I am so grateful for this woman. She has no idea who I am. I was able to overcome panic attacks thanks to mindfulness. I could find a new job and every day I listened to guided meditations recorded by her and Ron Siegel. hearing her voice now makes me remember all the process of heading to bus stop, taking the bus, being seated during 50 minutes (I usually listened to all the meditation on UCLA website), than arriving to my station walking a few blocks towards my job. Thank you, Diana.
Regarding the experience of discomfort in bodily sensations during a mindfulness meditation: this is just so important - how many times during the day does your body try to tell you it is hungry or it is tired or it needs to go the bathroom and you either ignore it or even flat out tell it no. Many times this experience of discomfort during mindfulness meditation is you FINALLY are giving attention to your body that it has been begging you for! Mindfulness absolutely increases self care because we open a dialogue with our body messages and tend to these. Pay attention to those body discomfort messages and as you tend to yourself more you can start to experience more pleasurable happy messages from your body. Nann
Appreciate video content! Excuse me for chiming in, I am interested in your thoughts. Have you considered - Riddleagan Professional Beats Remedy (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a great exclusive guide for discovering a 7 minute mind power method for living your best life minus the normal expense. Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my friend Sam after many years got amazing results with it.
Marvelous lecture. I would make just one modification. When she addressed the question about planning for the future, she said go ahead and plan for the future and then take a breath and come back into the present. I think it would be better to say, remain present WHILE you are planning for the future. Soon after this question, she addressed the question of thoughts during meditation in a beautiful way. In this way she actually implied the aforementioned.
SHe truly knows her stuff! How grateful I am to be able to learn under this wonderful teacher! If you ever get a chance to take her class at UCLA Hammer Museum, please do!
You might choose Mindfulness Therapy - it is one of the most effective CBT therapies available for overcoming depression and anxiety and for recovery from addictions.
I have a grocery list of real life problems. As I try to deal with my many unavoidable problems, my mind is always in the "what if this happens" mode. I will employ evrything Diana has taught in this video and I believe it will help me to survive! Thank you!
This is phenomenal. I recently enjoyed a similar book, and it was nothing short of phenomenal. "Mindful Mastery: Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World" by Kyle Ash
Is it your voice on the free UCLA meditation downloads I have been using for the past 6 months? Its great to put a face to the soothing voice . I can explain what a benefit this has been to my life . thank you .
Thank you. I also appreciate mindfulness meditation. 🙏 With my meditation I've personally liked watching a lot of #sriavinashdotv recently. I find his Satsangs so heartwarming. 💙❤️
Very much enjoyed this. I fell asleep during the first meditation! Diana Winston presented this 'lecture' without affectation and with sincerity. The audience too played a good part. I tweeted the Mark Twain quote. Thankyou.
having no boundaries on thoughts and at the same time leaving the thoughts weightless, in this 6 year old introduction Diana was showing by way of her movements a form of fear coming from the weight of wanting to do her best in her lecture, now being 6 years ago she may have grown past this part when giving lectures, I am not saying this was a good or bad lecture, I am just throwing up confetti and if some falls on the reader so be it.
Bravo! Excellent presentation and excellent mindfulness meditation. However, Diana Winston's audience was doing too much thinking. Hopefully, her audience continued using everything Diana taught them and finally "got it". I truly hope so.
