Week 6
Being Fully Present
“Even after all this time,
the sun never says to the earth,
‘You owe me.’ Look what happens
with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.”
--Hafiz
Who Are You?
What Do You Want?
Why Are You Here?
I feel most loving/loved when...
I feel most overwhelmed/stressed when...
I am most at peace/most joyful when...
I am most grateful for...
I commit to destroying...
I commit to creating...
My definition of health is...
Happiness =
Set Point + Conditions of Living + Voluntary Activities
Set Point--brain mechanisms that interprets events.
Conditions of Living--random events, genes.
Voluntary Activities--things we do everyday.
Happiness = Set Point + Conditions of Living + Voluntary Activities
Set Point--brain mechanisms that interprets events
Conditions of Living--random events, genes,
Voluntary Activities--things we do everyday
Happiness = 40% + 10% + 50%
Meditation changes SET POINT.
“You may not control all the events that happen to you
but you can decide not to be reduced by them. “
--Maya Angelou
Time is not only measurement,
Time is presence.
Loving Kindness Meditation
“For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being;
naturally at peace, naturally connected,
because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.”
“Loving-kindness and compassion are
the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle,
and sometimes fierce actions
that can really make a difference -in our own lives and those of others.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness