Today was the first day of my 7 days retreat with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli in Brunnsvik (Sweden). The participants are mostly all mindfulness professionals (doctors, researchers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and a few lost business people like me). Jon started out by reminding that it is very challenging to ask people to be mindful. Since mindfulness is contra-intuitive: it is about not getting anywhere, not doing anything and not expecting anything, which is completely the opposite of the way we behave in our western world.
If somebody would walk into the room while we are meditating, he or she would probably say: did these people travel all that far and pay all that good money just to sit here in silence and do nothing? They must be crazy.
Well, I can tell you from my own experience: it is very relaxing and very healing to be crazy.
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