Deadly? Diary of a Buddhist Yogi: retreat

• What is Buddhist "mindfulness," Ven. Analayo?
• Beware: Wrong mindfulness can be bad (Psych Today)
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Diary of a Buddhist Yogi: Vipassana Meditation Retreat

Diary of a Buddhist Yogi (Kindle Edition)

Author Dhammaloka ("Dharma-world" or "Dharma-light or white") Viriya ("energy") knows that liberation (vimutti, moksha, vimokkha) from the cycle of rebirth (samsara) comes from the Awakening (bodhi-ification) of the (ennobling = enlightening) Truths.

To be awakened, one needs to practice mindfulness-meditation (satipatthana) by relinquishing attachment to the six senses, which will eradicate the clinging to all [of their attendant] phenomena, before the Dhamma (Truth, Teaching, Doctrine) eventually reveals itself to the practitioner.

Once the practitioner catches a glimpse of the Dhamma, the Ultimate Truth, through direct knowing-and-seeing, the practitioner will know there is no more falling back into the mire of this mundane world.

The Buddha pointed out the way to end of all suffering through mindfulness (sati) practice, and many practitioners since the Buddha’s time have reached that bliss and release from practicing in accordance with it.

• Who is S. N. Goenka, and what course did he set up at countless meditation centers?
• What to expect at a Ten-Day Silent Goenka Retreat #vipassana
• Vipassana (bare awareness) meditation anytime anywhere, starting with the breath right here right now
• 10 days as a lay-monk | vipassana meditation | Dhamma Khetta, Hyderabad, India (Goenka course, dhamma.org)
• Julia shares her first vipassana (insight) meditation retreat | Wellbeing Journeys

However, in the author’s observation, although practitioners in this age find the practice fulfilling, they do not experience the awakening moment and therefore do not see the fruition as they hope to.

• What are the challenges of an intensive insight meditation (vipassana) retreat?
• What enables a practitioner to experience bliss (piti) from meditation?
• What does the practitioner experience when the Dhamma finally appears as direct knowledge and vision?
• Vipassanā ("special seeing") Meditators’ Questions

Find out in this book, which is the first-hand experience of a yogi ("practitioner") who went through the trials and tribulations of a vipassana ("insight") meditation retreat at a forest monastery to see for himself the ultimate truths of

1. non-self (that all phenomena are impersonal),
2. disappointment (that all phenomena are unsatisfactory and unable to fulfill),
3. impermanence (that all phenomena are constantly hurtling toward destruction).

Directly knowing-and-seeing these Three Universal Truths produces a life-changing experience.

• NOTE: Not all vipassana meditation retreats are affiliated with Indian S. N. Goenka (dhamma.org). Burmese monk U Ba Khin's star student and businessman just popularized it worldwide with a free, volunteer-based, 10-day structure.

You can do "mindfulness" wrong? - Yes.

WISDOM QUARTERLY COMMENTARY

There are dangers in this Wheel?

The Buddha in the usual list we call the Noble (Ennobling = Enlightening) Eightfold Path called one of those factors samma-sati not sati. What's the difference? One might think one is being mindful, but is it what the Buddha or the noble ones call "right" mindfulness? (If there's a right, that implies there's a wrong way to go about it or fool oneself that one is doing it at all). If "mindfulness" only meant awareness, then I'm being "aware" (conscious) right now, right? Yes! Am I being mindful? Probably not. There's a difference, a big difference. Retreat leaders and personal teachers should talk about it more and stop taking it for granted that one will just figure it out or that it is so patently obvious that it needs no defining or delimiting. It does, at least for over-thinkers. Sure, there are some people who will just take to it like guppies or ducklets to water. (They've likely extensively and successfully practiced in past lives).

• Wrong mindfulness can be bad (Psychology Today)

We don't know what we're doing, but we got a groupon

Therefore, the most important thing before embarking on a vipassana retreat (whether it's Goenka-based or not), know that it is being defined as satipatthana. That means the fourfold setting up of mindfulness, which is explained in great detail in two sutras (Pali canon discourses or suttas). However, and this is the maddening part, almost nothing is said to define mindfulness (Buddhist sati). That is the most important thing to know, but it gets taken for granted. Or very weak definitions are offered, such as defining it as "awareness." We are aware right now, and more than 99% of us are not being mindful about it. For an extensive definition, see the academic work of Western Theravada professor-monk Ven. Analayo.

