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How mindfulness can add to your well being
Wednesday 13 April 2011
From ABC Radio National's New Dimensions program:
How Mindfulness Can Add To Your Well Being #3375
Listen Now - 2011-03-28One thing that shows up in the research across the board is that people who practice mindfulness report being happier. What doesn't show up in the findings is that their lives automatically get better. They don't necessarily stop getting sick or stop having difficulties or challenges or losing their jobs. They lead normal lives, like all of us do. But, the quality of their mind and their ability to be happy in the face of it is different. What mindfulness does is to shift and change our attitude and create a way of being in the world with more peace and balance instead of being at the mercy of these ups and downs of life. Diana Winston says, "Mindfulness can change your relationship to life from being stuck in it to having a little-bit of space around it. "I like to use the definition of mindfulness as attending to the present moment and experiences with openness and curiosity." So, when we are in the midst of our life and we're lost in an experience that is painful or unpleasant, we can learn to have a little space and not be so caught by the problems. (hosted by Michael Toms) #3375
Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where she teaches mindfulness to the general public, health professionals, educators and many others. She has been teaching mindfulness nationally since 1998 and is a member of the Teacher's Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, in Northern California. She is the author of Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens (Perigee 2003), and the CD, Mindful Meditations (Airetight Records 2008). Diana has been practicing mindfulness since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun. She is also the author with Susan Smalley, Ph.D. of Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness (DaCapo Press 2010). To learn more about the work of Diana Winston go to www.marc.ucla.edu.
The article originally appeared here.
Diana Winston's "Mindful Meditations" can be found here:
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