The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
Sweet voice, sweet lips
Soft hand, and softer breast,
Warm breath, light whisper, tender semitone,
Bright eyes, accomplish'd shape and lang'rous waist!
Faded the flower and all its budded charms.
Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes.
Faded the shape of beauty from my arms.
Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise. . .
Vanish'd unseasonably at the shut of eve. John Keats
Third of 5 part PBS series
Healing & the Mind (Programs 1-5)
with Bill Moyers.
An 8 week Mindfulness Meditation course for patients with chronic intractable pain unrelieved by surgery or narcotics is followed. MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction introduces the 2500 year old Buddhist practice of being aware of where you are by noticing the breath.
Dhamma Brothers
1979 Jon Kabat Zinn established the Chronic Pain Clinic which continues to help patients who have not been helped by traditional medicine. The video follows a new class in which Bill Moyers participates through the entire 8 weeks, in two and half hour weekly classes and practice 45minutes per day at home. Part 3 is an introduction to the Chronic Pain Clinic and Mindfulness Meditation as taught by Jon Kabat Zinn author of
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
and
Wherever You Go, There You Are : Mindfulness Mediation in Everyday Life
.
I learned meditation from Kabat Zinn in 1985 and David Eisenberg MD.
Kabat Zinn may be viewed in hour long Dhamma lectures on YouTube given at Google employees' TechTalks, along with Philip Zimbardo
Shyness: What It Is, What To Do About It
who performed the infamous Stanford Prison experiment, revealing the link between shyness anonymity and willingness to visit pain on others
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
. The current issue of SCIENCE Journal of American Association for Advancement of Science deals with violence and concludes that unexamined self perceived altruistic action on behalf of "victims" by educated, rational people results in crimes against humanity.
Buddhist practice focuses on falling awake, through two behaviors, awareness in the moment and meditation. No beliefs, two actions to DO. Buddhist icons are not dieties, the icons are semiotic representations of states of awareness, visual reminders of empathy (Guan Yin the female embodiment of compassion), being awake (male Buddha), patience, beginner's mind, trust, nonjudging, nonstriving, acceptance, letting go. The goal of Mindfulness Meditation is to notice where you are now and not miss this precious moment; to make the effort to pay attention as if your life mattered.
The second half of Part 3 follows David Spiegel MD of Stanford and women with metastatic breast cancer who are part of a Meditative support group vs wait list control subjects. Dr Spiegel did a preliminary study which showed that those who participated in the Meditative support group lived twice as long as those who received care as usual. This replication study involves women who candidly express their fears, sorrows, sense of isolation through denial "showing a good face" to family and the outside world.
Living Proof
Of 5 Healing and the Mind segments, Part 3 displays the format and procedures followed in two therapies: Mindfulness Meditation and Meditative Group Therapy. Current CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, DBT Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, CPT Cognitive Processing Therapy (for PTSD post traumatic stress disorder
Once a Warrior--Always a Warrior: Navigating the Transition from Combat to Home--Including Combat Stress, PTSD, and mTBI
, TBI traumatic brain injury) all contain a component of Mindfulness as core to therapeutic healing. Part 3 may be useful for those who wish to see an entire 8 week learning course of Mindfulness Meditation.
Healing and the Mind Part 5 is entirely devoted to Rachel Remen MD
Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th Anniversary
at Commonweal, a residential therapeutic setting north of San Francisco for the terminally ill. Commonweal includes daily massage, yoga, sand table, clay, mask making, silent spontaneous therapeutic journaling. See Flickr Learning to Write for finding your own voice in silent, authentic writing, without comment, question, suggestion or criticism
P.O.V.: What I Want My Words to Do to You
and Write Memoirs in Amazon Guides under profile Sakuteiki
Of the 5 segments, parts 3 and 5 are the most instrumental, offering practical views of the process of therapeutic mindfulness.
The complete 5 segment set is outstanding VHS or DVD Bill Moyers: Healing and the Mind [Mystery of Chi, Mind Body Connection, Healing From Within, Art of Healing, Wounded Healers]
Part 1 David Eisenberg MD and Bill Moyers examine Qigong, Tai Chi, acupuncture, herbal pharmacies "soup" medicines, life energy Chi
Part 2 how mind impacts body and body impacts health: nutrition yoga exercise and heart disease
Part 3 Jon Kabat Zinn PhD Mindfulness Meditation chronic pain, David Spiegel MD Stanford mindfulness meditation and metastatic breast cancer
Part 4 Healing environments: hospital in Dalles Oregon, nurses trained to massage, hold patient's hand, listen
Part 5 Commonweal with Rachel Remen MD patients with terminal illness. DVD Departures Japanese with English subtitles
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others, but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. Rita Mae Brown
Part 3 is a non-instrumental approach to healing without cure. The discipline of nondoing requires attention, awareness, effort to being in this moment through Mindfulness Meditation
5 stars
The time will come when you will, with elation, greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself. . . .
give back your heart to the stranger who has loved you all your life. . . .
Sit.
Feast on your life. Derek Walcott
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