I despair to a certain extent - although it is obviously a good thing that mindfulness is better known - it needs to emphasised that it is something that has been stripped out of an entire spiritual tradition - that of Buddhism - and adapted to our secular tastes and mechanistic consciousness. - - I was a Buddhist monk for 15 years and have been teaching contemplative skills for 30 years. I used to do all night sittings and have done many thousands of hours of meditation as a celibate monastic and as a lay person just to back up my statement with some credentials. Mindfulness is only one of 5 spiritual faculties needing cultivation to approach being a fulfilled human being. Yes it does good in its own right taught in this sterile and secular manner - because your better off and somewhat functional with one finger on your hands instead of none - but your still to a large extent crippled and you'd be much better off with 5 fingers . With one functioning finger you will intuitively know something is not right some potential is unfulfilled. While this teacher is backed by all her qualifications she is not in fact qualified to represent the majesty and measure of what the Buddha taught. No doubt she would argue that what is being offered is suited to this secular society and is legitimate - and it is to an extent - but it isn't possible to segregate and teach mindfulness in isolation of the totality the practice inevitably confronts us with. It is not possible to keep something secular that attunes us to the actual fact we are in truth participant in an unbound universe of luminous and oceanic being. Terms such as "presence" and "being in the now" and mechanically pointing attention to resist being in the " the past and future" become facile tropes that mean nothing and if the teacher was honest with themselves they would have to admit they have no idea what the present really is without reducing it to her own familiar terms. There is a whole psycho physical alchemy that is initiated thorough this practice that is way beyond the wildest imagination of most people including this teachers floundering efforts to describe the present moments nature. It maybe an inconvenient truth but that is why the linage exists - to wake people up to something they live in ignorance of. I am sure people feel happy in many ways with this "authoritative" presentation but it is like building a car inside of room. It is being presented as a complete tradition that makes perfect common sense - a strap on of peace to our life as we know it - but you hope to get that without facing the impact of transformation that the practice facilitates in reality. But reality is not escaped or understood and the tradition gets hi jacked in service of our Cartesian locked in syndrome. Presented in this way it will lead you to the oasis and you may feel some relief from your disease but you will soon discover there is no water there to drink. Mindfulness is death and resurrection - death is going to happen anyway - and that's pretty radical - so this tradition is there to help you die before you die so you so you don't die when you die - so you can accustom yourself to the radical nature of your existence in truth and not perpetuate the sleep walk we are already in as epitomised and reinforced by this mis-representation of the great tradition of awakening. - I am even fine with all of that because it has it's place but what I am not OK with is an unconscious power play going on in the shadows - because mindfulness has become an industry and meal ticket - teachers present themselves as the final authorities on the subject and become representatives of a tradition and lineage that they are eviscerating with a watered down representation of what the world actually needs to hear. Legitimate lineage holders are being swamped and silenced in this new flatland where academia trumps lineage and awakening. Its true but its not right - its right but its not true and there is fake news afoot. This is coca cola mindfulness - its going to make you sick in the end without the full nourishment the tradition is designed to offer. While we may not like the idea of the sacred messing up your vaguely worked out sense of things - our life happens to be a sacred circumstance in any case - and without realising that in our hearts deepest place suffering is perpetuated and inevitable - believe it or not - it is just so. Mindfulness is at the heart of what is and needs to be more than ever recognised as a mystical tradition - it makes me want to puke when people say there is nothing "mystical" about it. They conflate mystical with mystification at their peril. In fact its our frantic resistance to the bewilderment we feel in the face of this infinite mystery in which we swim that is at the root of ALL suffering. Making such a comment utterly disqualifies her from the lineage. And she is playing with Karmic fire here - this is the spiritual heart and destiny of humans she is fucking with. I will leave it at that there is so much more to be said but this is a start.
At that time there were two bhikshus who were discussing the topic of the wind and a flag. One said, “The wind is moving.” The other said, “The flag is moving.” They argued incessantly. Hui Neng stepped forward and said, “The wind is not moving, nor is the flag. Your minds, Kind Sirs, are moving.” (Zen Master Huineng's Platform Sutra)
+Alex Clark I had the same problem. I would watch pre-recorded lectures (luckily pre-recorded) and sometimes I could not keep focus for just three minutes and I would rewind the video with the intention of paying attention--focused attention--only to find the same section pass with my thoughts on something else entirely. Simply practicing meditation regularly outside of study has helped me to focus intently _while_ studying. I brought this focused concentration that I learned from meditation to my study sessions. It took a while but attention increased steadily and one day I realized that I wasn't missing key points anymore. Just keep practicing daily and you will see improvement. I hope this helps you.
How should i talk to myself when there are negative thoughts and bad moods. How to approach on those things? Should i approach as "You"? or "I"?. Also on the positive things. Or the approach itself is wrong and only aware of those things is okay?
Hi, jackchrisp. I just began this journey a little less than a year ago, so take whatever advice I give you with a tiny grain of salt. :) I tend to think in terms of "I" (like when I use affirmations to contradict negative thoughts), but when I journal information I use "you". Really, what works for you is the way to go. There are as many mindfulness techniques as there are people, and what works for you may not work for me. That said, I think the real key to mindfulness is accepting the thought without judgment (when we judge a thought, we immediately attach some kind of story to it, thereby lending it more power to continue). Wherever you are on the journey is ok, and accepting your thoughts where they are is ok too (just observing them without engaging causes them to dissipate). I like to remind myself that what I resist persists, so surrender is a real key to mindfulness for me. A book that has helped me very much on my journey is "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. Love and Light, C
Please add a sharing option to Great videos like this especially ones that can help us live in ways that make us healthy healthier and more mindful! Thank you! Is there some way I could forward this video or TH-cam to my not the link to my Gmail? Please respond if so thank you
People are lonley as fuck because they are working all the time and have no time for a social life. Kids are told to shut up and sit down instead of communicating. There is societies problem. Treating people like cattle then abandoning them. WORK ZOMBES. Tranactions. Physical heath? you meaning sitting in a car communting and at a desk all day? Kids too on a bus or in a desk seat?
