Meditation Articles and News Sep 05
Doctor offers meditation as way to tame stress
September 2005
You may have a mind that is full, but is it mindful?
Dr. Michael Baime, 49, directs the Penn Program for Stress Management at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine.
Baime, a Philadelphia internist, is a true believer in mindful meditation. Interested in meditation since he was 8 years old,
he had to wait until age 14 to have Tibetan Buddhists train him in their technique Baime looks for ways to apply
meditation to regular medical problems. He has conducted workshops for physicians and breast cancer patients.
What is mindful meditation?
Meditation is just a fancy word for being where you are and allowing things in your life to be as they are -- for just that
moment. Mindfulness is the deliberate undoing of our conscious, anxious wandering into the past and future. It is a way
to practice being completely and fully present in the actual moment of your life as it is happening now. When you
practice this, you discover the only moment you can find relaxation and freedom is in the present moment.
Mindfulness trains you to find this present moment, rest there, then deepen and expand the depth and spaciousness of
that rest.
What happens when we don't live in the moment?
We live our lives as if we were on automatic pilot. When we drive home from work, we get home, get out of the car, but
we don't remember anything that happened on the way home. It's because we weren't really noticing. It's as if we weren't
there.
Doctor offers meditation as way to tame stress
September 2005
You may have a mind that is full, but is it mindful?
Dr. Michael Baime, 49, directs the Penn Program for Stress Management at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine.
Baime, a Philadelphia internist, is a true believer in mindful meditation. Interested in meditation since he was 8 years old,
he had to wait until age 14 to have Tibetan Buddhists train him in their technique Baime looks for ways to apply
meditation to regular medical problems. He has conducted workshops for physicians and breast cancer patients.
What is mindful meditation?
Meditation is just a fancy word for being where you are and allowing things in your life to be as they are -- for just that
moment. Mindfulness is the deliberate undoing of our conscious, anxious wandering into the past and future. It is a way
to practice being completely and fully present in the actual moment of your life as it is happening now. When you
practice this, you discover the only moment you can find relaxation and freedom is in the present moment.
Mindfulness trains you to find this present moment, rest there, then deepen and expand the depth and spaciousness of
that rest.
What happens when we don't live in the moment?
We live our lives as if we were on automatic pilot. When we drive home from work, we get home, get out of the car, but
we don't remember anything that happened on the way home. It's because we weren't really noticing. It's as if we weren't
there.
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