A Mindful Week #18
Your weekly dose of mindfulness, creativity & insight. Curated by Nikolas & the Art of Meditation team.
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01 Photography
A Cyclist on the English Landscape: Grounded by the pandemic, a travel photographer spent the year pedaling the roads around his home, resulting in a series of poetic self-portraits.
02 Cinema
Transcending Time Video Essay: Thought you understood Interstellar? Time to discuss the hidden meaning behind time-transcending love.
03 Mental Health
NY Times Opinion: Oregon is about to become the first state in the US to try to build a support infrastructure for psychedelic mushrooms: not legalization, not medicalization, but therapeutic use.
04 Creativity
Mindful Games: We know chess and other boardgames boost and train our brain. But what other games can I enjoy with myself and others to interact mindfully?
05 Music
Funky Popcorn: Feel good tunes…Just you, the kids with their water guns and the bbq. Our playlist of the week.
06 Quote
Quotes that inspire us and make us think.
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07 Meditation Club
In our Art of Meditation Club a dream team of meditation teachers and coaches support a community of mind explorers in their quest to living an examined life.
This week at the Mind Club
08 Weekly Insights
Your mind is the biggest marvel there is. Treating it with the dignity and respect it deserves will unlock ways to live your life you don’t even know yet.
Fortunately your mind can be trained to a degree that was unknown to us. Until recently we thought that our mind remains largely rigid. It is not. Our mind can be shaped in ways we never thought possible.
The science of this paradigm shift of our mind’s ability to change is called neuroplasticity. Plasticity is a fancy way of saying we can significantly change the fabric of our perception and wellbeing.
In the same way that we can train a muscle we can train and change our minds. The most effective way to train your mind is through meditation. Think of meditation as sport for the mind.
Meditation = mental training with the aim to familiarize yourself with specific mental processes. Meditation is not one practice - it is a term that explains different ways to train your mind to live a reflected and happier life.
This week I want to share a meditation that works by employing visualization techniques. By employing three images that are found frequently in many traditions we can cultivate an intuitive sense of different mental qualities that can be trained through meditation.
Wishing you a great week,
Nikolas
09 This Week in our Club for Curious Minds
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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