“Mindfulness is simply a clear, non-judgmental awareness of your inner and outer worlds.”
A lovely, short, simple article on exploring both, the ideas of mindfulness & of presence. Sounds very similar to coaching presence. Are there differences…?
What is Mindful Presence?
“Let’s unpack those two words, mindful presence.
Mindfulness is simply a clear, non-judgmental awareness of your inner and outer worlds. In particular, it’s an awareness of the flow of experience in your inner world – an alert observing of your thoughts, emotions, body sensations, desires, memories, images, personality dynamics, attitudes, etc…
Presence refers to the stability of mindfulness, which means the degree to which you are grounded in awareness itself.
With practice, awareness becomes increasingly your home base, your refuge, rather than the contents of awareness. You abide more and more as the field of awareness upon which experiences arise, register, and pass away…
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From Rick Hanson’s website: http://www.rickhanson.net/mindful-presence-2/
RICK HANSON, Ph.D.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books include Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he’s been an invited speaker at Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. He has several audio programs, his free Just One Thing newsletter has 100,000 subscribers, and his yearlong program on positive neuroplasticity – the Foundations of Well-Being – is now available as an eCourse.
