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“Your experience of life is not based on your life, but on what you pay
attention to.”
- Gregg Krech Most of us assume that our
experience of life is based on our circumstances. If we win the lottery we experience life as
wonderful. If we are stuck in traffic,
we experience life as frustrating. While
circumstances certainly influence our experience, there are many people who are
living in difficult circumstances and yet experience a level of joy and
gratitude in their lives that exceeds that of those who have greater material
wealth and spend a great deal of time complaining. The most important key to our experience is
our Attention, not our circumstances.
Starting April 1st
Gregg Krech will be conducting the ToDo Institute’s annual distance learning course
“Working with Your
Attention.”
http://www.todoinstitute.org/ldlp_attention.html Attention is clearly one of
the most important and neglected keys to a rich and satisfying life. And the
ToDo Institute been exploring and developing methods of teaching Attention
skills for the past 15 years.
The poet and doctor William Carlos
Williams used to carry a notepad around with him in which he listed "Things I noticed today that I've missed until today." This is an
example of an exercise that can revitalize our experience in life and connect
us with the freshness that is inherent in every moment The way we use our
attention permeates almost every aspect of our lives -- influencing our safety,
competence, ability to concentrate, mental health, spiritual practice, even our
relationships with our loved ones.
Many of us read about mindfulness. Intellectually, we know it is a wonderful idea to be mindful and to stay present. But without a structured experience, a community and a teacher, it's hard to keep up this practice. Too often, we know what we need to do, but we forget to do it.
Since we only offer this
program once a year, please register As soon as possible to guarantee your place. You
can register online by going to: http://www.todoinstitutebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=15&products_id=61Thanks
and best wishes for a Spring season full of many mindful moments.
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Many of us desire to live a
more purposeful life. We want to use our time well, to put our energy
towards that which truly matters, to leave behind a positive legacy.
But when we step back and take an honest look at how we're living . . .
we're not satisfied.
May be we're s pending too much time doing things
that feel urgent, but aren't pa rticularly important. Maybe we fi nd
ourselves frequentl y being pulled off  course by our feelings – feelings
of fear, anxiety, or depression. Maybe we just procrastinate on doing
what we know we need to do or maybe we're just confused about what our
purpose should really be. This course is designed to help you get on
the path to a more purposeful life. We'll draw on exercises of
self-reflection (Naikan) and methods from Morita therapy (known as the
Psychology of Action). We'll incorporate ideas from Viktor Frankl,
Stephen Covey, and Albert Schweitzer. This is a course about direction –
about finding direction, setting direction, and staying on course. |
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The practice of self-reflection is powerful. With
self-reflection we cultivate gratitude and get an honest sense of how
we are impacting on the world around us.
If we are
too busy marching forward in our lives to ever pause in
self-reflection, then we are losing a powerful opportunities for
personal growth, psychological health and spiritual understanding. By
using a structured method of self-reflection called Naikan, we can review what has
transpired between us and the world. The lessons revealed are so
personal and so important, often having a profound impact on the way
that we view our past and the way that we conduct ourselves in the
future. Self-reflection often helps us develop clarity, cultivate gratitude and discover
purpose.
This distance learning program gives you an opportunity
to integrate the practice of self-reflection into your daily life. The
program is based primarily on Naikan and Naikan-related exercises, but
also draws on material and ideas of Albert Schweitzer, Ben Franklin,
and others whose work emphasized the importance of quiet
self-reflection.
The program includes the book Naikan:
Gratitude, Grace and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection by Gregg
Krech. This book won the "Best Books of 2002" award from Spirituality
& Health Magazine. This year’s program will be conducted by the
book’s author, Gregg Krech.
You can register by phone (802) 453-4440
or online through our bookstore
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Most relationships suffer from neglect. In our busy lives we squeeze in time for email, paying bills, phone calls, the kids, lots of work, car inspections and food. But attention to our partner - personal, exclusive, caring, loving  attention - gets squeezed out.
The divorce rate (nearly 60%) doesn’t tell the whole story. What percentage of those who stay together claim to have a loving, fulfilling relationship? Here are some tools and ideas for pointing your relationship in the right direction. The most powerful of these tools is a method of self-reflection called Naikan. Self-reflection challenges us to cultivate love through gratitude and and an honest self-examination of our own conduct towards others. As the Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck says, relationships are a gift, not because they make us happy - they often don’t - “but because any intimate relationship, if we view it as practice, is the clearest mirror we can find.”
In this course we will be working to put some time, energy and attention back into our relationship with our partner. We've identified eleven skills that people can develop to help create a fulfilling relationship. This is a practice course, which means we don't just study the ideas but actually put them into practice.
Please take this opportunity to join us for a course that can help you redevote your attention and energy towards the person you are hoping will be your lifelong partner. The course begins on September 12, 2007. For more information and registration, go to http://www.todoinstitute.org/ldlp_renew.html
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“Your experience of life is not based on your life, but on what you pay
attention to.”
- Gregg Krech Most of us assume that our
experience of life is based on our circumstances. If we win the lottery we experience life as
wonderful. If we are stuck in traffic,
we experience life as frustrating. While
circumstances certainly influence our experience, there are many people who are
living in difficult circumstances and yet experience a level of joy and
gratitude in their lives that exceeds that of those who have greater material
wealth and spend a great deal of time complaining. The most important key to our experience is
our Attention, not our circumstances.
Starting April 5th
Gregg Krech will be conducting the ToDo Institute’s annual distance learning course
“Working with Your
Attention.”
http://www.todoinstitute.org/ldlp_attention.html
Gregg Krech, a leading
authority on Japanese Psychology, who has been teaching Attention skills for
the past twenty years has written an article for the current issue of
Experience Life magazine
http://www.lifetimefitness.com/magazine/
He was also interviewed for a
radio show by editor Pilar
Gerasimo and you can
hear the first segment of that interview by simply going to the home page of
the Internet Library of Japanese Psychology (scroll down a bit)
http://www.todoinstitute.com/library/
Attention is clearly one of
the most important and neglected keys to a rich and satisfying life. And the
ToDo Institute been exploring and developing methods of teaching Attention
skills for the past 15 years.
The poet and doctor William Carlos
Williams used to carry a notepad around with him in which he listed "Things I noticed today that I've missed until today." This is an
example of an exercise that can revitalize our experience in life and connect
us with the freshness that is inherent in every moment The way we use our
attention permeates almost every aspect of our lives -- influencing our safety,
competence, ability to concentrate, mental health, spiritual practice, even our
relationships with our loved ones.
Since we only offer this
program once a year, please register this weekend to guarantee your place. You
can register online by going to:
http://todo.safeshopper.com/30/cat30.htm?49
Thanks and best wishes for a Spring season full of many mindful moments.
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