OK, now you have had a go at just sitting still (how did you find it?), lets expand that to a bit more of a formal meditation. I know, I know, to some people the word “meditation” sends shivers down their spin, and they conjure up images of tie dye hippies all sat round chanting, [...] Read more »
Mindfulness Part 2: Do Nothing
When was the last time you sat down and did nothing? I mean absolutely nothing, not watching tv, not reading or playing with your phone, but NOTHING? Mindfulness is about paying attention to the present moment, to do that we need to build our concentration levels; something that is being constantly eroded in our modern [...] Read more »
Slow News Friday Number 2
I came across this story on the Telegraph website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/5164648/Mobisodes-short-films-and-series-for-mobile-phones.html About how “mobisodes” or short TV episodes sent directly to our mobile phone are the new “big thing”. Now, I don’t know about you, but that seems a tad absurd to me. Not to mention unnecessary. Can our attention spans get any shorter? Why and [...] Read more »
Mindfulness Part 1
One of the key tenants of the Slow Philosophy and one of the most important abilities to cultivate is mindfulness. Mindfulness comes from Buddhist philosophy but has been picked up in the last few years by modern western psychology, mainly by someone called Jon Kabat-Zinn. Mindfulness is attracting increasing interest among western clinical psychologists and [...] Read more »