The Buddhist version of "mindfulness" called sati, as we understand it, is "bare awareness" with detachment, looking on, dispassionate watching. Sounds easy, but it is very hard because it goes against our deeply ingrained habits and traits. Usually when we are aware of anything, we taint that awareness with the Three Poisons of the heart/mind: liking, disliking, indifference (from the roots of all bad karma poorly translated as "greed, hatred, and delusion."

Three Poisons mutually supported wheel hub

Look up lobha, dosa, and moha. And what becomes apparent is that Pali and Sanskrit terms have wide valence, a range of meaning for a single word. "Greed" or lobha does not mean our idea of greediness. It means liking, preferring, welcoming, grasping, attaching, and getting clingy about pleasant phenomena. "Hatred" or dosa does not mean intense fury or anger; it means disliking, having an aversion to, fearing, avoiding, repressing... It is our customary reaction to any and everything we find unpleasant.

Then there's "delusion" or moha, the worst one, the most embedded one, the hardest one to see. It refers to all the wrong views we hold, consciously and unconsciously, distortions of reality, perversions (seeing what is unpleasant as pleasant, what is repulsive as attractive, what is transient as lasting), confusion, not knowing, not understanding, not fathoming, not knowing, not seeing. This is practically our whole existence, if we think about it, but it might be summarized as failing to notice the Three Characteristics of Existence in all things -- that they are ultimately radically impermanent, eventually disappointing (unable to ever fulfill us), and (no matter how impossible it is to conceive, believe, fathom, or accept) altogether impersonal.

I think I get it, Lisa. - Beginner's luck, Bart!

So to be mindful (to see clearly, which is to practice vipassana) is to look on, watch everything without giving in to the unconscious pull of these old habits. Just watch. Just notice. Just maintain attention. Note how when something is pleasing, greed for it arises. When something is displeasing, aversion with regard to it arises. When something is neutral, dull, confusing, hard to grasp, or boring, delusion arises, which is to say we space out, fall asleep, wander to something more interesting, even if it is a very unpleasant memory. Better than boredom. We do everything but be here now when this is the only real place there is to be. There's only now. The past is done. The future will take care of itself. But all our power is here, now. Let's attend to it. Let's finally see it for what it has always been so as to be liberated by the truth. The truth will set us free. What truth? The Truth, sometimes summarized as the Four Noble (Ennobling = Enlightening) Truths, the ultimate (paramattha) Truth, the true nature of existence (personally penetrating the Three Marks of Existence already mentioned). Need a list? There are the 37 Requisites of Enlightenment (the bodhipakkhiyādhammā). That Truth sets one free here and now, immediately.

But there's something every and anyone who embarks on Buddhist meditation needs to know beyond a good grasp of the meaning of "mindfulness" (sati). And that is that one will meet Five Hindrances whenever one tries to sit still or rest the mind or walk and move about with constant attention to the here and now, which does not involve "thinking" about the here-and-now, just watching it dispassionately.

How Siddhartha reached enlightenment? Details all wrong but nice point @DroppingInPodcast

The Five Hindrances one will meet in meditation (and their antidotes)

This is stupid! It doesn't work! Buddha was wrong!

The historical Buddha taught that there are Five Hindrances (pañca nīvaraṇa, Pali pañca nīvaraṇāni), mental factors that hinder, obstruct, derail progress in meditation and ruin daily life [1].

The Theravada Buddhist tradition identifies these factors as specific obstacles to "meditation," which is defined as jhāna (eight stages of stillness, unification, samadhi, concentration, coherence, superconsciousness) in practice.

Contemporary insight meditation teachers identify the Five Hindrances as obstacles to mindfulness meditation and obstacles to samma-samadhi ("right concentration," though "concentration" is problematic because we have many assumptions about what that means). "Stillness" is better, when the heart/mind has settled out, is silent, lucid, observant, directly knowing-and-seeing. But concentration is sometimes useful because ekaggata (singlepointedness or one-pointedness) is a factor of jhana.

