I am excited to be in my second week of an 8-week Mindfulness Class and I am looking forward to enhancing my meditation practice I’ve been cultivating for the past three years. I am ready to take it to a new level, whatever that might mean. Hospice of the Valley (HOV) in Phoenix, Arizona, offers this class to volunteers and …
Making Meditation Matter
John Kabat-Zinn reminds us that meditation is simply “paying attention” and that paying attention is the first step to living more mindfully and learning to reduce stress. In his book Full Catastrophe Living Mr. Kabat-Zinn teaches us that through meditation we can learn how our own mind works and how often our mind is thinking about the past or the …