THREE PATHS, ONE SHARED ATTENTION

Pause for a moment.
See a little more clearly.

You don’t have to stop thinking or know how to sit still. Mindfulness begins with what is here—and how you meet it.

An attitude to explore, a practice to try, an image to spend time with. You can begin anywhere. Choose what speaks to you today.

The Mindfulness Matrix — stacked stones at sunriseThe Mindfulness Matrix

01How we meet experience

A little more room to respond.

Explore ten attitudes that support mindfulness—and bring more awareness and choice to everyday challenges.

Explore the Matrix
Water and trees in the Adelaide HillsOasis

02Mindfulness in everyday life

One small pause. Begin here.

Have 30 seconds, a minute or two? Find a simple practice through the breath, the senses or an ordinary activity.

Find a practice
A winter haiga by Pierre Geslin from Kokoro 02Kokoro

03Looking closely at the world

Notice what you might pass by.

Pause with haiku, photography and haiga. Encounter ordinary life through Pierre’s words and images, in English and French.

Enter Kokoro

ROOTED IN PRACTICE

How we practise matters.

“I think too much. I can’t sit still. I don’t have the patience.” Through my mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programmes and the free online meditations I offered during COVID, I heard these words often.

They brought me back to an essential question: what attitude do we bring to practice? We don’t need to become calm or patient before beginning. We can learn to meet our restlessness and impatience, too.

These three spaces grow from that inquiry: exploring our attitudes, embodying mindfulness in everyday activities, and looking closely at the world.

— Pierre Geslin

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