“Teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) requires the capacity (- the heart -) to meet our own suffering and that of others with attention, resilience, transparency, and compassion. For most people, cultivating these qualities is both cumulative and non-linear.”
http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/oasis/index.aspx?linkidentifier=id&itemid=41256
“Most of us recognize that we human beings may or may not act in a manner that corresponds with what we say our ethics are. But human beings do act in ways that are congruent with what they ultimately trust as dependable and real – what makes sense at the end of the day, what they think they can really count on. We humans act in ways that are congruent with how we make meaning.
We human beings seem unable to survive, and certainly cannot thrive, unless we can make meaning. We need to be able to make some sort of sense out of things; we seek pattern, order, coherence, and relation in the disparate elements of our experience. If life is perceived as only fragmented and chaotic, we suffer confusion, distress, stagnation, and finally despair.”
Parks SD. Big questions, worthy dreams. Mentoring young adults in their search for meaning, purpose, and faith. John Wiley & Sons, San Francisco, 2000.
See also: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2013/07/361-beyond-stress-management-resilience.html
and: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2013/06/heart-ensures-you-thrive-not-merely.html
and: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2013/06/347-training-in-equanimity.html
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| Laszlo "Les" Lovas (1915 - 2001) Self-portrait |
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