Redefining mindfulness
Here are articles that provide a different take on mindfulness.
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Relational meditation: inner connection & interconnection
This approach blends moments of meditation and moments of sharing our experiences of meditating.
A creative inner space
The egg is the archetype of generative space. It is a nurturing and transformative environment.
Polyvagal-informed mindfulness: An embodied context
This article describes how the Polyvagal Theory gives us an embodied and relational perspective on mindfulness.
How to practice embodied meditation
What does it mean to pay attention to our body? A lot opens up when we bring our awareness to the silent, invisible parts.
What is it like to be a mindful lemming?
The phrase feels like a contradiction in terms: we think of lemmings following each other into collective suicide as they jump off a cliff.
How to turn insight into action: the safecracker
I use the metaphor of a safecracker to describe how we can turn insight into action.
Relational mindfulness & the stories we tell ourselves
This article makes a case for thinking about mindfulness in the context of interaction.
Understanding social myth: Why it’s so hard to find common ground & how to do it
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.
Proactive mindfulness involves orienting
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.
Contemplative thinking: Action-oriented contemplation
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.
The proactive mindset: How to shift from reactive to proactive
In this article, I am talking about shifting from a reactive mode to a proactive one.
Felt sensing: A mindful inner exploration
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.
The Relational Implicit & felt sensing
What we mean by Relational Implicit is the emergence of meaning in our interactions.
Implicit relational knowing
The phrase implicit relational knowing was first used to describe the way babies know how to watch and respond to their mothers.
Somatic Implicit: Embodied experience & felt sense
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
Shared Implicit: The space of interpersonal connection
What happens in the space where interpersonal connection takes place? To the untrained eye, it’s an empty space.
Collective Implicit: The myths that bind us together
Myths are the glue that binds societies together, small tribes as well as countries or supranational entities.