Meditation On The Job Makes For Healthy, Productive Workers

The core elements of all meditation are an upright posture, an object of meditation, and “what you do with the mind,” said Paul ReFalo, director of the Portland (Ore.) Shambhala Center.

There are many possible focus points: your breathing, a word, the physical sensations in your hands, a sound, or the motion of your steps in walking. As your mind naturally wanders and you gently bring it back to the object of meditation, you begin to notice the direction your thoughts want to take and you develop mental discipline.

“It’s very much like exercising for the body or practicing a musical instrument,” ReFalo said. “We want to teach techniques that are able to provide you enough emotional or mental room around the subject that you can begin to relate to it directly.”

This post is for Paul to watch zefrank and Coulton together.

This one is my absolute favorite. Stay off brain crack!

Paul sent this to me.  Click on the image to go to the the post at Perth Now. The claim is that it shows your brain hemisphere dominance.  If she appears to spin counter clockwise you have left brain dominance. Clockwise is right brain.

My initial response is counter. I can switch to clockwise buy looking at her standing foot.  Then it is difficult to get her to spin counter clockwise but I can do it by looking at the shadow.

I’ve made pumpkin waffles and started the first fire in the wood burning stove. Apparently kittens can nap on a non-soft spot if its warm enough.