Mindfulness & Monkey Mind: Thoughts are viruses
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / June 15, 2013 / Posted in MindfulnessThe ancestor of every action is thought. — Emerson Steve Robertson reminds us in this Huffington Report article Mindfulness and Monkey Mind: Our minds are abuzz with thousands of thoughts each day, all of which compete for our attention and a corollary action. The Buddhists call this untrained mind of buzzing thoughts the [...]
Mindfulness: Loving-Kindness’ Oxytocin Makes It Contagious
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / February 14, 2013 / Posted in Mindful Business, Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessYou cannot watch this video without getting a shot of oxytocin. Happy Valentine’s Day. Simon Sinek speaking at the Vistage Conference “THINK Big!” spoke about this hormone. Check out the Vistage Blog to learn more. He said: With Oxytocin in the body, it makes me do things selflessly. It is the generosity chemical. Generosity is [...]
Mindfulness: Free audio Body Scan & Meditation by Dr Dzung Vo MD
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / February 5, 2013 / Posted in Breathe, MindfulnessDr. Dzung Vo MD and his team at the Kelty Mental Health Resource Center created a program for adolescents who are dealing with chronic pain, chronic illness and depressive symptoms. Their hospital based program: Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents (MARS-A) has been most beneficial for those who have been through it. When the [...]
Mindfulness: Listening When the World Speaks
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 23, 2013 / Posted in Breathe, Injury Prevention, Meditation, Mindful Leadership, Mindful Walking, Mindfulness, The Running MindNow almost two months ago, the STOP sign outside my window gave me the message of what to do after my thyroid surgery. Last Sunday, coming in from the garage after the Marathon Clinic, I was thinking of all the things I wanted to get done so I could watch the NFL games. I don’t [...]
Mindfulness & One: the mind aware
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / December 14, 2012 / Posted in Meditation, MindfulnessNew Momentum For Human Unity was started in 2006 by a group of friends – educators, artists, creative business administrators, writers and meditators – who committed themselves to transform human life from violence, devastation and poverty to one of caring and peace. Francis Rothluebber heard about Auroville, an experimental city in Southern India founded on [...]
The World Speaks Constantly. It Takes A Mindful Moment To Hear
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / December 9, 2012 / Posted in Breathe, MindfulnessThis was 10 days ago. I am feeling pretty good on the 3 or 4th day after surgery, I was thinking how quickly I could get back to my normal routine and do my groups: Vistage 29/777/687, Lifestyle Change at Integrative Medicine, and the Marathon Clinic. Back to my work of counseling, consulting and coaching. [...]
The Many Paths To Mindfulness
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / October 29, 2012 / Posted in Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessYears ago, I first came across an introductory page in a book by Ida Rolf with the title: Admonition For 1977. It’s one of those pieces that has sat in the back of my mind over the past 35 years, especially when I get tangled up in my own righteousness and knowing. At the time [...]
Mindful Techniques When Stressed
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / September 3, 2012 / Posted in MindfulnessRyan Rivera shares some techniques to deal with stress. Like the Running of the Squirrels, it is not the big things that get me. It is all the little things that overwhelm and take me in the direction of mindless rather than move me toward mindfulness.. Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on [...]
Mindfulness: To Live Your Dream: WAKE UP.
2 Comments by Ozzie Gontang / August 26, 2012 / Posted in Breathe, MindfulnessMINDFULNESS AS A FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH This presentation was at Google in 2011. It was part of a half day program for Google employees at he Googleplex. To reach the next generation, Thay and his followers have reached out through their website: WAKE UP There is a schedule of the WAKE UP tours in the [...]
Mindfulness & Becoming An Elder
2 Comments 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 [...]
