This document discusses mindfulness and its benefits. It describes mindfulness as paying bare attention to whatever is happening in the body and mind from moment to moment, as well as in one's interactions with the outside world, without evaluation or preference. Cultivating mindfulness through practices like mindful walking and eating can increase concentration, clarity, self-control, equanimity, compassion, and reduce stress, escapist tendencies, and impulsiveness. Mindfulness is gaining acceptance in higher education, with many universities now offering mindfulness programs and courses.

1. Value Inculcation
through Mindfulness
P L Dhar

2. Objective of EHV
• To empower a person so that his
actions ( bodily, vocal , mental) neither
hurt nor harm him nor any body else

3. Paradigms of EHV
• Deep Ecology Paradigm : focus on
understanding the web of interconnectedness
-- person’s relationship / interaction with the
world
• Depth Psychology Paradigm : focus on
understanding the mind – how mental texture
motivates and modulates person’s interaction
with the world

4. Analysis of how we interact with
the world
• Cognition Re-cognition [ perception] … memory, intellect
Feelings …. Mental and bodily concomitants
Response …, habits, emotional texture
• Transformation in response : Change perception <appearance vs
reality> , overcome the shackles of pleasure pain principle
• How ? Embracing pain and running away from pleasant feelings ?

5. Analysis of how we interact with
the world…..
• Transformation in response : Change perception <appearance vs
reality> , overcome the shackles of pleasure pain principle
• How ? Embracing pain and running away from pleasant feelings ?
• Neither run away nor run after feelings – just observe them with
equanimity as these change in their natural course
• Feelings arise due to interactions at all sense doors
• Train the mind to be able to experience even subtle feelings below the
threshold of normal awareness, and not to get carried away by them .. In
the light of the Truth of Impermanence
• Cultivating Mindfulness of body – mind complex
• It is direct awareness of whatever is happening in the body-mind complex from
moment to moment ……… ………………..... and also in the outside world
with which one is interacting

6. Cultivating Mindfulness
• Mindfulness of body
• Postures , natural movements, breathing
• Mindful walking, mindful eating
• Mindfulness of Feelings
• Feelings arise at all sense doors
• These have a somatic concomitant – body mind coupling
• Mindful walking, mindful eating
• Feeling sensations all over the body

7. Cultivating Mindfulness
• Mindfulness of quality of mind
• …with or without craving, aversion , delusion
• .. Focussed or distracted
• Mindfulness of Mental contents / phenomena
• Factors Obstructing practice [proper functioning of the mind]
• Dimensions of personality, interactions at sense doors
• Factors aiding the practice [proper functioning of the mind]
• ‘Dis-satisfaction” , its causes and cessation

8. What is Mindfulness ?
• Three characteristics of Mindfulness
– Mindfulness reminds us what we are supposed to be doing …
it is both the bare attention and the function of reminding us to
pay bare attention when we have ceased to do so.
– Mindfulness sees things as they really are …. No evaluation, no
preferences
– Mindfulness sees the true nature of all phenomena … viz.
Impermanence , un-satisfactoriness, unsubstantial-ness
• Mindfulness works like an electron microscope … it
reveals those realities which are normally ‘invisible’

9. What do we actually do in a
workshop?
• Sessions to explain theory - step by step
• Practice sessions on Mindfulness of body, Mindful walking,
Eating, hearing , seeing, Mindfulness of bodily feelings, quality of
mind, various mental phenomena encountered during practice
• Video films on Mindful eating, Benefits of cultivating mindfulness
etc.
• Open Sessions of Q & A
• One to one interaction on the practice everyday
• Sessions on the practice of cultivating “ loving kindness”

10. Benefits of Practice

11. Benefits of practice…….1
• Increase in concentration & efficiency
reduced digressive thoughts & day dreams…
practice of living in the present
• Clarity of goals and the hierarchy of
values,
• ability to resist temptations, distinguish between
‘urgent’ and ‘important’ ; and say NO

12. Benefits of practice…….2
• Self control
– pausing before action => look before you
leap ....mindfulness acts like the brakes
on a car …seize that decisive moment
when the mind is still open to receive
skillful directions, reduction in rash and
aggressive behaviour
• Ability to face the vicissitudes of life with
equanimity
– reduction in escapist tendencies: smoking,
drinking, drugs

13. Benefits of practice……3
• Proper self appraisal-knowledge of
strengths and Weaknesses …
mindfulness is like a mirror
Increases Humility and Forgiveness

14. Benefits of practice……4
• Increased selfless love and compassion -
improvement in relationships , working
together ….mental impurities are the enemies
which besiege our inner household and destroy
our peace and harmony
Think WIN-WIN SYNERGISING
Motivation for self less service

15. International Acceptance of
Mindfulness practice in Higher
Education

16. Mindfulness in Colleges and Universities
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - Mindful Living Programs Umass
• University of Minnesota Mindfulness club
• Oxford Mindfulness Centre
• Center for Mindfulness - the University of Massachusetts Medical ...
• UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
• Mindfulness Meditation Course - Stanford Hospital & Clinics ...
• Mindfulness Programs - University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
• Center for Mindfulness at UC San Diego Health System
• Guided Mindfulness Practices - University of Missouri System
• UVA Mindfulness Center - School of Medicine - University of Virginia
• Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative - University of Miami
http://www.mindfulnet.org/page7.htm

17. Mindfulness in Colleges and Universities
• Antioch University Mindfulness programme Antioch University
New England
• Mindfulness at UEA, UK The University of East Anglia, UK
• Manchester University: Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
• Mindfulness Programs - Monash University
• Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice,
Bangor University
• 2014 Mindfulness Workshop Series - Psychology -
University of Exeter
• Mindfulness | Brown University Health Education
• Applied Mindfulness Meditation - Factor-Inwentash Faculty of
Social ...
http://www.mindfulnet.org/page7.htm

18. Mindfulness in Colleges and Universities
• Mindfulness Meditation Exercises - Counselling -
The University of Sydney...
• Mindfulness - University of Surrey
• Mindfulness Meditation - University of Strathclyde
• First International Conference on Mindfulness
• May 8-12, 2013 Sapienza – Universita di Roma in Rome, Italy
• Applied Mindfulness Conference - West Chester University
• Mindfulness in Education Conference 2009 - Association for ...
http://www.mindfulnet.org/page7.htm

21. The neuroscience of mindfulness
• Practicing mindfulness can bring
about calmness, stilling the brain
chatter, and help us shift
towards right brain mode.
• By engaging our right brain we
activate the parasympathetic
nervous system (as opposed to the
adrenaline releasing sympathetic
system). More parasympathetic
activity means less stress and
therefore better health.
http://www.mindfulnet.org/page25.htm

22. Books on Teaching of
Mindfulness

23. Thanks for your kind attention !