Mental Training & Mastering the Art of Mindfulness (Short Version)
Taste of Enlightenment
1. A Taste of Enlightenment: Mindfulness is as Simple as A-B-C. Jim Giorgi Brightpathway
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7. If you started saying aloud the thoughts that continually and compulsively run through your head, anybody listening to you would think that you were insane. -Eckhart Tolle
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9. The advice to “ think outside the box ” is faulty, because … Thinking is the box. Thinking don’t solve problems , it creates them
10. Q: How can you control your thoughts? A: You can’t! But…You CAN control your ATTENTION
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13. The Field of Awareness – Limited Attention Emotionally Reactive Thoughts Touch Smell Sound Kinesthetic Taste Intuition Sight Proprioceptive
14. Meditation is not about controlling thoughts It’s about controlling ATTENTION
17. The space between the thoughts has many names: “ Mushin ” “ Empty Mind ” “ Clear Mind ”
18. Empty mind is not a mind empty of thoughts but rather empty of the attachments and reactions to thoughts Suffering (stress) is not the product of external events but of reactions to thoughts
19. Like tuning a radio that is between stations, meditation tunes out the “static” of thoughts and allows the “music” to be heard loud and clear
20. When thoughts arise- Neither entertain nor resist, Have your thoughts without them having you. No attachment or reaction
21. Meditation is like weight training for one’s “Attentional Muscles” It is emerging from the trap of attachment to thoughts and the reactions to them.
22. Dissolving the boundaries of thought-created time and space into Timelessness and Spaciousness The Eternal “Present Moment”
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25. “ Get out of your “head” and come to your senses.” See, hear, touch, smell, taste the “suchness”, without label, judgment or condition.
26. Meditation is learning how to do nothing while you ’ re doing nothing so that you can learn how to “ do nothing ” while you ’ re doing something – “ Mindfulness ”
27. Mindfulness is “ Meditation in Action ” Being totally immersed in what you ’ re doing while you’re doing it. Acting with Effortlessness Being in “ The Zone ”
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29. Mindfulness – As simple as “A-B-C”. A: A ttention to present moment experience (sensations) B: B reathing C: C orporal (Body) Awareness