The Five Hindrance are part of two types of obstructions (Sanskrit āvaraṇa, i.e., obstacles to insight, realization, awakening, buddhahood), afflictive obstructions (Sanskrit kleśā-avaraṇa, which include the Five Hindrances) and cognitive obstructions (jñeyā-avaraṇa, which bodhisattvas are trying to uproot) [2].

The classic list of Five Hindrances is [3, 4, 5, 6]

1. craving, desire, lust (kāmacchanda): seeking pleasure through the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and tactile sensation
2. aversion, ill-will, annoyance, anger (vyāpāda, byāpāda): feelings of hostility, resentment, hate, bitterness
3. sloth-and-torpor (thīna-middha): mental-and-bodily lassitude, laziness, weakness, lack of energy to strive, half-hearted action with little or no effort, attention, concentration
4. restlessness-and-worry (uddhacca-kukkucca): the inability to allow the mind/heart to calm down, relax, become tranquil (passaddhi), serene, unflappable, steady, restful, undistracted, attentive, and focused, diligent, vigilant, energetic
5. Skeptical doubt (vicikiccha): lack of confidence, conviction, faith, trust that one has understood the instructions, the path, or one's abilities to successfully proceed. More

The antidotes are called the Five Factors of Absorptions, the jhana-anga (limbs or factors). By the way, right mindfulness immediately dispels delusion instantaneously.

• 10 days of silence, self-reflection, and inner peace at the Dhamma Laddha Vipassana Meditation Centre in Leh, Ladakh, Buddhist India, Himalayas, near Tibet. #Vipassana
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• 55 years of Dhamma - First Vipassana Retreat - Dhamma Arunachala (3/7/24-13/7/24)
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• Insight meditation in India | Dhamma Sota Vipassana Center in Delhi, India
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Bring your beloved truck to the retreat

Or psycho girlfriend might try something crazy like (pushing it off cliff to convert to ad campaign)

• Dhammaloka Viriya (diary); Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson (commentary), Ashley Wells (editor) and Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) selection of video shorts, Wisdom Quarterly

Mindfulness: Why being present is hard

(Buddhism Podcast) Why being present is so hard | Buddhist Wisdom

What does it mean to be "present"? That is hard to say for sure, but some Buddhist teachers like American Sharon Salzberg say it means continuously coming back to the present moment. "Begin again." The mind settles, is here, but then it wanders. We realize at some point that it has wandered away from the here and now. What to do? "Begin again." That is a good description of mindfulness meditation. How could we stay in THIS moment? There is something happening that only happens now. If we place our unswerving attention on that, we too will stay in the right now. What is it? The in-and-out breath. Breathing is happening right here, right now, and only now. Stay with the breath, not as something to contemplate or ponder but only watch, notice, keep in mind. See Anapanasati Sutta

The Buddha on meditative absorption

Ego (buddhism podcast) The Buddha attained [temporary mental purification and permanent] enlightenment (bodhi) from developing the meditative absorptions (jhana), not in them

• Enlightenment in Buddhism
• Jhana (Sanskrit dhyana) in Buddhism

How to enter first jhana (Michael Taft)

How to Jhana — with Michael Taft

(Michael Taft Nondual Meditation) June 12, 2020: Jhanas (lit. "meditations") are special states of deep absorption that make a wonderful setup for doing awakening practices.

There is no way to happiness because happiness is the way

In this video, meditation teacher Michael Taft describes what jhanas are and clarifies the basic steps for getting into the first jhana.

Jhanas are meant to be enjoyable, and it's very important not to approach jhana in a mood of grasping, tightness, or struggle. Don't try too hard!

How to

Instead, approach jhana in a mood of pleasure, joy, gratitude, kindness, and openness. Learning to do jhana is an excellent way to supercharge your vipassana (insight) practice, or to stabilize the mind for nondual (advaita) awareness practices.

