A Mindful Week #10
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01 Philosophy
The 4 pillars of stoicism: time-tested advice from the greeks.
02 Books
VR underwater meditation: Virtual reality allows you to enter places impossible to visit. It allows the small to feel big, the implausible to feel possible. Imagine if we would open those tools for therapeutic use too.
03 Poetry
“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop: The Decades-old classic that became the ultimate pandemic poem. Via beloved Maria Popova from Brain Pickings.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
04 Inspiration
Best Of Bluetooth-Headphones: Letting the world be and drawing inwards can be facilitated by comfortable and ergonomic headphones. Here some suggestions by the New York Times Wirecutter Team.
05 Music
This week we discussed music for meditation in our community group. Some of our members recommended this Armenien flute album. It's playing on our stereo ever since. Click below for Youtube or here for Spotify.
06 Quote
Quotes that inspire us and make us think.
This Week at The Art of Meditation
07 Meditation Club
In our Art of Meditation Club we train and explore together how to find our own unique answers to living an examined life.
Allow yourself the luxury of training your mind. Try it one month for free.
08 Meditation of the Week
In our bow to the great meditation teachers of our century we pay homage to Tara Brach.
In this week's meditation we continue focusing on Emotional Intelligence by applying Tara Brach's RAIN concept.
Take a time out of the hustle and bustle of daily life to “Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture” emotions and feelings that otherwise don't have space to be.
Wishing you a great week and meditation.
In loving kindness
Nikolas
09 This Week
On Mindful Monday
Nikolas will invite you to use your imagination in a meditation inspired by modern mindfulness icons.
On Zen Tuesday
Former Zen Monk René will introduce you to meditations and insights from old wisdom traditions.
On Loving-KindnessWednesday
Hannah will explore the self-healing power of training compassion and loving/kindness practice.
On A Mindful Life Thursday
Nikolas will introduce mental models that help to bring more awareness in everyday life.
On Deep Mind Sunday
Sascha will offer a space to deepen your meditation practice.
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