ZEN BREAKS 31 — Choose you practice — the timing is NOW
100. Take 5
This is one of my favorite short guided meditation, it takes only 5 minutes what is is perfect because it’s easy to find time for it. …
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ZEN BREAKS 30 — Do you work out? Body or Mind?
97. Mindfulness Is Like Physical Fitness
Ben Butrina makes an interesting comparison between exercising in a gym and practicing meditation.
The same way we go to the gym to develop some of the body’s abilities:
- Endurance
- Strength
- Flexibility
We can also practice meditation to develop similar mindfulness skills:
- Concentration
- Sensory Clarity
- Equanimity
He also reminds us…
ZEN BREAKS 29 — Yes, it can — see some examples from COP 26
94. Zen Monks Support Cop 26 Negotiators
Two Zen monks from Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village Community explain how they participated and helped negotiators during the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, held November 1–12, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland.
A good example…
ZEN BREAKS 28 — Help others, stay calm — paying attention is all you need
91. Is Helping Out a Good Investment?
What do you get for helping others? We may not get a lot of money for it, but we can get far more valuable rewards.
92. How to Be Calmer
Chinese Taoist Master, Master Gu, shares some tips…
ZEN BREAKS 27 — How mindfulness changes your brain
88. What You Practice Grows Stronger
Shauna Shapiro uses modern neuroscience and ancient wisdom to demonstrate how mindfulness can change the way we live and create positive changes in our brains.
“Research from Harvard shows the mind wanders on average 47 percent of the time 47…
ZEN BREAKS 26 — “Awakening Is Not a Serious Business”
85. The 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a conscious way of experiencing the world, internal and external, being present to what is happening.
Jon Kabat-Zinn explains 9 core attitudes that can help us maintain this observant presence:
- Beginner’s mind
- Non-judging
- Acceptance
- Letting Go
- Trust
- …
ZEN BREAKS 25 — Your (tiny) choices will shape your life
84. The Tiny Choices Are the Most Powerful
This week I bring you only one very special suggestion, one Ted Talk that you probably will never forget.
In a very special way, Caroline Myss explains how we shape our life with our small choices, many times without knowing what we are doing.
She shows us that the most…
ZEN BREAKS 24 — Know yourself better to create your own life
81. Doing What You Love
Listening to someone sharing their life purpose with the impression that they have really found their purpose and are living up to it is very different from just hearing about theory on this important topic.
This amazing…
Zen Breaks 23 — Question romantic assumptions to understand What Love Is
78. Kill Romanticism in 5m. Then, Love!
This video of School of Life shows how Romanticism has been affecting us in many more ways than we realize — and has been a disaster factor for relationships.
Maybe we need to question the expectations about…
Zen Breaks 22 — Understand how and why we can embrace CHANGE as it is: natural.
75. Be the Change You Want to See
Don’t spend time trying to change other people.
Change yourself and they will follow you.
Changing yourself is also the only change you can really control, as this great video of the School…
