![]() ![]() According to the images I came across, we would also be well served to meditate half-clothed – preferably in a sun-drenched locale – with well-defined abs. Ap parently, if we practice sitting meditation, we should seek out such places as mountain tops overlooking the Himalayas, tropical beaches, or on a rock next to a waterfall. Mindfulness and meditation are about deeply changing ourselves so that we can be the change that we see needed for the world.īased on the images google showed me, it seems our collective understanding about meditation involves heightened experiences of transcendental bliss and ecstatic swells of elation. The practice of meditation is not a passive, navel-gazing luxury for people looking to escape the rigors of our complex world. ![]() Turns out, when you google meditation images, you kick up a lot of hoaky, woo-woo stuff. ![]() I was looking for one to accompany a quote I came across this morning in a new book I just started reading (see pic above), which I was posting on our sangha’s Facebook page: Be Here Now Community. ![]() This morning, I was googling meditation images. This book focuses on how to notice when mindfulness practice uncovers trauma. I’m hoping it will help me learn how to better support our sangha members dealing with trauma.) Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation - practiced without an awareness of trauma - can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. (I’m only one chapter into this book and already I’m getting a lot out of it. ![]()
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