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‘Mindfulness’ meditation being used in hospitals and schools - from USA Today
On June 8 there was an article in USA today about mindfulness that discussed secular meditation for both adults and children. Steve Reidman, a teacher at Toluca Lake Elementary where the InnerKids program has been taught for many years, was interviewed along with Sue Smalley who discussed recent findings in the multi-year, multi-site UCLA research [...]
Focus on this play, this moment !! — Advice from a Japanese baseball team. — Susan Kaiser Greenland
A misunderstanding of the concept of now can be a slippery slope that quickly leads to a nihilistic take on mindfulness practice. If you view what’s happening in the present moment as separate from past and future experience, figuring that what you say or do makes little difference is an understandable conclusion. Understandable, but completely at odds with two basic foundations of mindfulness practice.
How Passover night is not so different from any other night. — Susan Kaiser Greenland
Each year around the Passover holiday we pause, set aside all the to-ing and fro-ing for a moment, and rest.
How mindful awareness can help kids find emotional stability in an increasingly crazy world - Susan Kaiser Greenland
A new paradigm for children and families is within reach by connecting the wisdom derived from a more reflective and introspective way of being with the insights provided by education, psychology and neuroscience.
I confess! I tweet! — Susan Kaiser Greenland
Looking past the quite modern aspects of online twittering there is something rather sweet and retro about the whole thing. Twitter is, in many respects, a call back to sewing circles, ice-cream socials, and mixers. These old-fashioned social events of yesteryear were primarily about making friends, having interesting conversations, and learning something new. Not so different from Twitter’s mission to be a way for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected. At it’s best Twitter is exactly what it sets out to be.
Watching Michelle’s Garden Grow — Susan Kaiser Greenland
Okay, so how cool is it that the Obamas are tearing up 1,100 square feet of the White House lawn to plant a kitchen garden? I can’t wait to see the pictures of Michelle, Barack, and their kids tending the White House garden splashed on the front pages of newspapers around the world. It will [...]
Is the feminist fight over? Check out our poll. - Seth Greenland & Susan Kaiser Greenland
4:45pmSusan
I don’t know whether laughing at this stuff is less charged than taking it seriously.
4:49pmSeth
I think they’re responding in the way people respond to black comedy - when a person falls into a manhole some people (like me) will laugh. But that’s another issue.
The point I was making was that the younger women did not see the situation through a political prism, but, rather, through a human one. They are of the generation that believes the feminist fight to be over.
Vote for selective ignorance - Susan Kaiser Greenland
I often say there’s no such thing as a magic bullet - or magic wand - or whatever - but one thing comes pretty close and that’s a concept known as clear seeing. Everyone has the capacity for clear seeing already but sometimes our vision is blurred because we like it that way. Selective [...]
Prop 8 and Obama, a mandate to listen - Susan Kaiser Greenland
On a morning where an Obama presidency is cause for celebration and hope, the likely passage of Prop 8 in California is a reality check that Americans remain almost literally split down the middle with respect to our perspectives on the most basic of social issues. For those of us who supported Obama and his mandate, it will take more than just reaching across the aisle to manifest the hope for change and unity that he and his campaign have inspired. It’s going to take a whole lot of listening - active listening with a willingness to have our own perspectives shift - to come together and move forward as a more united and more evolved nation. President-elect Obama has proven to be an exemplar of this approach and, if his plans for a transition team are any indication, the hard work of open and informed conversation has already begun in his administration. Now it’s time for the rest of us to follow his lead and take these conversations to our schools, churches, temples, workplaces, and kitchen tables, truly integrating into our workaday lives the change that we believe in.
Looking beyond election day — Susan Kaiser Greenland
Negative feelings reside in the world of emotions, the language of which is predominantly non-verbal. Images, sounds, sense impressions, and smells are the most effective way to convince emotions, like fear, that there’s cause for alarm. Nothing speaks more powerfully to the fears of older undecided Jewish voters than images of Hitler. And to people born in communities with longstanding culturally based and unrecognized racial prejudice, the association between the first major party African-American candidate for President and a monkey is one of the most embedded, racially charged images in U.S. history.
Ferris wheels and the integration of intuition and reason. - Susan Kaiser Greenland
There is a brand new Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier, not so far from where I live. Countless blogs, news reports, articles and YOUtube videos depict the rainbow of 160,000 colorful, solar-power and wind lit LED lights that hover above the Pacific ocean and sparkle in the night sky as the new Ferris wheel spins. As artful as these descriptions might be, no amount of reading or thinking about this fantastic amusement park ride can compare to the visceral experience of taking it.
Don’t Know Mind and Introspection - Susan Kaiser Greenland
Don’t know mind was a favorite phrase of Korean Zen master Seung Sahn and I bet it’s the perspective that the last question of this week’s presidential debate was intended to point the candidates toward. It refers to a state of mind that is open and receptive; one of non-reactive, non-conceptual awareness. It’s not empty, but a lens through which we experience life directly and clearheadedly.