• 00:03 - Introduction
• 1:24 - The Setup for Jhana (getting focused, and allowing piti to arise)
• 9:16 - Entering the First Jhana (moving attention to the piti, then resting until unification occurs)
• 12:39 - Three Things that Can Happen Next (including going into the second jhana)
• 16:28 - How Jhana Can Change Your Life
• 20:49 - Books and other resources

Rob Burbea's Jhana retreat on DharmaSeed audio: dharmaseed.org/retreats/4496. Here is the transcript: drive.google.com/file/d/1VFtE...

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• Michael Taft: deconstructingyourself.com

What is jhana?

It is unbroken attention (sustained attention) on something detached from the five senses, something like a nimitta ("sign" in meditation).

(Beth Upton) Jan. 23, 2023: This is a brief explanation of what is (and is not) a jhana.

• For more information on working with nimittas, take a look here: Working with a nimitta in meditation
• For more on the jhana factors [of absorption], take a look here: Learning to discern the jhana factors

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Idiocracy: Wisdom is Disappearing

Dr. Robert Lustig figured this out and wrote a book about it (The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains), comparing dopamine to serotonin, quick payoff to the slow burn.

"Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts."

—David Perlmutter, MD, author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain and Brain Maker

The New York Times–bestselling author of Fat Chance reveals the corporate scheme to sell pleasure, driving the international epidemic of addiction, depression, and chronic disease.

The Hacking of the American Mind

While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for his New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, Dr. Robert Lustig made an alarming discovery—our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover.

Dopamine is the “reward” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we want more; yet every substance or behavior that releases dopamine in the extreme leads to addiction.

Serotonin is the “contentment” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we don’t need any more; yet its deficiency leads to depression.

Ideally, both are in optimal supply. But dopamine evolved to overwhelm serotonin—because our ancestors were more likely to survive if they were constantly motivated—with the result that constant desire can chemically destroy our ability to feel happiness, while sending us down the slippery slope to addiction.

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In the last 40 years, government legislation and subsidies have promoted ever-available temptation (sugar, drugs, social media, porn) combined with constant stress (work, home, money, Internet), with the end result of an unprecedented epidemic of addiction, anxiety, depression, and chronic disease.

And with the advent of neuromarketing, corporate America has successfully imprisoned us in an endless loop of desire and consumption from which there is no obvious escape. More

Science of focus: Mindfulness rewires brain

Unlocking the Power of the Present Moment

Meditation is natural progress

Imagine pausing in the middle of chaos and suddenly feeling a wave of calm wash over mind and body. That’s the surprising reality many people experience when they embrace mindfulness (Buddhist sati).

In a world that never seems to slow down, mindfulness offers a rare and precious gift: the ability to be completely present.

It’s not a fleeting fad or a mystical ritual. Instead, it is a simple yet profound [formerly Buddhist] practice that science now shows can literally reshape our brains and boost our chances for success.

The idea that focusing on our breath or paying attention to our surroundings in the moment could change our brain may sound unbelievable, but the evidence is mounting: Mindfulness is not just about feeling better; it’s about training our mind for resilience and greatness. More

• The Science of Focus: How Mindfulness Enhances Concentration (Mindmonia)
• Mindmonia via MSN.com; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Breath key to change: prana, meditation

Once you breathe like this, reality shifts

(Solace Owl) What if I were to say that the key to shifting "reality" [timeline, position in the universe, psychophysical health] lies in something as simple as breathing?

As crazy as it may sound, we’re inhaling the essence of the universe with our every inhalation (prana). It’s the most fundamental act of life, something we do unconsciously every moment of every day, yet 99% of people don’t know the truth about breathing.

This simple action has the power to transform our entire existence, but only if we know the secret behind it.

Let’s discover the long-kept secret of ancient breath masters, something so powerful that it had to be kept hidden for centuries.

Issues about video? Feel free to contact: bizemailyt@gmail.com. Thanks for joining in on this journey. Subscribe to the channel: @SolaceOwl. Buy a coffee (and support the channel): https://ko-fi.com/solaceowl. Music by: @ironcthulhuapocalypse.

• Solace Owl, 9/13/24; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Yogis gain magic powers with samadhi

What is Samadhi, concentration or stillness?

Ven. Nyanatiloka, Buddhist Dictionary; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Concentration" is a very misleading translation of the Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu term samādhi. It literally means "the [mental] state of being firmly fixed."

