Love after Love
by Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give Bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you have ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf.

the photographs, the desperate notes,
Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.



Articles on Meditation

Jamie Tobias Neely: Memories of Ream live on in the art of meditation (pdf download)

Kate Spencer: Meditation and the Multi-Tasker (pdf download)

Mindfulness Meditation: Its Role in Health Care and Medicine
"Mindfulness-based stress reduction is a powerful approach to self-care, participatory medicine, patient education and effective coping with stress, pain and illness. It provides a framework for catalyzing inner and outer learning about one's own mind and body, one's relationship to the world and one's place in it."

Scientists probe meditation secrets
"Scientists are beginning to uncover evidence that meditation has a tangible effect on the brain."


Scientific Articles

Meditation found to increase brain size
"Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains."

University of Massachusetts, Center for Mindfulness
"Embedded within an academic medical center, research holds a central place in our mision. Since 1979, the Center for Mindfulness has been dedicated to the ongoing..."


References

Chodron, Pema: "Awakening Loving-Kindness"

 

Cohen, Darlene: "Turning Suffering Inside Out- A Zen Approach to Living with Physical and Emotional Pain"

 

Gunaratana, Bhante Henepola:  "Mindfulness In Plain English"

 

Kabat-Zinn, Jon:  "Full Catastrophe Living,"  "Wherever you Go There You Are,"  "Mindfulness Meditations in Everyday Life" and "Coming to Our Senses"

 

Kornfield, Jack:  "A Path With Heart"

 

Kornfield, Jack:  "The Roots of Buddhist Psychology"

 

Levine, Steven: "A Gradual Awakening"

 

Lama Surya Das:  "Awakening the Buddha Within"

 

Moyers, Bill:  "Healing and the Mind"

 

Ramen, Rachel Naomi:  "Kitchen Table Wisdom-Stories That Heal"

 

Rosenbaum, Alana:  "Here For Now"

 

Santorelli, Saki:  "Heal Thy Self, Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine"

 

Thich Nhat Hanh:  "Essential Writings"

 

Williams, Mark; Teasdale, John; Segal, Zindel; Kabat-Zinn, Jon :
"The Mindful Way through Depression"

 

 

   
  Carey C. Charyk RN MA  
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