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Showing posts with label Diana Winston. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 25, 2020
Free mindful meditation at UCLA (video)
MARC.ucla.edu; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Free vegan gluten-free pizza, Monday meditation at UCLA Medical Center (Ananda/DBM) |
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| Free virtual drop-in meditation schedule 2020 |
The Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) is UCLA's attempt to scientifically study Buddhist meditation and MINDFULNESS or the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one's physical, mental, and emotional experiences without judgment or resistance.
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| Mindful meditation is open to all and free. |
Weekly "drop-in" sessions are led by UCLA MARC's Diana Winston, Dr. Marvin G. Belzer Ph.D., and other MARC-affiliated teachers. They are open to anyone interested in learning how to "live more presently" in life.
MARC's virtual meditation drop-ins are 30-minute sessions that offer an online community of meditation support and teachings. There is no need to register; come as you are. Access guided meditations at any time on the free "UCLA Mindful" app. There are also free guided meditation session recordings from UCLA's Hammer Museum.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Princess Diana reborn in Australia
Mirror.co.uk; Tim Binnall (C2C/FB); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
A TV personality in Australia says that his 4-year-old son has made a number of inexplicable and eerie statements that suggest that he was England's Princess Diana in a past life.
The bizarre revelation reportedly came by way of a magazine article written by the boy's bewildered father, David Campbell. He explained that the strangeness began two years ago when the youngster first pointed to a picture of Diana and declared, "Look, it's me when I was a princess!"
According to Mr. Campbell, the boy continued to make spooky comments about what appears to be his past life, such as saying that he had two boys whom he called his "sons."
While the confounded dad initially dismissed these statements as fanciful talk from his toddler, he really took notice when they began to become more detailed. In particular, Mr. Campbell says that his son was able to name a site in Scotland where Diana frequently stayed and can describe the interior of the residence known as Balmoral.
Chillingly, the child has even allegedly made mention of Diana's tragic death saying, "One day the sirens came, and I wasn't a princess anymore." For his part, Mr. Campbell claims that he is mystified by what his son has been saying and can come up with no logical explanation for how the boy knows so much about Princess Diana, given that the youngster had never been told about her.
That said, skeptics will undoubtedly say that the boy's statements were either somehow informed from an outside source or, failing that, his father fabricated the entire tale. More
Reincarnation (rebirth) of the princess
Courtney Pochin (Mirror.co.uk, July 15, 2019)
Reincarnation (rebirth) of the princess
Courtney Pochin (Mirror.co.uk, July 15, 2019)
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| Four-year-old's chilling claim that he's "the reincarnation of Princess Diana" |
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| This is not Billy Campbell, 4, but close enough. |
A dad has sent shivers running down people's spines after confessing the bizarre comments his son made about the late Princess Diana.
Kids say the funniest things, but for the last two years one young boy has been telling his parents something rather unsettling.
According to Australian TV presenter David Campbell, his 4-year-old son, Billy, thinks he is the reincarnation of the late Princess Diana -- and he claims to remember details from her life.
The 45-year-old parent-of-three recounted the chilling tale in a column for Stellar Magazine, which he described as the "weirdest" thing he'd ever written.
He begins by saying that his youngest son first started talking about the famous royal at the age of just two, with the toddler pointing to an image of her on a card and exclaiming, "Look, it's me when I was a princess." More
Friday, May 18, 2018
Oh, that stupid royal wedding! Congrats, Meg
I. Rony, editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Natalie Ktena (BBC.co.uk, May 18, 2018)
Royal weddings often bring out the more eccentric side of the British character. This can manifest in many ways, including:
While Will's and Kate’s wedding back in 2011 spawned a personalised pizza pie and some souvenir batts (AA), Harry and Meghan Markle memorabilia is scaling new heights of silliness.
In fact, this time around, it seems there’s more weird and wonderful wedding paraphernalia than ever before.
It does of course include the much-derided, unwittingly risqué Harry and Meghan one-piece bikinis [and "Crown Jewels" bran condoms].
But it doesn't end there, in fact... More
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| "Put your Harry in to make your Markle sparkle" - Crown Jewels brand condoms. |
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Royal wedding merch: Harry and Meghan condoms, anyone?
Some people will love the sex products -- for others they'll be the definition of "wrong" (so wrong)
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| My redheaded boy is finally growing up. |
(a) Developing a sudden desire to have a street bash with neighbours you've never spoken to before (other than to say "Ello, luv" when you find yourself putting the rubbish bins out on the curb at the same time)
(b) Watching two strangers tie the knot on the tele and having me mates over to "celebrate" by watching British reruns:
The Benny Hill Show
WARNING: Sexy depictions of traditional gender roles once popular on U.S. television!
(c) Thinking it's probably OK to drink ale for breakfast as long as it's out of a commemorative mug.
The Benny Hill Show
WARNING: Sexy depictions of traditional gender roles once popular on U.S. television!
