And ahead of us? The walk, only the walk. The Salt Path charts the journey of Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, from the point at which they lose everything. A poor investment and a naïve trust in justice over legal process leads to them being forced from their home…
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Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation, Jon Kabat-Zinn (rev edn 2013)
In this book, Kabat-Zinn describes the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme that he originally developed in 1979 and that was (and still is) taught at the Stress Reduction Clinic in Massachusetts. Kabat-Zinn’s incredible contribution to participatory medicine in the form of MBSR is now world-famous, and has led to a…
Sitting with difficulty in Twelfth Night (1601-2)
Sitting with difficult feelings is perhaps the most challenging task of mindfulness. It’s natural to feel aversion to painful thoughts,…
Why I’m re-reading The Book of Hygge (2016) and having myself a hygge Samhain this October
If you somehow missed the hygge hype of the last couple of years (which would mean you didn’t enter any…
The Present Moment in E. M. Forster’s ‘Howard’s End’ (1910)
The following passage illustrates what it means to come in to the present moment, how to do it, and what…