A heartbeat away — Susan Kaiser Greenland
I hadn’t held her to a higher standard because she was a woman, nor did she accuse me of doing so: her claim was that for the sake of the greater good I should have held her to a lower one. I should have covered for her. No doubt this executive did have to fight dirty to break through the glass ceiling and as a younger member of the sisterhood I had benefited. In her view it had been my opportunity to give back.
I’m one proud Michigander - Susan Kaiser Greenland
Susan weighs in on the McCain/Palin pullout in Michigan on Huffington Post today: I can’t actually see Alaska or Russia from the kitchen window of my grandparents’ home in Calumet, Michigan, but I doubt if the perspective from that window is much different than the one from the Palin’s kitchen window.
We’re shocked, SHOCKED — Susan Kaiser Greenland & Seth Greenland
Edwards knew what the stakes were and yet he took an incredible risk. It’s as if he has become Evel Knievel and had to jump over the 100 monster trucks just for the thrill of it.
Edwards comes clean about Rielle Hunter — Susan Kaiser Greenland and Seth Greenland
Given the unfortunate but necessary disclosure by Edwards today that he had an extra-marital affair with Rielle Hunter, this post is moving back into the featured spot.
Republican/Democrat has nothing to do with it. It’s hypocrite vs. non-hypocrite. Edwards marital vows do not affect public policy. Larry Craig, on the other hand, had a Senatorial vote which he wielded against gays, which would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
Dog bites man again. — Susan Kaiser Greenland
July 28th Note: For those who follow the progressive blogs, the online reaction to the John Edwards story is fascinating. Check out how Lee Stranahan is getting slammed in the comments for his post on Huffington why the progressive blogs need to get out in front of this story and also slammed in the comments on his crosspost on Daily Kos.
And now the Momocrats weigh-in On What’s News and What’s Not.
Read more on this story in the post John Edwards, Father of the Year?
Rocky Mountain Why? — Susan Kaiser and Seth Greenland
10:39amSusan
Hey Seth, did you see McCain is going to visit the Dalai Lama in Aspen today? Do you think he’s a seeker?
10:40amSeth
I think he wants to discuss the four noble truths, and how he can use them to beat Obama.
God, country and the fourth of July - Susan Kaiser Greenland
With all of these other parades going on why was the lack of one on the Fourth of July so important to him? Because it was the largest and most public way he could honor a country that had given him and his family so much.
Attention - Susan Kaiser Greenland
While attention is fundamental to mindfulness training for kids it absolutely is NOT the whole picture. Mindfulness training focuses on two areas of practice that are taught in tandem -awareness (or attention) practices and kindness practices. Without the elements of kindness and compassion, attention training simply isn’t mindfulness.
Why is my husband on the Internet in his underpants? - Susan Kaiser Greenland
My brilliant and erudite husband has a new book coming out and it seems as if the ‘author video’ is de rigeur - I uploaded a screenshot and posted it below . . .
The New Elitism In Education Reform - Susan Kaiser Greenland
Obama again offered a nuanced approach. . . for those watching education he did something very interesting. He took the national stage to support a specific philosophy of learning – an integrative curriculum.
Way to go Janet!
Rising expectations for the future of film distribution paved the way for a pair of important industry moves within the independent movie industry today. . .
A good week for grassroots activits - Susan Kaiser Greenland
It is a good week for grassroots activists the world over. For the first time leading up to the Beijing Olympics, Jacques Rogge came out of his coma and reversed his policy of silent diplomacy . . .
Message from the Dalai Lama to Friends of Tibet
“I want to urge my fellow Tibetans who live in freedom outside Tibet to be extra vigilant as they voice their feelings on the developments in Tibet. . .”
To Vaccinate or Not Vaccinate? That’s Not the Question - Susan Kaiser Greenland
It is downright terrifying to acknowledge that we do not know everything there is to know about the interrelationship between toxins, environment, vaccines and autism. . .
Quiet Karma - Susan Kaiser Greenland
What a bizarre, wonderful, karmic coincidence to get this email and video today - the day of our official (tongue in cheek) mindfulmom DOT com soft launch. . .
Mindfulness, Mothering, Politics and Me - Susan Kaiser Greenland
I stopped blogging a few years back . . . but, after watching the Democratic debate in Ohio, I realized there were still some things I would like to say.
Memo to China: The Customer is Always Right - Susan Kaiser Greenland
Because of the Olympics, hearing from millions of customers that we are not happy could in fact have an impact on Chinese government policy - probably not this week, but eventually.
The Middle Way of Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama - Susan Kaiser Greenland
Faced with complex issues, factionalized supporters, and a high-stakes game both Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama chose to play to the highest common denominator.
American and Chinese Co-Dependence: A Bad Relationship - - Susan Kaiser Greenland
Why then was China conspicuous by its absence from the State Department’s annual list of the world’s most egregious human rights violators?