Tag: experience

About Mindfulness

This is the beautiful Chinese character for ‘Mindfulness’. The roof-like part at the top means ‘now’ or ‘this’ – in other words ‘presence’. The bottom portion means ‘heart’. This tells us that the seat of consciousness is not in the head, rather it’s in the heart! Isn’t it true that we mistake ‘thought’ for consciousness? […]

A paradigm shift in psychology – from ‘talk’ to ‘experience’

“The more we learn about neuroscience, the more we realize that human beings aren’t driven by our ability to analyze and cogitate about our lives… The key word here is experience. In other words, as a growing body of research shows, deep change doesn’t come when clients just talk about their problems; it results from […]