Sam+ā+√ hā is the fixing of the mind [attention, the heart] on a single object. "One-pointedness of mind (cittass' ekaggatā), Ven. Visakha, this is called samadhi" (MN 44).

The English language term "concentration" connotes effort, struggle, control, and force, as if it is something achieved by grimacing, pressing one's temples, and strongly desiring in the heart. These are all antithetical to samadhi.

One enters with ease, calming down, letting go, directing and guiding the mind persistently but without force or frustration. Fixation might be closer, except that that usually involves strong craving.

Imagine a light in a dark room. It would not be difficult to notice. It might be the only external attraction with only internal distractions.

Coming back to it until the mind becomes fixed or fixated on it would be good, at least to the extent that it otherwise clears the mind and brings it into the present moment: this attention on this single thing.

While often very weak it is one of the seven mental concomitants inseparably associated with all consciousness. Compare with the terms nāma (name or mind) and cetanā (intention, motivation).

"Right stillness" (sammā-samādhi), as the last link of the Ennobling Eightfold Path (magga), is defined as the first four meditative absorptions (jhānas).

In a wider sense, comprising also much weaker states of attention, it is associated with all karmically skillful/wholesome (kusala) consciousness.

"Wrong attention" (micchā-samādhi) is attending associated with all karmically unskillful/unwholesome (akusala) consciousness.

Wherever in the texts this term is not differentiated by "right" or "wrong," "right" attention or stillness is meant.

In stillnes or attention one distinguishes three grades of intensity:

(1) "Preparatory stillness" (parikamma-samādhi) existing at the beginning of the mental exercise.

(2) "Neighborhood stillness" (upacāra-samādhi), that is, stillness "approaching" but not yet attaining the first meditative absorption (jhāna), which in certain mental exercises is marked by the appearance of a "counter-image" (patibhāga-nimitta).

(3) "Attainment stillness" (appanā-samādhi), that is, that stillness that is present during the absorptions (App.) For further details, see bhāvana, The Path of Purification (Vis.M. III), and Fund. IV.

Mental stillness connected with the four noble (enlightened) path-moments (magga), and fruition-moments (phala) is called supermundane (lokuttara), having nirvana as their object.

Any other attention, even that of the most sublime absorptions is merely mundane (lokiya).

According to DN 33, the development of stillness (samādhi-bhāvanā) may procure a fourfold blessing:

1. present happiness through the four absorptions;
2. knowing and seeing (knowledge and vision or ñāna-dassana, here probably identical with the "divine eye" (abhiññā) through perception of light (kasina);
3. mindfulness and clear comprehension (sati-sampajjana) through the clear knowledge of the arising, turning, and passing away of feelings, perceptions, and thoughts;
4. extinction of all cankers (āsavakkhaya) through understanding the arising and passing away of the Five Aggregates clung to as self (khandha).

Stillness is one of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment (satta bojjhanga), one of the Five Spiritual Faculties and Five Powers (bala), and the last link of the Noble Eightfold Path.

In the threefold division of the Noble Eightfold Path (into the categories of virtue, stillness, and wisdom), stillness is a collective name for the three last links of the path (sikkhā).

Mindfulness in Zen Buddhism (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts (Audio Archives, KPFK.org); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Chasing satori is like herding oxen.

On being "Zen," California British philosopher Alan Watts (alanwatts.org) can explain, if anyone can. And it may well be that no one can. One who knows does not speak, and one who speaks does not know. That may be true, but one can point. It is like the movie My Dinner with Andre. What was Andre on about? It's a great movie, but he can only point. There's no direct saying that can communicate. That may not make sense, but it becomes clear with practice. When asking a spiritual question, one will get a mundane answer. When asking a mundane question, one will be given a spiritual answer. It's the custom, not a rule of the universe. Let there be suchness. (What is suchness?) Nice weather we're having? (Weather, what's wrong with the weather?) It is empty, void of qualities, fickle as a thought. (Huh?) You're catching on.

• AUDIO: Alan Watts explains Zen or something like it, Buddhist Radio, Sunday, 12/17/23, 8:00 am, KPFK Archives

No, seriously, what is Zen?

