{"id":23893,"date":"2016-07-31T02:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=23893"},"modified":"2016-08-07T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T07:00:49","slug":"mindfulness-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mindfulness-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/mindfulness_101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Mindfulness Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/mindfulness_101.jpg\" title=\"Mindfulness Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mindfulness Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The term &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; has become quite a buzzword, it seems to me.  Will talk into the future about my practical realization that &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; plays a bigger role than you might think with your work, perhaps, depending on what you are doing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Wikipedia&#8217;s take on <a target=_blank title='Mindfulness information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mindfulness'>&#8220;mindfulness&#8221;<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mindfulness\"><p>\nMindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one&#8217;s attention to the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment,[1][2][3] which can be developed through the practice of meditation and other training.[2][4][5] The term &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; is a translation of the Pali-term sati,[6] which is a significant element of some Buddhist traditions. The recent popularity of mindfulness in the West is generally considered to have been initiated by Jon Kabat-Zinn.[7][8]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We wanted to start off a series of tutorials encouraging &#8220;our take&#8221; on &#8220;mindfulness&#8221;.  Now please don&#8217;t think of me as an expert, but am just presenting concepts that may, even briefly, take you out of usual routines, to give your brain a chance to relax, recuperate and find more peace.<\/p>\n<p>Are our computers and mobile devices the natural enemy of mindfulness?  Our initial thinking is &#8220;yes&#8221;, but you&#8217;re reading this on one, so let&#8217;s not come down too hard on it initially, in terms of setting up the conditions for mindfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I like patterns on visuals, on everyday objects even, and so with our <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/mindfulness_101.jpg\" title='Click picture'>tutorial picture, on its own<\/a> perhaps some &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; peace is a click away, at least for a few seconds?!<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d23893' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d23893\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/mindfulness\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d23893' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; has become quite a buzzword, it seems to me. 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