Increase Productivity and Reach Your Goals. Why You Should Not Eat the Elephant One Bite at a Time.
Increase Productivity and Reach Your Goals. Why You Should Not Eat the Elephant One Bite at a Time. |
- Increase Productivity and Reach Your Goals. Why You Should Not Eat the Elephant One Bite at a Time.
- Mudita Bhavana (Joyful Appreciation) guided meditation, led by Bodhipaksa
- Early Morning Meditation Inspiration - 6/14/2013
- Early Morning Mindfulness Inspiration - 6/14/2013
- Appreciation is contagious
- Meditation helps MS sufferer cope
| Increase Productivity and Reach Your Goals. Why You Should Not Eat the Elephant One Bite at a Time. Posted: 14 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT  I bet when you start out on a goal or project you have a lot of excitement. It might be the dream project you have always wanted. Your enthusiasm is probably overflowing and you are convinced you are going to rock whatever you have on your plate. After time passes though, do you slowly lose interest, forget why you started in the first, and finally in a state of just plain exhaustion quit the thing you had so much passion for in the first place? It doesn't have to be this way. You have probably fallen into the trap of one of the most common personal development, motivational sayings of recent history.  Read More @ Source |
| Mudita Bhavana (Joyful Appreciation) guided meditation, led by Bodhipaksa Posted: 14 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT
Here's a video of a guided meditation I led yesterday on the practice of mudita bhavana, developing joyful appreciation. The actual meditation is about 45 minutes in length. There's a little talk beforehand and some discussion afterward. Enjoy! Read More @ Source |
| Early Morning Meditation Inspiration - 6/14/2013 Posted: 14 Jun 2013 05:03 AM PDT  "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." ~The Buddha      Read More @ Source |
| Early Morning Mindfulness Inspiration - 6/14/2013 Posted: 14 Jun 2013 05:02 AM PDT "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." ~The Buddha Read More @ Source |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:00 PM PDT
Your friends become measurably happier because you're happy. Your friends' friends become measurably happier. And your friends' friends' friends' become measurably happier. Happiness spreads outward into the world through your social network like a virus — although a rather beneficial one. This may all seem rather incredible, but the evidence for this is solid, and is based on a huge study carried out by Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego. Professor of Medical Genetics James H. Fowler (he's the San Diego guy) and social scientist Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, (from Harvard) have been studying social networks for several years, using data from the ongoing Framingham Heart Study, which has been tracking the health, behaviors, and attitudes of tens of thousands of people since 1948. The study measures many aspects of health, including happiness. Participants have been asked how likely they are to agree with questions like "I feel hopeful about the future" and "I feel happy." And the study also tracks social networks, allowing the researchers to see how attitudes and behaviors spread. Fowler and Christakis have found that if you have overweight friends, you're more likely to be overweight yourself. If you have friends who don't smoke, you'll find it easier to give up smoking. If your friends are unhappy, you're more likely to be unhappy yourself. And, as we've seen, if you're happy your friends are more likely to be happy, and if your friends are happy you're more likely to be happy.  If you benefit from this work, please consider supporting Wildmind. Click here to make a one-time or recurring donation. In fact, if you're happy you increase the changes of an immediate social contact becoming happy by 15%. And this effect ripples out into your friend's friend's relationships. The effect becomes weaker as it does so, but it's still measurable in your friends' friends' friends'. There's a rather lovely image from the Buddhist tradition that ties in with this. One a traditional Buddhist altar there are always three offerings: Candles, which represent the light of the Buddha illuminating our own lives; flowers, which represent the teachings unfolding within us; and incense, which represents the way the skillful attitudes we develop in our practice percolate into the world around us. Just as the incese we burn doesn't confine itself to the room in which we're meditating, but ripples endlessly out into the world, so the changes we bring about in ourselves don't stop with us, but affect those around us, and those around them, and so on and so on, flowing out into the world, with no limit. There are a couple of important points you can take away from all this. First, you can be confident that as you meditate and as you practice lovingkindness, compassion, and appreciative joy in daily life, you're transforming the world around you. Feel the power! It's real! Second, you might want to be careful who you hang out with. If you suffer from depression and some of your friends and colleagues are miserable and some are happy, you might want to try spending a bit more time with your more upbeat crowd. PS. You can see all of our 100 Days of Lovingkindness posts here. Read More @ Source |
| Meditation helps MS sufferer cope Posted: 13 Jun 2013 07:00 PM PDT
He was 29 at the time – the average age for adults who suffer from the condition. Now the 61-year-old, from Woodmancote, is continuing his work to help others suffering from the same symptoms he did. In the last 30 years, he has raised more than £250,000 for charities connected to the illness. His therapy is driven through meditation, which allows sufferers to gain a foothold in their hectic lives which can lead to MS via stress or restless nights… Read the original article » |
When you practice joyful appreciation (mudita) or any of the related attitudes such as kindness (metta) or compassion (mudita), you become happier.
Steven Impey, Gloucestershire Echo: Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis for more than three decades, Steve Brisk has learned to appreciate the subtleties in life.| You are subscribed to email updates from BuddhaRocks ☸ To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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