Jerry Braza, Ph'D'

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Jerry Braza, Ph.D.

• Western Oregon University
• Professor of Health
• United States of America

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• Are we human beings, or human doings?
• Anonymous

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When you walk, just walk when you eat, just
eat. -Thich Nhat Hanh
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness refers to keeping ones consciousness
alive to the present reality. It is a miracle by
which we master and restore ourselves. -Thich
Nhat Hanh
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• To live without mindfulness is to live as if we
  were dead already.
• -Sharon Salzberg

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• When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with
  those around us.
• Dalai Lama

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Mindful Breathing

• Find a comfortable Position.
• Bring your awareness to your breath.
• Create and focus on a phrase for each inhalation
  and exhalation.
• Note thoughts, feelings, and sensations.
• Return to your breath.

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• Breathing in, I calm body and mind.
• Breathing out, I smile.
• Dwelling in the present moment,
• I know this is the only moment.
• Thich Nhat Hanh

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Mindfulness test

• What are some of my barriers to mindfulness?
• Do I suffer from hurry sickness?
• Do I measure happiness by future gains and
  events?
• Do I constantly compare the present to the past?
• Is my life directed by psychological scripts or
  tapes?

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Mindlessness

• Mindlessness is entrapment by category,
  automatic behavior, or acting from a single
  perspective.
• -Ellen Langer

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Mindfulness Test

• Directions
• Count how many Fs there are in the following
  sentence.

FINAL FOLIOS SEEM TO RESULT FROM YEARS OF
DUTIFUL STUDIES OF TEXTS ALONG WITH YEARS OF
SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE
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• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and
  catch the good that is within our reach, is the
  great art of life.
• Samuel Johnson

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Daily Practice of Mindfulness

• Find time to be / meditate.
• Create bells of mindfulness.
• Meditate on people and tasks.
• Enhance visual steadiness.
• Develop moment by moment living.
• Review the day.
• Create social support.

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• A moments insight is sometimes
  worth a lifes experience.
• -Author unknown

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Characteristics of Mindfulness

• Meta-Aware
• You are not just doing something, you are also
  aware of what you are doing.
• Understand
• Your mind is not getting bogged down
• by any of your thoughts.
• Non-Judgmental
• You are a neutral observer to your
• experiences, neither forming attachment
• nor taking sides.
• -Joseph Goldstein

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• Holy moments, these are moments when time is
  suspended and our full awareness is focused.
• Joan Barysenko

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The ART of mindful living

• Attend Recognize
• (Connect with the present) (Name, witness,
  look deeply)
• Stop Name thinking, feeling, and
• Calm experiencing
• Reconnect to essentials Witness
  vs. react
• -Where am I now? Look deeply
• -What is my purpose?
  Understanding
• Awareness
• Transform
• (Act and Renew)
• Let go of distractions
• Validate what is positive

BREATHE
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• Bless the moment, trust yourself and expect the
  best.
• -Huna philosophy

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Applications of Mindfulness

• Stress management
• Transform feelings
• Relationships / Communication
• Unfinished Business
• Productivity
• Concentration
• Creativity
• Eating / Walking / Everyday Activities

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Mindset for Mindfulness

• Non-Judging
• Patience
• Beginners Mind
• Trust
• Non-Striving
• Acceptance
• Letting go

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• The flower, the sky, your beloved can only be
  found in the present moment.
• Thich Nhat Hanh

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The precious present

• Moments that have made a personal difference for
  you
• Moments that have made a professional difference
  for you...

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• We can only be said to be alive in those moments
  when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
• Thorton Wilder

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• Qualities of a Mindful Life
• Quality of Compassionate Listening
• We have seen clearly that in this world there
  are people who have the capacity to listen deeply
  to others and to comfort them in their pain.
• Quality of Deep Understanding
• As a result of compassionate listening, deep
  understanding develops.

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• Quality of Compassionate Action
• We know that every word, every action and every
  smile can bring happiness to others.
• Quality of Being Present for Those Who Need Us
• Being present is the best gift we can give to
  another person.

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• Life is what happens to you when you're making
  other plans.
• -Betty Talmadage

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Why Mindfulness?

• Stress Reduction
• Health
• Concentration
• Productivity
• Presence
• Relationships
• Creativity
• Joy
• Peace

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• Learning to live in the moment may be our best
  stress management strategy and is the best gift
  we can give to one another.
• Jerry Braza

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Four areas pertinent to creativity

• The process
• The product
• The person
• The situation
• -R.T. Brown

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• The notes I handle no better than many pianists.
  But the pauses between the notes --- ah, that is
  where the art resides.
• Arthur Schnabel

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• At any moment, whatever we are experiencing,
  only one of two things is ever happening either
  we are being with what is, or else we are
  resisting
• what is.
• John Welwood

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look
  back and realize they were big things.
• -Robert Brault

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• The future is not a place we are going. The
  future is a place we are creating.
• St. Joan of Arc

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• Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
  worry about itself.
• Matthew 634

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• If your mind isnt clouded by unnecessary things,
  this is the best season of your life.
• -Wu-Men

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• Why go backwards, youve already been there.
• -Ray Charles

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• Zen comes from an approach to each situation.
  Each play, each moment is like a breath and a
  release.
• -Phil Jackson

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• All time spent being angry is time lost not being
  happy.
• -Mexican Proverb

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Mindfulness means...

• paying attention in a particular way, on
  purpose, in the present moment, and
  nonjudgmentally. This kind of attention nurtures
  greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of
  present-moment reality. It wakes us up to the
  fact that our lives unfold only in moments. -Jon
  Kabat-Zinn

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What do you see

• I love Paris in the the Spring time.

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• The Butterfly counts not months,
• But
• moments
• and has time enough.
• -Rabindrinath Tagore

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We dont remember days, we remember moments.
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Mindfulness is...

• Creating of new categories, openness to new
  information, and awareness of more than one
  perspective.
• -Ellen Langer

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What happens in the moment...

• Thoughts
• senses
• feelings
• bodily experiences

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Applications for educators

• Learning
• Behavior Change
• Concentration
• Creativity
• Relationships
• Peak Performance
• Self Esteem

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Standard Approaches to learning...

• Top-down methodLecturing to students
• Bottom-up methodDirect experience
• Sideways LearningMindful state, open to novelty
  and multiple perspectives -Ellen Langer

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Mindfulness is...

• An ancient technique, dating back to classical
  Buddhism in India. For centuries, the Japanese
  have applied Zen awareness to tea making, proof
  of how mindfulness can be used in daily routines.
  Currently, mindfulness is being used as a healing
  tool in Western medicine. -Daniel Tara
  Goleman

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Mindfulness is...

• Being aware of what is happening in the present
  moment.

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Effects
CONDITIONING
SPONTANEITY
Mindfulness is actually the key to spontaneity
and the vehicle through which we can open to the
continuous, spontaneous arising and the passing
of all phenomena. -Joseph Goldstein