Today's guest is Diana Winston, author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness, and the co-author of Fully Present, the Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness.
She has taught mindfulness for health and well-being since 1993 in a variety of settings including the medical and mental health field, and in universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools.
At UCLA, where she is the Director of Mindfulness Education at MARC, she developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation (TMF), which trains mindfulness teachers worldwide. She is also a founder of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.
Her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, O Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Women’s Health, and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. The LA Times has even called her “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness.”
She has been practising mindfulness since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma (Myanmar).
Learn more at www.dianawinston.com
A HOSE THROUGH WHICH LOVE FLOWS
Am I validated feelings
Am I compassion incarnate
Or the darkest of the answers
Resigned to his fate
Yes am I doomed to live forever
With the free will that I chose
Or am I a hose
Through which love flows
I'm an accumulation of consciousness
A wave before the sand
An amalgamation of aspects
At the limit of the land
I'm growing and collecting
Where attention goes
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm chaos in the making
And robust rigidity
Desperately adding layers
Trying to fashion identity
I'm refractions of the light
An animal that knows
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm a bundle of emotions
Each with their own name
Pretending individualism
All desperate for a frame
I'm the wheel of awareness
A whisper dressed in clothes
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm a preacher proud to stand up
A prosecutor who'll fall
A politician in the alley
Answering mother nature's call
I'm integrating hemispheres
The poetry and the prose
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm the left side giving narration
And the right side reaching out
A problem-solving algorithm
Wants to know what it's about
I'm the observer and the object
The audience and the show
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm a hose through which love flows
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