Mindful Life: Feedback from Craig and Richard - Week 3 - Dec 2019 - Savour the simple

Monash University's Craig Hassed and Richard Chambers discuss cultivating gratitude, savouring simple things, humility, narcissism, pain, the power of the pause and more as part of 'Maintaining a Mindful Life,' a course by @MonashUni, which is currently running on @FutureLearn #FLMindLife



Topics this week include:
00:05 Rewiring the brain, cultivating gratitude
01:45 Gratitude advent calendar *
01:57 Savouring: coffee, wine, chocolate. Even simple things, breeze, birds.
02:56 Rick Hansen’s negativity bias * Velcro v teflon
03:56 Self-compassion
04:19 Focus on the now
04:57 Self-esteem v self-compassion - different types of self-esteem. Common humanity.
06:56 Connection v division. Think of cultivating compassion, but include yourself.
07:40 The self. The ego. Humility as an absence of self-esteem *
08:58 Narcissism increased connection with social media *
09:05 Compassion
10:02 Parents being critical of themselves. Discerning v judging
11:19 Self-compassion meditation. Naming emotions. Remember common humanity.
12:00 Mindfulness and pain. Where is the attention. If pain persists however…
13:13 The power of the pause
13:39 Next week - choiceless meditation, ethics, daily life

“The Brain that Changes Itself” by Norman Doidge


How to set up a Google Calendar (inspired by the idea of a gratitude advent-calendar):


Rick Hansen ‘Overcoming the negativity bias’


Kristin Neff: self-compassion website


Brené Brown's website:


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