Effective and Wholehearted Meditation Coaching
A simple tool for making a meditation or daily mindfulness practice that sticks, using the Tiny Habits methodology by BJ Fogg.
It can be hard to make meditation and mindfulness practice habits. This isn’t a personal failing, it’s just that none of us are taught how to design habits!
This short tool will guide you through the process of setting up a meditation practice or short daily mindfulness habit using the methods from the book Tiny Habits, by B.J.… Read the rest “Make a Meditation/Daily Mindfulness Habit That Sticks – A Guided Tool”
The clear distinction between attention and awareness is one of the things that makes The Mind Illuminated such an effective approach to meditation.
Most people know what attention feels like, but don’t have a clear sense of what awareness feels like, even if they understand the concept.… Read the rest “Guided Awareness Practices”
Until you understand this key distinction, you won’t be getting the full benefit of mindfulness, or understanding its very real limitations.
Mindfulness is usually defined in terms of paying attention (e.g. “paying attention to the present moment”) but this leads to confusion and inconsistencies.
For one thing, it is impossible to pay attention to “the present moment”, which consists of an impossibly vast amount of data from our senses, only a tiny percentage of which we are able to pay attention to at any one time.… Read the rest “Mindfulness, and the Difference Between Attention and Awareness”
