Between a Rock & a Scary Place! - Self-concept & Worldview Upgrades

     We have an aversion to, & frankly doubt we can upgrade our self-concept & worldview (SC&WW): http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2014/02/if-it-aint-broke-upgrading-self-concept.html When someone else gives us advice about this critically important, yet taboo territory, we get mad at them!: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2014/02/494-we-know-were-heading-wrong-way-when.html And our current societal tendencies of scientific reductionism, materialism, consumerism & cynicism make the wisdom traditions - the traditional gateways to SC&WW - unintelligible & virtually unapproachable.
     We're in a real pickle, because life deals all of us at least one, but usually multiple "shipwrecks", where our whole life - including SC&WW - falls apart. 

     We have only 3 options when shipwrecked: 
     1) remain cynical & miserable; 
     2) rebuild without skills; 
     3) rebuild with skills - I prefer this third option. 

     Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, is a widely-accepted & evidence-based way of gently, skillfully approaching, upgrading & when necessary, rebuilding our own SC&WW.  Each of us has to start - slowly - from where we are now. The learning is experiential, not theory / dogma-based.

Dalhousie University February 13, 2014