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Focus vs Mindfulness

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Focus vs Mindfulness

In listening to a psychotherapist / mindfulness teacher, I was struck by the assuredness that the methodology he employs is “best practice.” Over and over, he declared what the “research” shows regarding mindfulness vs. “other” “focus” based practices of meditation. Proof existing in studies focusing on Vipassana meditation showed superior results to the “other” methodologies used in the control group.

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What Should I Feel?

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What Should I Feel?

What should I feel?

It is a question every Yoga teacher gets asked and sometimes we foolishly and audaciously give an answer. Any therapist who tells their patient what they “should feel” would be overstepping their role in supporting a healing process toward self reliance but we speak to sensation in the body in absolutes all the time.

“Here is what you should feel”

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