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Cat McCaw
My training in mindfulness really began in 2010 when I began the PGDip mindfulness studies with Aberdeen Uni and had teaching and practice weekends at Samye Ling monastery in the borders led by meditation teacher Rob Nairn
"You are all neurotic messes," he told us, "and that is ok." This was a tremendous relief to me. |
I learned that mindfulness was a felt experience and a continuing inquiry into what it is to be alive on this planet right now. I began to realise that my mind wasn’t my brain and that my body and my heart were a big part of who I am. Life often shuts part the heart off and as mine began to open with the practice, I felt a mixture of relief, pain, confusion and happiness, and that this was all quite normal - part of being a human being. Rob Nairn also went on to teach that we can be more than a neurotic mess, we can be a compassionate mess and from this place of imperfection we can learn and grow.
That mindfulness is both a mind and heart training became apparent and I continue to learn and practice mindfulness with both secular and Buddhist teachers.
That mindfulness is both a mind and heart training became apparent and I continue to learn and practice mindfulness with both secular and Buddhist teachers.
This is ongoing and I constantly have to remind myself:
“ Nothing to do, nowhere to go” - Jon Kabat Zinn
