Teaching and grading over, looking for some real-world impact from my PhD.

It's an award-winning thesis, but... who's going to read it?

So I started with a simple guide - distilling my years of Buddhist study and research background to put #mindfulness in context.
bit.ly/4-insights-m...

With PhD all conferred (no revisions - hooray), we're getting some of the work published. This is an exploratory study into mechanisms of #mindfulness - what's behind all the hype, and where shall we go with it?
www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/15...
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The monk in the picture is Tenzin Ignyen, and this was the busiest and noisiest conversation we've ever had.

Tenzin lived many years in a small hut in the forest. Just high enough to stand up straight, with a hingeless metal door kept bears and leopards out,
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Meditators haven't just been sitting around throughout the centuries. They've made discoveries, tested theories and reported back.

A little exploration of the people and ideas putting some more "contemplative" in contemplative science and where it might lead...

#meditation #research #mindfulness