Does anyone know of any good sites/podcasts on mindfulness?

[alarimer]

I've heard it's good. I don't like the woo-woo aspects to some of it, but I'd like to start doing this if I can.

I have a hard time staying focused and on task sometimes, especially at work. I don't or can't seem to live in the moment and I'm always daydreaming, which has its uses but lately just seems to mean that I prefer to live in a fantasy world than in reality. Not sure how to break that habit.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Just google around: four agreements, four nobel thruths....

DBT, Dialectical behavior theory, etc...

[alarimer]

2. Thanks

I'll try it.

[NYC_SKP]

3. It's good stuff...

But "mindfullness" is a practice employed by more than one doctrine.

My most impactful experiences with the concept are:

The significance of the Japanese Tea Ceremony,

and the video by Marsha Linehan on DBT: dialectical behavior therapy

[nolabear]

4. Look ito Buddhist meditation practice. Mindfulness is an extraordinary and complex thing.

Try Thoughts Without a Thinker or anything by Pema Chodron. It's not cut and dried but it's a good path. Marsha Linehan's DBT work is good but is oriented toward therapy for very emotionally labile people and though it's valuable it's not a deep mindfulness practice. Can't hurt to look, though. You might love it.

[libodem]

5. I did a course a long time ago

It was a breathing technique. We had to pay attention to our nostrils. It did make me focus on the here and now. I'm not very good with the committment to the daily routine but I will do better.

[LeftishBrit]

6. This site and its links may be useful

http://oxfordmindfulness.org/

There is a lot of serious work on mindfulness and research that suggests that it's very useful - though as you say it's sometimes taken up by rather woo-ish groups. This site is fairly free of the latter, though.

Hope you get what you're looking for!

[littlemissmartypants]

9. dead link: Error establishing a database connection n/t

[LeftishBrit]

11. Strange - it works for me.

Maybe you need to add the www:

http://www.oxfordmindfulness.org

See if that works.

[Fraser]

7. Good Sites

Go to you tube. Type in meditation and hit the search button. There is a wealth of material available. I recommend John Bon Kitz and the monk from W1est Australia.

Regards Fraser

[geardaddy]

8. Jon Kabat-Zinn has some great stuff

http://www.umassmed.edu/Content.aspx?id=43102

[Shankapotomus]

10. Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Have you seen this...

http://www.eckharttolle.com/