Some Sharing from Karen Sothers on Mindfulness & Meditation
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / September 4, 2011 / Posted in Meditation, MindfulnessKaren Sothers is a long-time friend and colleague with me at Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine. She has helped numerous people in their healing process through her work with yoga and her Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction classes.
She mentions Rick Hanson and you can read more at his Resources for Happiness, Love [...]
I Want To Write About Slow: A Mindful Moment
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / October 31, 2010 / Posted in Mindful Leadership, Mindfulness, The Running MindThere is more to life than increasing its speed
Albert Einstein
Slow
by Ozzie Gontang
I want to write about slow.
The faceless clock blinks every second:
Now….Now…Now
In the present moment there is
No fast. No slow.
No criticism. No [...]
Mindful Service & Joy: Where is Frank Ostaseski?
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / February 9, 2010 / Posted in Meditation, Mindfulness, UncategorizedFrank Ostaseski has much to share on Mindfulness.
If you have an opportunity, be with him at any of the programs listed below. You will have the opportunity to share a moment in time to reflect upon your own life and the living of that life. With Frank and friends you have a mindful moment [...]
This Moment/Present Moment: An Idea Worth Spreading by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Neuroanatomist
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / September 29, 2009 / Posted in Meditation, MindfulnessWhat a wonder gift Jill Bolte shares with the world from her TED Presentation She shares her journey of her brain from the inside out as she talks about her stroke. For someone reflecting on Mindfuless, she vividly addresses what life is about: This moment. Present moment.
Mindfulness, St. Benedict, and the Monastic Way
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / May 25, 2009 / Posted in Meditation, Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessForty Memorial Days ago, I set out on a 55 mile run to the Benedictine Abbey in Oceanside for a silent retreat. The run and the retreat was my way of reflecting on the 10 years since leaving the monastic life as an Augustinian. Twenty Memorial Days ago, I was with Kip, and my [...]
Sharing a Moment of Mindfulness
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / May 25, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessA day of remembering and one of gratitude and appreciation. In the United States a moment to be mindful that we are all interconnected and interdependent. Dear friend and fellow Vistage Chair, Larry Cassidy shared his thoughts with us through our bulletin board, Chairnet:
Today we will have a small back-yard cookout. Time with family, the [...]
Cultivating Presence: Training Retreat In Compassionate End-of Life Care
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / February 23, 2009 / Posted in Mindfulness.
It was back in May of 2008 that I first communicated with Frank Ostaseski, the Founder Metta Institute. I was pleased to be able to share his Five Precepts of Service in my blog.
I wanted to share the next program that they will conduct. It will be a 6 day residential training retreat from [...]
In Three Words…
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / February 9, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessThe following two poems have touched my soul. They have guided me through the deaths of my dad in ‘94, my mom in ‘96 and a woman whom I loved who committed suicide in 1993. My brother in 2003, nine years to the day of my father’s death: April 15th, Gontang irony.
I have shared these [...]