Mindfulness is feminisation of problem-solving. It doesn't solve problems, it just makes you feel better about them. Would you rather: A) Have a flat tyre but meditate, mindfully, so you don't worry about being stuck? B) Have practical knowledge how to change the wheel of your car? Mindfulnes DOES NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS. It is impractical.
Requirements of Mindfulness : A) Make people think that doing nothing is something. B) Make claims that Mindfulness is a panacea. C) Charge people money.
I'd rather do something, thanks. I don't need mindfulness and I'm tired of people telling me how great mindfulness is. I get forced to do this at school and it has the opposite effect on me: it makes me stressed, and mindful eating is ridiculous. Paying attention in the moment takes the joy out of things.
I am so grateful for this woman. She has no idea who I am. I was able to overcome panic attacks thanks to mindfulness. I could find a new job and every day I listened to guided meditations recorded by her and Ron Siegel. hearing her voice now makes me remember all the process of heading to bus stop, taking the bus, being seated during 50 minutes (I usually listened to all the meditation on UCLA website), than arriving to my station walking a few blocks towards my job. Thank you, Diana.
You're a true warrior. I hope things are continuing to go well for you.
That is AWESOME!!
Regarding the experience of discomfort in bodily sensations during a mindfulness meditation: this is just so important - how many times during the day does your body try to tell you it is hungry or it is tired or it needs to go the bathroom and you either ignore it or even flat out tell it no. Many times this experience of discomfort during mindfulness meditation is you FINALLY are giving attention to your body that it has been begging you for! Mindfulness absolutely increases self care because we open a dialogue with our body messages and tend to these. Pay attention to those body discomfort messages and as you tend to yourself more you can start to experience more pleasurable happy messages from your body.
Nann
Appreciate video content! Excuse me for chiming in, I am interested in your thoughts. Have you considered - Riddleagan Professional Beats Remedy (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a great exclusive guide for discovering a 7 minute mind power method for living your best life minus the normal expense. Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my friend Sam after many years got amazing results with it.
Marvelous lecture. I would make just one modification. When she addressed the question about planning for the future, she said go ahead and plan for the future and then take a breath and come back into the present. I think it would be better to say, remain present WHILE you are planning for the future. Soon after this question, she addressed the question of thoughts during meditation in a beautiful way. In this way she actually implied the aforementioned.
SHe truly knows her stuff! How grateful I am to be able to learn under this wonderful teacher! If you ever get a chance to take her class at UCLA Hammer Museum, please do!
I'm retired and now a kids yoga teacher : your teaching approach and knowledge are both excellent !! Loved it
Yogi Doug
You might choose Mindfulness Therapy - it is one of the most effective CBT therapies available for overcoming depression and anxiety and for recovery from addictions.
I have a grocery list of real life problems. As I try to deal with my many unavoidable problems, my mind is always in the "what if this happens" mode. I will employ evrything Diana has taught in this video and I believe it will help me to survive! Thank you!
This is phenomenal. I recently enjoyed a similar book, and it was nothing short of phenomenal. "Mindful Mastery: Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World" by Kyle Ash
Is it your voice on the free UCLA meditation downloads I have been using for the past 6 months? Its great to put a face to the soothing voice . I can explain what a benefit this has been to my life . thank you .
kevphillips02
these meditations were my entry way into a now lifelong connection to self-care and mindfulness. thank you sincerely, Diana
very nice to do the mindfulness meditation here in Tamil Nadu, India. gives me more calm and peace.
Would not this also be a wonderful part of fighting alcoholism and drug addiction?
It absolutely can help, for sure.
Yes it will help doing it from moment to moment. Like when alcoholics say. Living day to day
I m new to mindfulness. Thank you for this excellent presentation.
Your meditations have helped me significantly! Thank you xoxo
Praise and blame unmoved, looking at the courtyard's flowers bloom and fall.
Come and go unattached, beholding the sky's clouds roll and unfold.
Thank you. I also appreciate mindfulness meditation. 🙏
With my meditation I've personally liked watching a lot of #sriavinashdotv recently.
