Mindfulness & Becoming An Elder
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / April 18, 2012 / Posted in Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessI have carried Goethe’s comment with me for many years:
Life is the childhood of our immortality
Here is an interesting fact: “Beginning January 1st, 2011 every single day more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65. That is going to keep happening every single day for the next 19 years.”
When asked [...]
Mindfulness and Movement: Present Moment
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / March 3, 2012 / Posted in Meditation, MindfulnessEvery Friday morning between 6 am and 8 am a coach works out with his stable of runners. Usually its overcast on the tartan track by Scripps Integrative Medicine. When it’s not foggy the westward glance as you round the track is the panorama of the rolling greens of the Torrey Pines South and [...]
Mindfulness from the Heart
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / February 13, 2012 / Posted in Meditation, MindfulnessThe poem below from e.e. cummings truly speaks from the heart. With Valentine’s Day a day away, it shares a moment of reflection of the love of another. And at the same time a deeper love that many of us find difficult to do and to live: A deep love of ourselves: “I deeply and [...]
This Will Also Pass: an interview on Mindfulness
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 20, 2012 / Posted in Breathe, Meditation, Mindful Business, Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessJohan Bergstad is a licensed psychologist in Sweden, mindfulness teacher, writer/poet and photographer. The movie he recently released: This Will Also Pass” is a wonderful interview he did with, retired surgeon and Mindfulness teacher, Andries J Kroese.
For those interested in learning more about Mindfulness a good starting place is Mindful.org, that is hosted by Shambhala [...]
Mindfulness: Living and Leading with Intention
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 8, 2012 / Posted in Mindful Business, Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessI have been influenced in the practice of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh since the mid-80’s and by Karen Sothers and Steve Alper since the mid-90s with their work at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine under the leadership of Dr Mimi Guarneri. With my 25 years as a Vistage Chair I have been blessed [...]
Sometimes Mindfulness Sneaks Up When In a Mindless State
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / December 18, 2011 / Posted in MindfulnessPresent moment, beautiful moment. It is all we have.
And in the present moment it is amazing what can be created when one looks back at a compilation of present moments.
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Both Mindful & Aware of Both/And. So No “Buts” nor Either/ors
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / December 16, 2011 / Posted in MindfulnessOne of Mary Lore’s practices in her book “Managing Thought“ is to remove the “But” from one’s conversations and replace it with “and.” Begin to listen to yourself and others. Catch yourself and begin to replace your “but” with “and.” It opens the conversation to possibilities as opposed to cutting them off. [...]
And Then There were 15-Mindfulness In Life and Leadership
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / October 11, 2011 / Posted in Mindful Business, Mindful Leadership, Mindfulness
Today was added the 13th, 14th and 15th women who have received the Nobel Peace Prize. These women Nobel Prize winners, many who you will not have known until you read about them, embody mindfulness.
The first nine women Peace Prize winners you can read [...]
Creating A Mindful Society-Free to stream until November 1st
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / October 10, 2011 / Posted in Mindful Business, Mindful Leadership, Mindful Running, MindfulnessGreat Opportunity to listen to excellent program on Mindfulness for free.
You can stream the video of this marvelous session on Creating A Mindful Society. It can be viewed for free for 30 days starting October 3rd.
Go to: live.soundstrue.com and register (name and email) You can then return when you have time to listen [...]
Playing with Walking Mindfully
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / October 4, 2011 / Posted in Injury Prevention, Mindful Running, Mindful Walking, Mindfulness, Running Form & StyleIf you watch the way most people walk you will notice that the lower leg snaps forward and the person (and probably you) land on the back of the heel of the shoe first. If you look at the heels of your regular shoes, you will most likely notice that the outer edge of the [...]
