Yesterday I commented on Susan Kaiser Greenland’s post on Arianna Huffington’s Fearless Voices site. She and her husband founded a nonprofit, Innerkids, for teaching mindfulness.
Here’s my comment:
Mindfulness is a way of being that doesn’t require studies to prove its effectiveness. When adults are mindful, children are mindful. It reminds me of dog training class. The poor little needy dogs are out of control and “mindless” until their owners get a grip on what dogs need. The dogs are fine when the owners are trained.
Training, studies, doctoral dissertations, and journal reviews are such slow processes. Although I strongly support the research, it’s all to prove the obvious: That we need to slow down and pay attention to our feelings and our thoughts, to broaden our perspectives, and to have fun with possibility.
I wrote a book, Men Are Easy, http://www.menareeasy.com/blog… because I could no longer watch the mindlessness of our culture’s approaches to relationships and family. The good news is that mindfulness is in sync with our natures. It feels good. Maybe it will even become fashionable!
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