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Coming to Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn

As a lifelong learner, relationship and task oriented facilitator, teacher and instructor, it should come as no surprise that I would find a connection between mindfulness, falun dafa (gong), and technology. I have been reading Coming to Our Senses for a few weeks now. The process has been such a pleasure, I don't want to complete the book. I could go on reading the book indefinitely. The reason I am adding mindfulness here in this blog is that Kabat-Zinn states that we are so tied up in using technology to connect with others that we forget to connect to ourselves. Isn't it time we came to our senses to make sure technology facilitates our lives instead of draining us and keeping us from our true selves as Kabat-Zinn suggests in his book? Kabat-Zinn's sense of humour hits home as he keeps reminding us that we should also consider checking in on ourselves from time to time just to make sure we are still there.

Here is the first of five exercises from Falun Dafa (Gong):

Here is the second of five:

Her is the third of five:

Here is the fourth:

Here is the fifth and last set of falun dafa (gong) experices:

I have been involved in an online collaborative international literature exchange using Moodle, WebQuests, and virtual rooms for the past two years. I am interested in collaborating with additional high school teachers and their classes for 2007/8. For further information please go into the following websites:

http://www.nelliemuller.com/IOC.htm and http://www.nelliemuller.com/building_relationship.htm

Thank you.

Nellie Deutsch