CONTINUING THROUGH OCTOBER 8, 2024:
FROM WISE-HUMAN TO MINDFUL-HUMAN
with Chantal Jacques
The 18th century biologist Carl Linnaeus named our species Homo Sapiens, or Wise Human. However, each day’s news is full of accounts of many so-called Wise Humans acting in cruel and not-so-wise ways. Closer to our time, Thich Nhat Hanh revised that notion, and promoted Mindful Human as the appropriate description for us:
“I define mindfulness as the practice of being fully present and alive, body and mind united. Mindfulness is the energy that helps us to know what is going on in the present moment,” said Thich Nhat Hanh. He wrote about mindful eating, mindful driving, and mindful living.
During these sessions, we will practice mindfulness meditation, and undertake the journey from Wise Human to Mindful Human in everyday life. The sessions are on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9 at 43 ave De Breslay in Pointe-Claire.
Please write to Chantal at mindfulchantal @ gmail.com in order to join. (remove the spaces around the @ sign)
BILINGUAL, WITH APPROPRIATE DONATION
PAST PROGRAM
6 ELEMENTS OF A MINDFUL LIFE
Mindful eating
Mindfulness at sleep time
Mindful driving
Mindful shopping
Mindful relationships
Mindful communication
Mindfulness in these areas is good for us as well as for those around us and for the Earth; it is beneficial all around. This is because the Buddhist tradition that created the notion of mindfulness defined it as awareness of the present moment uncoloured by emotions, ideas, memories, beliefs, and habits.
Thus, without mindfulness in this sense, we would have Emotional eating. Emotional driving, and Emotional shopping. We would have relationships based on beliefs about sex, and we would be prey to memories interfering with sleep at bedtime.
with Joseph Emet
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