotions and types of awareness it can evoke, and how these intertwine with the pillars of mindfulness.
Tara Picudella

Gratefulness - 0 views

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      Tara Picudella on 29 Sep 13
       
      Music to me is a gift. Therefore being mindful allows me to accept music as a gift and appreciate everything that it has to offer.
Tara Picudella

Practising Day-to-Day, Informal Mindfulness - For Dummies - 0 views

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mindfulness music listening

shared by Tara Picudella on 29 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • simply listen
  • gently guide your mindful attention back to the sounds of the music. Be aware of both the sounds and the silence between the sounds. Notice how all sounds arise and fall back into the ever-present silence.
Richard Ofosuhene

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  • From the poor economic climate, to traffic, to tragedy in the news, our culture contributes as well.
  • Mindfulness causes you to be fully presen
  • Mindfulness is defined as a state of active, open attention on the present
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  • . When you're mindful, you exist solely in the moment, noticing what is going on right then to the fullest. The practice of acceptance goes along with mindfulness
  • In acceptance you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad
  • Instead of saying "I am anxious," notice the physical sensation and acknowledge that it is there
  • help clients daily learn skills to help them better cope with the effects of anxiety on their mind and bodies.
  • Mindfulness is most frequently associated with a practice of meditation. Even five minutes of meditation daily has been proven to show benefit.
  • Some of my clients report washing the dishes as being meditative for them, or gardening, or listening to music.
  • Any activity where you can be fully in the moment contributes to your ability to quiet that voice in the mind that causes anxiety.
  • By being mindful you are not denying your feelings, nor ignoring them. You are integrating them into your "whole self" and allowing your mind to get out of the way so that your body can naturally heal itself.
  • Even as our minds get busy, the physical sensations of anxiety such as muscle tension, tightness in the chest or stomach, fluttering heartbeat are still present. Every few moments our minds do a "check in" to be sure that all systems are functioning properly. When the mind locates the symptoms of anxiety it sends off a "code red" and all of the symptoms feel exacerbated.
  • ven as our minds get busy, the physical sensations of anxiety such as muscle tension, tightness in the chest or stomach, fluttering heartbeat are still present. Every few moments our minds do a "check in" to be sure that all systems are functioning properly
  • When we resist emotions or physical sensations they rear their ugly heads and demand to be noticed. The sheer energy of them increases due to our increase in attempt to squash them down. Our bodies were made to allow all energy, negative and positive to move through them and to be expressed in some way, whether spoken through communication, burned off through exercise or relaxed away. Acceptance allows our bodies to naturally self correct and allow that energy to pass through us without resistance.
  • Mindfulness is proven to increase our quality of life by improving our physical health (reducing blood pressure and increasing quality of sleep to name a few benefits) and our mental health (decreased rumination, increased ability to handle daily stress) and out relationships (One study showed that people who practice mindfulness deal with relationship stress more constructively.
  • indfulness is most frequently associated with a practice of meditation. Even five minutes of meditation daily has been proven to show benefit. You can practice mindfulness in many other ways too. Some of my clients report washing the dishes as being meditative for them, or gardening, or listening to music. Any activity where you can be fully in the moment contributes to your ability to quiet that voice in the mind that causes anxiety.
  • By being mindful you are not denying your feelings, nor ignoring them. You are integrating them into your "whole self" and allowing your mind to get out of the way so that your body can naturally heal itself
  • Richard Ofosuhene on 04 Oct 13
     
    It shows how to do mindfulness and the benefit of it
Tara Picudella

Just being - 0 views

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mindfulness being

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  • For me, the most fruitful means for self-knowledge have been music and meditation.
  • I believe that neither discipline should be limited by having to have an end result.
  • Mindfulness means paying attention, on purpose, to one's own thoughts, feelings, and judgments17—“observing the observer, observing the observed.”18 Buddhist meditation is the practice of mindfulness and requires only the belief that knowing oneself can foster compassion.1
Leah Strassburg

Dharma Talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh on July 17 - 0 views

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dharma mindfulness happiness thich nhat hahn

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  • This action of the right hand can be described as based in the the mind of non-discrimination. The right hand looks after the left hand without thinking in a discriminatory way, "I am the right hand. I am taking care of the left hand. There is no thought such as that. There is no sort of discrimination like that. Therefore the right hand acts in a non-discriminatory way. There are moments when the right hand cooperates with the left hand to do something, like playing on the piano; both hands work together in order to produce the music, and there is a perfect harmony between the two hands. Therefore, if you look deeply into your body, into your mind, you will see that the mind of non-discrimination, the spirit of non-discrimination is already there in your own person. And if you use this spirit in your relationships with others, then happiness is possible.
Kathy Chu

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walden pdf

shared by Kathy Chu on 22 Oct 13 - No Cached
    • Lexy Martin
      Lexy Martin on 22 Oct 13
       
      "patriotism is a maggot in their heads." this view strikes me in a weird way. I have always known patriotism to be a good thing, not a "maggot"- bad thing. Who says that patriotism causes racism?
    • Kathy Chu
      Kathy Chu on 23 Oct 13
       
      Thoreau describes to his audience that there is much more to life. Instead of resting our eyes to sleep, we should go out and explore the world and ourselves. within it
  • The universe is wider than ourviews of it.
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  • one advancesconfidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live thelife which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpectedin common hours.
  • desire to speak somewhere withoutbounds; like a man in a waking moment,
  • Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in suchdesperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his com-panions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, h
  • However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it andcall it hard names
  • Do not trouble yourself much to getnew things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them.Things do not change; we change.
  • The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day todawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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