I find his Satsangs so heartwarming. 💙❤️
Very much enjoyed this. I fell asleep during the first meditation! Diana Winston presented this 'lecture' without affectation and with sincerity. The audience too played a good part. I tweeted the Mark Twain quote. Thankyou.
having no boundaries on thoughts and at the same time leaving the thoughts weightless, in this 6 year old
introduction Diana was showing by way of her movements a form of fear coming from the weight of wanting to do her best in her lecture, now being 6 years ago she may have grown past this part when giving lectures, I am not saying this was a good or bad lecture, I am just throwing up confetti and if some falls on the reader so be it.
is there a way to add captions and translation? i would love to share this with other pple with diff language background.
Old but excellent.🎉
Can I use external thing to focus on? For instance I do not focus on breath but on relaxing music?
thanks, beautiful presentation
Bravo! Excellent presentation and excellent mindfulness meditation. However, Diana Winston's audience was doing too much thinking. Hopefully, her audience continued using everything Diana taught them and finally "got it". I truly hope so.
I despair to a certain extent - although it is obviously a good thing that mindfulness is better known - it needs to emphasised that it is something that has been stripped out of an entire spiritual tradition - that of Buddhism - and adapted to our secular tastes and mechanistic consciousness. - - I was a Buddhist monk for 15 years and have been teaching contemplative skills for 30 years. I used to do all night sittings and have done many thousands of hours of meditation as a celibate monastic and as a lay person just to back up my statement with some credentials. Mindfulness is only one of 5 spiritual faculties needing cultivation to approach being a fulfilled human being. Yes it does good in its own right taught in this sterile and secular manner - because your better off and somewhat functional with one finger on your hands instead of none - but your still to a large extent crippled and you'd be much better off with 5 fingers . With one functioning finger you will intuitively know something is not right some potential is unfulfilled. While this teacher is backed by all her qualifications she is not in fact qualified to represent the majesty and measure of what the Buddha taught. No doubt she would argue that what is being offered is suited to this secular society and is legitimate - and it is to an extent - but it isn't possible to segregate and teach mindfulness in isolation of the totality the practice inevitably confronts us with. It is not possible to keep something secular that attunes us to the actual fact we are in truth participant in an unbound universe of luminous and oceanic being. Terms such as "presence" and "being in the now" and mechanically pointing attention to resist being in the " the past and future" become facile tropes that mean nothing and if the teacher was honest with themselves they would have to admit they have no idea what the present really is without reducing it to her own familiar terms.
There is a whole psycho physical alchemy that is initiated thorough this practice that is way beyond the wildest imagination of most people including this teachers floundering efforts to describe the present moments nature.
It maybe an inconvenient truth but that is why the linage exists - to wake people up to something they live in ignorance of.
I am sure people feel happy in many ways with this "authoritative" presentation but it is like building a car inside of room. It is being presented as a complete tradition that makes perfect common sense - a strap on of peace to our life as we know it - but you hope to get that without facing the impact of transformation that the practice facilitates in reality. But reality is not escaped or understood and the tradition gets hi jacked in service of our Cartesian locked in syndrome. Presented in this way it will lead you to the oasis and you may feel some relief from your disease but you will soon discover there is no water there to drink.
Mindfulness is death and resurrection - death is going to happen anyway - and that's pretty radical - so this tradition is there to help you die before you die so you so you don't die when you die - so you can accustom yourself to the radical nature of your existence in truth and not perpetuate the sleep walk we are already in as epitomised and reinforced by this mis-representation of the great tradition of awakening.
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I am even fine with all of that because it has it's place but what I am not OK with is an unconscious power play going on in the shadows - because mindfulness has become an industry and meal ticket - teachers present themselves as the final authorities on the subject and become representatives of a tradition and lineage that they are eviscerating with a watered down representation of what the world actually needs to hear. Legitimate lineage holders are being swamped and silenced in this new flatland where academia trumps lineage and awakening.
Its true but its not right - its right but its not true and there is fake news afoot.
This is coca cola mindfulness - its going to make you sick in the end without the full nourishment the tradition is designed to offer. While we may not like the idea of the sacred messing up your vaguely worked out sense of things - our life happens to be a sacred circumstance in any case - and without realising that in our hearts deepest place suffering is perpetuated and inevitable - believe it or not - it is just so. Mindfulness is at the heart of what is and needs to be more than ever recognised as a mystical tradition - it makes me want to puke when people say there is nothing "mystical" about it. They conflate mystical with mystification at their peril. In fact its our frantic resistance to the bewilderment we feel in the face of this infinite mystery in which we swim that is at the root of ALL suffering. Making such a comment utterly disqualifies her from the lineage. And she is playing with Karmic fire here - this is the spiritual heart and destiny of humans she is fucking with. I will leave it at that there is so much more to be said but this is a start.