Zen is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word chan, which is China's attempt to pronounce the Pali word jhana (jhan), from the Buddhist Sanskrit dhyana (dhyan). That word means "meditation" (which originally meant meditative absorption) but Zen has come to mean what one finds through meditation, through calming and training the mind by mindfulness.

• Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness

Yoga+Mindful Eating: What is mindfulness?

Yoga (healthline.com); Ananda (Dharma Bu Meditation), Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The mental and spiritual aspects of [Eight-Limb] Yoga focus on developing mindfulness. This increases awareness on many levels.

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  Wakefulness (sati) is the way to awakening

  The Buddha gave mindfulness (sati or smrti) a special position in his Dharma or Doctrine. It occurs 14 times among the 37 Requisites of Enlightenment. Even if one has no spiritual objective, mindfulness is still helpful. What is it? It is attentiveness, attention, focus, vigilance, wakefulness, non-negligence, non-forgetfulness, conscientiousness, presence of mind as distinguished from distraction or absentmindedness. To be "mindful" (sati) means to be aware of what is without emotionally reacting to what is or thinking (pondering) about it, evaluating it, judging it, measuring it, or trying to change it. One simply and dispassionately observes what is as it is with awareness and radical acceptance. The goal is to see reality as it really is, not to distort it and make it something else. Mindfulness is bare awareness, unembellished, being wakefully aware, undistracted, staying, not looking away, but rather sitting with whatever is, not looking for something more entertaining, not allowing our usual reactions of grasping and clinging toward pleasant, aversion/fear toward unpleasant, or boredom/sleepiness toward neutral stimuli. One sits with whatever is at this very moment, watching it arise, turn, and pass away, noting that if it rearises, it is not identical but different. Rather than multitasking to remain distracted, it is intentional mono-tasking to remain focused. There are Five Powers or Strengths to keep in balance in the Buddha's teaching on reaching enlightenment in this very life: faith (saddhā, confidence, conviction), (2) energy (viriya, effort, exertion), (3) mindfulness (sati), (4) concentration (samādhi, stillness, integration, ecstasy, coherence), and (5) wisdom (paññā). Wisdom balances faith, and concentration balances energy, but mindfulness has no need of being balanced: the more of it the better.

Wait, what? This is just a snack while I watch TV and scroll my phone. Be mindful? I'm busy.

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Mindfulness can make us more conscious of how different influences (like foods) affect our mind, body, and spirit (breath-body).

A 2016 study suggests that people who develop mindfulness through a yoga practice may be better able to resist unhealthy foods and "comfort eating." They may also become more in tune with their body so that they notice when they’re full.

Yoga is thought to be especially beneficial for people who are struggling to lose weight in other ways as well.

• Q: One remains aware of whatever is at any moment, but what in particular should one focus on if awakening or becoming enlightened is the goal? A: The Four Sati-patthanas: body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects. These are all defined in two sutras: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness and The Greater Four Foundations of Mindfulness discourses.

A study from 2017 reports that mindfulness training has positive short-term benefits regarding impulsive eating, binge eating, and physical activity. There was no significant effect on weight loss directly, but it’s thought that weight loss is associated with longer periods of mindfulness training. Further studies are needed to expand on these findings.

No, I'm not busy. I'm just being mindful doing yoga. They're meditating but I can talk. What's your intention? [cell phones in yoga class] | ElephantJournal.com

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Since one is advised not to practice yoga on a full stomach, one is likely to make healthy eating choices before doing yoga. After a yoga session, one may also be more likely to crave fresh, unprocessed foods. 

One may also learn to chew each bite more thoroughly and eat more slowly, savoring what is being eaten, which can lead to less consumption. More

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  Next pose? In a minute. I'm busy right now.

  DANGER: But I like to keep "busy" so I don't realize anything about my life in particular or reality in general. I'll be mindful later when there's nothing else to do. Of course, there's always something else to do. Okay, when I eat, I'll be mindful when I eat, but not the rest of the time. When I'm in yoga class doing postures, I like to forward bend and peek at my phone to see what else there is to do. Social media keeps me connected. I was mindful the rest of the class...except those times I was distracted.

Short Attention Span Theater (video)

Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly