GP document - Mindful Timekeeping

As early as 1830s, saw the import of Eastern
philosophies to America. It was early American
Transcendentalists who translated Asian
spiritual texts to English. But the practices
reached the west only a few decades ago
when teachers went to the West and
Westerners travelled to the East for teaching
and learning the practices respectively. On
learning about the benefits, it started getting
researched and organised in the 1970s. [22]
According to psychologist and science
journalist, Daniel Golemann mindfulness can
be applied at varied levels as illustrated in
Figure 2.1: At the hightest level is the original
technique, as followed by a Buddhist monk.
And at the bottom levels is the more watered
down applications in new contexts. He
stresses on the importance of applications at
various levels so that masses could reap
maximum benefits of this ancient wisdom.
Fig 2.1 Different levels of application of mindfulness as explained by Daniel Golemann in the book “The science of Meditation”.
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