What are the other 4 meditations?
Thanks for posting this.
At that time there were two bhikshus who were
discussing the topic of the wind and a flag. One said, “The
wind is moving.” The other said, “The flag is moving.”
They argued incessantly. Hui Neng stepped forward and
said, “The wind is not moving, nor is the flag. Your
minds, Kind Sirs, are moving.” (Zen Master Huineng's Platform Sutra)
i really like the train example for beginners. just dont on the train. we are constantly getting on and off trains and have no idea why we do it.
People are just amazing, we complain about anything and everything, no?
Haha haha very amusing...
Loved the lecture. I'm so sorry for the "dislike" I hit it by mistake.
Thank you
Ironically I have adhd and I had to rewind when she was talking about it because I got distracted 😭😫
People without ADHD also have issue maintaining attention. it’s very possible that many people are misdiagnosed with ADHD.
I am really missing the ucla mindfulness web link and podcast, hope their tech people get it correctly shortly. even this viewings have no volume.
I think I could be mindful and attentive in regards to most things, but study I am not so sure. Could I study mindfully? I don't think so.
+Alex Clark I had the same problem. I would watch pre-recorded lectures (luckily pre-recorded) and sometimes I could not keep focus for just three minutes and I would rewind the video with the intention of paying attention--focused attention--only to find the same section pass with my thoughts on something else entirely.
Simply practicing meditation regularly outside of study has helped me to focus intently _while_ studying. I brought this focused concentration that I learned from meditation to my study sessions. It took a while but attention increased steadily and one day I realized that I wasn't missing key points anymore. Just keep practicing daily and you will see improvement. I hope this helps you.
they talk about "the science" but I've found that practitioners of mindfulness often don't say exactly what it Is.
How should i talk to myself when there are negative thoughts and bad moods. How to approach on those things? Should i approach as "You"? or "I"?. Also on the positive things.
Or the approach itself is wrong and only aware of those things is okay?
Hi, jackchrisp.
I just began this journey a little less than a year ago, so take whatever advice I give you with a tiny grain of salt. :)
I tend to think in terms of "I" (like when I use affirmations to contradict negative thoughts), but when I journal information I use "you". Really, what works for you is the way to go. There are as many mindfulness techniques as there are people, and what works for you may not work for me.
That said, I think the real key to mindfulness is accepting the thought without judgment (when we judge a thought, we immediately attach some kind of story to it, thereby lending it more power to continue). Wherever you are on the journey is ok, and accepting your thoughts where they are is ok too (just observing them without engaging causes them to dissipate). I like to remind myself that what I resist persists, so surrender is a real key to mindfulness for me. A book that has helped me very much on my journey is "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle.
Love and Light,
C
I tried to like this video but for some reason my vote doesn't count... Am I doing something wrong or is there a trick to getting your vote to count?
Please add a sharing option to Great videos like this especially ones that can help us live in ways that make us healthy healthier and more mindful! Thank you! Is there some way I could forward this video or TH-cam to my not the link to my Gmail? Please respond if so thank you
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Nice
great
25:04， 教呼吸，難道學生不會自己呼吸嗎？
People are lonley as fuck because they are working all the time and have no time for a social life. Kids are told to shut up and sit down instead of communicating. There is societies problem. Treating people like cattle then abandoning them. WORK ZOMBES. Tranactions.
Physical heath? you meaning sitting in a car communting and at a desk all day? Kids too on a bus or in a desk seat?
meow?
Kids are present but not necessarily mindful.
pardon me,but her voice doesn't sounds like a meditator
Mindfulness is feminisation of problem-solving. It doesn't solve problems, it just makes you feel better about them.
Would you rather:
A) Have a flat tyre but meditate, mindfully, so you don't worry about being stuck?
B) Have practical knowledge how to change the wheel of your car?
Mindfulnes DOES NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS. It is impractical.
requirements of problem solving is the ability to be:
A) comfortable with working on a given problem
B) attentative enough to use/learn knowledge.
Requirements of Mindfulness :
A) Make people think that doing nothing is something.
B) Make claims that Mindfulness is a panacea.
C) Charge people money.
Requirements for Mindfulness:
A) Nothing.
I'd rather do something, thanks. I don't need mindfulness and I'm tired of people telling me how great mindfulness is. I get forced to do this at school and it has the opposite effect on me: it makes me stressed, and mindful eating is ridiculous.
Paying attention in the moment takes the joy out of things.
it really works for me but not nearly everyone feel like they need mindfulness and it's lame that they force you to do it.