The Healing Power of Mindfulness P8
QUESTION: People are saying that life is more complicated and more stressful now, and I believe it. I don’t have anything to measure it against. And also the same with war, that people go to war and they come back having experienced things that they might not have lived through in other wars. There […]
The Healing Power of Mindfulness P7
I’m going to stop, actually, at this point, and take a few questions. We have some time for questions, and then we’ll stop for the evening. Obviously, you can see that I’ve just gotten started. (laughter) I hope you’ve just gotten started. I’m not joking. Because this doesn’t stop. It’s called your life, and […]
The Healing Power of Mindfulness P6
So I go in there, and I knew them all because it was a small community and everybody likes each other. But I was, of course, terrified. It’s like a lot hangs in the balance. Somebody says, “What’s this ‘he who dies before he dies does not die when he dies’?” This is […]
The Healing Power of Mindfulness P5
So learning, and out of that learning, growing; and out of that growing, healing, which in my vocabulary, the way I define healing is coming to terms with things as they are. Coming to terms with things as they are. Very different from curing. There are very few cures in medicine, but the […]
The Healing Power of Mindfulness P4
Even if there’s something going on, even if you’re in pain from your lower back and you’ve had it for a long time, or even if you have cancer at the moment, or you’re a cancer survivor, or you have heart issues of one kind or another, whatever it is… the sum total […]
Biological, Mercury-Free, Natural Dentist, Dr. Vinograd
Dr Vinograd: Biological Dentist, San Diego I (Dr Daniel Vinograd), am proud to be a Biological Dentist in San Diego that has been advocating a healthy lifestyle for over three decades. I have been greatly inspired by the natural order to develop the following principles for myself and my patients: Eating the least processed and […]
The Healing Power of Mindfulness
MOORE: My name is Helen Damon-Moore, and I am the Director of Service and Education at the Tucker Foundation here at Dartmouth College. I am honored to welcome you all and to introduce Jon Kabat-Zinn on behalf of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Palliative Care Service, the Tucker Foundation, the Ruben Committee of Dartmouth College, […]
Introduction to Mindful Awareness P2
It’s not only a meditation; it can be cultivated through meditation, but it’s also a quality of attention we can bring to any moment in the day. We can bring mindfulness to when we’re driving, to when we’re walking, to when we’re waiting in line, to when we’re about to get in a fight with […]
Primary and Secondary Suffering
How to develop skills to disarm a runaway mind Primary suffering is unescapable and common to all humans. It is the pain of being alive; being sick, hurting over a loss of a dear familymember or friend, fear of dying etc. Secondary suffering is that which we create, often as a result of trying to avoid […]
Beginnings of nonprofit foundation to help prevent crippling oral disease on large numbers of poverty stricken children in Guatemala
I was asked by a friend, who was joining a medical mission to Guatemala as a doctor, if I wanted to join. I went and my life was suddenly changed. I performed hundreds of extractions during this trip, and many hundreds more in subsequent missions. I was painfully, a witness and a protagonist of the […]