(c) Thinking it's probably OK to drink ale for breakfast as long as it's out of a commemorative mug.
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| Meghan, we can call him West |
In fact, this time around, it seems there’s more weird and wonderful wedding paraphernalia than ever before.
It does of course include the much-derided, unwittingly risqué Harry and Meghan one-piece bikinis [and "Crown Jewels" bran condoms].
(Eve Libertine's UK punk band Crass) "Our Wedding" from Penis Envy
But it doesn't end there, in fact... More
I have no time for royal wedding marketing, but I will make an exception for this fine piece of work. pic.twitter.com/pCj5Qp2sfj— Hannah Al-Othman 🐝 (@HannahAlOthman) May 16, 2018 twitter
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| We love the royals. We're very proper Brits. And we don't like that Mr. Benny Hill. |
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| Beautiful interracial love story: UK+US |
Friday, August 21, 2009
Former Buddhist nun helps stressed-out
Former Buddhist nun helps stressed-out find inner peace
Cynthia Lee (UCLA Today)
UCLA, Los Angeles — Diana Winston rarely talks about the spiritual evolution that brought her to a large university where researchers are discovering that practicing mindfulness meditation has many physical and psychological benefits.
Diana Winston spent more than a decade pursuing inner peace and serenity within the walls of Buddhist monasteries in South-east Asia, immersed in periods of mindful meditation that lasted from just a few hours to a year. But that's not the journey she imagines most people would take.
"My life story is not a good example of what I expect people to follow," she said, smiling, as she sat in her office in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
In fact, Winston rarely talks about the spiritual evolution that brought her here, to a large university where researchers are discovering that the practice of mindfulness meditation has many physical and psychological benefits, including slowing the progression of HIV in patients suffering from stress and helping ADHD teens focus.
While it was this kind of research that brought her to UCLA, Winston, as director of mindfulness education, primarily teaches mentally healthy — yet stressed-out — people. She also shares what she has learned from her years of practicing mindfulness meditation as a Buddhist with those dealing with difficulties such as anxiety, depression and eating disorders.
Going beyond religion
"To me Buddhism is really secondary because the questions people are dealing with are all the same: How do we live happier, healthier, and saner lives and have more peace? It doesn't matter whether you are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Buddhist. These techniques are tremendously valuable, and so I've learned to teach them in a way that makes them accessible to all."
Through the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center (MARC), Winston has taught the practice to hundreds of teens and adults, including Bruin football players, medical students, interns and residents, and entire UCLA departments seeking to de-stress. All her classes are open to the general public.
"Most people are not going to go live in a monastery," she said. "So I'm interested in how we can bring mindfulness into our lives in the midst of family, job, and other responsibilities. It's not necessarily about being mindful every second. It's about what you can do when you're caught in traffic or getting ready to meet your boss. How can I stop, take a breath, and manage my anxiety? How can I live life more fully?
"We teach people how to be more present in the midst of daily life, how to be more self-aware of physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts. We teach people how to deal with difficult emotions — like anxiety and depression — to help us be less reactive and more in the present moment."
Happiness from the inside out
Winston first became exposed to Buddhism during her junior year abroad in Thailand as a Brown University student. But it wasn't until after graduation when she worked for the Free Tibet movement in Dharamsala, India, headquarters for the Dalai Lama's government in exile, that she became "really hooked on Buddhist teachings because they seemed to explain a lot of things in my life," she said. "I saw the way I was endlessly pursuing praise and success, and trying to make something of myself outside of myself." Buddhists, she found, presented her with an alternative, "that happiness wasn't about something outside of myself, but can come through inner peace."
Over the ensuing years, she deepened her study of Buddhism and Vipassana (mindfulness) meditation techniques. Going on meditation retreats in Thailand and on the East Coast transformed her life, she found. "It was like going to a spiritual bootcamp. I was learning to find peace within myself, despite life's ups and downs, cultivating more compassion, self-acceptance, and kindness for myself and others."
Combining social activism with Buddhism, Winston started a volunteer program within the Buddhist Peace Fellowship in the San Francisco Bay Area that offered training, study, and meditation to volunteers who worked in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and environmentalist organizations.
In 1997, she felt the need to fully immerse herself in a spiritual life so she traveled to a monastery in Burma to spend a year living as a Buddhist nun, "which meant I had to shave my head, put all my possessions in storage and live by certain precepts." There was to be no reading or writing; no eating after 12 noon; no sex, drugs or alcohol; and, oddly enough, no sleeping on high and luxurious beds. "It was easy to give up those things because I was so interested in what I was doing. It was so powerful to me," she recalled.
Mindful meditation consumed all her waking hours — sleeping was limited. This austere lifestyle, spent mostly in silence, left her feeling lonely at times and sometimes sick because of the diet and heat. "But it becomes your life. You just live it. Over time, it made me learn to trust myself and know I had a capacity to handle whatever life brought me," she said.
