{"id":14,"date":"2009-06-03T04:33:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T10:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/%topics%\/mindfulness\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T04:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T10:33:28","slug":"mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/mindfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spend the weekend at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/blog\/wp-admin\/%E2%80%9Chttp:\/\/www.solitude.org.za%E2%80%9D\">Solitude<\/a> on a photography retreat. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/blog\/wp-admin\/%E2%80%9C\">Thomas Merton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Rohr\">Richard Rhor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umassmed.edu\/behavmed\/faculty\/kabat-zinn.cfm\">Jon Kabat-Zinn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackkornfield.org\/index\/home\">Jack Kornfield<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/blog\/wp-admin\/%E2%80%9Chttp:\/\/www.eckharttolle.com\/eckharttolle%E2%80%9D\"> Eckhart Tolle<\/a> and photography were brought together by Bear and Sharon for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\">Mindfulness<\/a> weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mindfulness.jpg\" title=\"Mindfulness\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mindfulness.jpg\" alt=\"Four Mindfulness photographs taken of my shadow\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two facilitator worked amazingly well to introduce themes that had both a place in photography and spirituality. Sojme of the thoughts that resonated with me were&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When you loose touch with your inner stillness, you loose touch with yourself. When you loose touch with yourself, you are lost in the world&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Eckhart Tolle<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future, in regrets &#8230; about the past. When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, buut we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Jack Kornfield<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I spent my time trying to capture Cara on camera. She&#8217;s the best &#8220;living in the moment&#8221; practitioner that I know. You can see a few of her images on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/weblearning\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/weblearning\/3584538233\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Morning Cow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3647\/3584538233_bc83e4f0e2_s.jpg\" class=\"pc_img\" alt=\"Morning Cow\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/weblearning\/3585339344\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Family\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2437\/3585339344_a5ea33bc87_s.jpg\" class=\"pc_img\" alt=\"Family\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/weblearning\/3584505207\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Tasting\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3309\/3584505207_8202e02ccb_s.jpg\" class=\"pc_img\" alt=\"Tasting\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/weblearning\/3584500649\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Looking\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2443\/3584500649_2d8eba6980_s.jpg\" class=\"pc_img\" alt=\"Looking\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spend the weekend at Solitude on a photography retreat. Thomas Merton, Richard Rhor, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, Eckhart Tolle and photography were brought together by Bear and Sharon for a Mindfulness weekend. The two facilitator worked amazingly well to introduce themes that had both a place in photography and spirituality. Sojme of the thoughts that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/mindfulness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mindfulness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,24,25],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-file","tag-cara","tag-family","tag-solitude","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}