#wellnesswalks

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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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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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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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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.pepperedprawn.com.au/

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Working through your sober recovery with special help from an online friend who understands what you are going through - priceless.  http://www.rimfirewinery.com.au/ 

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Positive Psychology - Peppered Prawn

Positive Psychology 4.75 (95%) 4 votes Positive Psychology “…and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us that fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.” Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus …

Your self image pretty mush shapes your whole life experience - so if you are looking down, kicking stones - i feel for you.  You can change and brighten your future.