About Mindfulness | Openground - By Goddard, Timothea

What can a meditation practice offer in these difficult times?

Being a person is an interesting, challenging and confusing experience. We are constantly changing, finding our feet and sometimes losing that footing.

Posted in meditation, Mindfulness Courses; Tagged meditation, mbsr; Posted 43 hours ago by Timothea Goddard 2 Minute(s) to read

The big idea: how to use your senses to help beat depression

This is an article by two of my heroes…. .

Tagged mental health; Posted 12 days ago by Timothea Goddard 2 Minute(s) to read

What can we offer each other in this weird world?

The power of “R U OK (ANY) Day "Safety is not the absence of threat. Safety is the presence of connection.

Tagged R U OK; Posted 30 days ago by Timothea Goddard 3 Minute(s) to read

If we practice anxiety, we get better at it!

There has been great excitement in recent years about the brain's ability to transform itself through activity - that is through how we use our minds and bodies.

Posted 5 months ago by Timothea Goddard 3 Minute(s) to read

Our predicament

"A predicament. . . . is an inextricable, irreversible and complex situeation for which there are no solutions, just measures for adapting to it.

Mindfulness: “feeling” and “dealing” with our emotions

“One of the mighty illusions that is constructed in the dailyness of life in our culture is that all pain is a negation of worthiness, that the real chosen people,…

Tagged mindfulness, meditation, mbsr; Posted 6 months ago by Timothea Goddard 2 Minute(s) to read

Build your resilience through MBSR

Building resilience In response to difficult experience, it is natural for us to shut down on feeling emotions and on experiences in life.

Posted 6 months ago by Timothea Goddard 2 Minute(s) to read

The illusion of not having enough time to be (or to practice mindfulness)….

Recognising addiction and our relationship with TIME What are we doing with our lives? This has a lot to do with our relationship with time.

Posted 6 months ago by Timothea Goddard 4 Minute(s) to read

Finding your ground - in sensory clarity in this moment

Don’t get stuck on concentration….

Posted in Mindfulness, Mindfulness Courses, urban retreat; Posted 24 months ago by Timothea Goddard 3 Minute(s) to read

Why did you come to mindfulness training?

Intention is really important in mindfulness practice. Jon Kabat-Zinn is known for changing his mind about how this works.

Posted 2 years ago by Timothea Goddard 2 Minute(s) to read

Why mindfulness is not a “super-power”

Do you ever have wytai? It is a noun (articulated in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows): a feature of modern society that suddenly strikes you as absurd and grotesque—from zoos and milk-drinking…

Posted in Mindfulness, Mindfulness Courses, Mindfulness Practice, Mindfulness Teaching; Tagged mindfulness; Posted 3 years ago by Timothea Goddard 4 Minute(s) to read

IPCC report - Code Red for Humanity

Here, for now. There's a revolution that needs to happen and it sits inside each one of us.

Posted in Climate Change; Tagged climate change, IPCC, mindfulness; Posted 3 years ago by Timothea Goddard 2 Minute(s) to read

Living in the Time of Dying – a film

In my own little patch, I am living in a split reality.

Posted in Mindfulness; Tagged climate collapse, meditation, michael shaw, mindfulness; Posted 4 years ago by Timothea Goddard 5 Minute(s) to read

Mental Health Week

Mental health – and how to generate it - is not just a personal problem as it is often characterised, but is deeply effected by cultural, social and economic forces.

Distance Mindfulness (MBSR) Training

For many years I was not keen on offering the MBSR program via the internet, as it seemed like it would take away from the individual exploration and intimacy that…

Posted in Mindfulness, Mindfulness Courses, Climate Change, Mindfulness Teaching; Tagged mindfulness, meditation, distance mindfulness training; Posted 5 years ago by Timothea Goddard Less than a minute to read

Three kinds of shenanigans going on in the world of mindfulness.

Shenanigans is such a great word. It is a noun that means: mischief, trouble, pranks, high-jinks, tomfoolery. Mindfulness is everywhere.

Posted in Mindfulness Courses; Tagged mindfulness; Posted 5 years ago by Timothea Goddard 5 Minute(s) to read

Re-engaging with the body - download a new practice

I am on an island at the moment. How good is that?! It is Facing Island - a tiny island off Gladstone in Queensland.

Posted in Mindfulness Practice; Tagged mindfulness, body scan; Posted 6 years ago by Timothea Goddard 3 Minute(s) to read

Longing and mindfulness as a panacea or path?

I love this rendering of the power of longing.

Tagged mindfulness; Posted 6 years ago by Timothea Goddard 5 Minute(s) to read

"Community of the Afflicted" - a great advertisement for mindfulness training!

I love this short piece by Jon Kabat-Zinn called “Listening is an act of love”.

Posted in Mindfulness Practice; Tagged mindfulness; Posted 6 years ago by Timothea Goddard 3 Minute(s) to read

Throwing Things Away

“I am shocked by the ignorance and wastefulness with which persons who should know better throw away the things they do not like.

Posted in Mindfulness Practice; Tagged mindfulness; Posted 6 years ago by Timothea Goddard 4 Minute(s) to read

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