"Parts of it, I hated; and parts of it, I loved," she said. "When you spend that much time with yourself, your mind gets very, very subtle. You become very aware, and all sorts of insights and self-understanding arise. It's pretty amazing." The experience wasn't just self-absorbing, but helped her develop "an open heart," heightening her sense of compassion for others.
Giving back
After a year, she said, "I was done. I felt I could sit here in a monastery for 20 years, but what about the rest of the world where there was so much suffering?"
Feeling the need to give back, Winston began training to teach mindfulness. She first taught it to children in India and later to teens and adults at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. More>>
UCLA, Los Angeles — Diana Winston rarely talks about the spiritual evolution that brought her to a large university where researchers are discovering that practicing mindfulness meditation has many physical and psychological benefits.Diana Winston spent more than a decade pursuing inner peace and serenity within the walls of Buddhist monasteries in South-east Asia, immersed in periods of mindful meditation that lasted from just a few hours to a year. But that's not the journey she imagines most people would take.
"My life story is not a good example of what I expect people to follow," she said, smiling, as she sat in her office in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
In fact, Winston rarely talks about the spiritual evolution that brought her here, to a large university where researchers are discovering that the practice of mindfulness meditation has many physical and psychological benefits, including slowing the progression of HIV in patients suffering from stress and helping ADHD teens focus.
While it was this kind of research that brought her to UCLA, Winston, as director of mindfulness education, primarily teaches mentally healthy — yet stressed-out — people. She also shares what she has learned from her years of practicing mindfulness meditation as a Buddhist with those dealing with difficulties such as anxiety, depression and eating disorders.
Going beyond religion
"To me Buddhism is really secondary because the questions people are dealing with are all the same: How do we live happier, healthier, and saner lives and have more peace? It doesn't matter whether you are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Buddhist. These techniques are tremendously valuable, and so I've learned to teach them in a way that makes them accessible to all."
Through the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center (MARC), Winston has taught the practice to hundreds of teens and adults, including Bruin football players, medical students, interns and residents, and entire UCLA departments seeking to de-stress. All her classes are open to the general public.
"Most people are not going to go live in a monastery," she said. "So I'm interested in how we can bring mindfulness into our lives in the midst of family, job, and other responsibilities. It's not necessarily about being mindful every second. It's about what you can do when you're caught in traffic or getting ready to meet your boss. How can I stop, take a breath, and manage my anxiety? How can I live life more fully?
"We teach people how to be more present in the midst of daily life, how to be more self-aware of physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts. We teach people how to deal with difficult emotions — like anxiety and depression — to help us be less reactive and more in the present moment."
Happiness from the inside out
Winston first became exposed to Buddhism during her junior year abroad in Thailand as a Brown University student. But it wasn't until after graduation when she worked for the Free Tibet movement in Dharamsala, India, headquarters for the Dalai Lama's government in exile, that she became "really hooked on Buddhist teachings because they seemed to explain a lot of things in my life," she said. "I saw the way I was endlessly pursuing praise and success, and trying to make something of myself outside of myself." Buddhists, she found, presented her with an alternative, "that happiness wasn't about something outside of myself, but can come through inner peace."
Over the ensuing years, she deepened her study of Buddhism and Vipassana (mindfulness) meditation techniques. Going on meditation retreats in Thailand and on the East Coast transformed her life, she found. "It was like going to a spiritual bootcamp. I was learning to find peace within myself, despite life's ups and downs, cultivating more compassion, self-acceptance, and kindness for myself and others."
Combining social activism with Buddhism, Winston started a volunteer program within the Buddhist Peace Fellowship in the San Francisco Bay Area that offered training, study, and meditation to volunteers who worked in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and environmentalist organizations.
In 1997, she felt the need to fully immerse herself in a spiritual life so she traveled to a monastery in Burma to spend a year living as a Buddhist nun, "which meant I had to shave my head, put all my possessions in storage and live by certain precepts." There was to be no reading or writing; no eating after 12 noon; no sex, drugs or alcohol; and, oddly enough, no sleeping on high and luxurious beds. "It was easy to give up those things because I was so interested in what I was doing. It was so powerful to me," she recalled.
Mindful meditation consumed all her waking hours — sleeping was limited. This austere lifestyle, spent mostly in silence, left her feeling lonely at times and sometimes sick because of the diet and heat. "But it becomes your life. You just live it. Over time, it made me learn to trust myself and know I had a capacity to handle whatever life brought me," she said.
"Parts of it, I hated; and parts of it, I loved," she said. "When you spend that much time with yourself, your mind gets very, very subtle. You become very aware, and all sorts of insights and self-understanding arise. It's pretty amazing." The experience wasn't just self-absorbing, but helped her develop "an open heart," heightening her sense of compassion for others.
Giving back
After a year, she said, "I was done. I felt I could sit here in a monastery for 20 years, but what about the rest of the world where there was so much suffering?"
Feeling the need to give back, Winston began training to teach mindfulness. She first taught it to children in India and later to teens and adults at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. More>>
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