Making history one breath at a time...

The regular Mindful Boston News is published on Sundays with relevant prompts and links to practices for the week.

Today we have a special mid-week edition to report on a big event from the mindfulness world.

Representatives from our Mindful Boston studio were invited to attend a symposium celebrating the establishing of a new Center For Mindfulness within the Harvard Medical School’s School of Public Health last week.

Academia is embracing mindfulness more and more. These new departments within universities are historically significant for our culture.

There was one specific presentation at the symposium that reinforced my commitment to what we do here at the studio.

The researcher-presenter posted a graph that showed that the majority of mindfulness research has occurred within a bubble. He pointed out a durth of real-life examples. Theories that may seem “proven” in laboratory settings have not (yet) been shown to work in the streets.

At Mindful Boston, we are coming up on our 15th year of offering hands-on, non-laboratory, (and sometimes messy) studio programs.

This is an achievement. An achievement that you have helped with, as you read the newsletter, this very newsletter, this very second, and you keep mindfulness in mind. You are an part of the Tier-1 subscription that makes the Mindful Boston studio relevant. So, thanks!

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I’ll end this update with a photo of my name badge from the symposium.
You’ll see that the cardboard has lumps embedded in it. Those are flower seeds.

In this case, the seed could be an idea, entirely symbolic. AND a seed is a simple physical object. It doesn’t have to mean anything.

One of my favorite things is when metaphor blends into literal truth.

I’ll be planting this seeded badge in a pot at the Mindful Boston office. We’ll see what grows, if anything. You are invited to come see it. You are invited to water the seeds of mindfulness.