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The value of choosing to pay attention

In recent weeks, I’ve spent quite a lot of time reflecting on Jon Kabat Zinn’s definition of mindfulness. He describes mindfulness as paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. This first quality of paying attention ‘on purpose’ might appear quite a straightforward proposition, but it’s worthy of closer inspection. Paying attention on […]

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Becoming more familiar with our emotional furniture

A favourite phrase that we first heard from the Zen teacher Ken Jones, describes the awareness that arises through mindfulness meditation practice as a process of becoming more familiar with our emotional furniture. In RUN-ZEN’s approach to integrating mindfulness practices with running, we’ve found this analogy of emotional furniture can be really helpful to our

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