Mindfulness Life

Mindfulness and Meditation in Newcastle Australia.  #mindfulness #meditation #huntermindfulness #meditateinnewcvastle #yoga #selfmastery #newybeach #wellnesswalk #brenmurphy #mindbodycalm

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Meditators are like birds that soar through the sky and rise to the peaks. Birds never carry suitcases! 

Skillful meditators soar free from all their burdens and rise to the beautiful peaks of their minds. 

It is on such summits of perception that meditators will understand, from their own direct experience, the meaning of what we call “mind.”

You may wish to go through the initial stages quickly, but be very careful if you do. If you pass through the initial steps too quickly, you may find that the preparatory work has not been completed. 

It’s like trying to build a house on a makeshift foundation—the structure goes up very quickly, but it may come down too soon! You would be wise to spend a lot of time making the groundwork and foundations solid.Then, when you proceed to the higher stories—the bliss states of meditation— they will be stable.

I like to begin at the simple stage of giving up the baggage of past and future.You may think that this is an easy thing to do, but it is not. Abandoning the past means not thinking about your work, your family, your commitments, your responsibilities, your good or bad times in childhood.

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Mindfulness helps us slow down and re-connect in the moment.  As we slow down, we notice how much of this busyness we have been chasing is an illusion - an how much extra rushing around we do.  We  might be trying to impress strangers, compare ourselves with others, or make a quick judgment and claim that we are somehow better than another.  

Gratitude, and simply being grateful for what we already have in our lives - is the solid foundation upon which mindfulness happiness is built.

Being grateful begins with something as simple as appreciting the ordinary beautiful that is already in our lives.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening. —  Adyashanti

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MindBodyCalm - Is this you?  You already know the power of mindfulness if you have been along to one of my Mindfulness Walks, or one of my events.  Mindfulness offers a proven way to step out of your default "auto-pilot mode" and into new, higher levels of self awareness.  

That's why my unique hgeart centered program is called the Awareness Upgrade.From the very beginning you will be on a journey of upgrading your awareness - out of the doldrums, out of overwhelm, out of stuckness - and into an elevated place where you are actively sculpting your experience.  Sounds amazing right?Here's what you get on the Awareness Upgrade.

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Journal Writing - 200 tips to prompt you to start http://brenmurphy.net/journal-writing/ 

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A slow and deep breath can warm your heart and keep you optimistic. Find more breathing exercises at aet.na/breathe

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Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

Lao Tzu (via purplebuddhaproject)

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How do we make sense of this science of mindfulness? Here is a brief foray into the emergence of an independent way of knowing called interpersonal neurobiology.

At the same time as Jon Kabat-Zinn was creating the MBSR program some thirty years ago, I was starting medical school just a few miles east in Boston. Discouraged by the lack of empathy in my professors and the way patients—and students—were treated as physical objects seemingly devoid of an internal world, I stopped school to wrestle with this widespread blindness to the inner reality of the mind.

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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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Studies show that the ways we intentionally shape our internal focus of attention in mindfulness practice induces a state of brain activation during the practice. With repetition, an intentionally created state can become an enduring trait of the individual as reflected in long-term changes in brain function and structure. 

This is a fundamental property of neuroplasticity—how the brain changes in response to experience. Here, the experience is the focus of attention in a particular manner.

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Everyone has a mindset default setting. Mine, for example, used to be ruminating on bad experiences from earlier in my life and seeing if there was someway I could avoid having a similar experience in my future.  It meant I was constantly distracted from being here in the present by old, sometimes decades old events and mishaps that really had no place in my current life.

Mindfulness Practice Daily has helped me shrug this off and meet each present moment as it unfolds before me with a light, playful curiosity that invites the law of attraction and welcomes my intuition.  Surrendering to the present moment means I can fully, deeply savour simple things like sunshine in the morning or the tingle of tiredness at night time.

http://www.mindfulnessnewcastle.com.au

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Blackbutt Wellness Walk at Richley Reserve New Lambton, Newcastle NSW Australia.  Featuring the #mindfulness and #meditation of Bren Murphy from Mindfulness Newcastle, enjoy a walk and some quiet moments of reflection guided by an experienced mindfulness teacher.

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Just walking through #Blackbutt Reserve in Newcastle NSW MindBodyCalm Mindfulness Training Newcastle 

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Just completed another 5000m Parkrun - these guys are champions!! #parkrun #mindbodycalm #mindfulnesstraining MindBodyCalm