Our next
meeting will be on ‘Mindfulness’. The 9th April 7.30pm at the White
Rock Hotel
Mindfulness Debates
One of the many definitions of Mindfulness is “Bringing one’s complete attention to the present experience on a
moment-to-moment basis”
(Marlatt & Kristeller 1999). It brings
together some of the techniques of Yoga and Buddhism and promotes the benefits
of stilling your mind of the clutter and noise that dominate our busy modern
lives.
On the other hand
The brain is only 3% of the body’s mass, but
uses up 20% of its energy. Over 80% of the brains activity is ‘sub-conscious’
ie things that we happily delegate to automatic processes (like breathing and
putting on our socks) which is an efficient use of our brain and leaves us free
to focus our conscious endeavor on things that really
matter.
So plenty of things to discuss.
The Introduction to Mindfulness will be given
by Jessica Milton who spent last summer in a Chinese Buddhist
Monastery leading a Monastic life and is studying some of these issues as part
of her degree course in Philosophy.
