Dear Friends,<\/p>\n
Just a short email today. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Feel free to keep working on mindfulness of breathing. Gil Frondsdal says that one of his teachers told him that\u00a0mindfulness of breathing is enough, in and of itself, for a person to become enlightened.<\/p>\n
In the\u00a0Search Inside Yourself<\/em>\u00a0capstone session, Brandon Rennels, one of the instructors of the in-person class I attended last September, reviewed the “cue-routine-reward” pattern that is part of a habit loop. (This is based on the work of Charles Duhigg, in\u00a0The Power of Habit<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n An example many of us can relate to:\u00a0your phone buzzes (cue), you pick\u00a0up the phone to see who sent you a text (routine);\u00a0you are happy that you heard from your friend (reward). The reward will re-inforce the cue so that the next time the cue\u00a0happens, your brain has already figured out what it’s going to do (look at text) and how it’s going to feel (happy).<\/p>\n Today, look for a specific cue that you can use as a reminder to takes some mindful breaths. Maybe it’s when you turn off the car. Or when you return to your desk after a meeting. One of my cues is when I’m about to hit send on an email.<\/p>\n The cue happens. (I’m finished writing this email.) I can’t wait to send you another email tomorrow!<\/p>\n With best wishes, Dear Friends, Just a short email today. \ud83d\ude42 Feel free to keep working on mindfulness of breathing. Gil Frondsdal says that one of his teachers told him that\u00a0mindfulness of breathing is enough, in and of itself, for a person to become enlightened. In the\u00a0Search Inside Yourself\u00a0capstone session, Brandon Rennels, one of the instructors of the in-person class I\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[80,62,79,28,81,76],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2017","tag-brandon-rennels","tag-breath","tag-charles-duhigg","tag-gil-fronsdal","tag-habit","tag-search-inside-yourself"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTake a mindful pause. (I notice the in-breath and out-breath.)
\nAppreciate how you feel as a result of that pause. (Relaxed, calm, happy.)<\/p>\n
\nAndrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"